Completed Dissertations
Senga Nengudi: Maternal Modern
2025
The Carnivalesque and Belgian Modernism
2025
Robert S. Duncanson’s Antislavery Allegories
2025
The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970–1989
2025
Documents of Social Life: Photography in Paris from Class War to Popular Front, 1932–1937
2025
European Decorative Scissors and Their Ornamentation, ca. 1450–1800
2025
Think Globally, Identify Locally: An Examination of Non-Royal Identity Expression in South Abydos at the Dawn of the New Kingdom (1550–1525 BCE)
2025
The Impersonal is Political: VALIE EXPORT’s Queer Media
2025
Sun, Sand, and Stone: George Hoyningen-Huene’s Fashion Photography in the Mediterranean
2025
Art, Corporations, and Cultural Politics in Late Apartheid South Africa
2025
The Function of Ornament in Classical Art and Architecture (500–300 B.C.E.)
2024
New Objectives: Possibilities for Painting in 1920s Germany
2024
Small-Size Painting and Its Viewership in Southern Song Dynasty China, 1127–1279
2024
Reaching “Peach Blossom Spring”: Poetry and Painting in Fifteenth-Century Korea and Japan
2024
Show Men: Art, Media, and Modernist Theatricality in Egypt, 1875–1956
2024
Of Monsters and Mirrors: Art and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
2024
The Aesthetics Of Alterity: Imaging The Foreign Other In Jiangnan And Coastal China, 1550s–1660s
2024
Immersion: Classical Reception and Eastern European Transformations of Hygiene Architecture, ca. 1600–1830
2024
Postminimalism, Temporality, and the Politics of Indigeneity: 1969–1983
2024
Holy Books For Holy Men: Illuminated Gospel Manuscripts In The Ethiopian Monastic Sphere, 1280–1340
2024
The Illuminated Haysmawurk`: Ottoman-Armenian Painting and Confessionalism in the Age of Print
2024
The Mobile Secretariats in Mid-Qing China: Artistic Production and Literati Collectivism, Ca. 1790–1840
2024
"Nation in the Making": Art, Politics, and Statecraft in Jamaica after 1962
2024
Drafting Methods: Architecture and Language in Sol LeWitt’s Art, 1960–1980
2023
Secrecy In the Art of Santiago Rusiñol (1861—1931) and the Catalan Modernistes
2023
The Making of Shen Nanpin (1682–ca. 1760): Painting, Collecting, and Canonizing in Japan and China
2023
Mirroring the Reflections of the Soul: The Greco-Latin Psalter
2023
Responsive Communication: The Emergence of Mail Art in Latin America
2023
Storytelling on the Mosaic Floors of Late Antique Sepphoris
2023
Renovation: Habsburg-Lorraine Palaces In The Eighteenth Century: Prague Castle, The Royal Palace In Brussels, And The Palazzo Pitti In Florence
2023
Figure as Cultural Form: The Art and "Archaeology" of Asger Jorn, 1947–1973
2022
Reality Expanded: The Work of Hito Steyerl, 1998–2015
2022
Representing Difference: Painting and Performance in the Art of Jean-François Raffaëlli
2022
Religion in the Classical Greek House: Sacred Spaces and Social Practices
2022
Paintings, Bound: Printed Books of Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Japan
2022
Language, Body, World: The Art of Hans Bellmer
2021
Local Color: Race, Gender and Spanishness in French and Spanish Painting, 1855–1927
2021
Assembling "Korea": Peninsular Arts in Sixteenth-Century Japan
2021
A "Sublime Art": Akinola Lasekan and Colonial Modernism in Nigeria
2021
Second-Order Images: Reflexive Strategies in Early Latin American Video Art
2021
William Rimmer: Teaching Art
2021
Painting Machines: Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Oswald Wiener and the Cybernetics of Living Media
2021
Margin, Surface, Depth: Picturing the Contours of the Marine in Nineteenth-Century America
2021
Early Russian Art, 14th–16th Centuries: A Study in Moods
2021
ÁUDIO-VISUAL: The Slide as Medium In Brazilian Art
2020
The Throne from the Grassfields: History, Gifts, and Authenticity in the Bamum Kingdom, 1880–1929
2020
Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period
2020
Leonardo and The Borgias
2019
The Art of Confessionalism: Picturing Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic Faith in Northwest Germany, 1580–1618
2019
Bronze Cultures in the Middle Yangtze River Valley (C. 1500–1000 BCE)
2019
In Progress Dissertations
The Artist’s Hand and the Camera Eye: Stella F. Simon’s Hands (1927) and the International Avant-Garde
2025
Forgery, Facsimile, and the Bureaucratization of Authenticity (1919-1950)
2025
Siqueiros’s Schools: Workshopping Political Education in Communist Networks across the Americas, 1924–1937
2025
Liberty, Columbia, and the Complexities of a Nationalist Cultural Identity in the United States, 1775–1893
2025
Flora and Fauna in Focus: Artistic Innovations and Scientific Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Nature Paintings from Guangdong, China
2024
Let them rejoice / and be glad" - Sense and Sensibilia of Cross-Cultural Material Culture from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Eastern Mediterranean
2024
Renewed Architecture and Urbanism in Catania: The Spanish Response to Natural Disaster
2024
Creating Common Meaning: VALIE EXPORT, Ulrike Rosenbach, Natalia LL, and Feminism in Central Europe
2024
“Another Reality”: Photography, Abstraction, and the Human Subject in the Postwar U.S.
