Completed Dissertations: 2004-2015

Completed Dissertations: 1997-2003

2023

Booher, Kaitlin, FASHIONING MASS MODERNISM: HAPRER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAN FASHION MAGAZINE, 1929-1968, (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)

Feller, Deborah, TRACES OF TRAUMA IN THE DRAWINGS OF LO SPAGNOLETTO / EL ESPAÑOLETO JOAN JOSEP RIBERA CUCÓ JOSÉ / GIUSEPPE / JUSEPE DE RIBERA,  (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

LaRocca, Austen Leigh, ARCHES & MEMORY: A DIACHRONIC VIEW OF ROMAN MATERIAL CULTURE,  (Rutgers University, J. Kenfield)

Radhakrishnan, Lini, REIMAGINING MARY CASSATT: VISUAL INSCRIPTIONS OF GENDER, GRIEF AND CARE,  (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

2022

Brown, Thomas Franklin, "WHAT WAS IN THE NEWS: PICTURING CURRENT EVENTS IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

Punj, Nandita, "UP IN ALMS, PORTRAITS IN GIVING: THE ŚĀLIBHADRA CAUPAĪ AND JAIN ART IN EARLY MODERN SOUTH",  (Rutgers University, S. Brett-Smith)

2021

Chakalova, Christina, "Artistic Mobility and Cultural Transfer:  Prince Eugene of Savoy's Belvedere Palace in Imperial Vienna", (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

Iglesias-Lukin, Aimé, "This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975",  (Rutgers University, T. Flores)

Mack, Stephen,  "Before Non Finito: A Rough Aesthetic in Quattrocento Sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo.", (Rutgers University, S. McHam)

Werther-Rosenow, Barbara, "Communication and Transformation In Video Art", (Rutgers University, T. Flores)

2020

FIFTEENTH TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Negar Rokhgar S.,  "The Overtures of a Muslim Ally: Diplomatic Gifts from Persia to Italy (1453-1630)", (Rutgers University, S. McHam)

MATERIAL CULTURE

Negar Rokhgar S.,  "The Overtures of a Muslim Ally: Diplomatic Gifts from Persia to Italy (1453-1630)", (Rutgers University, S. McHam) 

NINETEENTH CENTURY ART

Nour-ElSayed, Alia, “Egyptian-French Encounters: Art and National Identity, 1867-1928” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

SOUTH ASIA/SOUTH EAST ASIA

van Donkersgoed, Joëlla, "Curating a Cultural Landscape: Tangible and Intangible Heritage Management in the Banda Islands, Indonesia" (Rutgers University, A. St.Clair-Harvey)

2019

EAST ASIA

Chang, Boyoung, “Exploring identities: contemporary Korean photography” (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)

NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART

Pierce, Kathleen A., "Surface Tension: Skin, Disease, and Visuality in Third Republic France" (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

NORTH AMERICA

Matsumura, Kimiko, "Science/Fiction: Habitat Dioramas, Vision, and Postwar American Art", (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

PHOTOGRAPHY

Chang, Boyoung, “Exploring identities: contemporary Korean photography” (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)

POLITICS/ECONOMICS

San Martín, Florencia, “The Decolonial Project of Alfredo Jaar” (Rutgers University, T. Flores) 

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART

Matsumura, Kimiko, "Science/Fiction: Habitat Dioramas, Vision, and Postwar American Art", (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

Morandi, Maria Cristina, "A Semiotic Reading of Hyperrealism in the Soviet Union: The Representation of the Soviet Urbanscape in the 1970s and 1980s as a New Form of Critical Realism." (Rutgers University, J. A. Sharp)   

Pierce, Kathleen A., "Surface Tension: Skin, Disease, and Visuality in Third Republic France" (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

San Martín, Florencia, “The Decolonial Project of Alfredo Jaar” (Rutgers University, T. Flores)

2018

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART

Brosnan, Kelsey, “Seductive Surfaces: Anne Vallayer Coster and the Eighteenth-Century Still Life” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

