Graduate Alumni
PhD in Art History and Archaeology
2021
Emogene Schilling Cataldo: “Living Stones: Sculpted Foliage in Gothic Architecture, c.1140-1300” (S. Murray)
Xiaohan Du: “On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247-1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan” (R. Harrist)
Nina Horisaki-Christens: “VIDEO HIROBA: Contingent Publics and Video Communication in Japan, 1966-1981” (J. Reynolds)
Nicholas Fitch: “Institutional critique and autobiography in the post-1968 work of Clorindo Testa” (B. Bergdoll)
Courtney Fiske: “Requestioning” Postminimalism: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Creative Energetics, 1968–72” (B. Joseph)
Tiffany Floyd: "Dreaming of Ancient Times: Mesopotamia and the Temporal Topography of Iraqi Modern Art, 1958-2003" (A. Alberro and Z. Bahrani)
Matthew Gillman: “Medieval Glass and the Aesthetics of Simulation” (A. Shalem)Natasha Marie Llorens: “Specters of Liberation, Children of Violence: Experimental Film in Algeria 1965-1979” (A. Alberro)
David Schneller: “Crafting Across Time and Space: Artistic Exchange and Archaic Greek Sanctuaries in the Eastern Mediterranean” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Brian Van Oppen: “Radiant Bodies: Living with Etruscan Bronze Candelabra” (F. de Angelis)
Leah Werier: “From Vitrine to Screen: Art and the Architecture of Commodity Display” (A. Alberro)
2020
Margot Bernstein: “Carmontelle's Profile Pictures and the Things that Made Them Modern” (A. Higonnet)
Rachel Boyd: “Invention, Collaboration, and Authorship in the Renaissance Workshop: The Della Robbia Family and Italian Glazed Terracotta Sculpture, ca. 1430–1566” (M. Cole)
Raymond Carlson: "Michelangelo between Florence and Rome: Art and Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy" (M. Cole)
Lucas Cohen: “Port of Flanders: Jef Geys and Belgium in the 1970s” (R. Krauss)
Sophia D’Addio: “Painted Organ Shutters in Renaissance Italy” (M. Cole)
Yasmine Espert: “The Cinema of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their Imaginations Return to the Caribbean” (K. Jones)
Daria Foner: "Collaborative Endeavors in the Career of Andrea del Sarto" (M. Cole)
Changduk Kang: “Before the Reality Effect: Wax Representations in Eighteenth-Century France” (A. Higonnet)
Clare Kobasa: “Sacred Impressions in Seventeenth-Century Sicily” (M. Cole)
Kathryn Kremnitzer: "Manet's Watercolors: Transition and Translation in the 1860s" (A. Higonnet)
Francesca Marzullo: “Devotional Overdoors in Medieval and Renaissance Italy” (M. Cole)
Nicholas C. Morgan: "Displaying Queerness: Art and Identity, 1989-1993" (A. Alberro)
Mikael Muehlbauer: ““Bastions of the Cross:” Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia” (S. Murray)
Steven Niedbala: "Techniques of Carceral Reproduction: Architecture and the Prison System in the United States, 1799-1978" (B. Bergdoll)
Abbe Schriber: "For a Politics of Obscurity: David Hammons and Black Experimentalism, 1974-1989" (K. Jones)
Jacob Stavis: "The Formation of Achaemenid Art: Beyond Iconography and Attribution" (Z. Bahrani)
Julia Vázquez: “The Artist as Curator: Diego Velázquez, 1623-1660” (D. Bodart)
Andrea Fabiola Vázquez de Arthur: “Clay Bodies, Powerful Pots: On the Imagery and Ontology of Wari Faceneck Vessels” (E. Pasztory)
Brigid Von Preussen: “Manufactories of Virtù: Classicism, Commerce, and Authorship in Georgian Britain, c. 1759-1800” (A. Higonnet)
2019
Jens Bartel: “Style, space and meaning in the large-scale landscape paintings of Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795)” (M. McKelway)
Connie Choi: ““A matter of building bridges”: Photography and African American Education, 1957-1972” (K. Jones)
Michael Anthony Fowler: “Human Sacrifice in Greek Antiquity: Between Myth, Image, and Reality” (I. Mylonopoulos)
William Gassaway: “Extraordinary bodies: Death, divinity, and distortion in the art of post-classic Mexico” ( E. Pasztory)
Álvaro Luís Lima: “Art in Mozambique at the End of Socialism” (Z. Strother)
Arathi Menon: “Hipped and gabled: Similitude and vicissitude in Kerala’s sacred art and architecture” (V. Dehejia)
Michaëla Mohrman: “Populist counter-spectacles and the inception of mass media art in Argentina: Marta Minujín's happenings, performances, and environments of the 1960s” (A. Alberro)
Matthew Peebles: “Act as Attribute: The Attacking Body in Ancient Greek Art” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Leah Pires: “Finesse: Louise Lawler’s Pictures” (A. Alberro)
Irina Tolstoy: “Camillo Trevisan’s palace and villa culture on the island of Murano” (M. Cole)
Siddhartha Shah: “Ornamenting the Raj: Opulence and spectacle in Victorian India” (V. Dehejia)
Lorenzo Vigotti: “The origin of the Renaissance palace: Domestic architecture during the Florentine oligarchy, 1378-1432” (F. Benelli)
Alex Weintraub: “Authoring art in nineteenth-century France, 1793-1902” (J. Crary)
2018
Caitlin Beach: “Sculpture, Slavery, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” (E. Hutchinson)
Thomas Campbell: “Picturing the system: Counter-institutional practices in British art of the 1970s” (B. Joseph)
Sonia Coman: “New Values in Art: Japanese and Japoniste Ceramics, 1866-1904” (A. Higonnet)
Emily Cook: “Legacies of Matter: Tradition, Innovation, and Remediation in the Materials of Roman Ideal Sculpture” (F. de Angelis)
Lindsay Cook: “Architectural Citation of Notre-Dame of Paris in the Land of the Paris Cathedral Chapter” (S. Murray)
Carrie Cushman: “Temporary Ruins: Miyamoto Ryûji's Architectural Photography in Postmodern Japan” (J. Reynolds)
Catherine Damman: “Unreliable Narrators: Staging Performance in the 1970s” (B. Joseph)
Robert Fucci: “Landscape into History: The Early Printed Landscape Series by Jan van de Velde II (1593-1641)” (D. Freedberg)
Sofia Gans: ““a whole chapel cast and engraved with images”: the Many Meanings of the Tomb of Saint Sebald in Nuremberg” (S. Murray)
Beth Gollnick: “Diffusion: Women Light Artists in Postwar California” (B. Joseph)
Maggie Mustard: “Atlas Novus: Kawada Kikuti’s Chizu (The Map) and Postwar Japanese Photography” (J. Reynolds)
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg: “Yu Zhiding (ca. 1646-ca. 1716) and the Envisioning of the Early Qing World” (R. Harrist)
Matthew Teti: “From Minimalism to Performance Art, 1967-1971” (B. Joseph)
Robert Wiesenberger: “Print and Screen, Muriel Cooper at MIT” (B. Bergdoll)
Yu Yang: “At the crossroads of Japanese modernism and colonialism: Architecture and urban space in Manchuria, 1900-1945” (J. Reynolds)
Gillian Young: “Telepresence: Joan Jonas and the Emergence of Performance and Video Art in the 1970s” (B. Joseph)
2017
Marta Becherini: “Staging the Foreign: Niccolò Manucci (1638-ca. 1720) and Early Modern European Collections of Indian Painting” (V. Dehejia)
Eliza Butler: “The Civic Art of Francis Davis Millet” (E. Hutchinson)
Carla D’Arista: “Building Blocks of Power: The Architectural Commissions and Decorative Projects of the Pucci Family in the Renaissance” (F. Benelli)
Alessandra Di Croce: “Sacred Fragments: The Reception of Christian Antiquity in post-Tridentine Rome” (H. Klein)
Kevin Dumouchelle: “Traditions of Modernity in an African City: Continuity and Change in the Architecture of Kumasi” (S. Vogel)
Nicole Griggs: “Reconsidering the Tribune in Early Gothic Architecture of Twelfth-Century Northern France” (S. Murray)
Alexandra Helprin: “The Sheremetevs and the Argunovs: Art, Serfdom, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia” (A. Higonnet)
Türkan Pilavci: “Drinking a God and Sacrificing a Drink: Agency of the Hittite Libation Vessels” (Z. Bahrani)
Eszter Polonyi: “Ghost Writer: Béla Balázs's Hauntology of Film” (N. Elcott)
Rachel Silveri: “The Art of Living in the Historical Avant-Garde” (B. Joseph)
2016
Talia Andrei: "Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara" (M. McKelway)
Emily Beeny: “Poussin, Ballet, and the Birth of French Classicism” (D. Freedberg)
Colby Chamberlain: “George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork” (B. Joseph)
Heather Clydesdale: “The Jiuquan Tombs: Reordering Art and Ideas on China’s Frontier” (R. Harrist)
Sandrine Colard: "Photography in the Colonial Congo (1885-1960)" (Z. Strother)
Jessamyn Conrad: “The Meanings of Duccio’s Maesta: Architecture, Painting, Politics and the Construction of Narrative Time in the Trecento Altarpieces for Siena Cathedral” (H. Klein)
Adam Eaker: “Lore of the Studio: Van Dyck, Rubens, and the Status of Portraiture” (D. Freedberg)
Frank Feltens: “Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716) and the Possibilities of Painting in Early Modern Japan” (M. McKelway)
Huffa Frobes-Cross: “Various Representational Tasks: Art and Activism in the Early Work of Martha Roster, Allan Sekula and Fred Lonidier, 1967-1976” (B. Joseph)
Stephanie O'Rourke: “Bodies of Knowledge: Fuseli and Girodet at the turn of the Nineteenth Century” (J. Crary)
Tina Rivers Ryan: "McLuhan's Bulbs: Light Art and the Dawn of New Media" (B. Joseph)
Michael Sanchez: “The Rhine System: Konrad Fischer and the Logistics of Artists, 1967-1974” (R. Krauss, B. Joseph)
Andrew Sawyer: “Frame Work: The Contexts of Walker Evans” (E. Hutchinson)
