Dissertations in Progress

Listed by subject:

East Asia & Islam
Ancient
Medieval-Renaissance
17th-18th Century
Modern & Contemporary

East Asia & Islam

Adamjee, Qamar, “The Sultanate Chandayana: An Exemplar of Cultural and Artistic Interaction in 16th Century India (Priscilla Soucek, begun 2005)

Cura, Bernice, "Chinese Bannerman Painters in Beijing, ca. 1700-1770" (Jonathan Hay, begun 1996)

Do, Yoohang, “The Painting of Gao Fenghan (1683-1749)” (Jonathan Hay, begun 1999)

Hu, Philip, “Mi Wanzhong (1570-ca. 1628): An Artist and Patron in Late Ming China” (Jonathan Hay, begun 2000)

Kamada, Yumiko, "Flowers on Floats: The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Early-Modern Indian Carpets" (Priscilla Soucek, begun 2007)

Matteini, Michele, “Painting in the Age of Evidential Scholarship (kaozheng): Luo Ping’s Late Years (ca. 1770-1799)” (Jonathan Hay, begun 2006

Qian, Zhijian, “Modernism Re-oriented in a Chinese Context: Painting of Modernist Artists in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945” (Jonathan Hay, begun 2001)

Sigur, Hannah, “Mukei and the Modern Art-Craft Movement in 1920’s Japan” (Jonathan Hay, begun 2000)

Takamatsu, Mari, "Painting, Theater, and Visual Experience in Early Modern Japan (1596-1644)" (Jonathan Hay, begun 2004)

Teece, Denise, "Vessels of Verse, Ships of Song: Persian Safina Manuscripts and Their Significance" (Priscilla Soucek, begun 2004)

Ancient

Abbe, Mark, "The Polychromy of Ancient Roman Sculpture" (Katherine Welch, begun 2007)

Ameri, Marta, “Middle Asian Interaction Spheres at the Turn of the Second Millennium B.C.: The View from Gilund, Rajastan, India” (Donald Hansen, begun 2005)

Awan, Heather, "Roman Sarcophagi and the Necropoleis at Aphrodisias," (Katherine Welch, begun 2005)

Badawi, Sherine, “Transposition and Transformation: The Interconnection between Tomb Chapel and Coffin in Middle Kingdom Egypt” (David O’ Connor, begun 1999)

Calvert, Amy, "Changing Dress, Changing Roles: The Evolution of Royal Regalia in the New Kingdom" (David O'Connor, begun 2004)

Cody, Madeleine, "The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Mendes: Reflections of an Egyptian Community in the Eastern Delta" (David O'Connor, begun 1999)

Donati, Jamieson, "Towards an Agora: The Spatial and Architctural Development of Greek Civic Space in the Peloponnese: (Clemente Marconi, begun 2007)

Fowlkes, Blair, “The Cults of Syrian-Phoenician Gods in the City of Rome: Archaeology, Topography and Connections to the Roman East” (Katherine Welch, begun 2003)

Graff, Sarah, “The Iconography of Humbaba//Huwawa in its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Cultural Dialogues, Transformations, and Visual Multiplicities” (Katherine Welch, begun 2008)

Heuer, Keely, “The Head as a Decorative Motif in South Italian Vase Painting” (Joan Mertens, begun 2007)

Hrychuk, Anne, “The Roman Arch: Metropolitan Origins, Urban Setting, and Reception West and East (2nd c. BCE to 2nd c. CE) (Katherine Welch, begun 2005)

Kinnee, Lauren, "The Roman Trophy: From Battle Marker to Emblem of Power" (Katherine Welch, begun 2007)

Kopleff, Heather, “A Community in Stone: The Cenotaph Stelae of Abydos” (David O’Connor, begun 2008)

Madole,, Sarah, “Reception and Diffusion of Funerary Imagery on
Sarcophagi in Local Contexts in Asia Minor” (Katherine Welch, begun 2008)