FIFTEENTH-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART

Fraiman, Jeffrey, "The Painted Altarpiece in Rome, ca. 1600-1630: Christian Archaeology, Naturalism, and the Body" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART

Jimerson, Lauren, “Defying Gender – Redefining the Nude: Female Artists and the Body in Early 20th century Paris” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

Nouril, Ksenia, “The Operative Object: Investigating the Historical Turn in Post-Soviet Art” (Rutgers University, J. Sharp) 

VISUAL STUDIES

Brosnan, Kelsey, “Seductive Surfaces: Anne Vallayer Coster and the Eighteenth-Century Still Life” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)

Jimerson, Lauren, “Defying Gender – Redefining the Nude: Female Artists and the Body in Early 20th century Paris” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas) 

2017

CONCEPTUAL ART

Shannon, Heather A., “Just an Amateur: Adam Clark Vroman, Photography, and the American West, 1895-1904” (Rutgers University, T. Sheehan)

DRAWINGS/PRINTMAKING/WORKS ON PAPER/ARTISTS’ BOOKS

Lopes, Shana, “‘The fraternity throughout the world’: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890” (Rutgers University, T. Sheehan)

FIFTEENTH TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART

Albinsky, Kira Maye. "Art, Ritual, & Reform: The Archconfraternity of the Holy Crucifix of San Marcello in Rome." (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

Baseggio Omiccioli, Eveline, "Patronage, Politics, and Humanism: Andrea Riccio's Reliefs for the Altar of the True Cross in Santa Maria dei Servi, Venice" (Rutgers University, S. McHam)

Yuen, Melissa, "The Young Mattia Preti in Rome: Style, Baroque Painting, and the Art Market, c. 1630-1653" (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)

LATINX

Thomas, Tashima, "An Imperial Diet: From Cacao to Coconuts – Representing Edible Bodies in the Americas from the Eighteenth Century to the Present" (Rutgers University, T. Flores) 

NORTH AMERICA

Lopes, Shana, "'The Intimate Connection': American and Germany Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890" (Rutgers University, T. Sheehan)

Shannon, Heather A., “Just an Amateur: Adam Clark Vroman, Photography, and the American West, 1895-1904” (Rutgers University, T. Sheehan)

Thomas, Tashima, "An Imperial Diet: From Cacao to Coconuts – Representing Edible Bodies in the Americas from the Eighteenth Century to the Present" (Rutgers University, T. Flores)

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART

Apostol, Corina Lucia, "Dissident Education: Socially Engaged Art from Eastern Europe (1980-present)" (Rutgers University, J. Sharp)

Harbin, Virginia Allison, "Visual Excess in Contemporary Art from the South Asian Diaspora" (Rutgers University, T. Flores) 

Martynyuk, Olena, “Postmodern Perestroika: Ukrainian Artistic Networks of the 1980s–1990s” (Rutgers University, Jane A. Sharp)

VISUAL STUDIES

Apostol, Corina Lucia, "Dissident Education: Socially Engaged Art from Eastern Europe (1980-present)" (Rutgers University, J. Sharp)

Harbin, Virginia Allison, "Visual Excess in Contemporary Art from the South Asian Diaspora" (Rutgers University, T. Flores)

Martynyuk, Olena, “Postmodern Perestroika: Ukrainian Artistic Networks of the 1980s–1990s” (Rutgers University, J. Sharp) 

2016

ELEVENTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURY/MEDIEVAL ART

Permenter, Brooke Falk, “Assaults on the Faith: Imagining Jews and Creating Christians in the Late Middle Ages” (Rutgers University, L. Weigert)

FIFTEENTH-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ART

Kupiec, Catherine, "The Materiality of Luca della Robbia’s Glazed Terracotta Sculptures" (Rutgers University, S. McHam)

Permenter, Brooke Falk, “Assaults on the Faith: Imagining Jews and Creating Christians in the Late Middle Ages” (Rutgers University, L. Weigert)

MATERIALITY OF ART

Kupiec, Catherine, "The Materiality of Luca della Robbia’s Glazed Terracotta Sculptures" (Rutgers University, S. McHam)