Taryn Marie Zarrillo: “Artistic Patrimony and Cultural Politics in Early Seicento Venice” (D. Rosand, D. Bodart)
2015
Christina Charuhas: “The Disobedient Isle: Bermudian Aesthetic and Material Culture in the British Atlantic, 1609-1753” (E. Hutchinson)
Amanda Gannaway: “Visualizing Divine Authority: An Iconography of Rulership on the Late Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Period North Coast of Peru” (E. Pasztory)
Jennifer E. Jones: “A Discourse on Drawings: Amateurs and Connoisseurs and the Graphic Arts in Early Eighteenth-century Paris” (R. Brilliant)
Subhashini Kaligotla: “Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Reimagining the Sacred Architecture of India's Deccan Region” (V. Dehejia)
Sandrine Larrive-Bass: “Embodied Materials: The Emergence of Figural Imagery in Prehistoric China” (R. Harrist)
Risham Majeed: “Primitive before Primitivism: Medieval and African Art in the 19th Century” (S. Murray)
Andrew Manson: “Rationalism and Ruins in Roma Mussoliniana: The 1934 Palazzo del Littorio Competition” (M. McLeod)
Megan McCarthy: “The Empire on Display: Exhibitions of Germanic Art and Design in America, 1890-1914” (E. Hutchinson)
Rory O'Neill: “Gothic on the Edge: Light, Leviation and Seismic Culture on the Evolution of Medieval Religious Architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean” (S. Murray)
Giulia Paoletti: “Un Nouveau Besoin: Photography and Portraiture in Senegal (1860-1960)” (Z. Strother)
Elizabeth Perkins: “Antonello da Messina and the Independent Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Italy” (D.Freedberg)
Aaron Rio: “Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura” (M. McKelway)
Julia Siemon: “Bronzino, Politics and Portraiture in 1530s Florence” (M. Cole, D. Freedberg)
Therese Sjovoll: “Queen Christina of Sweden’s Musaeum: Collecting and Display in the Palazzo Riario” (D. Freedberg)
Zachary Stewart: “The Integrated Interior: Parish Church Architecture in Eastern England, c.1330–c.1550” (S. Murray)
Chun-Yi Tsai: “Imagining the Supernatural Grotesque: Paintings of Zhong Kui and Demons in the Late Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties” (R. Harrist)
Alexandra Tunstall: “Woven Paintings, Woven Writing: Intermediality in Kesi Silk Tapestries in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) Dynasties” (R. Harrist)
Susan Wager: “Boucher's Bijoux: Luxury Reproduction in the Age of Enlightenment” (A. Higonnet)
2014
Heidi Applegate: “Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair” (E. Hutchinson)
Ellen Belcher: “Embodiment of the Halaf: Sixth Millennium Figurines from Northern Mesopotamia” (B. Boyd)
Lorenzo Buonanno: “Stone Mediators: Sculpted Altarpieces in Early Renaissance Venice” (D. Rosand)
Diana Bush: "The Dialectical Object: John Heartfield, 1915-1933" (A. Alberro)
Anne Chen: "From the Seed of the Gods: Art, Ideology and Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs, 284-324 CE" (F. de Angelis)
Joshua Cohen: “Masks and the Modern: African/European Encounters in 20th-Century Art” (Z. Strother)
Christopher Dueker: "The Entangled Aesthetics of Alex Janvier" (E. Hutchinson)
Frederick Ilchman: "Jacopo Tintoretto in Process: The Making of a Venetian Master, 1540-1560 (D. Rosand)
Kate Isard: "The Practice of Architectural Theory in Vincenzo Scamozzi's Annotated Books" (F. Benelli)
SeungJung Kim: “Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Visual Tradition of Late Archaic and Classical Greece” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Soyoung Lee: “Interregional Reception and Invention in Korean and Japanese Ceramics, 1400-1800” (M. McKelway)
Jessica Maratsos: "The Devotional Imagination of Jacopo Pontormo" (D. Rosand)
Heather McStay: "Viva Bacco e Viva Amore: Bacchic Imagery in the Renaissance" (D. Rosand)
Debra Nagao: “An Interconnected World? Evidence of Interaction in the Arts of Epiclassic Cacaxtla and Xochicalco, Mexico” (E. Pasztory)
Neeraja Poddar: "Krishna in His Myriad Forms: Narration, Translation, and Variation in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Latter Half of the Tenth Book of the Bhagavata Purana" (V. Dehejia)
Sarah Schaefer: "From Sacred to Spectacular: Gustave Doré's Biblical Imagery" (A. Higonnet)
Anna Spiro: "Reconsidering the Career of Nicholaus Artifex (active c. 1122-1164) in the Context of Later Twelfth-Century North Italian Politics" (H. Klein)
Alena Williams: "Movement in Vision: Cinema, Aesthetics, and Modern German Culture, 1918-1933" (J. Crary)
Serdar Yalcin: “Seals, Identity and Patronage in the Ancient Near East (ca. 1550-1050 BC)” (Z. Bahrani)
2013
Kim Benzel: "Pu-abi's Adornment for the Afterlife: Materials and Technologies of Jewelry at Ur in Mesopotamia" (Z. Bahrani)
Kathryn Chiong: "Words Matter: The Work of Lawrence Weiner" (R. Krauss)
Katherine Morris Boivin: "Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Architecture and Devotion in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber" (S. Murray)
Susanna Cole: "Space into Time: English Canals and English Landscape Painting 1760-1835" (J. Crary)
Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire: "An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)" (E. Hutchinson)
Anna Hetherington: "Melancholy Illusions: From Bosch to Titian" (D. Rosand)
Susan Kart: "From Direct Carving to Recuperation: The Art of Moustapha Dime in Post-Independence Senegal 1974-1997" (E. Hutchinson, B. Lawal)
Katherine Kasdorf: "Forming Dorasamudra: Temples of the Hoysala Capital in Context" (V. Dehejia)
Dipti Khera: "Picturing India's 'Land of Princes' Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs" (V. Dehejia)
Emily Liebert: "Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s" (A. Alberro)
Joseph Loh: "When Worlds Collide: Art, Cartography, and Spatial Imagination in Early Modern Japan" (R. Harrist)
Martina Mims: "August Endell's Construction of Feeling" (B. Bergdoll)
Denise Murrell: "Seeing Laure: Race and Modernity from Manet's Olympia to Matisse, Bearden, and Beyond" (A. Higonnet)
Arianna Packard: "The Catafalque of Paul V: Architecture, Sculpture and Iconography" (D. Rosand)
Nassim Rossi: "Italian Renaissance Depictions of the Ottoman Sultan: Nuances in the Function of Early Modern Portraiture" (D. Rosand)
Anna Seastrand: "Praise, Politics and Language: South Indian Paintings 1500-1800" (V. Dehejia)
Yuthika Sharma: "Art in between Empires: Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi 1748-1857" (V. Dehejia)
2012
Jessica Basciano: "Architecture and Popular Religion: French Pilgrimage Churches of the Nineteenth Century" (B. Bergdoll)
Roberta Casagrande-Kim: "The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades" (R. Brilliant)
Andrew Finegold: "Dramatic Renditions: Battle Murals and the Struggle for Elite Legitimacy in Epiclassic Mesoamerica" (E. Pasztory)
Meredith Fluke: "Building across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona and their Urban Context" (H. Klein)
Teresa Harris: "The Transformation of the City: The Kampffmeyer Family and the German Garden City Association" (B. Bergdoll)
Page Knox: "Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World" (E. Hutchinson)
Risha Lee: "Constructing Communities: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China (850-1281)" (V. Dehejia, R. Harrist)
M. Jordan Love: "'On Earth as It is in Heaven?': The Creation of the Bastide Towns of Southwest France" (S. Murray)
Jeffrey Miller: "The Building Program of Archbishop Walter de Gray: Architectural Production and Reform in the Archdiocese of York, 1215-1255" (S. Murray)
Kim-Ly Moynihan: "Comedy, Science, and the Reform of Description in Lombard Painting of the Late Renaissance: Arcimboldo, Vincenzo Campi, and Bartolomeo Passerotti" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)
Aimee Ng: "Ruptures in Painting after the Sack of Rome: Parmigianino, Rosso, Sebastiano" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)
Olivia Powell: "The Choreographic Imagination in Renaissance Art" (D. Rosand)
Sara Switzer: "Correggio and the Sacred Image" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)
Mark Watson: "Diplomatic Aesthetics: Globalization and Contemporary Native American Art" (E. Hutchinson)
Carolyn Yerkes: "Drawing as a Way of Knowing: Architectural Survey in the Late Renaissance" (H. Ballon, D. Freedberg)
2011
Fabio Barry: "Painting in Stone: The Symbolic Identity of Coloured Marbles from Antiquity until the Age of Enlightenment" (J. Connors)
Patrick Crowley: "Forms of Spectrality in Ancient Rome" (F. de Angelis, N. Kampen, R. Brilliant)
Sonja Drimmer: "The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MSM126)" (S. Murray)
Christina Ferando: "Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship, and Display: 1780-1843" (A. Higonnet, J. Crary)
Ellen Hoobler: "The Limits of Memory: Alfonso Caso and Narratives of Tomb Assemblage from Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico, 500-800 and 1931-49 CE" (E. Pasztory)
Albert Narath: "The Baroque Effect: Architecture and Art History in Berlin, 1886-1900" (B. Bergdoll)
Andrea Renner: "Housing Diplomacy: The Rise and Fall of U.S. International Housing in Latin America, 1949-1973" (H. Ballon)
