In Progress
Local Color: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Paintings of Spain
Adviser: Bridget Alsdorf
Deliberate Defacement: Provocation and Response in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
Adviser: Charlie Barber
A Sublime Art: Akinola Lasekan and Colonial Modernism in Nigeria
Adviser: Chika Okeke-Agulu
Documents of Social Life: Photography in Popular Front France
Adviser: Elizabeth Anne McCauley
The Improvement of Contemporary Art From Information Aesthetics to Post-Conceptual Painting
Adviser: Hal Foster
Margin, Surface, Depth: Picturing the Contours of the Marine in 19th-Century America
Adviser: Rachael Z. DeLue
The Renovation of the Habsburg-Lorraine residences: Eighteenth-century Imperial and Archducal Palaces in Prague, Brussels, and Florence
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Paintings, Bound: The Problems of Reading Nineteenth-Century Japanese Printed Pictorial Books
Adviser: Andrew Watsky
Opaque Surfaces and Lived Illusions: Minimalism and the Status of Painting in the 1960s
Adviser: Hal Foster
Copying Leonardo: The Paintings and Their Collectors, 1475–1620
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Staging the Social Document in the Progressive Era: Jacob Riis, Frances Johnston, Lewis Hine
Adviser: Elizabeth Anne McCauley
The Art of Confession: Picturing Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Catholicism in Northwest Germany, 1580–1620
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Wassily Kandinsky and the Vicissitudes of das Innere, 1908–1914
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
The Middle Yangtze Region in the Eleventh and Tenth Centuries BCE
Adviser: Robert Bagley
Xul Solar and the Formation of the Argentinean Avant-Garde: Sociability, Tactility, Language, and the Revision of the Depicted Body
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
Making Nature Matter: Case Studies in the Politics of Art and Ecology in Modern India
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
Convictions: The Slide Lecture in Brazilian Art and Education, 1968–78
Adviser: Irene V. Small
Drawing from Architecture: The Conceptual Methods of Sol LeWitt's Art, 1965–1980
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
The Art of War: Battle Paintings of New Spain, 1665–1714
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Johann Georg Bendl: Premier Sculptor of Prague’s Early Baroque
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Mandu Yenu Thrones: Tradition, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Bamum Kingdom, 1885–2008
Adviser: Chika Okeke-Agulu
The Augustan Honorific Altar: Its Emergence, Monumentalization, and Eclipse
Adviser: Michael Koortbojian
Court and Countryside: Central Italian Villas of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Adviser: John Pinto
I am the True Vine: Acculturation, Appropriation, and Assimilation in Religious Iconography of Late Antiquity
Adviser: William Childs
"Right Matter in the Right Place": The Paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder
Adviser: Rachael Z. DeLue
From Flanders to Fontainebleau: The Flemish Presence in the French Renaissance
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
The Dead Christ on Display at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome
Adviser: Charles Barber; Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins)
The Persistent Past: Refoundations in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE
Adviser: Michael Koortbojian, Nathan Arrington, Nino Luraghi (Classics)
"When we made movies just to make them": Warhol's Films and the Surface of the 1960s
Adviser: Hal Foster
The MARS Group: Going Modern in Britain, 1933–1957
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
"Our Decorative Scheme": Abstraction and Subversion in the Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–1919
Adviser: Hal Foster
Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown
Veri Ritratti: Pietro Longhi and Genre Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown
The Bishop, His House, and His Church: Early Medieval Episcopal Complexes in the Mediterranean (A.D. 300–600)
Adviser: Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins)
Methods for Modernism: Arthur Wesley Dow Intersects the Stieglitz Circle
Adviser: Rachael Z. DeLue
Truth in Translation: Discourses of Photography in Republican Era China
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
Hyperborean Baroque: European Representations of the Far North, 1644–1716
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Collaboration in Painting Practice: Notions of Individuality and Quality in Chinese Art
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
The Johns Device: The Intersection of Bodies, Words, and Objects in Jasper Johns’s Art, 1959–1972
Adviser: Hal Foster
Pages of Memory: Paper Travel in Renaissance Europe, 1480–1600
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown