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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.

Alzahraa K. Ahmed
Byzantine and Islamic art history; The development of museums in 19th and 20th century Egypt.

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.

Lee Ambrozy 
20th century China; Ink painting in transition and issues of modernity; Shanshui; Visual culture in New China.

Jennifer Babcock
Ancient Egyptian art and archaeology; Depictions of anthropomorphized animals in Ancient Egyptian art, the New Kingdom and Deir el-Medina.

Andrea Bell
18th century French drawing.

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

Daniella Berman
18th and early 19th century French art; Issues of spectatorship and reception; 17th century Rome and the foundations of the French Academy; Intersections between music, literature and visual art.

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

Rachel Boate
Modern art in Europe with an emphasis on mid 20th century France and Germany; Historiography.

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.

Ami Brett
Modern art and architecture.

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

Elizabeth Buhe
Modern and contemporary art with a focus on abstract painting, modes of perception, and the West Coast, especially during the 1960s; early 19th century French painting and sculpture.

Jennifer G. Buonocore
Modes of representation and spectatorship with an emphasis on art of the 1960s and 1970s; Sound; Methodological issues pertaining to memory, subjectivity, and translation; Curatorial practice.

John Byck
Northern Medieval and Renaissance works on paper; Ornament prints; Metalwork.

Lauren R. Cannady
Early Modern European visual culture; Painting, architecture, landscape design in France; Dissertation topic: 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, and 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.

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

Edouard P. Derom
Modern and contemporary art.

Laura Dickey
Late 19th and early 20th century French and American art; 18th century French art; History of collecting; History of museums; Technical art history.

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.

Julia Pelta Feldman
Materiality, archives, and documentation in post-war art; The classical tradition in the 20th century.

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.

Marya Fisher
Ancient Greek architecture, art and archaeology.

Lizzie Frasco
19th and 20th century art of the Americas; Modern and contemporary Caribbean art; Mexican and European modernism.

Kristen Gaylord
Postwar American art with emphasis on artists of 1960s and 70s Los Angeles; Pop, assemblage, and light art; Historiography; Egyptian art and archaeology of the 18th dynasty, especially related to gender and cosmology.

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.

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 United States.

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.

Charles N. Howard
Italian Renaissance art and architecture, with an emphasis on the productions of Northern Italian courts.

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

Cindy Kang
Dissertation topic: 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.

Allison Kidd
Roman and Greek art and archaeology; Roman architecture; the development and perception of urban space and topography in antiquity.

Marina Kliger
19th century art, especially French, Belgian and British Symbolism, Orientalism, and historical revival movements; Gender and art.

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.

Kirsten Lee
Archaic and Classical Greek Art.

Lihong Liu
Chinese painting in the Ming and Qing dynasties; Space, place, and representation of landscape in the 15th and 16th centuries; Agency of court artist in 18th century China; Intercultural issues of art during the Sino- European contact; art along the Silk Road.

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 United States architecture and urbanism; Contemporary architecture, urban planning and historic preservation.

Meggie Morris
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.

Elyse Nelson
Early 19th century European painting and sculpture.



Sean Nesselrode

Latin American art, with a focus on Venezuela; Abstraction in the Americas; Kinetic and optical art; Art and nationalism.


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

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

Jeongho Park
16th and 17th 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.

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

Fatima Quraishi
Islamic Art and Architecture.

Zhijian Qian
Modern and contemporary Chinese art; Art and politics in China; Art and 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.

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 and 80s.

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano
Modern and contemporary Spanish and Latin American art; Spanish viceregal painting; Social and political dimensions of Cuban vanguards; international artistic exchange, exhibition practices and history of collecting.

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

http://nyu.academia.edu/deannamariesheward

Blythe C. Sobol
18th century France, portraiture, gender and family; History of collecting; Costume.

Delia Solomons
20th century art of Europe and the Americas; Dissertation topic: The role of Latin American art in the United States in the 1960s.

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

Alexandra (Sasha) Suda
Late-medieval painting and manuscript illumination; Central European courts and their ties to France and Italy; Early Renaissance carving with a focus on miniature boxwood sculpture.

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

Jeffrey Uslip
Postwar American art; The Age of Reagan; History of photography.

Rashmi Viswanathan
Photography and painting in 19th century South Asia and Britain.

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.

Anne Wheeler
Minimal, Post-Minimal and Conceptual Art.

Elizabeth A. Williams
Byzantine/early Islamic jewelry; Historiography of early Islamic art; Gender in the early middle ages.

Allison Young
Contemporary art with an emphasis on non-Western art; Film and video.