Susan Sivard: "Upheaval and Transformation: The Volcano in American and European Art, 1765-1865" (E. Hutchinson)
Anna Vallye: "Design and the Politics of Knowledge in America, 1937-1967: Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes" (B. Bergdoll)
Laura Weinstein: "Variations on a Persian Theme: Adaptation and Innovation in the Early Manuscripts of Golconda" (V. Dehejia)
2010
Richard Anderson: "The Future of History: The Cultural Politics of Soviet Architecture, 1928-1941" (B. Bergdoll)
Masha Chlenova: "On Display: Transformations of the Avant-Garde in Soviet Public Culture, 1928-1933" (C. Kiaer)
Sarah E. Kelly: "Camera's Lens and Mind's Eye: James McNeill Whistler and the Science of Art" (D. Rosand)
Il Kim: "The Cult of Light in Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Architecture" (J. Connors)
Geoff Lehman: "Perspective and the Renaissance Landscape" (D. Rosand)
Victoria Sancho Lobis: "Artistic Training and Print Culture in the Time of Rubens" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)
Evan Neely: "Cy Twombly and the Ethics of Painting" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand, B. Joseph)
Jonathan Neil: "Carl Andre, Richard Serra, the Problem of Materials and the Picture of Matter" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Ian Pepper: "On the Difference Between Serialism and Seriality" (R. Krauss)
Kristin Romberg: "Aleksei Gan's Constructivism, 1917-1928" (C. Kiaer)
Johanna Seasonwein: "The Nursing Queen: Sculptures of the Virgo Lactans in Late Medieval France" (S. Murray)
Erin Thompson: "Images of Ritual Mockery on Greek Vases" (D. Freedberg)
Lee Ullman: "Movement and the Making of Place in the Hittite Landscape" (J. Smith, Z. Bahrani)
2009
Lara Allison: "Perception and Pedagogy: Design, Advertising and Education in Chicago, c.1935-1955" (H. Ballon)
Eric Anderson: "Beyond Historicism: Jakob von Falke and the Reform of the Viennese Interior" (B. Bergdoll, M. McLeod)
Jordan Bear: "Without a Trace: Early Photography and the History of Visual Objectivity" (J. Crary, A. Higonnet)
Susan Beningson: "Shaping Sacred Space: Early Buddhist Caves and their Interaction with Ritual Architecture and Artistic Programs of Tombs in Fifth Century China" (R. Harrist)
Juan Ledezma: "Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky and the October Group: Montage and the post-history of the constructivist object in Russia's 'Reconstruction Period' (1928-1932)" (C. Kiaer, B. Buchloh)
Catherine Roach: "Frame Works: Paintings-within-Paintings in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (A. Higonnet)
Nadja Rottner: "Claes Oldenburg and the Emergence of the 'Happening'" (J. Rajchman, R. Krauss, B. Joseph)
Margaret Sundell: "From Fine Art to Fashion: Man Ray's Ambivalent Avant-Garde" (R. Krauss, B. Buchloh)
Abigail Susik: "The Vertigo of the Modern: Surrealism and the Outmoded" (R. Krauss, A. Higonnet)
Yasuko Tsuchikane: "Art, Crafts, Architecture and Modern Society: Buddhist Temple Decorations in 20th Century Japan by Domôto Inshô (1891-1975)" (M. McCormick)
Veronica White: "Sero Ludere: Baroque Invenzione and the Development of the Capriccio" (D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)
Lei Xue: "The Elusive Crane: Memory, Metaphor and a Stone Monument from Sixth Century China" (R. Harrist)
2008
Colleen Becker: "Competing Representations: The "Volk" in German Visual Culture, 1890-1900" (A. Higonnet)
Alexander Bartolot: "A Language for Change: Creativity and Power in Mozambican Makonde Masked Performance, circa 1900-2004" (N. Kampen)
Chelsea Foxwell: "Kano Hōgai (1828-88) and the Making of Modern Japanese Painting" (M. McCormick)
Paul Galvez: "The Landscape-as-Body in Modernist Painting" (J. Crary)
Beth Hinderliter: "The Space of Painting: Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Kyle Killian: "The Landscapes of Saint-Pierre d'Orbais: an Anthropology of Monastic Architecture" (S. Murray)
Rebecca Molholt: "On Stepping Stones: The Historical Experience of Roman Mosaics" (R. Brilliant, N. Kampen)
Sarah Roland: "Corinth and the Birth of Figural Representation in Greek Monumental Architecture" (C. Marconi, N. Kampen)
Christine Sciacca: "The Gradual and Sacramentary of Hainricus Sacrista (Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 711): Liturgy, Devotion, and Patronage at Weingarten Abbey" (S. Murray)
Phoebe C. Segal: "Soaring Votives: Anathemata in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries" (C. Marconi, N. Kampen)
Lee Stewart: "Judging by Appearances: How Physiognomy Influenced Nineteenth-Century French Portraiture" (R. Brilliant)
2007
Renzo Baldasso: "Illustrating the Book of Nature in the Renaissance: Drawing, Painting, and Printing Geometric Diagrams and Scientific Figures" (D. Freedberg)
Noit Banai: "Public Disorder: Yves Klein, 1945-1962" (J. Rajchman)
Sabina de Cavi: "Spain in Naples: Building, Sculpting and Painting for the Viceroys (1585–1621)" (J. Connors)
Amity Law: "Generating Identity through Plan and Architecture: Barcelona Cathedral, Gothic Drawing and the Crown of Aragon" (S. Murray)
Jaleh Mansoor: "Marshall Plan Monochrome: The Matrix of Fifties Abstraction" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Lucy Maulsby: "Politics and Persuasion: The Architectural and Urban Transformation of Milan under Fascism, 1922-1943" (R. Middleton)
Seth McCormick: "Jasper Johns, 1954-1958: Persecution and the Art of Painting" (J. Crary)
Kent Minturn: "Contre-Histoire: The Postwar Art and Writings of Jean Dubuffet" (R. Krauss)
Tomoko Sakomura: "Pictured Words and Codified Seasons: Visualizations of Waka Poetry in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Japan" (M. McCormick, R. Harrist)
Stephanie Schwartz: "The Crime of Cuba: Urbanism, Photography, and the Geopolitics of Americanization" (B. Buchloh)
Andrew J. Tallon: "Experiments in Early Gothic Structure: The Flying Buttress" (S. Murray)
Robin Thomas II: "Charles of Bourbon's Naples: Architecture and Urbanism" (J. Connors)
2006
Karen K. Butler: "Jean Fautrier's Resistance: Painting, Politics and the French Avant-Garde, 1930-1955" (B. Buchloh)
Claire Gilman: "Arte Povera's Theater: Artiface and Anti-Modernism in Italian Art of the 1960s" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Max Elijah Grossman: "Pro Honore Comunis Senensis et Pulchritudine Civitatis: Civic Architecture and Political Ideology in the Republic of Siena, 1270-1420" (S. Murray, M. Trachtenberg)
Meredith Hale: "Romeyn de Hooghe and the Birth of Political Satire" (S. Schama, D. Freedberg)
John Harwood; "The Redesign of Design: Multi-National Corporations, Computers and Design Logic, 1945-1976" (R. Middleton)
Kristine Juncker: "Honey at the Crossroads: Four Women and Afro-Cuban Ritual Arts, 1899-1969" (N. Kampen, Z. Strother)
William Kaizen: "The Immediate: Video Art and the Aesthetics of Liveness, from Andy Warhol to Postminimalism" (B. Buchloh)
Christian Kleinbub: "Vision and the Visionary in Raphael" (D. Rosand)
Jillian Taylor Lerner: "Panoramic Literature: Marketing Illustrated Journalism in July Monarchy Paris" (J. Crary, A. Higonnet)
Jessica Maier: "Imago Romae: Renaissance Visions of the Eternal City" (D. Rosand)
Vered Maimon: "Talbot and Herschel: Photography as a Site of Knowledge in Early Nineteenth-Century England" (J. Crary)
Alexandra Onuf: "Local Terrains: The Small Landscape Prints and the Depiction of the Countryside in Early Modern Antwerp" (D. Freedberg)
Hérica Valladares: "Imago Amoris: The Poetics of Desire in Roman Painting" (R. Brilliant, N. Kampen)
Stefaan Van Liefferinge: "The Choir of Notre-Dame of Paris: An Inquiry into Twelfth-Century Mathematics and Early Gothic Architecture" (S. Murray)
Caroline A. Wamsler: "Picturing Heaven: The Trecento Pictorial Program of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in Venice" (D. Rosand)
Terri Weissman: "Documentary Photography and Communicative Action: The Realisms of Berenice Abbott" (B. Buchloh)
Hilda Werschkul: "Modernism into Memory: The Drawings of Eva Hesse" (D. Rosand)
Gratia Cassandra Williams: "Takuma Eiga: A Revisionist Analysis of a Fourteenth-Century Buddhist Painter" (M. Murase)
2005
Adrienne Baxter Bell: "Painting Philosophy: George Inness, William James, and the Metaphysical Landscape" (D. Rosand, B. Novak)
Robert Bradley: "The Architecture of Kuelap" (E. Pasztory)
Meredith Davis: "Fool's Gold: American Trompe L'oeil and the Gilded Age" (J. Crary)
Terence Francis Dewsnap JR.: "The Romanesque Cathedral of St. Mary at Lincoln and the Image of Reform" (S. Murray)
Kai Gutschow: "The Culture of Criticism: Adolf Behne and the Development of Modern Architecture in Germany, 1910-1914" (R. Middleton)
Celeste Lovette Guichard: "Travels and Traversals in the Hellenistic Oracular Temples at Karos and Didyma" (R. Brilliant, N. Kampen)
Janice Lynn Robertson: "Aztec Picture-Writing: A Critical Study Based on the Codex Mendoza's Place-Name Signs" (R. Brilliant)
Miwako Tezuka: "Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop): Avant-Garde Experiments in Japanese Art of the 1950s" (B. Buchloh)
Siona Wilson: "Filmic Mode: Feminist Art Practices and the Avant Garde in North America and Britain During the 1970s" (B. Buchloh, C. Kiaer)
