DISSERTATIONS
AMNESP means the student is a doctoral candidate in the American and New England Studies Program; all others are Art History doctoral candidates.
In Progress
Name |
Topic |
Readers |
| Anderson, Carrie |
"Johan Maurits’s Brazilian Collection: The Role of Ethnographic Gifts in Colonial Discourse." |
M. Zell |
| Anderson, Virginia |
" 'A State of Anxious Uncertainty': The Critical Reception of Jasper Johns" |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
| Carroll, Katherine |
"Modernizing the American Medical School, 1893-1940: Architecture, Pedagogy, Professionalization, and Philanthropy." |
K.N. Morgan |
| Cutshaw, Stacey |
"Intimate Images: The Public and the Private in Twentieth-Century American Photography" |
C. Jones,
K. Sichel |
| Doherty, Keith |
"Narrative and Spatial Structure of Roman Landscape Paintings" |
F. Kleiner |
Gordon, John Stuart
(AMNESP) |
"Lurelle Guild's Historical Modernism: The Legacy of the Colonial Revival in American Modernist Design." |
K.N. Morgan |
| Harper, Katherine |
"The Prints and Drawings of Hendrick Goudt: New Light on an Artist and Nobleman" |
M. Zell |
| Habib Lissen, Dalia |
"Imprints of Their Being: the Photographs of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel." |
K. Sichel |
Hult-Lewis, Christine
(AMNESP) |
"Carleton Watkins' Mining Photographs" |
K. Sichel |
| Ludwig, Amber |
"'She is All Nature and Yet All Art': Portraits of Emma Hamilton" |
B. Redford |
| Markovitz, Holly |
"Reframing the Frontier: Rephotography, Repetition, and Return" |
K. Sichel |
| Moebus-Bergeron, Susanne |
“The Adaptation and Application of Goldsmith Techniques in Medieval Manuscripts from the Early Eleventh to the Mid-Thirteenth Century” |
D. Kahn |
Oakes, Karen S
(AMNESP) |
"Order(s) in the Wilderness: Upright-and-Wing Houses in Oswego County, New York"
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K.N. Morgan |
Orwig, Timothy T
(AMNESP) |
"Patriotism, Taste, and Authenticity: Joseph Everett Chandler, the Preservation Movement and the Colonial Revival." |
K.N. Morgan |
| Renn, Melissa |
"LIFE Magazine in the Art World, 1936-1972" |
P. Hills,
K.N. Morgan |
| Reynolds, Rebecca |
"Preserving Her Nature: The Animal and Figurative Sculpture of Anna Hyatt Huntington" |
P. Hills |
| Roberts, Ellen |
“Japanese Art and the American Aesthetic Interior, 1870-1900” |
P. Hills,
K.N. Morgan |
| Ward, Tara |
“Personal Space: Simultaneity in the 1913 Work of Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay” |
J. Cranston,
K. Sichel |
Weiss, Francine
(AMNESP) |
"Visual Verses: Modernist Collaborations of American Artists and Poets, 1921-1946—Charles Demuth and William Carlos Williams, Walker Evans and Hart Crane, Edward Weston and Walt Whitman, Andrew Wyeth and Robert Frost" |
P. Hills,
K. Sichel |
| Wilson, Jaime |
"Alterations of Form and Function: A Re-interpretive Analysis of the Conversion of Greek Temples in the Early Christian Era." |
H. Westervelt,
D. Kahn |
Completed
2009 |
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| Dolan, Julia |
"I will Take you into the Heart of Modern Industry: Lewis Hine's Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age" |
K. Sichel |
| DuBois, Michelle |
"Picturing 'The Structure of Becoming' - Charles Seliger's Expressions of Complexity." |
P. Hills,
G. Williams |
| Dumett, Mari |
"Corporate Imaginations: The Fluxus Collective in the Age of Multinational Capitalism" |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
| Lamunière, Michelle |
“The Social Museum at Harvard: Francis Greenwood Peabody and Early Twentieth-Century Social Reform Photography in Context " |
K. Sichel |
| Steck, Stuart |
“Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
2008 |
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| Albers, Kate Palmer |
