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CURRENT PhD STUDENTS
Institute of Fine Arts


Iman R. Abdulfattah
Art and architecture of the Islamic Egypt; History and historiography of collectors and collections of Islamic art.

Joseph S. Ackley
Medieval; Metalwork; The church treasury (its objects and operation); issues of translation and material identity.

Veruschka Aízaga-Thomason
Greek art & archaeology; Attic vase-painting of Geometric-Classical periods; The reception of Classical Antiquity in visual arts of the 18th-20th century.

Andrea Bell
18th century French drawing.

Peter Jonathan Bell
Italian Renaissance art; Bronze sculpture; Early Modern printmaking; Theory and technology of replication.

Denise Birkhofer
Modern and contemporary art of Europe and the Americas; History of photography.

Claire Brandon
History of temporary exhibitions in Italy since 1960; contemporary Middle East & South Asia; Installation & site-specific art.

Matthew Quinn Breatore
Modernism in the Americas; dance and music in art throughout the African diaspora; conservation history and philosophy; collection, conservation, and display of performance art and time based media.

Anna Katherine Brodbeck
Modern and contemporary Latin American art; dissertation: Artur Barrio, Brazilian Art, and International Exchange (1967-1971).

John Byck

Lauren R. Cannady
Early Modern European visual culture; Painting, architecture, landscape design in France; Dissertation: Owing to nature and art: The garden landscape and decorative painting in 18th century French pavillons de plaisance.

Maria Carolina Carrasco-Nevdatchine
Works by George Maciunas linked to the concept of the archive, efficiency, & the preservation of history of the avant-garde.

Stephanie Caruso
Late Antique and Byzantine Art.

Cathleen Chaffee
Marcel Broodthaers’s late exhibitions; post-war Europe; exhibition & installation-based practices; international conceptual art.

Grace Chuang
17th and 18th century European Decorative Arts and Interior Design; Pre-Revolutionary French Art; History of Technology.

Matt Collins           
Medieval architecture and urbanism; The modernization of Italy’s architectural landscape; Dante in the visual arts.

Christopher Corradino
Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art with special emphasis on Venice and the Veneto.

Nixi Cura
"Ch Bannerman Ptrs in Beijing, ca. 1700-1770"; everything Qing; Republic/Manchukuo collecting & Antiquarianism.

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/

Grace Dingledine
Late 19th century American and European (especially British, French) art; The arts of Africa

Elizabeth Eisenberg
Italian Renaissance paintings and works on paper.

Kara Charles Fiedorek
Interwar photography in the U.S. and Europe; Documentary in photography and film; history of photography.

Jennifer Field
Mid-20th century American art; Late 19th century French art.

Kristen Gaylord

Maryl B. Gensheimer
Greek and Roman art and archaeology, Particularly architecture and sculpture of the city of Rome and of Asia Minor.

Pinar Gokpinar
Spatial relationship between objects and architecture within the cross-cultural currents of medieval Anatolia and Iran.

Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
The installation and reception of the 900 bronze plaques commissioned by the Kings of Benin in the 16th-17th centuries.

Galia Halpern
International Gothic; Vernacular Culture; Portolan Charts, Geographical Description; Representation of Utilitarian Knowledge.

Melanie Hanan           
Medieval metalwork; Liturgical objects; Reliquaries and their relationship to liturgy, cult of saints, and pilgrimage.

Matthew Hayes
The history of paintings conservation; Technical art history, with a focus on Northern Renaissance painting.

Genevieve Hendricks
20th Century Art and Architecture in France, Germany, Italy and the U.S.

Nicholas A. Herman           
Painting and manuscript illumination in France and Italy, 1450-1520; Court art; Historicism and artistic self-awareness.

Amanda K. Herrin
Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; colonial Latin American art; 16th century transatlantic artistic exchange.

www.amandakherrin.com

Alison Hokanson
Interior scenes and depictions of domesticity in Europe 1850–1900; Belgian Symbolism; American women artists 1960–80.

Kate E. Holohan
16th & 17th century Spanish and Spanish American art; Spanish collections of Latin American art; Islamic Spain.

Karen Hung
Northern Renaissance Art; Dissertation: Hans Thoman and the German Renaissance Sculptors from Upper Swabia.

Katharine Josephson
Modern & contemporary art; Graphic design; Public and conceptual art; Photography; Collecting and display practices.

Cindy Kang
Dissertation in progress: Between Easel and Wall: Tapestry, Painting, and the Nabis in Fin-de-siècle France.