Sebastian Zeidler: "Defense of the Real: Carl Einstein's History and Theory of Art" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
2004
Jennifer Ahlfeldt: "On Reconstructing and Performing Ancient Maya Architecture: Structure 22, Copan, Honduras (AD 715)" (E. Pasztory)
Andrea Begel: "'Suffering in His Flesh': Raphael's Transfiguration and the Representation of Exorcism in Italian Art, 1230-1520" (J. Beck)
Anne Cassidy: "Divination by Image: The Borgia Group of Pre-Hispanic Mexican Manuscripts" (E. Pasztory)
Evelyn M. Cohen: "The Art of Giovanni da Modena: A Catalogue Raisonné" (J. Beck)
Meredith Cohen: "The Sainte-Chapelle of Paris: Image of Authority and Locus of Identity" (S. Murray)
Johanna Fassl: "Sacred Eloquence: Giambattista Tiepolo and the Rhetoric of the Altarpiece" (D. Rosand)
Hannah Feldman: "National Negotiations: Art, Historical Experience, and the Public in Paris, 1945-1962" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Caroline Goodson: "The Basilicas of Paschal I (817-824): Tradition and Transformation in Early Medieval Rome" (S. Murray)
Susan Laxton: "Paris as Gameboard: Lucid Strategies in Surrealism" (R. Krauss)
Elizabeth Marlowe: "'That Customary Significance Which is Your Due': Constantine and the Symbolic Capital of Rome" (R. Brilliant, N. Kampen)
Anne Woollett: "The Altarpiece in Antwerp 1554–1612: Painting and the Militia Guilds" (D. Freedberg)
2003
Christopher Drew Armstrong: "Progress in the Age of Navigation. The Voyage-Philosophique of Julien-David Le Roy" (R. Middleton, B. Bergdoll)
Alessio Assonitis: "The Art and Savonorolism in Florence and Rome" (J. Beck)
Jean-François Bédard: "The Architect as Honnête Homme: The Domestic Architecture and Decoration of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)" (R. Middleton)
Isolde Brielmaier: "'Picture-Taking,' and the Production of Urban Identities on the Kenyan Coast, 1940-1980" (E. Pasztory, Z. Strother)
Stephen Brown: "Luce: The Artist Engagé" (T. Reff)
Laura Brugger: "Constructing Taste: Athenaeums and Academies of Art in the United States, 1805–1865" (H. Ballon)
Martha Evans: "Claude Raguet Hirst: Gender and Genre in Turn-of-the-Century America" (B. Novak, E. Blackmar, K. Moxey)
Tatiana Flores: "Estridentismo in Mexico City: Dialogues Between Mexican Avant-Garde Art and Literature" (K. Moxey)
Claudia Goldstein: "Keeping Up Appearances: The Social Significance of Domestic Decoration in Antwerp, 1508–1600" (D. Freedberg)
Rachel Haidu: "Marcel Broodthaers 1963-1972, or The Absence of Work" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Judith Hayward: "Nature and Progress: Winslow Homer, His Critics and His Oils 1880–1900" (B. Novak, D. Rosand)
Christina Hunter: "Kurt Schwitters: German Romanticism & the Language of Abstraction" (B. Buchloh)
Alison Langmead: "The Architectural Landscape of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century South-Central France" (S. Murray)
Peter Macapia: "Minimalism: The Problem of Meaning" (R. Krauss)
Paul J. Papillo: "Illuminating the Comedy: Artistic Strategy and the Medieval Art of Teaching in Pierpont Morgan Library's Divine Comedy, MS M676" (S. Murray)
Irina Oryshkevich: "A History of the Roman Catacombs from the Constantinian Era to the Renaissance" (D. Rosand)
Judith Rodenbeck: "Happenings as the Black Box of Experience, 1958–66" (R. Krauss, B. Buchloh)
2002
Sheila Barker: "Art in a Time of Danger: Urban VIII's Rome and the Plague of 1629-1634" (D. Rosand)
Denise Budd: "Leonardo da Vinci through Milan: Studies on the Documentary Evidence" (J. Beck)
Lynn Catterson: "Donatello's Legacy and the Training of Michelangelo: Sculptural Practice in Quattrocento Florence" (J. Beck)
Vanessa Chase: "The Casa delle Zitelle: Architecture and Gender in Renaissance Venice" (J. Connors)
Patricia Decker: "The Herzogenburg Moralia: A 13th Century Illuminated Manuscript of the Moralia in Job" (J. Rosenthal)
Kim Dramer: "Between the Living & the Dead: Eastern Han Carved Stone Tomb Doors" (R. Harrist)
James Frakes: "Framing Public Life: the Portico in Roman Gaul" (R. Brilliant, N. Kampen)
Annapurna Garimella: "Vijayanagara: Architectural Style and State Formation" (N. Kampen)
Anthony Gerbino: "François Blondel (1618–1686): Architecture, Erudition, and Early Modern Science" (R. Middleton)
Sophie Gobran: "The First Dresden Hoftheater (1835–1841): Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Theater Design" (B. Bergdoll)
Jacqueline Jung: "The West Choir Screen of Naumburg Cathedral and the Formation of Social and Sacred Space" (S. Murray, D. Freedberg)
John Peffer: "The Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid" (E. Pasztory, S. Blier, Z. Strother)
Edward Wendt: "The Burkean Sublime in British Architecture" (R. Middleton)
Susan Kennedy Zeller: "Contemporary Aboriginal Art, 1948–2000: Constructing the Canon" (E. Pasztory)
2001
George Baker: "Lost Objects: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris, 1919-1924" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Michele Bambling: "Illuminating Japan's Sacred Geography: The Kongo-ji Sun-Moon Landscape Screens" (M. Murase)
Cynthia Conides: "The Stuccoed and Painted Ceramics from Teotihuacan, Mexico: A Study of Authorship and Function of Works of Art in and Ancient Mesoamerican City" (E. Pasztory)
Joan Cummins:"Dual Darsana: Re-Addressing the Surya Icon" (D. Rosand)
Katherine L. Morris: "Picturing Sovereignty: Land and Identity in Contemporary Native American Art" (E. Pasztory)
Ingrid Muan: "Citing Angkor: The 'Cambodian Arts' in the Age of Restoration, 1918-2000" (K. Moxey)
Richard Pegg: "Sheng Maoye: A Painter in Late Ming Suzhou" (R. Harrist)
Rhoma Phillips: "The Influence of English Engraving on Nineteenth Century American Landscapes, Seascapes, and Prints" (J. Beck, D. Rosand)
Barbara Porter: "Old Syrian Popular Style Cylinder Seals" (E. Pasztory)
Shaalini Ranasinghe: "The Castle of Emperor Fasiladas: Missionaries, Muslims, and Architecture in Gondar, Ethiopia" (S. Blier, D. Freedberg)
Kathryn Rudy: "Northern European Visual Responses to Holy Land Pilgrimage, 1453-1550" (D. Freedberg)
Christina Staudt: "Picturing the Dead and Dying in Nineteenth-Century L'Illustration" (T. Reff)
Richard Wittman: "Architecture, the Press, and Public Opinion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France" (R. Middleton)
Yiguo Zhang: "The Meaning of Wang Duo's Line: A Study of Two Scrolls of the Tang Poems" (D. Rosand, R. Harrist)
2000
Molly Aitken: "By Allusion or Exclusion: Shaping Style in Mewar Painting" (V. Dehejia, D. Freedberg)
Julia Assante: "The Erotic Reliefs of Ancient Mesopotamia" (N. Kampen)
Laura Auricchio: "Portraits of Impropriety: Adelaide Labille-Guiard and the Careers of French Women Artists at the End of the Eighteenth Century" (N. Kampen, S. Schama)
Timothy Demos: "Duchamp Homeless? The Avant-Garde and Post-Nationalism" (B. Buchloh, R. Krauss)
Debra Diamond: "The Politics and Aesthetics of Citation: Nath Painting at the Jodhpur Court, 1803–1843" (V. Dehejia)
Joseph Disponzio: "The Garden Theory and Landscape Practice of Jean-Marie Morel" (R. Middleton)
Nancy Fee: "The Patronage of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: Constructing the Cathedral and Civic Image of Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico" (E. Pasztory)
Margaret Koster: "Hugo van der Goes' Portinari Altarpiece and Its Florentine Context" (D. Freedberg)
Nina Lewallen: "The Aristocratic Town House in Regency Paris: Hôtel du Maine and Hôtel de Matignon" (H. Ballon)
Ethan Robey: "The Utility of Art: Mechanics' Institute Fairs in New York City, 1828–1876." (B. Novak, E. Blackmar)
Roger Rothman: "Irony, Melancholy, and the Avant-Garde: Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte" (B. Buchloh)
Victoria Sanger: "Military Town Planning Under Louis XIV: Vauban's Practice and Method (1668-1707)" (H. Ballon)
Ellen Shortell: "The Choir of St. Quentin: Gothic Structure, Power and Cult" (S. Murray)
Jean Sorabella: "Sleep that Rouses: Naturalism and the Viewer in Greco-Roman Art" (R. Brilliant)
Margaret Williams: "The Sign of the Cross: Irish High Crosses as Cultural Emblems" (S. Murray)
Maragaret Young-Sanchez: "Textiles From Peru's Central Coast, 800-1000: The Reiss and Steubel Collection from Ancon" (E. Pasztory)
1999
Michele Bassett: "The Funerary Patronage of Catherine de Medici: The Tomb of Henri II, Heart Monuments and the Valois Chapel" (H. Ballon)
Susan Bergh: "Middle Horizon Tapestry Tunics" (E. Pasztory)
Vittoria Di Palma: "The School and the Garden: Science, Aesthetics, and Perceptions of Landscape in England, 1640-1740" (R. Middleton)
Karl Fugelso: "Engaging the Viewer: Reading Structures & Narrative Strategies in Illuminated Manuscripts of Dante's Divine Comedy" (J. Rosenthal)
Senta German: "Performance and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age" (R. Brilliant)
Michio Hayashi: "Cezanne & Beyond Phenomenology" (R. Krauss)
Virginia Heckert: "Alber Renger-Patzsch: Contextualizing the Early Work" (B. Buchloh)
Eileen Hsu: "The Xiaonanhai Cave-Chapel: Images of Deeds and Aspirations" (R. Harrist)
Kenneth Maddox: "Intruder into Eden: The Train in the Nineteenth-Century American Landscape" (B. Novak)