2024
How to House a City: The Urban Densification of Ostian Insulae
2024
“Acts of Culture”: Aesthetic Affinities & Decolonial Solidarities across Twentieth-Century Goa and Mozambique
2024
Fly Theory
2024
Materiality, Mobility, Sociality: The Sino-Japan Art Sphere of Chan Buddhists in the Seventeenth Century
2024
Architecture and Representation in Roman Visual Culture
2023
Natural Disaster in the Atlantic World: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk during the Long Eighteenth Century
2023
Hybrid Monuments: Hybridity, Biology, and Architecture in Mid-Nineteenth Century France
2023
Susini-made: Labors of Scale and Medial-transfer in Giambologna’s Florence
2023
"A Virile School of Art”: History and Aesthetics of the Nsukka School (1971–1999)
2023
Garden Architecture in Norman Sicily: Ecosystems of Pleasure and Power
2023
Confrontation and Collaboration: American Artists and Museums in the 1970s
2023
Crossing Boundaries: Tea Assemblages in Seventeenth-Century Japan
2023
Remains: Animal Matter as Art in Early Modern Kunstkammern
2023
Black Feminist Practices of Care: Artist-Archivists Cultivating Community
2022
Texture of the Weave: Techniques for Ch’ixi Modernity in the Americas
2022
Transmedial Ink Rubbings and Visual Modernity in China, ca. 1820s–1930s
2022
Rheno-Mosan Treasure Bindings 1150–1200 and their Histories: The Lives and Afterlives of a Type
2022
Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces
2022
(Ad)dressing the Gods: Fashioning Identity through the Divine in the Roman Empire
2022
THE INVENTION OF ATMOSPHERE: An Inquiry into an Art Critical Term and its Application to the Effects of Ancient Art
2022
Hanging Objects in Ancient Greek Art and Life
2022
Anarchist Art and Cultures of Science in Fin-de-siècle France
2022
Indigenismo
2021
Museum of the Unknown: Art, Architecture, and the Avant-garde in the 20th Century
2021
Len Lye’s Cinematic Art, c. 1926–44
2020
Lettrism’s "aesthetic element"
2020
Queer Performances of Migration in German and German-Turkish Art and Film from West Germany through Reunification (1955–2000)
2020
Beyond the Facade: Mercantile Architecture of the German Hanse, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company
2019
Essai sur l’architecture Chinoise: Late 18th-Century Jesuit Studies of China
2019
Manuscript production in the Abbey of Fleury 798–1004
2019
Machines of Time, Towers of Knowledge: Miniature Architectural Spaces and the Design of Timepieces in Sino-Euro Encounters, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
2019
Painting as "Construction": Ground and Compositional Tectonics in Ferdinand Hodler's Parallelist Paintings (1889–1918)
2018
Imperial Presence in the Villas of Roman Italy
2018
“Living Pictures”: Pictorialist Photography and the Illustration of Fiction
2018
Ethnographic Re-Telling: The Art of Lothar Baumgarten
2018
Confronting the Past in the Critical Third Century
2017
Retrospective Styles in Roman Visual Culture
2017
Deliberate Defacement: Provocation and Response in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
2017
Concordia and Succession at Rome
2016
Opaque Surfaces and Lived Illusions: Minimalism and the Status of Painting in the 1960s
2014
Staging the Social Document in the Progressive Era: Jacob Riis, Frances Johnston, Lewis Hine
2014