Dissertations Completed
2008
Twentieth-Century Art
Mariana Aguirre, " Artistic Collaboraton in Fascist Italy: Ardengo Soffici and Giorgio Morandi" (Advisor Professor H. Vanel)
Nineteenth-Century Art
Catherine Anderson, "Embodiments of Empire: Figuring Race in Late Victorian Painting" (Advisor Professor K. D. Kriz)
Alexis Goodin, “”Egypts” in England: The Representation of Ancient Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace” (Advisor Professor K. D. Kriz)
Laura Hendrickson, “Against Photography: The Idea of Music in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Reform” (Advisor Professor K .D. Kriz)
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Nancy Chute Kay, “The Sacred Public Sculptures in Antwerp: From Their Medieval Origins to the French Revolution” (Advisor Professor J. Muller)
Latin American/Caribbean Art
Andrea Lepage, “The Arts of the Franciscan Colegio de San Andrés in Quito: A Process of Cultural (Re)formation” (Advisor Professor C.W. Zerner)
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Pascale Rihouet , " The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria" (Advisors Professors E. Lincoln and J.-C. Schmitt, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
2007
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art
Mariah Proctor-Tiffany,
“Portrait of a Medieval Paton: The Inventory and Gift Giving of Clémence of Hungary” (Advisor Professor S.Bonde)
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Jennifer Irene schaudies, “Proverbs, Fables, & Folklore, The Genre Painting of Jacob Jordaens” (Advisor Professor E. Lincoln)
2006
Chinese Art
Jiren Feng "Imperial Northern Song Architecture: Treatises, Buildings, Literature and Art" (Advisor Professor M. Bickford)
2005
Eighteen and Nineteenth Century Art
Amanda C. Burdan, "Américaines in Paris: The Role of Women Artists in the Formation of America's Cultural Identity, 1865-1880" (Advisor Professor K.D. Kriz)
Tanya Sheehan, “Doctor Photo”: The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America” (Advisor Professor K.D. Kriz)
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art
Anne Heath, “Architecture, Ritual, and Identity in the Cathedral Saint-Etienne and the Abbey of Saint-Germain in Auxerre, France” (Advisor Professor S. Bonde)
Renaissance and Baroque Art
Robert E. Brooker, Jr, "The Impact of Manuscript Illumination on the Evolution of Artistic Style from the Franco-Gothic to the Italo-Gothic in Castile During the XIVth Century” (Advisor Professor C.W. Zerner)
Twentieth Century Art
Elyse Deeb Speaks, “The Architecture of Reception: Sculpture and Gender in the 1950s and 1960s.” (Advisor Professor H. Vanel)
Clare Rogan, "Desiring Women: Constructing the Lesbian and Female Homoeroticism in German Art and Visual Culture, 1900-1933 " (Advisor Professor K. D. Kriz)
2004
Baroque and Eighteenth Century Art
Hui-Hung Chen, “Missionaries and Images -- Jesuit Visual Culture in Sixteenth- to Seventeenth-Century China" (Advisor Professor J. Muller)
Benedict Leca, “Constructions of Patrimony: The Interpretive Prints after Claude-Joseph Vernet's Ports of France” (Advisor Professor K. D. Kriz)
Nineteenth-Century Art
Daniel E. Harkett, "Exhibition Culture in Restoration Paris" (Advisor Professor K. S. Champa)
Twentieth-Century Art
Julia P. Friedman, “The Threshold Art of Alexei Remizov” (Advisor Professor K. S. Champa)
Pre-1945 North American and South American Art
Brian C. R. Zugay, “The ‘New Era’ in Church Building: Progressive Strategies for Ecclesiastical Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century America” (Advisor Professor D. Neumann)
2003
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art
Patricia Colbert Pongracz, “Monastic Architecture and Royal Patronage in Thirteenth- Century France: the Convent of Saint-Jean-aux-Bois” (Advisor Professor S. Bonde)
Baroque and Eighteenth Century Art
Nausika-Sotiria Litsardopoulou, “Ruben’s Pastorals” (Advisor Professor J. Muller)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Art
Anne Nellis, “The English Landscape Painter Abroad:Tourism, Genre and Modernity in the Post-Napoleonic Period”, (Advisor Professor K. D. Kriz)
2002
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval Art
Shelley Elaine Roff, “Building Images of Prosperity: The Catalan Merchant Halls of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries” (Advisor Professor S. Bonde)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Art
Douglas Klahr, "The Architectural Patronage of Wilhelm II: Issues of Urban, Dynastic, and National Identity in the Work of Hofarchitekt Ernst von Ihne" (Advisor Professor D. Neumann)