Matthew McKelway: "Capitalscapes: Painting and Politics in 16th-17th Century Japan" (H. Smith)
Kimberly Rhodes: "Performing Roles: Images of Ophelia in Britain 1740-1910" (A. Staley)
Maria Ruvoldt: "The Sleep of Reason: Inspiration & the Renaissance Iconography of Creativity" (D. Rosand)
Sean Sawyer: "Soane at Westminster: Civic Architecture and National Identity" (R. Middleton)
Helen Shannon: "African Savages to Ancestral Legacy: Race and Cultural Nationalism in the American Modernist Reception of African Art" (R. Brilliant)
Shelley Smith: "The Plantations of Colonial South Carolina: Transmission & Transformation in Provincial Culture" (J. Connors)
Allison Thomason: "Capturing the Exotic: The Role of the Nimrud Ivories in Neo-Assyrian Art & Ideology" (S. Murray)
Sarah Thompson: "The War of the Twelve Animas (Junirui Kassen Emaki): A Medieval Japanese Illustrated Beast Fable" (R. Harrist)
Jonathan Unglaub: "Poussin, Tasso, and the Poetics of Painting with an Excursus: Ancient Painting and Baroque Elocution" (D. Freedberg)
Aida Yuen: "Inventing Eastern Art in Japan and China, ca, 1890s-1930s" (R. Harrist)
1998
Susan Braunstein: "The Dynamics of Power in an Age of Transition: An Analysis of the Mortuary Remains of Tell El-Far'ah (South) in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages" (J. Russell)
Jodi Cranston: "Dialogues with the Beholder: The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance" (D. Rosand)
Anna Dempsey: "Writing History: The Renaissance and Cultural Politics in Weimar, Germany" (R. Brilliant)
John Farmer: "Art into Television, 1960-65" (B. Buchloh) Pamela Fletcher: "Narrating Modernity: The Problem Picture, 1895-1914" (A. Staley)
Susanne Francoeur: "Style and Workshops in Ajanta Paintings" (V. Dehejia) Samuel Gruber: "Medieval Todi: Studies in Architecture and Urbanism" (S. Murray)
Juanita Holland: ""Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture": Edward Mitchell Bannister and the Boston Community of African-American Artists, 1848-1901" (S. Blier)
Marisa Kayyem: "Thomas Eakins' Late-Format Portraits: Identity, Consciousness and Typology in Turn-of-the-Century Portraiture" (B. Novak)
Judith Meighan: "The Stati D'Animo Aesthetic: Gaetano Previati, Umberto Boccioni and the Development of Early Fururist Painting in Italy" (R. Brilliant)
Ria O'Foghludha: "Roma Nova: The Santa Maria Maggiore Altarpiece and the Rome of Martin V" (J. Beck)
Mina Roustayi: "Old Myths and New Forms of Orientalism: Gaugin, Toorop, Van Der Leck, and Mondrian" (T. Reff)
Lisa Strong: "Images of Indian-White Contact in the Watercolors of Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837-1860" (B. Novak)
Elizabeth Wyckoff: "Innovation and Popularization: Printmaking and Print Publishing in Haarlem During the 1620s" (D. Freedberg)
1997
Robert Bardin: "Posing as a Fine Art: William M. Chase's Portrait Enterprise" (B. Novak)
Benjamin Binstock: "Becoming Rembrandt: National, Religious and Sexual Identity in Rembrandt's History Paintings" (D. Freedberg)
Anne-Marie Bouché: "Theorica Vita: The Frontispiece of the Floreffe Bible (London B.L. add. ms. 17738) and Twelfth-century Contemplative Theory" (J. Rosenthal)
Florina Capistrano: "Reconstructing the Past: The Notion of Tradition in West Sumatran Architecture 1791-1991" (S. Blier)
Anne D'Alleva: "Shaping the Body Politic: Gender, Status, and Power in the Art of Eighteenth-Century Tahiti and the Society Islands" (N. Kampen)
Leah Dickerman: "Aleksandr Rodchenko's Camera-Eye: Lef Visicu and Revolutionary Subjectivity" (R. Brilliant)
Whuiyeon Jin: "Modernism, Presentation, and Post-Colonialism: Korean Informel and the Reception of the West" (J. Drucker)
Terry Kirk: "Church, State, and Architecture: The Palazzo di Giustizia of Nineteenth-Century Rome" (R. Middleton)
Dominique Malaquai: "Constructing Power: Architecture, Landscape, and the Design of Space in a Chieftaincy of the Bamileke Highlands" (S. Blier)
Sarah McPhee: "Bernini's Bell Towers for St. Peter's and the Politics of Architecture at the Vatican" (J. Connors)
Mehrangiz Nikou: "National Architecture and International Politics: The Pavilions of Near Eastern Nations in Paris International Exposition of 1867" (R. Middleton)
Nina Rosenblatt: "Photogenic Neurasthenia: Aesthetics, Modernism and Mass Society in France, 1889-1929" (J. Crary)
Amy Schlegel: "Codex Spero: Feminist Art and Activist Practices in New York State in the Late 1960s" (B. Buchloh)
Paul Sternberger: "Between Amateur and Aesthete: The Legitimization of Photography as Art in America 1880-1900" (B. Novak)
Nancy Stula: "Lured by the Muses: Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)" (B. Novak)
Claudia Swan: "Jacques de Gheyn II and the Representation of the Natural World in the Netherlands circa 1600" (D. Freedberg)
Bor-Hua Wang: "Su Shih's Art of Writing and His Han-Shih T'ieh" (D. Sensabaugh)
Krysztof Wieczorek: "Space and Evolution in Piet Mondrian's Abstract Painting" (R. Krauss)
Jessica Winston: "The Face of the Virgin: Problems in the History of Representation and Devotion" (D. Freedberg)
Alastair Wright: "The Deconstructive Drive in Henri Matisse's Painting, 1904-1914" (R. Krauss)
1996
Patrizia Cavazzini: "Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari and Its Fresco Decoration" (J. Connors)
Maurene Donadio: "Transfigured Wasteland: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz" (D. Rosand)
Bridget Goodbody: "George Catlin's Indian Gallery: Art, Science, Power" (B. Novak)
Samuel Heath: "The Renaissance Choir Stalls of Toledo Cathedral, 1535-1547" (D. Rosand)
Bernadette Huvane: "Wenzel Zobergher, Theodore van Loon, and the Pilgrimage Church at Scherpenheuvel" (D. Freedberg)
Jacqueline Kestenbaum: "Modernism and Tradition in Japanese Architectural Ideology, 1931-1955" (D. Rosand)
Constantin Marinescu: "Making and Spending Money along the Bosporus: The Lysimachi Coinages Minted by Byzantium and Chalcedon and their Socio-Cultural Context" (R. Brilliant)
Judith Ostrowitz: "Privileging the Past: Art, History and Historicism on the NorthWest Coast" (E. Pasztory)
Jordana Pomeroy: "Collecting the Past to Create a Future: The Old Masters, Artists and Patrons in Early Nineteenth-Century England" (A. Staley)
Andrew Schulz: "Perception, Satire, and the Grotesque Body in Goya's 'Caprichos'" (J. Tomlinson)
Janet Snyder: "Costume as Communication: Textiles and Clothing in Northern French Early Gothic Sculpture" (S. Murray)
Cathryn Steeves: "The Hôtel de Ville of Paris: The Architecture, Urbanism and Politics of François I" (H. Ballon)
Gary Van Wyk: "Patterns of Possession: An Art of African Habitation" (D. Rosand)
Virginia-Lee Webb: "Framing Time: Photographs of New Guinea from the Crane Pacific Expedition, 1928-29" (K. Moxey)
Nancy Wu: "Uncovering the Hidden Codes: Geometry of the Reims East End" (S. Murray)
1995
Kevin Avery: "The Panorama and Its Manifestations in American Landscape Painting, 1795-1870" (B. Novak)
Megan Cifarelli: "Enmity, Alienation, Assimilation: The Role of Cultural Difference in the Visual and Verbal Expression of Assyrian Ideology in the Reign of Assurnasirdal II (883-859 B.C.)" (J. Russell)
Sarah Cobb: "Dimension of Identity: The Art of the Ogoni in the Late Twentieth Century" (R. Brilliant)
Bradley Collins: "Psychoanalytic Biography and Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo da Vinci" (T. Reff)
Elizabeth De Rosa: "The Religious Landscapes of Louis C. Tiffany" (B. Novak)
Fiona Donovan: "Rubens, England and the Whitehall Ceiling" (D. Freedberg)
Tracy Ehrlich: "The Villa Mondragone and Early Seventeenth Century 'Villeggiature' at Frascati" (J. Connors)
Sarah Ksiazek: "The Mature Works of Louis Kahn" (R. Middleton)
Pauline Maguire: "Poussin's Israelites Gathering Manna in the Wilderness (1638-1639): A Painting for Chantelou" (H. Ballon)
Lucy Oakley: "Edwin Austin Abbey's Shakespearean Paintings, Illustrations, and Costume Designs, 1888-1909" (A. Staley)
Adriana Proser: "Moral Characters: Calligraphy and Bureaucracy in Han China" (D. Sensabaugh)
Patricia Sarro: "The Function of Ornamentation in Tajin Chico, El Tajin, Mexico" (E. Pasztory)
Lynne Spriggs: "Images of the Blackfeet: Strategies for the Visual Articulation of Identity and Power" (S. Blier)
William Stargard: "Repression and Catholic Reform: Bernardo Vittone's Commissions for Charitable Institutions" (J. Connors)
Eugenie Tsai: "Robert Smithson Unearthed" (J. Drucker)
Masako Watanabe: "Narrative Framing in Handscrolls: Japanese Emaki Tradition" (M. Murase)
1994
Steven Bedford: "The Architectural Career of John Russell Pope" (J. Connors)
Paolo Berdini: "Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis" (D. Rosand)
Paula Carabell: "Image-making and Identity, Two Case Studies: Michelangelo and Titian" (D. Rosand)
Robert Carlucci: "The Visual Arts and Public Life in the Florentine Republic: The Government of Piero Soderini" (J. Beck)
Raquel Da Rosa: "Still Life, the Body, and the Self in Mid-Nineteenth Century France" (R. Brilliant)
Valerie Fletcher: "Alberto Giacometti: The Paintings" (D. Rosand)
Lisa Florman: "Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's 'Classical' Prints of the 1930s" (R. Brilliant)
Sarah Lawrence: "Conversazioni Profane: In Dialogue with the Pagan Gods" (D. Rosand)