“Archive/Atlas/Album: The Photographic Records of Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. Lê, and Gerhard Richter” |
C. Jones,
K. Sichel |
| Barrett, Ross |
"Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Visual Culture" |
P. Hills |
Burgess, Rebekah
(AMNESP) |
“Collecting Agency: Turn-of-the-Century Lowell, Massachusetts Workers Return the Camera’s Gaze’ |
K. Sichel |
| De Appolonia, Giovanna |
“Profane and Sacred Justice: The Symbolism of the Romanesque Column-Bearing Lion from Northern Italy” |
D. Kahn |
| Mayer, Stephanie |
"The Art of The Gift: Mount, Sully, Huntington, and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry" |
P. Hills |
2007 |
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| Senf, Rebecca |
“Intimate Places: Ansel Adams’s Photographs in the American West and Southwest, 1916-1936” |
K. Sichel |
| Steck, Stuart |
“Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
2006 |
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Blais, Catherine |
“The Artist/ Curator Phenomenon: Maneuvers In The Economy of a Relation” |
C. Jones,
J. Ribner |
Driemeyer, Laura
(AMNESP) |
"Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of 19th Century Building Culture in Charlestown, Massachusetts" |
K.N. Morgan |
| Seaman, Natasha |
“Archaism and the Critique of Caravaggio in the Religious Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen” |
M. Zell |
| Tronchin, Francesca |
“An Eclectic Locus Artis: The Casa Di Octavius Quartio At Pompeii” |
F. Kleiner |
2005 |
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| Hamilton, Jaimey |
“Strategies of Excess: The Postwar Assemblages of Alberto Burri, Robert Rauschenberg, and Arman" |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
2004 |
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Gertsman, Elina |
“Debeo Saltare: Theology, Reception and Performativity in the Medieval Dance of Death.” |
J. Cranston |
| Hoss, Mary Louise |
“The Female Collegian in Black and White: Institutional Photography of Women Students 1895-1915” |
K. Sichel |
| Shafer, Deborah |
“Fashioning an Ideal of Intimacy: British Family Portraits, 1730-1790” |
J. Ribner |
2003 |
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Altvater, Francis A |
“In Fonte Renatus: The Iconography and Context of Twelfth-Century Baptismal Fonts in England” |
D. Kahn |
| Furth, Leslie |
“Imaging Transgression: Subverting the Victorian Norm in the Work of Thomas Satterwhite Noble, John Singer Sargent and John White Alexander” |
P. Hills,
J. Ribner |
| Kjellman-Chapin, Monica |
“Embodying Aestheticism: Whistler and the Tradition of the Nude” |
J. Ribner |
Lawrence, Kathleen
(AMNESP) |
“Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy: Margaret Fuller, William Wetmore” |
S. Mizruchi, P. Hills |
| Richardson, Milda B |
“The Metamorphosis of the Lithuanian Wayside Shrine, 1850-1990” |
K.N. Morgan |
2002 |
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Bresler, Ross |
“Between Ancient and All’antica: The Imitation of Roman Coins in the Renaissance” |
H. Wohl,
F. Kleiner |
| Lane, Grayson Harris |
“Duncan Phillips and the Phillips Memorial Gallery: A Patron and Museum in Formation, 1918-1940” |
P. Hills |
| Iarocci, Louisa |
“Spaces of Desire: The Department Store in America” |
K.N. Morgan |
| Rhee, Jieun |
“Performing the Order: Asian Bodies in Performance and Video Art” |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
| Rubin, Sydelle |
“Emigrants in Harlem: New Perspective on Miguel Covarrubias and Winold Reiss” |
P. Hills,
S. Nelson |
| Vure, Sarah |
“Independent American Artist: The Post-Armory Show Careers of Robert Henri and John Sloan” |
P. Hills |
2001 |
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Carso, Kerry Dean