McCarthy, Heather, “Queenship, Cosmography, and Regeneration: The Decorative Programs and Architecture of Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs” (David O’Connor, begun 2001)

Marlar, Michelle, “The Temple of Osiris at Abydos in the Late Period Dynasty XXX (380-343 B.C.) through the Roman Occupation of Egypt (30 B.C.)” (David O’Connor, begun 2003)

Ott, Jeremy, “Mortuary Practices in Late Antique Corinth” (Thelma
Thomas/Katherine Welch, begun 2008)

Trentinella, Rosemarie, “The Roman Villa in South Italy: Elite
Residence, Center for Production” (Katherine Welch, begun 2008)

Udell, Jennifer, “Times of Day and Times of Year in Greek Vase Painting” (Dietrich von Bothmer, begun 2003)

Medieval-Renaissance

Ajello, Guendalina, “Rione Parione: The Afterlife of an Ancient Roman Cluster of Spectator Buildings” (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 1999)

Budny, Virginia, "Benedetto da Maiano and his Workshops (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 1991)

Corradino, Christopher, "The Life and Work of Giovanni Mansueti" (Colin Eisler, begun 1997)

Doquang, Mailan, "Rayonnant Funerary Chapels: Architectural Additions and Changing Contexts in French Gothic" (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2005)

Gustafson, Erik, “Tradition and Renewal in the Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Architecture of Tuscany” (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2006)

Hanan, Melanie, “Romanesque Casket Reliquaries: Forms, Meaning, and Development” (Jonathan Alexander, begun 2005)

Horton, Heather, "The Problem of Theory, Practice and Authorship in Alberti" (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2004)

Hutterer, Maile, “Broken Outlines and Structural Exhibition: The Flying Buttress as Aesthetic Choice in Medieval France” (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2008)

Imbrey, Jai, “Fictive Frame and Image in Northern Italian Quattrocento Painting” (Colin Eisler, begun 2003)

Jacobi, Lauren, “The Architecture and Urbanism of Banks in Early Modern Italy, ca. 1400-1600” (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2007)

Karafel, Lorraine, "Mythology and Metamorphoses: Woven Grotesques for the Vatican Palace" (Colin Eisler, begun 2004)

Kennedy, Trinita, “Pandolfo Petrucci’s Patronage at the Osservanza: A Study in Political and Religious Crisis in Renaissance Siena” (Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, begun 1999)

Kornfeld, Aby, “On the Margins: Cultural and Artistic Interaction in the British Library Haggadah Manuscript Additional 14761” (Jonathan Alexander, begun 2007)

Lugli, Emanuele, "Pietre di Paragone: The production of spatial order in the twelfth-century Lombard city" (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 2006)

Martin, Annabeth, “The Religious Works of Lorenzo Costa, Painter to the Bentivoglio” (Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, begun 2000)

Monti, Elizabeth, "The Patronage of the Avignon Anti-Pope Clement VII (1378-1396)" (Jonathan Alexander, begun 2006)

Moore, Kathryn, “Italian Copies of Holy Land Architecture: The Illustrated Versions of Niccolo da Poggibonsi’s libro d’Oltramare” (Marvin Trachtenberg/Barry Flood, begun 2008)

Saffiotti Dale, Maria, "Vincent Raymond de Lodève, Papal Illuminator, and Manuscript Production at the Papal Court 1520-1575" (Jonathan Alexander, begun 1994)

Smine, Rima, "Two Syriac Lectionaries from Northern Iraq, Vat. Syr. 559 and British Library Syr. Add. 7170" (Thomas Mathews, begun 1992)

Suda, Alexandra, “The Making of Girona Martyrology and the Cult of
Saints in Late Medieval Bohemia” (Jonathan Alexander, begun 2008)

Valiela, Julia, “Identity and Ideals: Problems in Sculptural Busts of
Women in renaissance Italy” (Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, begun 2008)

Wearing, Shannon, “The Artistic Patronage of the First Court-Kings of
Aragón-Catalonia (1150-1196)” (Jonathan Alexander, begun 2008)