Andrew Marvick: "Late Nineteenth-Century British Eclectic Painting: John William Waterhouse and his Contemporaries" (A. Staley)
Allison Merrill: "A Study of the Ingeborg Psalter Atelier" (J. Rosenthal)
Frederic Schwartz: "Form and Economy in the German Werkbund, 1907-1914: Design Theory and Mass Culture" (D. Rosand)
Michael Schwartz: "Raphael's Art of Representation: Political Narrative and the Grounds of Truth in the Stanza D'Eliodoro" (R. Brilliant, D. Rosand)
Mary Vaccaro: "Forma Virginis: Form as Meaning in Parmigianino's Art" (D. Rosand)
1993
Anne Allen: "The Architecture of Samoa: The Structure and Manipulation of Social Space" (S. Blier)
Hyung-Min Chung: "Transmission of the Mi School in the Landscape Painting of the Late Choson Dynasty (1700-185)" (D. Sensabaugh)
Barbara Dodsworth: "The Arca di San Domenico" (J. Beck)
María Fernández: "The Representation of National Identity in Mexican Architecture: Two Case Studies (1680 and 1889)" (E. Pasztory)
Christopher Fulton: "The Medici Palace Collection of Fifteenth-Century Florence: A Study in the Privatization of Art" (J. Beck)
Debra Hassig: "Homo Animal Est, Homo Animal Non Est: Text and Image in Medieval English Bestiaries" (J. Rosenthal)
Sheree Jaros: "Roman Copies and the Problem of the "Nobilia Opera" (R. Brilliant)
Alice Jarrad: "Theaters of Power: Francesco I d'Este and the Spectacle of Court Life in Modena" (J. Connors)
Susan Klaiber: "Guarino Guarini's Theatine Architecture" (J. Connors)
Kathryn Kramer: "Mythopesis in the Late Work of Paul Klee" (R. Brilliant)
David Moos: "The Loss of Landscape in American Abstraction: The Self in Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman" (J. Beck)
Joanne Pillsbury: "Sculpted Friezes of the Empire of Chimor" (E. Pasztory)
Della Sperling: "Narrative and Enigma: The Late Paintings of William Quiller Orchardson" (A. Staley)
MA in Art History
2021–2022
Ana-Sofia Meneses: “Ancient Spirit and Modern Costume Design in Margarete Bieber's Favorite Plays” (F. de Angelis)
2020–2021
Marie Bouichou: “Festivals as Politics: Celebrating Louis XV King of France in Eighteenth Century Rome” (D. Bodart)
Sarah Faulkner: “A Battle in a Golden Age: Seventeenth Century Concerns and the Reframing of the Heiji monogatari’s Siege of Rokuhara” (M. McKelway)
Luming Guan: “Artists as Tricksters: Jokes and Humor in the Art of Hans Baldung and Urs Graf” (G. Bryda)
Zhirui Guan: “Dis-assemblage in Boucher’s Tenture Chinois” (F. Baumgartner)
Margaret Masselli: “Handshakes, Howdahs, and Heirs: Imagining the Court of Murshidabad” (V. Dehejia)
Katherine Pratt-Thompson: “Reframing Transience: Thomas Moran in Fort George Island, Florida” (E. Hutchinson)
Nicole Sussmane: “A god beyond the binary: a study of gender on a marble sarcophagus with the triumph of Dionysus and the Seasons in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (F. de Angelis)
Ninive Vargas: “Faith, Race, and Power: A Study of Icons of Hate and Structures of Dominance in the Arts of New Spain” (M. Cole)
Clara Zevi: “The Pocket-Sized Altarpiece: Reproducing a Visit to the Siena Duomo in Jean Pucelle’s Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux” (D. Freedberg)
Shuni Zhu: “Peasant Women in the Pictorial Field: Camille Pissarro's Late Works in Éragny” (F. Baumgartner)
2019–2020
Majdolene Dajani: “Potnia Theron of the Ancient New East: Redeploying Antique Motifs on Ivories of the First Millennium B.C.” (Z. Bahrani)
On-Tsun Fung: “The Politics of Plants and Obaku Zen: Kakutei Jōkō’s (1722-85) Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasons” (M. McKelway)
Nina Elizondo Garza: “The Medieval and Modern Holy Grail: its Origins and Evolution” (H. Klein)
Amy Hummerstone: “Nordic Classicism in Sweden as a Reflection of Cultural Values and Historical Self-Awareness” (B. Bergdoll)
Makiko Kawada: “Suzuki Kiitsu (1795-1858): Refining Aesthetics in Edo” (M. McKelway)
Sarah Jane Kim: “Materializing a Legacy: The Posthumous Restrikes of Édouard Manet’s Etchings” (A. Higonnet)
Sydney Sheehan: “From Prop to Prow: The Native American Image Aboard Nineteenth-Century Ships” (E. Hutchinson)
Yusang Shi: “Intertwined Aesthetics: Orientalism in Frederic Leighton’s Paintings” (M. Gamer)
Lowell Sopcisak: “A Bioregional Provence: Ecocriticism and the Landscapes of Paul Cézanne” (F. Baumgartner)
2018–2019
Ada Berktay: ““Carthago delenda est”: A Sixteenth Century Parade Shield in the Light of Habsburg-Ottoman Rivalries in the Mediterranean” (A. Shalem)
Yixu Chen: “Hu Boxiang (1896–1989) and Chinese Pictorialist Art Photography of the 1920s–30s in Shanghai” (R. Harrist)
Wanshi Ma: “Art and Family in the Works of Two Contemporary Artists and a Filmmaker” (R. Harrist)
Amanda Morrow: “"Always Too Early to Quit": The Life and Career of Photographer Samuel H. Gottscho” (B. Bergdoll)
Allyson Richardson: “The Landscapes of Hercules Segers: Imagination & Experiment” (D. Freedberg)
Cydney Williams: “Violence, Ornamentation, and the Female Body: Armor and the Woman ‘Type’ in Paintings in the 16th and 17th Centuries” (D. Bodart)
Mo Zhang: “Visual and Poetic Imagination in The Four Seasons, a Ming Dynasty Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (R. Harrist)
2017–2018
Sarah Bigler: “A Turn-of-the-Century Tastemaker: Frederick Keppel and American Print Collecting” (A. Higonnet)
Amy Chang: “The Mudéjar and the Marian in Ceramic Baptismal Fonts from Toledo: Apotropaic Designs on Spiritual Thresholds, circa. 1370-1400” (F. Baumgartner)
Drew Lash: “Jacob the Christian: Pictorial Exegesis of the Old Testament Patriarch in Seventeenth Century Spain” (D. Bodart)
Mark Paul: “Rules of Reality: Ornament and Abstraction in so-called Third Style Roman Wall Painting (circa 20 BCE–20 CE)” (F. de Angelis)
Julia Reynolds: “Édouard Vuillard: Experiments in Color, 1890-1901” (A. Higonnet)
Tori Schmitt: “Purification of a Lady: Translating the Medieval Purification Drama at Notre Dame d’Amiens” (S. Murray)
Hanna Wiegers: “Up, Down, and Around: Experimentation and Expression in French Royal Staircases from 1540 to 1589” (S. Murray)
2016–2017
Basak Araz Nalbantoglu: “The Makings of the Image of Byzantine Emperor Justinian through the Urban Transformation of the City of Constantinople” (H. Klein)
Allia Benner: “Hercle, Satyrs, and Greek Models for the Etruscan Male: Images of Hercle and Satyrs with Sources and Containers of Water in Etruscan Art” (F. de Angelis)
Sarah Eisen: “When You Look Me in the Eyes… Abduction, Seduction, and the Power of the Gaze in Ancient Greek Vase Painting” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Laura Polucha: “Self-Fashioning through Mourning: Arabella Huntington and Widowhood in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” (A. Higonnet)
Roxanne Smith: “Mapping the 'Big Four' Art Collections in San Francisco, 1848-1906” (A. Higonnet)
John Webley: “Marketing the Monarch: Jewelry and Modernity in Franz Xaver Winterhalter's Royal Portraits” (A. Higonnet)
Manabu Yahagi: “Horino Masao's Graphmontage: Documenting the Fragments of Modern Life” (J. Reynolds)
2015–2016
Samantha Clay Reagan: “Bearden’s Migration: A Reading of Romare Bearden’s 1964 Projections Series as a Narrative of the Great Migration” (K. Jones)
Ariel Cohen: “Systems and Patterns of Constructing Culture: Ephraim Moses Lilien in the Nexuses of Zionism” (A. Shalem)
Celia Durkin: “Form as Concept: Levels of Mental Construal Involved in Processing Abstract Art” (D. Freedberg)
Yifu Liu: “The Prints of Bosch: Towards a More Nuanced Attribution” (D. Bodart)
Claire Pierce: “Between Tradition and Innovation: Titian’s Gonfalone for the Compagnia Corpus Domini in Urbino Reconsidered” (M. Cole)
Lili Varzhapetyan: “Queens and Princesses: Female Art Patrons in Medieval Armenia” (H. Klein)
Kelly Wang: “The Four Birds: An Ink Painting by Emperor Song Huizong” (R. Harrist)
2014–2015
Olympia Arco: “Between Film & Foto: Fifo 1929” (N. Elcott)
Xin Du: “Two Paths to Abstraction: Paintings of Zao Wou-Ki and Wu Guanzhong” (R. Harrist)
Marguerite Mott: “The Sensuous Feminine: The Handheld Mirror in the Statuary of South Asian Antiquity” (V. Dehejia)
Lauren Robbins: “Redefining Renoir's Classicism: A Reevaluation of his Mythological Artworks” (F. Baumgartner)
Nikki Sarto: “The Journey to the Underworld: Exploring Mythological Figures on White-Ground Lekythoi” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Mary Schmidt: “Training the Next Generation to Teach: Blending Pedagogy and Content to Train Student Gallery Teachers at University Art Museums” (A. Higonnet)
2013–2014
Jose Blanco Perales: “The End of the Iberian Century in Japan: A Study of the Painting Martyrdom of Fifty-two Christians at Nagasaki in 1622” (M. McKelway)
Ying Chen: “The Painted Flowers: Buddhism and the Patronage of the Xuanhua Tombs from the Liao Dynasty” (R. Harrist)
Cynthia Dare: “Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington’s New York Sculpture, 1902-1936” (A. Higonnet)
Anne Dolmatch: “Style at the Crossroads: A Late Gothic Entombment from Biron, France” (S. Murray)
Yuan Fang: “Medium, Post-Medium, or Else? A Theoretical Showcase of Contemporary Chinese Ink” (J. Rajchman)
Ruiying Gao: “Collecting Nature: Traditions of Zahua Tu Juan from Song to Yuan” (R. Harrist)