(AMNESP) |
“Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850” |
K.N. Morgan |
D’Ambrosio, Paul S
(AMNESP) |
“Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997): The Making of a Working-Class Artist” |
P. Hills |
| Dermer, Rachelle |
“Led to Believe: Photography and the Construction of the Medical Subject” |
C. Jones,
K. Sichel |
| Spinari-Pollalis, Tatiana |
"André Breton: Psychiatry in the Service of Surrealism" |
K. Sichel |
| Taylor, Stephanie |
“Constructing Cornell: Artistic Identity and the Invention of Joseph Cornell” |
C. Jones |
| Wilcox-Titus, Catherine |
“Skin Deep: Authorship, Authenticity, and Picturing a Self in American Art since the 1970s” |
C. Jones,
P. Hills |
2000 |
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Georgi, Karen |
“Asher B. Durand's American Landscapes and the Nature of Representation” |
P. Hills |
1999 |
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Alexander-Shilland, Kimberly |
“Ware and Van Brunt: Architectural Practice and Professionalization (1863-1881)” |
K.N. Morgan |
| Housefield, James E |
“French Interpretations of Leonardo da Vinci’s Modernity: A Mind at Work in Art and Science” |
H. Wohl |
| Kao, Deborah Martin |
“Radioactive Icons: The Critical Reception and Cultural Meaning of Modern Religious Art in Cold War America” |
P. Hills,
C. Jones |
Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle
(AMNESP) |
“’Haunting Echoes’: Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African-American Crafts” |
P. Hills |
| Lyons, Maura |
“William Dunlap and Construction of an American Art History” |
P. Hills,
K.N. Morgan |
| Payne, Carol J. |
“Interactions of Photography and the Mass Media, 1920-1941” |
K. Sichel |
| Stomberg, John |
“Art and Fortune: Machine-Age Discourse and the Visual Culture of Industrial Modernity” |
P. Hills,
K. Sichel |
1998 |
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Bookbinder, Judith |
“Figurative Expressionism in Boston and its Germanic Cultural Affinities: An Alternative Modernist Discourse on Art and Identity” |
P. Hills,
C. Jones |
| Ehrenpries, David |
“Beyond the Femme Fatale: Female Types in Wilhelmime Visual Culture” |
J. Ribner |
| Fontana, Jeffrey |
“Federico Barocci: Imitation and the Formation of Artistic Identity” |
H. Wohl |
| Gruskin, Nancy B |
“Building Context: The Personal and Professional Life of Eleanor Raymond, Architect (1887-1989)” |
K.N. Morgan |
1997 |
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Barr, Peter |
“Becoming Documentary: Berenice Abbott's Photographs, 1925-1939” |
K. Sichel |
Brody, David Eric
(AMNESP) |
“Fantasy Realized: The Philippines, Orientalism, and Imperialism in Turn-of-the century American Visual Culture” |
P. Hills,
K.N. Morgan |
1996 |
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Hanni, Margaret |
“The Marriage Portrait in 18th-Century England” |
A. Binion |
| Riccardi, Lee Ann |
“Roman Imperial Portraiture in the Eastern Provinces, A.D. 235-270: A Study of Reception and Rejection of Imperial Models” |
F. Kleiner |
Trump, Erik Krenzen
(AMNESP) |
“The Indian Industries League and its Support of American Indian Arts 1893-1922: A Study of Changing Attitudes Towards Indian women and Assimilationist Policy” |
P. Hills |
1995 |
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Allen, Nina
(AMNESP) |
“Thomas Hart Benton and John Steinbeck: Populist Realism in the Depression Era” |
W. Vance,
P. Hills |
Carson, Jeanie Cooper
(AMNESP) |
“Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in United States Office of War Information (OWI) Photography, 1940-1945” |
K. Sichel |
| White, Eric |
“Hugo Van Der Goes and the Art of Imitation in Early Netherlandish Painting” |
A. Binion |
1994 |
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McInnes, Mary Drach |
