-2026-

Ava Cappitelli, “Painting with Julie Manet” (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

Rita De Cássia Do Monte Lima, “On the Edge of the Herbal: Knowledge, Images and Unmaking in the Schoenberg Herbal (LJS 419).” (Advisors, S. Guérin and N. Herman)

Benjy Jude, “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Mobility of Cardboard.” (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

Nina Ruohui Huang, “Flesh Into Form”: Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum and The Labours, 1983–84.” (Advisor, H. Feldman)

Elliott Loft, “Archival Folds: Reconfiguring Collective Experience in Lebanese Archival Practice.” (Advisors, H. Feldman and J. Katz)

Rachel Salem-Wiseman, “Pure Linen, Productive Land: A Close Examination of Jacob Van Ruisdael’s Seventeenth-Century Depictions of Haarlem’s Bleaching Fields.” (Advisors, S. Brisman and S. Guérin) 

Avani Sastry, “The Art of Enchanted Modernity: The Sacred Landscapes of Chalood Nimsamer and Surasit Mankhong.” (Advisor, J. Davis)

Lucie Schwartz, “Embroidering Authority: Anglo-Saxon Embroidery And The Carolingian World.” (Advisor, S. Guérin)

Paige Sellars, “Ritual, Remembrance, And Recovery: Reconsidering And Recentering The Role Of Enslaved Burial Spaces At Plantation Museums.” (Advisor, A. Ozaki)

Sawyer Leroux Taylor-Arnold, “Dancing Madness”: Mysticism, Gender Dissidence, And The Liberation Of Form In Hamed Nada’s Paintings.” (Advisor, H. Feldman)

Sarabelle Vilfort, “Primitivism And The Collapse Of Difference Across Africa, Harlem, And Haiti In Richard A. Loederer’s Voodoo Fire In Haiti.” (Advisors, S. Guérin and G. Shaw)

Clare Wiesen, “You Fucker, I’ll Make That Picture Famous”: Tee Corinne’s Sinister Wisdom” (Advisors, H. Feldman and J. Katz)

 

-2025-

Marina George, "Following Threads: The Layered Histories of a Crazy Quilt attributed to Queen Lili‘uokalani, the Last Sovereign of the Kingdom of Hawai'i" (Advisor, G. DuBois Shaw)

 

-2024 -

E. Carrera, "Two Thousand Five Hundred Meters Above Sea Level (or More):  Rafael Salas, Rafael Troya, and the Andes Mountain Range in Mid-Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting " (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

N. Hofkosh-Hulbert, "On Drawing Land: Bartolus de Saxoferrato’s Tractatus Tiberiadis (1355) and Bertran Boysset’s Traité d'Arpentage (1405)" (Advisor, S. Guérin)

E. Jacobs, "'My House Like a Haven:' Appearance and Opacity in Mildred Thompson’s Wood Pictures" (Advisor, J. Katz)

A. Mongezeleli Joja, "Sekoto's Mine Boys: Visualizing the Critique of Racial Capitalism" (Advisor, H. Copeland)

L. Shen, "Bad Image as Diasporic Home: Yin Chi-Jang's Another Clapping and Ouyang Peixuan's The__World" (Advisor, C. Zhou)

R. Swain, "The Saccharine Imaginary of Early America: Displaying An Antislavery Sugar Bowl in Philadelphia" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

 

-2023-

L. Qu, "Edgeless Flux: Colour in the Idea del tempio della pittura (1590) by Giovan Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1592)" (Advisor, D. Kim)

B. Wrubel, "Intermediality in Duccio's Maestà: Cosmati Work, Textiles, and Enamels" (Advisor, S. Guérin)

 

-2022-

T. Hampshire, "Breath of Time: Sibylline Prophecy and the Virgin Mary, 1430-1540" (Advisor, S. Brisman)

M. Puzyreva, "Japanese Wartime Landscape: Collected Prints of Sacred, Historic and Scenic Places by Tokuriki Tomikichirō" (Advisor, J. Davis)

 