Yunn, Amee, "The Bargello, Florence, and the Architecture of Justice in Tuscan Communes" (Marvin Trachtenberg, begun 1999)

17th-18th Century

Ambler, William, "The Portrait Workshop at the Court of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621)” (Jonathan Brown, begun 2001)

Bark, Julianna, “Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789): The Artist in International Perspective” (Robert Rosenblum, begun 2005; continued with Mariët Westermann, 2006)

Barrett, Kerry, "The Artful Hand: Pieter Claesz Soutman's Style in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands" (Mariet Westermann/Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, begun 2006)

Bell, Esther, “Charles-Antoine Coypel: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth Century France” (Mariët Westermann and Mark Ledbury, begun 2006)

Bracken, William Worth, “Rembrandt in the 1630s: Dialogues and Competitive Environment” (Eric Sluijter/Mariët Westermann, begun 2005)

Brown, Michael, “Portraiture in New Spain and the Spanish Caribbean: History and Development of a Colonial Tradition: (Jonathan Brown, begun 2001)

Cannady, Lauren, “Owing to Nature and Art: The Garden Landscape and Decorative Painting in Eighteenth-Century French Pavillions de Plaisance” (Thomas Crow, begun 2008)

Coutré, Jacquelyn, “Jan Lievens, Ambition, “Influence” and Originality in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands” (Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann/Mariët Westermann, begun 2005)

Daiman, Marina, "Copying, Inventing, and Recycling in Rubens" (Mariët Westermann, begun 2005)

Finocchio, Ross, “Henry Clay Frick, the Collector” (Jonathan Brown, begun 2008)

Gardonio-Foat, Casey, "Seventeenth-Century Professional Women Artists in Spain and Portugal" (Jonathan Brown, begun 2004)

Giviskos, Christine, “Abraham Bosse and the Fine Art of Printmaking” (Donald Posner, begun 2000)

Herrin, Amanda, “Picturing Origins: Visual Exegesis in Northern European
Art from Bosch to Brueghel” (Mariët Westermann, begun 2008)

Huckins, Pamela J., "Furnishing the Northern Frontier: The Sacred Decoration of the California Mission Churches" (Jonathan Brown, 2004)

Hung, Karen, "The Master of the Parallel Folds: Hans Thoman of Memmingen and the Sculptors of Upper Swabia (1500-1550)" (Colin Eisler, begun 2007)

Kawase, Yusuke, “Jusepe de Ribera and His Workshop in Naples, 1616-1652: Its Function and Practice” (Jonathan Brown, begun 2005)

Long, Rebecca, “Bartolomé Carducho and Italian Artists at the Spanish Court, 1580-1621” (Jonathan Brown, begun 2006)

Nogrady, Elizabeth, "Abraham Bloemaert, artistic collaboration, and the "Netherlandish Academy" in seventeenth-century Utrecht" (Mariët Westermann begun 2005)

Norman, Judith, “Painting the Impossible: A Monograph on Jacob van Loo (1614-1970), Painter of Nudes and Erotic Scenes of Everyday Life” (Mariët Westermann, begun 2008)

Piotrowska, Anna, "The Early Career of Carle Vanloo (1705-1740): Training And Practice In The Capitals of Europe" (Colin Bailey / Mariët Westermann, begun 2005)

Rodriguez-Negron, Iraida, "Queens of the Spanish Golden Age: Iconography and Patronage of Isabella of Bourbon (1603-1644) and Mariana of Austria (1635-1696)" (Jonathon Brown, begun 2004)

Schmid, Vanessa, “Portraiture and Community in Amsterdam, 1650-1672” (Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and Mariët Westermann, begun 2003)

Schneider, Lindsey, "The Late Career of Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Painting after 1650" (Keith Christiansen/Jonathan Brown, begun 2005)

Veith, Jessica, “Jan de Braij in Perspective” (Mariet Westermann, begun 2007)

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Modern & Contemporary

Alteveer, Ian, "“The Rise of the Poststudio: A History of California Institute of the Art1961-1980” (Robert Storr, begun 2007)