“Taboo and Transgression: The Subversive Aesthetics of Georges Bataille and Documents” |
K. Sichel,
F. Licht |
| Patton, Pamela A |
“The Cloister of San Juan de la Pena and Monumental Sculpture in Aragon and Navrre” |
S. Von Daum Tholl |
| Steinberg, Norma Sheila |
“William Gropper: Art and Censorship from the 1930s Cold War Era” |
P. Hills |
| Thompson (Moriarty), Phyllis Anina |
“The Triumph of Poverty Over Fortune: Illuminations From Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium” |
N. Miller |
1993 |
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Murphy, Debra |
“The Fresco Decoration of the Pauline Rooms in the Palazzo Dei Conservatori” |
H. Wohl |
| Nahum, Katherine |
“Coborn Harding 'The Importance of Velazquez to Goya, Manet and Sargent'” |
F. Licht |
1992 |
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Bauman, Priscilla |
“Regional Iconography in Auvergne: Pre-Chistian and Gallo-Roman Vocabulary in Romanesque Sculpture” |
S. Von Daum Tholl |
| Green, Caroline V |
“Fabricating a Dream: American World’s Fair Sculpture, 1876-1915” |
F. Licht,
K.N. Morgan |
| Hirshler, Erica E |
“Lillian Westcott Hale (1880-1963): A Woman Painter of Boston School” |
P. Hills |
| Milhous, Margaret |
“Honos and Virtus in Roman Art” |
F. Kleiner |
1991 |
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Ashbrook, Susan |
“The Private Press Movement in Britain 1890-1914” |
J. Ribner,
K. N. Morgan |
| Porterfield, Todd B |
“Art in the Service of the French Imperialism in the Near East, 1798-1848: Four Case Studies” |
F. Licht,
J. Ribner |
| Sheckler, Allyson |
“Roman Honorary Arches in Iberia” |
F. Kleiner,
J. Wiseman |
1990 |
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Goodwin, Mary |
“Minor White: Silence of Seeing. Teaching Photography's Visible Language” |
C. Chiarenza, K. Sichel |
| Kahn, Lisa C |
“Gallo-Roman Sculpture from Soulosse, France” |
F. Kleiner |
| Milne, Louise S |
“Dreams and Popular Beliefs in the Imagery of Pieter Bruegal the Elder c. 1528-1569” |
H. Wohl,
N. Miller |
1989 |
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Doezema, Marianne |
“George Bellows & Urban America 1905-1913” |
P. Hills,
D. Hall |
Panzer, Mary
(AMNESP) |
“Romantic Origins of American Realism: Photography, Arts & Letters in Philadelphia 1850-1875” |
C. Chiarenza |
1988 |
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Cassidy, Donna |
“The Painted Music of America in the Works of Arthur G. Dove, John Marin and Joseph Stella: An Aspect of Cultural Nationalism” |
P. Hills |
| Glavin, Ellen Marie |
“Maurice Prendergast: The Development of an American Post-Impressionist, 1900-1925” |
P. Hills |
| Hoff, Michael C |
“The Roman Agora at Athens” |
F. Kleiner |
| Johnston, Patricia |
“Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography: The Visual Strategies of Persuasion” |
C. Chiarenza, P. Hills |
| Nessen, Susan W |
“Surrealism in Exile: The Early New York Years, 1940-1942” |
H. Wohl |
| Stewart, David Alan |
“G.F. Watts: The Social and Religious Themes” |
K. Bendiner, K.N. Morgan |
1987 |
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Black, Janet Phyrn |
“Aspects of the Artist’s Education in Eighteenth-Century France” |
A. Binion |
| Dabakis, Melissa |
“Saul Baizerman (1889-1957)” |
P.Hills,
F. Licht |
| Longsworth, Ellen L |
“The Renaissance Tomb in Milan” |
H. Wohl |
1986 |
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Calo, Carole Gold |
“Aspects of Wood Sculpture in America During the 1950’s” |
F. Licht |
| Stott, Annette |
“American Painters who worked in the Netherlands” |
P. Hills |
| Webbe, Nancy Lodge |
“The Three Graces in Renaissance Art: Origins and Transformations of a Theme” |
H. Wohl |
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