Hilah Loewenstein: “Polyxena and her Hydria: A Maiden’s Tragic Fate and Self-Referentiality in Athenian Vase-Painting” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Giulia Theodoli: “The Art & Project Bulletin: A Paginated Practice in the Age of Conceptualism” (F. Benelli)
Tim Trombley: “Visualizing Domestic Architecture at Olynthos: Lighting Analysis of Activity Spaces in the Greek House” (I. Mylonopoulos)
Amanda Tsao: “Screens of Change: Two Pairs of Nanban Folding Screens from the Kobe City Museum and Suntory Museum of Art” (M. McKelway)
2012–2013
Catherine Carruthers: "Picturing Chance: Gerhard Richter's and Gilles Deleuze's Abstraction" (J. Rajchman)
Sarah Marsh: "Staging Photography: The Legacy of the Tableau Vivant in Nineteenth Century Photography" (N. Elcott)
Lauren Murtagh: "Sexual Violence, Typologies of the Feminine, and Otto Weininger Revisited: The Lustmord Pictures of George Grosz" (N. Elcott)
2011–2012
Kerry Lee Gaertner: "Becoming Janez Janša: The NAME Readymade Project" (R. Deutsche)
Jessica Rose Garrett: "Michelangelo and Raphael: Drawing, Writing, & Building after Antiquity" (F. Benelli)
Alma Gharib: "Aesthetic Perception and Cognition of Faces" (D. Freedberg)
C. Nicole Leist: "Gods in Plain Sight: The Personification of Mountains and Rivers in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek Art" (I. Mylonopoulos)
Lois Martin: "Mother Monster Maize: Reading Coatlicue as Chicomecoatl through the Lens of Aztec Science (and Youtube)" (E. Pasztory)
Kaitlin Richardson: "The Ancien-Régime Fan: A Sophisticated Synthesis of Design, Function and Use" (A. Higonnet)
Carol Santoleri: "Turner and the Picturesque Tour: Mist, Spray and Ripples on the River Seine" (V. Di Palma)
Lauren Turchioe: "Repetitive Patterning as Signs of Wealth and Power in Chimu Textiles" (E. Pasztory)
2010–2011
Jane Elizabeth Braun: "Reconfiguration, Redistribution, Recharacterization: The Second Empire Renovations of the Bois de Boulogne and the Development of the Culture of Popular Display at the Hippodrome de Longchamp" (A. Higonnet)
Sara King: "Mourning and Matronage in the Bliss Collection" (A. Higonnet)
Timothy King: "Aztec Gold Ornaments: Use, Production, Distribution, Iconographic, and Stylistic Elements, and Attribution of Aztec Gold" (E. Pasztory)
Aubrey Knox: "Life after Death: The Du d'Aumale's and Albert C. Barnes' Quests for Control, Validation, and Ideological Integrity Through Their Collections" (A. Higonnet)
Carol Santoleri: "Turner and the Picturesque Tour: Mist, Spray and Ripples on the River Seine" (V. Di Palma)
Elizabeth Seeman: "The Naumann Panel: A Memento Mori as Symbol of Selfhood in Sixteenth Century Venice" (M. Cole)
Xin Wang: "Traditions Animés: The Art of Ink in the Age of Digital Reproductions" (R. Harrist)
2009–2010
Alyssa Bryk: "Rivals in Cinquecento Italy: The Stigmas and Triumphs of Michelangelo and Titian" (D. Rosand)
Eduardo A. Escobar: "Metal Casters and Metal Casting at Ugarit during the Late Bronze Age" (Z. Bahrani)
Neil Ghosh: "Internationalizing the Art of Bengal: the Artwork of Paritosh Sen, Jogen Chowdhury, and Bikash Bhattacharjee" (V. Dehejia)
Heather Hoge: "Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule: Ramifications of Regional Architectural Types on a Central Locale" (S. Murray)
Martha Susan Roy: "The Cultural, Social and Architectural History of the Family Fallout Shelter during the Early Cold War (1950–1965)" (H. Ballon)
Sydney Weinberg: "The Architecture of War: Francesco di Giogio, Federico da Montefeltro and The Art of Defense" (F. Benelli)
MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies
2021–2022
Akshay Jain: “Third World Biennale of Graphic Art” (J. Rajchman)
Shaun Wang: “Digital Art’s ‘Aura’, Its Trans-disciplinary Nature, & Its Epistemic Activity” (J. Rajchman)
2020–2021
Marina Avia Estrada: “Performing the balaclava: Feminist Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile” (K. Jones)
Cristina Belli: “The Monad and the Nomad: Archigram and the Theory of Reflexive Modernization” (Z. Çelik Alexander)
Tess DeBerry: “East German Feminist Performance: Bodily Action of Cornelia Schleime and Gabriel Stötzer in the 1970s and 1980s” (J. Kraynak)
Clara Derrac Sorria: “Art in Times of ‘Immaterial Labor’: On Andrea Fraser, Maria Eichhorn, and Hito Steyerl” (A. Alberro)
Erin Gallagher (MODA Curatorial Fellow): “Narrative Thread: Gina Adams and Marie Watt” (E. Hutchinson)
Alison Guh: “Mexico, Masquerade, and the Modern Woman: Leonora Carrington and Kati Horna” (N. Elcott)
Manuela Hansen: “Dismantling Dualisms: A Posthuman Feminist Perspective on Mariko Mori, Anicka Yi, and Mikka Rottenberg” (A. Alberro)
Marcus Jamison (MODA Curatorial Fellow): “Aestheticizing Anti-Black Violence: From Critique to Satire” (K. Jones)
Hannah Morse (MODA Curatorial Fellow): “Locating Abdourahmane Sakaly” (Z. Strother)
Rotana Shaker (MODA Curatorial Fellow): “A Bottomless Silence: An Exhibition in Suspension” (J. Rajchman)
Aude Tournaye: “Mulanga: Memory and History in the Work of Sammy Baloji” (Z. Strother)
Jean Wong: “Archipelago of Order in an Ocean of Chaos: A Critical Analysis of DASH by Ho Rui An” (J. Rajchman)
Euphie (Ziyan) Ying: “Recontextualizing Ink Art: A Minimalist Approach” (J. Rajchman)
Tiffany Zhan: “The Subjects of Realism: Icon, Viewer, and Landscape in the Work of Liu Xiaodong” (J. Rajchman)
2019–2020
Shiying Li: “Towards a New Realism: A Transnational Retrospective on Tibetan Series” (J. Rajchman)
Paula Kroll: “In the (Iron) Air” (R. Krauss)
Marina Rastorfer: “Provenance Research and The Many Chasms: The Case of Gurlitt, An Ongoing Search” (J. Kraynak)
Dana Rodriguez: “Playing the Game: Nina Chanel Abney’s Use of the Sports Figure” (K. Jones)
2018–2019
Anes Sung: "In the Shadow of Forward Motion: Death and the Compulsions of the Photographic Image in the Photography of David Wojnarowicz, 1987-1991" (J. Kraynak)
Meghan Collins: "(Dis)Order: Howardena Pindell’s Hybrid Paintings of the Seventies" (J. Kraynak, J. Rajchman)
Ashleigh Deosaran: "Griots of the Galaxy: Science Fact/Fiction, Technology, and Futurity in the work of Three Latin American Artists" (K. Jones)
Ivana Dizdar: "He Loves Me Not: Tanja Ostojić and Daniela Ortiz, from EU Migration to Anti-Celebration" (R. Deutsche)
Pujan Karambeigi (MODA Curatorial Fellow): "Beyond Representation: On Astrid Klein, Katharina Sieverding, and Ulrike Rosenbach" (A. Alberro)
Alessandra Gomez (MODA Curatorial Fellow): "Into darkness. Trajal Harrell, Dean Moss, Eiko Otake & DonChristian" (K. Jones, C. Yang)
Margaret Kross: "Ancestral Halls: The Cold of Anxiety is Very Real" (J. Kraynak)
Sally Eaves Hughes: "The Making of Memory: Mary Sibande and Her Majesty, Queen Sophie" (K. Jones)
Alexandra Adams: "How She Played: Nellie Mae Rowe and the Art of Dislocation" (K. Jones)
2017–2018
Charmaine Branch: "Weaving an Intersectional Space, Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States" (K. Jones)
Allison Cannella: "Perceiving Ideas: An Inspection of Conceptual Art through a Neuroaesthetic Lens." (D. Freedberg)
Olivia Casa, (MODA Curatorial Fellow): "Anna Bella Geiger: Here is the Center" (K. Jones)
Vered Engelhard: “GEGO: Towards an Ethics of Form” (J. Rajchman)
Banyi Huang: “Excavating Shu Lea Cheang’s Cyber-Eco-Sexual Bodies” (J. Rajchman)
Alison Burnstein: “Institutional Critique, Alternative Spaces, and New Institutions: A Genealogy” (R. Deutsche)
Maria Kelly: “The Unfixed Landscape: Meghann Riepenhoff & Matthew Brandt” (K. Jones)
Jeffrey Paul: “Printing Poetics: Wade Guyton’s Index of Translation” (B. Joseph)
Madeline Weisburg (MODA Curatorial Fellow): "New Talent" (B. Joseph)
2016–2017
Maria Filas: “Painting Sex and the Female Body: An Abstract-Figurative Continuum” (J. Kraynak)
Tianyuan Deng: “White is My Marble: Whiteness and Ambivalence in Cy Twombly’s Sculptures” (J. Rajchman, J. Kraynak)
Nate Jones: “Robert Smithson’s Telescope” (B. Joseph)
Amélie Alexandre: “Moi Je Joue: Sophie Calle’s ‘Private Games,’ an Exposition” (J. Rajchman)
Mary Annunziata: “Mapping Resistance: Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project as a Form of Counter-Geography and Alternative Historiography” (J. Rajchman)
Katherine Adams Cohn: “Collaborative Frameworks of Resistance: Curating Carnival” (K. Jones)
Zhuofan Huang: “Camille Henrot: The Artist as Ethnographer in the Information Age” (J. Rajchman)
Inesa Brasiske: ““What is Established is Destroyed, What is Stiff Creeps Everywhere:” André Cadere's Tactics of Resistance” (A. Alberro)
Dani Cabot: “In A Rented World: The Real-and- Imagined Thirdspace of Jack Smith” (B. Joseph)
Page Benkowski: “The Simulacrum of the Self: Digitization and the User-Viewer” (J. Kraynak)
Taylor Fisch: “The Still Life as a Political Object: Reevaluating the Photographic Still Life in the Twenty-First Century” (K. Jones)
Georgia Horn: “Of the Space Between: the Art of Rosa Barba” (J. Kraynak)
2015–2016
Anne Cicco: “Constructing Punk: Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler’s The Poetics Project 1977-1997” (B. Joseph)
David Crane: “Life Serial: Repetition and Reiteration in the Work of Glenn Ligon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres” (J. Kraynak)