Bailiff, Larissa, “Honoré Daumier and the Pursuit of Leisure, 1830-1870” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2000)

Blaut, Julia, "Gender and War in American Pop Art" (Linda Nochlin, begun 1995)

Blessing, Jennifer, “Gina Pane: A Study of European Body Art in the 1970s” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2000)

Blokker, Johanna, “Kirchen in Trummern: World War II and the Reconstruction of the Church in Cologne, 1945-1963” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2001)

Brodsky, Estrellita, “Latin American and Post-War Paris, 1950-1970: Soto, Le Parc, and Clark” (Edward Sullivan, begun 2003)

Burnett, Nora, “Para-realism and the Sculpture of Rachel Whiteread”
(Linda Nochlin, begun 2008)

Carrasco, María Carolina, "Art Hopes, Art Values: Evolution of the Genre of the Multiple since 1964" (Robert Storr, begun 2005)

Castaneda, Luis, “The Twilight of the ‘Miracle’: The Politics of Architecture in Mexico, 1953-1968” begun 2008)

Chaffee, Cathleen, “Troubling the Codes: Conceptual Art’s Poetic Objects (Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Barry, Hanne Darboven)” (Robert Storr, begun 2006)

Davidson, Vanessa, “Alternative Communication Networks and Political Engagement in 1970s Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay: Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Paulo Bruscky, and Clemente Padin's Mail Art and Conceptual Practice" (Robert Storr/Edward Sullivan, begun 2007)

Dubs, Jason, “Staging the Social Spectacle: Collectivism, Conceptual Strategies, and Cultural Politics in Latin America, 1961-1981” (Edward Sullivan/Robert Storr, begun 2007))

Harris, Lindsay, "Reframing the Vernacular: :Photography, Architecture, and the Construction of Italian Modernism, 1936-1951" (Jean Louis Cohen/Robert Storr, begun 2006)

Hart, Daniel, “Sculpture as Paradigm: Picasso in the Boisgeloup Years”
(Robert Lubar, begun 2008)

Hill, Joe, "Biennials on the Brink: New International Contemporary Art Festivals, 1984-2004" (Robert Storr, begun 2004)

Israel, Matthew, “Towards a Greater Understanding of Antiwar Art in America during the Vietnam War” (Robert Storr, begun 2008)

Jackson, Paul, "Audience, Communication and Public Values in Abstract Expressionism" (Robert Lubar, begun 1996)

Johnson, Danielle, "Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte: 1928-1936 (Robert Lubar, begun 2006)

Jozefacka, Anna, "Rebuilding of Warsaw: Architecture, Urban Planning and Ideology in Postwar Poland (1945-1970)" (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2004)

Kajiya, Kenji, “Unfolding Modernism: Reconsidering Clement Greenberg’s Art Criticism and the Paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland, 1948-1961” (Robert Lubar, begun 2002)

Katz, Ariela, “The Maison du Peuple: Modernity and Working Class Identity in French Architecture and Urbanism” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2001)

Lackman, Jonathan, “Invective in French Art Criticism: 1840-1881” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2006)

Leader, Karen, "L'ésthetique du rire: Art and Caricature in Paris (1830-1900)" (Linda Nochlin, begun 2004)

Lee, Yulin, “Architectural Responses to Contemporary Art: Four Cases of Contemporary Art Museums in Japan in the 1990s” (Jonathan Hay/Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2005)

Levy, Matthew, “Abstract Painting after the Minimalist Critiques, 1966-1975” (Robert Storr, begun 2008

Leyva-Gutierrez, Niria, “Fernandez de Santa Cruz y Sahagun: Prelate and Patron of Pueblo in the Seventeenth-Century” (Jonathan Brown, begun 1999)

Lubowski, Alicia, "Humboldt and the Visual Representation of South America" (Edward Sullivan, begun 2004)

Mahdi, Fatima, “Representing the Middle Ages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1940” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2002)

