2015
Art of the United States
DeLosSantos, Jenevieve, “Envisioning Egypt: American Orientalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York, 1880-1920” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Rodgers, Josephine, “Patronage, Power, and Aesthetic Taste: The Marketing of James McNeill Whistler's Art and Legacy" (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Scott, Kate. "The Photography of Absence: Death in Postmodern America" (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)
Contemporary Art
Cammarata-Seale, Heather, “Embodied Paradox: Taxidermy and Contemporary Art, 1990-Present” (Rutgers University, J. Marter)
Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper
Rodgers, Josephine, “Patronage, Power, and Aesthetic Taste: The Marketing of James McNeill Whistler's Art and Legacy" (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Scott, Kate. "The Photography of Absence: Death in Postmodern America" (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)
Weyl, Christina, “Abstract Impressions: Women Printmakers and the New York Atelier 17, 1940-55” (Rutgers University, J. Marter)
Greek/Roman Art
Paulsen, Mieke “Faces in the Frame: from masks to heads in the borders of Roman art” (Rutgers University, J. Kenfield)
Nineteenth-Century Art
Manning, Mary, “Frédéric Bazille and Masculinity Between Paris and Montpellier, 1841-1870” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Performance Studies/Installation/Environmental Art
Cammarata-Seale, Heather, “Embodied Paradox: Taxidermy and Contemporary Art, 1990-Present” (Rutgers University, J. Marter)
Twentieth-Century Art
Weyl, Christina, “Abstract Impressions: Women Printmakers and the New York Atelier 17, 1940-55” (Rutgers University, J. Marter)
Visual Studies/Critical Theory/Gender Studies
Manning, Mary, “Frédéric Bazille and Masculinity Between Paris and Montpellier, 1841-1870” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
2014
Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper
Connelly, Shannon, “Curious Realism: Dada and Die Neue Sachlichkeit in 1920s Karlsruhe” (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)
Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic
Haakenson, Hilary, “Global Designs: Art and Empire in the Maritime Republics of Trecento Italy” (Rutgers University, S. McHam)
Nineteenth-Century Art
Leigh, Allison, "Superfluous Man: Melancholy, Modernity and Realism in 19th-Century Russia and France” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Haakenson, Hilary, “Global Designs: Art and Empire in the Maritime Republics of Trecento Italy” (Rutgers University, S. McHam)
Graham, Brenna, “The Most Bitter and Untimely of Events: Women, Death, and the Monumental Tomb in Quattrocento Italy” (Rutgers University, B. Paul)
Nayyar, Reshma, “Visions of the Divine: Baciccio's Frescoes at the Gesù in Rome” (Rutgers University, C. Puglisi)
Shay Millea, Mary, “Beloved Rivals: Power, Paragone, and the Petrarchan Portrait in Renaissance Italy” (Rutgers University, S. McHam)
Twentieth-Century Art
Connelly, Shannon, “Curious Realism: Dada and Die Neue Sachlichkeit in 1920s Karlsruhe” (Rutgers University, A. Zervigón)
Magnusen, Kaia L., “‘Ghastly Females’ and ‘Wanton Corrosion’: The Appropriation and Modernization of German Old Master Motifs in Otto Dix’s Images of Weimar Women” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas and A. Zervigón)
Visual Studies/Critical Theory/Gender Studies
Leigh, Allison, "Superfluous Man: Melancholy, Modernity and Realism in 19th-Century Russia and France” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas)
Magnusen, Kaia L., “‘Ghastly Females’ and ‘Wanton Corrosion’: The Appropriation and Modernization of German Old Master Motifs in Otto Dix’s Images of Weimar Women” (Rutgers University, S. Sidlauskas and A. Zervigón)
2013
Architectural History/Historic Preservation
Boland Erkkila, Catherine, "Spaces of Immigration: American Railroad Companies, the Built Environment, and the Immigrant Experience" (Rutgers, C. Yanni)
Sablove, Henrietta, "As Facts and Not as Shadows: Four American Architects and Their Travel Impressions " (Rutgers, C. Yanni)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Urban, Emily, "The Sala Bologna in the Vatican Palace: Art and Astronomy in Counter-Reformation Rome" (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Twentieth-Century Art
Kalinsky, Yelena, “Collective Actions: Moscow Conceptualism, Performance, and the Archive,
1976-1989” (Rutgers, J. Sharp)
2012
Architectural History/Historic Preservation
Logan, Nicole Wallens, “Alberti at Rimini: The Process of Patronage in Fifteenth Century Italy” (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Art of the United States