-2021-

J. Chang, "Romanticism’s Ends: Philipp Otto Runge’s Cutout Drawing of Niobe and Racialized Child" (Advisor, D. Kim)

J. Miller, "'An Optical Illusion in Invisible Green:' Vert et Or: Le Raconteur, James McNeill Whistler, and the Late 'Street Urchin' Portraits" (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

N. Purgett, "'On paper red enough to set his face aglow': Materiality and the Genji Scrolls" (Advisors L. Chance and J. Davis)

 

-2020-

Z. Coyle, "Concerning the Inner and Outer Man: An Upper-body Defense for Kunz van Unckel" (Advisor, S. Brisman)

V. Duncan, "Edna Reindel: American 'Psycho-Realist' Painter" (Advisor, M. Leja)

R. Eisenman, "The Bishops and the Lions" (Advisors S. Guerin, R. Ousterhout)

E. Galardi, "Image and Light: Reconsidering the Byzantine Decorated Church" (Advisor, I. Drpic)

A. Garcia,"Hellenistic Art and Artifact:  Economy and Trade" (Advisor A. Kuttner)

S. Gibson, "Art and Representation of Nation: Winslow Homer's Watercolors of the Devil's Isles" (D. Brownlee)

T. Shine, "Pictures More Than Pictures: The Abstract Photographs of Roy DeCarava and Dawoud Bey" (Advisor, K. Redrobe)

T. Zhang, "Ike no Taiga's Twelve Views of West Lake" (Advisor, J. Davis)

 

-2019-

C. Castillo, "Seminar: Archaeology of the Hellenistic Period in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor" (Advisor, B. Rose)

I. Lynch, "Through the Camera's Eye: Performing Pictures in Babette Mangolte's The Camera: Je/La Caméra: I " (Advisor, K. Silverman)


L. Downing, " Facing Off:  Chantal Akerman's D'Est as Film and Video Installation (Advisor, K. Silverman)

T. Williams, " A Space to Appear, A Space to Tarry: Plurality and the Nocturnal Visual Politics of Lingering in Michael Abramson’s Black Night Clubs on Chicago’s South Side Series" (Advisor, K. Silverman)

K. Bong,"Michelangelo's Peducci: Painter as Architect, Painted Architecture, and Architectural Painting" (Advisor, D. Kim)

E. Lasry, "“Framing Fatherhood: Berthe Morisot’s Images of Paternity” (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

 

-2018-

F. Richman, "Architecture of the Everyday: Guild House by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" (Advisor, D. Brownlee)

R. Bernhaut, "Five-Faced SIVA's Four-Faced Temples: An Examination of the Relation and Significance of the Temples at Masrur and Bajaura in the Western Himalaya" (Advisor, M. Meister)

A. Del Conte, "Preserved in Portraits: Tracing the Artistic Practice of Henrietta De Beaulieu Dering Johnston, 1704-1726" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

O. Dudnik, "An Early Dada Artist: Francis Picabia's "Impressionist" Period" (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

J. Hough, "Particles Shared: Photographic Source and Surface in the Recent Works of Vija Celmins" (Advisor, K. Silverman)

R. Mize, "Intermedial Impulses in Peter Frederick Rothermel's Battle of Gettysburg (1870)" (Advisor, M. Leja)

 

-2017-

N. Adachi, "Constructing Artistic Japan: Making and Viewing the Image of Japan in Yokohama Photography" (Advisor, J. Davis)

J. Barton, "Architectured Painting: Le Corbusier's Purist Vision of Space, 1918-1925" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

M. Boomer, "Sanctified Microcosms: The Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya and Medieval Cairene Devotional Space" (Advisor, R. Holod)

A. Stinebring, "Virtuosic Ugliness and the Profanely Sacred: Hendrick ter Brugghen's Adoration of the Magi" (Advisor, L. Silver)

P. Kim. "Making Digital Vision: Sight and Ritual at Balalyk-Tepe (7th - 8th c CE) (Advisor, R. Holod)

L. Custer,  "Resources of Revival: Histories of Art and Nation in Edward Lamson Henry's The Lafayette Reception at Cliveden" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

F. Ferrari, "Visions in the Crowd: Gendering the Masses in Interwar German Art" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

 

