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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.