Bramham, Diana, “U.S. Artists Imagining Mexico, Central America and Cuba, 1875-1910” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Sels, Kim, "Assembling Identity: The Object-Portrait in American Art, 1917-1927" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies
Gruber Florek, Olivia, "The Modern Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Visual Culture of Femininity, 1850-1900" (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Greek and Roman Art
Jacob, Cynthia, “Morgantina, Sicily: The Worked Bone and Ivory Objects 459 B.C. to the First Century A.D.” (Rutgers, A. Harvey)
Latin American/Carribean Art
Bramham, Diana, ““U.S. Artists Imagining Mexico, Central America and Cuba, 1875-1910” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Nineteenth Century Art
Gruber Florek, Olivia, "The Modern Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Visual Culture of Femininity, 1850-1900" (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Estevez, Lisandra, "Jusepe de Ribera's Artistic Identity and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Italy and Spain" (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)
Logan, Nicole Wallens, “Alberti at Rimini: The Process of Patronage in Fifteenth Century Italy” (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Wilkins, Sarah, "She Loved More Ardently Than the Rest: The Magdalen Cycles of Late Duecento and Trecento Italy" (Rutgers, S. McHam)
Twentieth-Century Art
Sels, Kim, "Assembling Identity: The Object-Portrait in American Art, 1917-1927" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
2011
Greek and Roman Art
Tuna Şare, "Dress and Identity in the Arts of Ancient Anatolia: The Seventh through Fourth Centuries BCE" (Rutgers, J.Kenfield)
Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
Fisher, Susannah, "Materializing the Word: Ottonian Treasury Bindings and Viewer Reception" (Rutgers, E. Thunø)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
David Boffa, "Artistic Identity Set in Stone: Italian Sculptors' Signatures, C. 1250-1550" (Rutgers, S.McHam)
Heather Nolin, "Uniting Faith and Image: The Collective Visual Identity of the Congregation of Secular Canons and its Expression in the Artistic Commissions at San Giorgio in Braida, Verona (1441-1668)" (Rutgers, S. McHam)
Scappini, Chiara, “History, Preservation and Reconstruction in Siena: the Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times” (Rutgers University, T. Marder)
Twentieth-Century Art
Adrian Barr, "Archaeologies of the Avant-Garde: Moscow Conceptualism and the Legacies of Soviet Modernism" (Rutgers, J.Sharp)
Canwell, Jeremy, “Modern Translation: Estonian Art from the National Awakening to the Brezhnev Stagnation” (Rutgers University, J. Sharp)
2010
Early Christian/Byzantine
Milanovic, Ljubomir, “The Politics of Translatio: the Visual Representation of the Translation of Relics in the Early Christian and Medieval Period, The Case of St. Stephen” (Rutgers, A. St. Clair Harvey)
Greek/Roman Art
Coleman, Patrick, “Appropriation and Innovation in Archaic Lakonian Art” (Rutgers, J. Kenfield)
Nineteenth-Century Art
Quideau, Florence, “Origins of Modernism in French Romantic Sculpture: David d’Angers, Dantan-Jeune, Daumier and Préault" (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Renaissance/Baroque
Streule, Wendy, “Objects of Desire: Case Studies in the Production and Consumption of Erotic Images in the Dutch Golden Age” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)
2009
Architectural History
Tice, Lisa Neal, “Recreation and Retreat: Garden Casini in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Rome” (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Arts of the United States
Atkins, Ashley, "Winslow Homer and Aestheticism in the United States" (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Gustafson, Donna, "At Home in the 60s: Images of the Home in American Art, 1960-1975" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Contemporary Art
Filippone, Christine, "Science, Technology and Utopias in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Benay, Erin, “The Pursuit of Truth and the Doubting Thomas in the Art of Early Modern Italy” (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)
Lloyd, Karen J., “Adopted Papal Kin as Art Patrons in Early Modern Rome (1592-1676)” (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Rawlings, Kandice, “Liminal Messages: The Cartellino in Italian Renaissance Painting” (Rutgers, S. McHam)
Tice, Lisa Neal, “Recreation and Retreat: Garden Casini in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Rome” (Rutgers, T. Marder)
Twentieth-Century Art