Rachel Kaplan
Studying 20th century art of the Americas and Europe; Special focus in Mexican modern art and histories of collecting.

Kenji Kajiya
History of art and art criticism in the US and Japan since 1945.

Kat Koh
20th century architecture, focusing on built structures of the Russian avant-garde and architectural photography.

http://nyu.academia.edu/KatherineKoh

Heather Kopleff
“A Community in Stone: The Cenotaph Stelae of Abydos;” Middle Kingdom Egyptian stelae; Excavated private offering chapels.

Marci Soonmi Kwon
Modern and Contemporary art.

Laura Leaper
Colonial Latin American; 16th and 17th century Southern Europe; Early modern printmaking.

Kirsten Lee
Archaic and Classical Greek Art.

Alexis E. Lowry

Ted Mann
American and European art of the 1960s, and the mediating role played by dealers, curators, and collectors.

Beth Merfish
Latin American Modern Art with a focus on the World War II-era production of Mexico's Taller de Gráfica Popular.

Lindsay Miller
19th and 20th century US architecture and urbanism; Contemporary architecture, urban planning and historic preservation.

Sarah J. Montross
Twentieth Century Art of the Americas, Anthropology, Visual Culture of Video & Television, Photography.

Meggie Morris
Primary research areas include modern and contemporary European and American art and film, particularly Pop, 1950s-1980s.

Nicole Myers
18th & 19th century France; emphasis on the nude in popular & fine art production; Rococo revival in the 19th cent; Gustave Courbet; women artists.

Sean Nesselrode
Latin American art; Modern Venezuelan art; Geometric abstraction and constructivism; Kinetic and optical art.

Andrea Nitsche-Krupp
Modern and contemporary art; post-war and contemporary sculpture; application of conservation concerns to art historical and museum practice.

Judith Noorman
“A Monograph on Jacob van Loo (1614-1670), Painter of Nudes and Erotic Scenes of Everyday Life”.

Lelia Packer

Jeongho Park
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century painting in Spain and Italy; Early modern portraiture and art theory in Europe.

AnnMarie Perl
Social and political dimensions of 20th century European and American art.

Antonia Jasmine Pocock
Art since 1945; Narratives of modernism; Theories of abstraction and figuration; The marginalization of painting; Cinema.

Maggie L. Popkin
Greek & Roman art & architecture; Roman triumphal monuments; Greco-Roman memorial practices; Urban rituals and processions.

Tara Prakash
Representations of foreigners in ancient Egyptian art; Libyans in Egypt during the New Kingdom & Third Intermediate Period.

Zhijian Qian
Modern & contemporary Chinese art; Art & politics in China; Art & Nationalism in China; Chinese Artists outside China.

Claire de Dobay Rifelj
Postwar American and European art, particularly collage/assemblage, and the intersection of time, culture, and narrative.

Christina Rosenberger
Modern and contemporary art; with an emphasis on materials and techniques, conservation and conservation science.

Patrick Salland
Egyptologist, specializing in the art and architecture of the New Kingdom focusing on the decoration of palaces.

Tamara E. Schechter
Late 19th and early 20th century France, works on paper.

Joanna Sheers
17th century Dutch art; Rembrandt and humanism in the Dutch Republic.

Ileana L. Selejan
Photography, postwar art, cultural history, history of archaeology in Egypt, Eastern Europe; war photography from the late 70s & 80s.

Deanna Sheward           
Architecture, urbanism, & industrialization; History of exhibition design; Technology & visual culture.

http://nyu.academia.edu/deannamariesheward

Hannah Lubman Sigur
A model for modernism: Japan’s architecture at American international expositions and American home design, 1876-1915

http://sfsu.academia.edu/HannahSigur

Blythe C. Sobol
Eighteenth-century France, portraiture, gender and family, history of collecting, costume.

Delia Solomons
20th-century art of Europe & the Americas; Dissertation topic: The role of Latin American art in the US in the 1960s.

Lillian Bartlett Stoner
Graeco-Roman Art and Architecture; Hellenistic bronze sculpture; Reception of Greek art in the Roman world.

Susanna V. Temkin
Latin American modern art, focusing on the Cuban vanguardia; exhibition practices and collecting; transnational exchanges.

Michael J. Waters
Renaissance Architecture, Materiality, Spolia, History of Technology, Architectural prints and drawings.

Shannon L. Wearing
Art and architecture in 12th and 13th-century Spain and the medieval Mediterranean.
Elizabeth A. Williams
Byzantine/early Islamic jewelry; Historiography of early Islamic art; Gender in the early middle ages.