-2016-

E. Allen, "Inscribing the Hills with Victory: Authorship and Community in the Tropaeum Traiani at Adamclisi"  (Advisor, A. Kuttner)

H. Chang, "Female Waitresses, Dance Hall Women, and the Cosmopolitan Roots of Modern Agency: The Visual Culture of Korea's Cafe Waitresses and New York's Dance Hall Women" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

J. Dreskin, "Making by Breaking: Faciality and Picasso's Mademoiselle Leonie" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

K. Gill, "Figures of Speech: Silence and Noise in Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Audio Forensics" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

 

-2015-

S. Danhakl, "Authenticity, Artifice, and Fraud: Artistic Humbuggery in John Haberle's Trompe L'Oeil Money Paintings" (Advisor, M. Leja)

G. Stevenson , "A Lithuanian Tailor-Made for the Grande Armee: Antoine-Jean Gros' Eylau, the Enlightenment Gaze, and the Slavic "Other" (Advisor, A. Dombrowski)

 

-2014-

M. Antonucci, "Italy at the Venice Biennale of 1976: Curating for the Post-1968" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

I. Choi, "Deconstructing the Discourse on Contemporary Chinese Art" (Advisor, J. Davis)

M. Donnelly, "Escapes into Iowa: Grant Wood's Agricultural Playgrounds, 1930-1936" (Advisor, M. Leja)

A. Kauffman, "Robert Raushenberg and the Extended Genesis of Erased de Kooning Drawing" (Advisor, C. Poggi)

J. Vaum, "Kerry James Marshall's Invisible Man" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

 

-2013-

J. Sperling, "The Echo of Encounter: Discovery Narratives in the History of American Popular Art, 1935-2013" (Advisor, G. Shaw)

S. Hagan, "Rubens's Nova Roma:  Recovering Heroes from an Antique Past" (Advisor:  L. Silver)

M. Isgro, "INTERIOR EXPOSURES:  Women and the Practice of Home Portraiture, 1885-1920" (Advisor, M. Leja)

A. Murphy, "Manuel Panselinos and the Quest for Artistic Personality in Buzantium" (Advisor, R. Ousterhout)

 

-2012-

H. Hughes, "Istanbul a La Mode:  Osman Hamdi Bey and the Modern Ottoman Woman" (Advisor:  R. Holod)

E. Neumeier, "An Anatolian Mont Sainte-Victoire:  French Painting and Turkish Modernism" (Advisor:  A. Dombrowski)

E. Warner, "Action Painting as Art Criticism:  Rereading Harold Rosenberg On Art" (Advisor:  M. Leja)

R. DeArmas, "Warrior Saints Defending Constantinople" (Advisor:  R. Ousterhout)

 

-2011-

S. D'Addio, "Cruel Intentions? Charles V's Encounter with the Concistoro Frescoes of Domenico Beccafumi" (Advisor:  M. Cole)

C. Ickes, "Imagining Pocahontas:  Lessons on Legible Time and timelessness in British Portraiture" (Advisor:  G. Shaw)

J. Kenmotsu, "Sites and Sights of Pleasure in the Eastern Capital:  Poetry, Place, and Patronage in Suzuki Harunobu’s Zashiki hakkei and Fūryū zashiki hakkei" (Advisor:  J. Davis)

E. Newman, "Noise Annoys:  The Unknown Masterpiece and the Fate of the Artist" (Advisor:  K. Silverman)

 

-2010-

F. Marzullo, "Between Hymen and Diana:  Allusion and Eccentricity in Charles Willson Peale’s  Mary White Morris" (Advisor:  M. Leja)

A. Venator, "A Woman Who Needs No Introduction:  Yoko Ono" (Advisor:  C. Poggi)

L. Baradel, "Defending The Cabin: American Identity in D.W. Griffith’s Early Westerns" (Advisor:  K. Beckman)

R. Erickson, "Animal-Borne Imaging:  Embodied Point-of-View and the Ethics of Identification" (Advisor:  K. Beckman)

C. Robbins, "The Critical Reception of the Work of Frank Kune, 1950-1954: The Black and White Abstractions and the Calligraphy Metaphor" (Advisor:  M. Leja)