Filippone, Christine, "Science, Technology and Utopias in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Gustafson, Donna, "At Home in the Sixties: Images of the Home in American Art, 1960-1975" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
2008
Greek and Roman Art
Grupico, Theresa, "The Influence of Urban Planning on Temple Design in West Greece" (Rutgers, J. Kenfield)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Joseph R. Giuffre, “Design in Raphael’s Roman Workshop,” (McHam) Jan. 2008
Twentieth-Century Art
Bryzgel, Amy, “New Avant-Gardes in East-Central Europe and Russia, 1987-1999” (Rutgers, J. Sharp)
Rompilla, Denise, "From Hiroshima to the Hydrogen Bomb: American Artists Witness the Birth of the Atomic Age" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Scott, Sascha, "Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation in the American Southwest" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
2007
Art of the United States
Zarro, Jennifer, “Views of Philadelphia and the Culture of Geography, 1780-1800: Maps, Magazine Engravings, and William Birch” (Rutgers, W. Bellion)
Contemporary Art
Tinti, Mary M., “The Contemporary Art of Travel: Siting Public Sculpture within the Culture of Flight” (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Early Christian/Byzantine Art
Poe, Alison Crystal, “The Third-Century Mausoleum (“Hypogaeum”) of the Aurelii in Pagan or Mixed-Religion Collegium Tomb” (Rutgers, A. St. Clair Harvey)
Greek and Roman Art
Gross, Robert, “Hellenistic Royal Iconography in Glyptics” (Rutgers, J. Kenfield)
Renaissance/Baroque
Giuffre, Joseph Randall, “Design in Raphael’s Roman Workshop” (Rutgers, S. McHam)
Poole, Katherine, "The Medici Grand Dukes and the Art of Conquest: Ruling Identity and the Formation of a Tuscan Empire, 1537-1609" (Rutgers, S. McHam)
Zalamea, Patricia, “"Subject to Diana: Myth, Identity and Artistic Origins in French Court Imagery" (Rutgers, C. Puglisi)
Performance Studies/Installation/Environmental Art
Hillman, Susanne Naima, "Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman and Billy Klüver: From “9 Evenings” to “Experiments in Art and Technology”" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Poole, Katherine T., “The Medici Grand Dukes and the Art of Conquest: Ruling Identity and the Formation of a Tuscan Empire, 1537-1609,” (McHam) May 2007
2006
Renaissance/Baroque
Atkins, Christopher, "The Master's Touch: Frans Hals's Rough Manner" (Rutgers, M. Westermann)
Twentieth-Century Art
Edelman, Aliza, "Abstract Expressionism and Women Artists: A Gendered Reading of the 1950's" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
2005
Architectural History/Historic Preservation
Clancy, Brian Carl, "An Architectural History of Grand Opera Houses: Constructing Cultural Identity in Urban America from 1850 to the Depression" (Yanni) January 2005
Nineteenth-Century Art
Gwinn, Mary S. "Reading as Revelation: Odilon Redon's Albums on Flaubert's 'Temptation of St. Antony'" (Yanni) May 2005
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Callahan, Meghan, "Suor Domenica da Paradiso and her Convent of La Crocetta in Post-Savonarolan Florence" (McHam) May 2005
Diebel, Sarah E., "The Structure of Memory in Italian Renaissance Art" (Goffen) May 2005
Guest, Emma T.K., "The Illustration of Virgil's Bucolics and its Influence in Italian Renaissance Art" (McHam) May 2005
Wang, Aileen June, "Michelangelo's Self-Fashioning in Text and Image" (Goffen) Jan 2005
Twentieth-Century Art
Carlino, Justin David "Native American Art as Sources for American Sculpture after 1940" (Marter) May 2005
2004
19th & Early 20th Century European
Francesca Bacci-Melcher, " Impressions in Light: Photographs of Sculptures by Medardo Rosso (1858-1928)" (Spector) October 2004
Art of the United States
O’Hare, Mary Kate, “Fashioning Manhood: John Singer Sargent and the Construction of Masculinity at the Turn of the Century” (Baigell) 2004
Contemporary Art
Alderson, Julia Louise, “Nancy Holt and the Sculptural Lens” (Marter) 2004
Atkins, Sharon Matt, “Art Appropriation and Identity Since 1980” (Marter) 2004
Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies
Burger, Stacy Schultz, “The Female Body in Performance: Themes of Beauty, Body Image, Identity, and Violence” (Marter) 2004
Renaissance/Baroque Art
Bloch, Amy R., "Ritual Performance in Renaissance Florence and the Sculpture of Lorenzo Ghiberti," (McHam) 2004
Lois Munemitsu Eliason, "The Virgin's Sacred Belt and the Fifteenth-Century Artistic Commissions at Santo Stefano, Prato" (McHam) 2004
Festa, Lisa Ann, “Representations of Saint Cecilia in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting and Sculpture” (Puglisi) 2004