Sarah Diver: “Streamlining Indian Arts: Racial Politics and Display Strategies in the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Exhibition at the 1939 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition” (E. Hutchinson)
Elleree Erdos: “Chartered Images: Social Media and Circulation in Art of the Syrian Diaspora” (N. Elcott)
Leah Hartman: “Artistic Resistance to the Spectacular Image: Abounaddara and Wafaa Bilal” (J. Kraynak)
Natasha Rosenblatt: “Pterodactyl or Spaceship?: Hybridity in the Work of Lee Bontecou” (B. Joseph)
2014–2015
Gena Beam: “Tactical Movement: Sylvia Palacios in New York, 1970-1976” (A. Alberro)
Vivian Chui: “Rokni Haerizadeh & Tala Madani: The Grotesque Body Inverted in the Post-9/11 World” (J. Rajchman)
Matthew Cross: “To Break the Circle: Christopher Williams and the Program of Photography” (K. Minturn)
Ashley Duhrkoop: “The Abstruse Abecedarium: Enciphering the Object of Language to Unmask Its Instrument of Power or, a Critical Perspective on the Story of Language, Art, and Thought from Mallarmé to Xu Bing Notes Towards an Exhibition” (J. Rajchman)
Heba Elkayal: “The Politics of Egyptian Modernism: Commemorating the Building of the Aswan High Dam” (Z. Bahrani)
Beatrice Grenier: “The Transnational Network of Shanghai Abstract Painting (1976-1985)” (J. Rajchman)
Tara Kuruvilla: “Beyond the Frame: Process as Practice in the Photo-Performances of Pushpamala N.” (K. Minturn, V. Dehejia)
Anna Linehan: “360° Field of Vision: Liz Deschenes’ Photographic Spaces” (A. Alberro)
Amber Moyles: ““To Read What was Never Written”: Walter Benjamin in the Age of the Interwar Avant-Garde” (N. Elcott)
Gregor Quack: ““Either his or my choices”: Spectatorship in Öyvind Fahlström’s Variable Paintings” (B. Joseph)
Katherine Siboni: “Post-structuralist Punk: The Early Films of Ericka Beckman, 1974-1978” (B. Joseph)
Valerie Werder: “Thinking Before Language: Drawing, Tracing, and Mapping the Notational” (J. Rajchman)
Doris Zhao: “Practices of Cultural Cannibalism in Modern and Contemporary Art” (K. Jones)
2013–2014
Anna von Bertrab: “Eclectic Collections and Architectural Spectacles: Billionaire Art Museums in 21st Century Mexico City” (B. Bergdoll)
Alison Coplan: "Reality FX" (J. Rajchman)
Maria Ferreyra: “Guerrilla Artists: Forging National Identity in Postwar Guatemala” (K. Jones)
Emily Greer: “Rover Thomas at the 1990 Venice Biennale: Understanding Contemporary Aboriginal Art within a Global Exhibition Space” (E. Hutchinson)
Heidi Hirschl: “Portraiture’s Reinvention: Rineke Dijkstra’s Contemporary Revision of the Traditional Portrait and its Evolution” (J. Rajchman)
Kathleen Langjahr: “The Idea of Cinema as an Idea of Art: Neo Avant-Garde Film and Paracinema” (J. Rajchman)
Chaeeun Lee: “Modernist Theater for the Camera: Video Art of General Idea and Martha Rosler, 1974-77” (J. Rajchman)
Dana Liss: “Uncanny Parallels: Speculating History in Lorna Simpson’s Corridor and Octavia Butler’s Kindred” (R. Deutsche)
Eva Lu: “Encyclopedic Overviews: The Eclectic Microcosm of Peter Fischli and David Weiss at the 55th Venice Biennale” (A. Higonnet)
Desiree Pakravan: “Breaking the Frame” (J. Rajchman)
Juliette Premmereur: “New York, No Wave” (J. Rajchman)
Amanda Ryan: “The Archive and the Cosmopolitan Subject: Art and Reconstruction in Postwar Beirut” (J. Rajchman)
Rana Saner: “(Un)Speaking for Others: Archival Hospitality within Turkish Contemporary Art” (J. Rajchman)
Leigh Tanner: “Illusion as Reality: Artistic Exploration of the Human Impact of China’s Rapid Urbanization” (J. Rajchman)
Ariella Wolens: “Killing Time: The Art of Gabriel Orozco” (K. Moxey)
Rebecca Wolff: “Adoption and Adaptation: The Development of Uli-Based Artistic Approaches in the Art of Uche Okeke and Obiora Udechukwu” (Z. Strother)
2012–2013
Anne S. Bruder: "Liliana Porter's Unruly Wrinkle" (K. Jones)
Charlotte Friling: "Georges Thiry's Secret Museum: Erotic Photography between Stasis and Motion" (N. Elcott)
Alexa Lawrence: "The Art of Bare Life: Three Case Studies from the Iraqi Diaspora" (R. Deutsche)
Thomas Lax: "Ralph Lemon: 1856 Cessna Road" (K. Jones)
Dana L. Liljegren: "Criticality through Invisibility and Temporality in the Works of John Knight” (B. Joseph)
Tamar Margalit: “Sovereignty and Discipline: Joshua Neustein, Michael Druks, and the Development of Conceptual Art in Israel" (N. Elcott)
Brian McCarthy: "Art & Urbanism in Contemporary South Asian Practice" (R. Martin)
Hye Jin Noh: "Making Dissensus: Socially-Engaged Art in Contemporary Korea" (J. Rajchman)
Haeyun Park: "In Constant Motion: Nam June Paik's Itinerary from "Physical Music" to Electronic Television, 1958-1963" (J. Rajchman)
Beau Rutland: "Protesting the Divide: Representation, Abstraction, and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in Painting, The 1960s and 1970s" (K. Jones)
Jamie Y. Shi: "Recursive Acts: Suspended Disbelief in Tacita Dean's The Russian Ending" (K. Moxey)
Cecelia Thornton-Alson: "Multilinear Tangle: Performance, Urbanism, and the Border dispositif" (R. Deutsche)
Beatriz Velázquez Calleja: "Of Voids, Epiphanies, and Charismatic Revenants: Fernando Sánchez Castillo's Works about General Franco" (R. Deutsche)
2011–2012
Erica Agyeman: "Interrogating Space: Cosmopolitanism in Lagos" (Z. Strother)
Caroline Blankenbeckler: "The Mexican Sojourn: Motherwell, Matta, Paalen, & the Beginnings of Abstract Expressionism" (K. Jones)
Susan Pfunder Carlson: "Vision, Power and Society: The Work of the Zero Group" (K. Cabañas)
Ceren Erdem: "Cross-Time Stories: Global Subjectivities after 1989" (J. Rajchman)
Joseph Gergel: "Not a Picture of, but an Object about Something: Robert Heinecken's Photo-Materiality" (K. Cabañas)
Margaret E. Murray: "Sarah Morris: Painting and Filming the American City in the Postmodern Age" (B. Joseph)
Jaime Beth Schwartz: "Reduced Visibility: Thomas Ruff's jpgs ny and the Picturing of Trauma in the Digital Era" (R. Deutsche)
Lisa Williams: "La Forma della Città: The Ideal City and the Painting of Modern Life" (K. Cabañas)
2010–2011
Alexander Benenson: "Public Image" (R. Deutsche)
Jennifer Borland: Thesis Exhibition: "Case Histories" (J. Crary)
Drew Bucilla: "Another Mendieta" (K. Cabañas)
Kristen Chappa: Virtual Exhibition: "Unsound: Ethics and Potentialities in Contemporary Audio Art" (B. Joseph)
Deborah Elliott: "New York’s Ground Zero: The American Memorial in a Post 9/11 Age" (J. Rajchman, M. McLeod)
William Helfrecht: "New York Bohemia: Beat Culture and the Happening" (B. Joseph)
Geneva Jann-Lewis: "Fluid Identity: Postcolonialism and Feminism in the Work of Sheela Gowda" (V. Dehejia, K. Cabañas)
Donald Johnson-Montenegro: Thesis Exhibition: "Every Other Day" (K: Cabañas)
Michelle Johnson: "Past/Future Tense: The Early Experimental Documentaries of Peter Watkins" (J. Rajchman)
Tomoko Kanamitsu: "Conjuring the Art of Light and Shadow: The Shadow Plays of the London Filmmaker’s Co-op" (N. Elcott)
Catherine Kron: "Guy de Cointet: A Study in 4 Moves" (J. Rajchman)
Marley Blue Lewis: "Re-imagining Curatorial Practice: Toward Expanded Notions of Feminism in Art" (A. Alberro)
Caroline Luce: "Spatial Dynamics: Recent Video Installations by Barbara Kruger" (R. Deutsche)
Temitayo Ogunbiyi: "Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow and We’re SUPER EXCITED" (K. Jones)
Emily Shaw: "What’s So ‘Radical’ About Information?: The Artistic Archive as Educational Tool" (A. Alberro)
Rebecca Siegel: "Cause Célèbre: Shoah Memorials in a Reunified Berlin" (R. Deutsche)
Tracy Zwick: "Right/Remedy: Doris Salcedo" (J. Rajchman)
2009–2010
Elizabeth Berkowitz: "Malevich, Mondrian and Ideological Abstraction" (J. Rajchman)
Noga Bernstein: "Territorial Borders through Gendered Lens: Works by Einat Amir and Sharif Waked" (R: Deutsche)
Mary Aileen Burns: "Negotiating Authorship: Lucy R. Lippard and Curatorial Practice" (J. Rajchman)
Stewart Campbell: "Alienation by Design: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Alien Staff and the Spectacular Immigrant" (N. Elcott)
Elizabeth Denny: "William Kentridge and Political Change in South Africa" (J. Crary)
Lilla Fekete: "The Stranger: Krzysztof Wodiczko on the Immigrant Situation" (J. Rajchman)
Mashinka Firunts: "Semiospectacle" (K. Jones)
David Everitt Howe: "Get Rid of Your Self: Bernadette Corporation's Post-Identity Pastiche" (K. Cabañas)
Hollyamber Kennedy: "A Consuming Historical Fever: Postwar Berlin, Critical Reconstruction and the International Building Exhibition, 1987" (F. Scott)
R. Charl Landvreugd: "Creative Acts of Equality and Difference; notes on contemporary Black-Dutch Art" (K. Jones)
Ashley Moore: "Subaltern Subversions: The Art of Wangechi Mutu and Adriana Varejão" (R. Deutsche)
Janet Oh: "Mix Tapes: A Study of Artists' Works and Interviews in Audio Arts Magazine" (K. Cabañas)
Nicole Salm: "Book By Its Cover: Contemporary Issues in Book Arts Exhibition" (E. Hutchinson)
Zarmeena Shah: "Intersections: Jenny Saville & Gilles Deleuze" (J. Rajchman)
Yayoi Shionoiri: "'Art' Il-legally Defined?—An Art Historical and Legal Analysis of Akasegawa Genpei's Model Thousand-yen Note Incident" (M. McKelway)
Begum Yasar: “The "Self-Presence" of Minimalism and Rachel Whitehead's Art of "Sous Rature”" (J. Rajchman)