Martegani, Micaela, “Costantino Nivola’s Public Work: Art, Architecture and Social Utopia” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2001)

McEwen, Abigail, “The Practice and Politics of Cuban Abstraction c. 1952-1963” (Edward. Sullivan, begun 2007)

Minioudaki, Kalliopi, “Women in Pop: Difference and Marginality” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2003)

Murray, Xiomara, “Before the ‘Mellon Gallery’, Toward an American National Gallery of Art 1816-1937” (Colin Eisler, begun 2003)

Myers, Nicole, “Courbet’s Nudes: Realism and the Rococo Revival” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2008)

Nelson, Adele, “The São Paulo Biennial and Latin American Artistic Exchange, 1951-1969" (Robert Storr/Edward Sullivan, begun 2005)

O'Dea, Rory, “From the Spiritual to Science-Fiction: The Irrational World of Robert Smithson” (Robert Storr, begun 2007)

Paik, Tricia, "Ellsworth Kelly: The New York Years, 1954-1969" (Robert Lubar begun 1999)

Pobocha, Paulina, "Tadeusz Kantor: Painting and Theater, 1939-1990" (Robert Storr, begun 2005)

Polednik, Marelle, “Painting over time: constructing temporality in the work of Amselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter” (Robert Lubar, begun 2003)

Rich, Alexander, “Guy Péne du Bois and a Family of Culture” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2008)

Roldan, Deborah, “Espana Negra: Tradition in Spanish Painting” (Robert Lubar, begun 2000)

Root, Nicole, “The Inassimilable: Mike Kelley’s Poetics of the Low” (Robert Storr, begun 2006)

Samu, Margaret, “The Female Nude in Nineteenth-Century Russian Art: Reception and Transformation of a French Theme” (Linda Nochlin, begun 2006)

Schafer, Susan, “Roma Anno Zero: Continuity and Change in Post-World War II Architecture in Rome” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2007)

Schulman, Daniel, "African American Art and Artists in Chicago, 1893-1945" (Robert Storr, begun 2005)

Schwartz, Malka, "The Space of Production: Brooklyn and Creation of an Urban Industrial Landscape" (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2004)

Stokic, Jovanna, “ The Body Beautiful: Women’s Self-Representations and the Shifting Currents of Feminism 1970-2000” (Robert Lubar, begun 2003)

Strauber, Alison, “Representations of the Domestic Interior in Belgian Art 1865-1895” (Linda Nochlin/Robert Lubar, begun 2007)

Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve, "Felsine pittrici: The Women Artists of Early Modern Bologna" (Linda Nochlin, begun 2004)

Sudul, Jennifer, “The Early Works of Niki de Saint Phalle” (Robert Storr/Linda Nochlin, begun 2005)

Sullivan, Anne, "George Gary Barnard (1863-1938): A Study in Collecting, Cultural Property, Museography and Interest in the Romanesque in Early 20c. America" (Jonathan Alexander, begun 1999)

Sweet, Leah, "The Silence of Duchamp is Transubstantiated: A Comparative Analysis of Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp." (Robert Storr, begun 2003)

Thomas, Bragan, "Naked Fascism? Body Politics and the Male Nude in German Sculpture of the Third Reich" (R. Lubar, begun 2004)

Tierney, Cristin, “Domesticating Modern Art: Aspects of the Promotion of Modern Art in the United States, ca. 1905-1936” (Robert Lubar, begun 2003)

Waxman, Lori, "A Few Steps in a Revolution of Everyday Life: Walking with the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus" (Thomas Crow, begun 2008)

Weiler, Derek, “Saying ‘I’, John Cage, Richard Hamilton, and Proto-Conceptual Art” (Robert Storr, begun 2007)

Wijegoonaratna, Michele, “Tradition, Innovation and National Identity in Otto Dix’s Portraits and Self Portraits 1912-1927” (Robert Lubar, begun 2006)

Williamson, Daniel, “Modern Architecture and Local Culture in Ahmedabad, 1947-1968” (Jean-Louis Cohen, begun 2007)