Dissertations

Completed Dissertations

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The Function of Ornament in Classical Art and Architecture (500–300 B.C.E.)
2024
Small-Size Painting and Its Viewership in Southern Song Dynasty China, 1127–1279
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
XUL Solar and the Argentinian Avant-Garde: Language, Body, Technology, Sociability
2019
Naturing the Nation: Art and Design in India, 1870s–1970s
2019
Un Roi, Une Loi, Une Foi”: Henri IV and The Portrait of the King
2019
The Micromosaic of the Man of Sorrows at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome
2019
Hyperborean Baroque: David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628–98) and The Rhetoric of Style
2019
The Country Under the City: The Symbolic Topography of the Rustic Past in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
2018
Bernhard Pankok and Design Reform in Germany, 1895–1914
2018
Precisionism in the Long 1920s
2018
Figures and Things: Charles Demuth, 1907–1935
2018
The Persistent Past: Refoundations in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.E.
2018
Seeing Plus: The Photography of Group f.64
2018
Karl Blossfeldt: Variations a Study in Image Replication
2018
The Lost-Wax Casting in Bronze Age China: Art, Technology, and Social Agency
2018

In Progress Dissertations

Advanced Filters
Flora and Fauna in Focus: Artistic Innovations and Scientific Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Nature Paintings from Guangdong, China
Shing-Kwan Chan
2024
Let them rejoice / and be glad" - Sense and Sensibilia of Cross-Cultural Material Culture from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Eastern Mediterranean
Fatih Han
2024
Renewed Architecture and Urbanism in Catania: The Spanish Response to Natural Disaster
Sofia Hernandez
2024
“Another Reality”: Photography, Abstraction, and the Human Subject in the Postwar U.S.
Andrew Kensett
2024
How to House a City: The Urban Densification of Ostian Insulae
Katy Knortz
2024
“Acts of Culture”: Aesthetic Affinities & Decolonial Solidarities across Twentieth-Century Goa and Mozambique
Nicole-Ann Lobo
2024
Fly Theory
Ewan Wallace
2024
Materiality, Mobility, Sociality: The Sino-Japan Art Sphere of Chan Buddhists in the Seventeenth Century
Zhuolun Xie
2024
Architecture and Representation in Roman Visual Culture
Ashton Fancy
2023
Natural Disaster in the Atlantic World: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk during the Long Eighteenth Century
Joseph Litts
2023
Hybrid Monuments: Hybridity, Biology, and Architecture in Mid-Nineteenth Century France
Louis Loftus
2023
Susini-made: Labors of Scale and Medial-transfer in Giambologna’s Florence
Sharifa Lookman
2023
"A Virile School of Art”: History and Aesthetics of the Nsukka School (1971–1999)
Iheanyichukwu Onwuegbuch
2023
Garden Architecture in Norman Sicily: Ecosystems of Pleasure and Power
Mathilde Sauquet
2023
Confrontation and Collaboration: American Artists and Museums in the 1970s
Samuel Shapiro
2023
Crossing Boundaries: Tea Assemblages in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Masha Slautina
2023
Remains: Animal Matter as Art in Early Modern Kunstkammern
John White
2023
Senga Nengudi: Matter and Motherhood
Amelia Ames
2022
Black Feminist Practices of Care: Artist-Archivists Cultivating Community
Charmaine Branch
2022
Texture of the Weave: Techniques for Ch’ixi Modernity in the Americas
Angela Brown
2022
Transmedial Ink Rubbings and Visual Modernity in China, ca. 1820s–1930s
Yixu Chen
2022
Rheno-Mosan Treasure Bindings 1150–1200 and their Histories: The Lives and Afterlives of a Type
Silvia Gianolio
2022
Fossils for a Future Time: David Smith and the Sculpting of Traces
James Miller
2022
(Ad)dressing the Gods: Fashioning Identity through the Divine in the Roman Empire
Rhiannon Pare
2022
THE INVENTION OF ATMOSPHERE: An Inquiry into an Art Critical Term and its Application to the Effects of Ancient Art
Mark Paul
2022
Hanging Objects in Ancient Greek Art and Life
Will Pedrick
2022
Anarchist Art and Cultures of Science in Fin-de-siècle France
Ben Price
2022
How a Tool Became a Treasure: Luxury Scissors and their Ornamentation in Early Modern Europe, c. 1500–1750
Claire Sabitt
2022
Non-royal Identity as Expressed in Northern Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom
Emily Smith-Sangster
2022
The Carnivalesque and Belgian Modernism
Hannah Blakeley
2021
New Objectives: German Painting and Organized Capitalism, 1923–1929
Joe Bucciero
2021
Indigenismo
Elise Chagas
2021
Plant, Animal, Object, Human: Still Life and Empire in the United States, 1815–1875
Molly Eckel
2021
Museum of the Unknown: Art, Architecture, and the Avant-garde in the 20th Century
Julian Rose
2021
Fashioning Fictions in Photographs: The World of George Hoyningen-Huene
Sasha Whittaker
2021
Len Lye’s Cinematic Art, c. 1926–44
Christopher Barrett-Lennard
2020
Lettrism’s "aesthetic element"
Sara Green
2020
Queer Performances of Migration in German and German-Turkish Art and Film from West Germany through Reunification (1955–2000)
Carlos Kong
2020
The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970–1989
Isabela Muci-Barradas
2020
Art History as Intervention: The Formation of a Discourse on Black South African Art
Michael Zhang
2020
Show Men: Art, Media, and Modernist Theatricality in Egypt, 1875–1956
Mostafa Heddaya
2019
Beyond the Facade: Mercantile Architecture of the German Hanse, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company
Suzie Hermán
2019
Essai sur l’architecture Chinoise: Late 18th-Century Jesuit Studies of China
Yifu Liu
2019
Manuscript production in the Abbey of Fleury 798–1004
Francesca Pistone
2019
Machines of Time, Towers of Knowledge: Miniature Architectural Spaces and the Design of Timepieces in Sino-Euro Encounters, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
Wenjie Su
2019
Reaching "Peach Blossom Spring": Poetry and Painting in Fifteenth-Century Japan and Korea
Gina Choi
2018
Painting as "Construction": Ground and Compositional Tectonics in Ferdinand Hodler's Parallelist Paintings (1889–1918)
Denise Koller
2018
Imperial Presence in the Villas of Roman Italy
Margaret Kurkoski
2018
“Living Pictures”: Pictorialist Photography and the Illustration of Fiction
Daniel Peacock
2018
Suggestions: Art and the Influence of the Psyche after National Socialism
Nathan Stobaugh
2018