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Ph.D. Dissertations since 1995 | Masters Theses or Papers since 1995

    2007
  • Ellerbee, Genevieve."Flesh of My Flesh: Catherine of Siena and Images of the Stigmata in Italian Renaissance Painting" 2007 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Gallant, Leah."The Inadequacy of Place: Martha Rosler's 'The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems'" 2007 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Gear, Jennifer."Salvator Rosa's Empedocles Leaping into Etna: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Satire and the Irony of Counter-Narrative" 2007 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Hammons, Leslie."Lucas Samaras, Box 38, and Exposing the Gendered Self" 2007 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Kutis, Barbara."Images of an Avant-Garde Mother: Joan Brown's Paintings of her Son" 2007 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Mednicov, Melissa."Before and After: Morris Louis Bernstein" 2007 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Moses, Kelema Lee."East Harlem During the 'Great Migration' of the Mid-Twentieth Century in Architecture and Photography" 2007 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Ray, Elise M."Primordial Akhenaten: The King as the Divine Manifestation of the Heliopolitan Solar Cosmogeny" 2007 (Advisor: Elizabeth J. Walters).
  • Uz, Merih."The Dialectics of Transformation in Istanbul: The Destruction, Preservation and Appropriation of the Byzantine Architectural Heritage by the Ottoman Sultans (1453-1590)" 2007 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
    2006
  • Gonnam, Robin."The Cassiopeia Mosaics: A Reevaluation of Late Antique Mosaics Through Paideia" 2006 (Advisor: Elizabeth J. Walters).
  • Gratiy, Rachel L."With Wings Like Eagles: A Study of Novgorodian Teratological Frontispieces from the Late Thirteenth Century to the Early Fifteenth Century" 2006 (Advisor: Elizabeth B. Smith).
  • Holloran, Sarah A."Music, Math, and Machines: Stella, Covert, and Dove Piece Together American Culture" 2006 (Advisor: Leo Mazow).
  • Ivancovich, Kimberly."Domenico Beccafumi's Two St. Michaels: Decorum and Piety in High Renaissance Siena" 2006 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Musial, Kimberly."Whip It Good: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Circus Drawings of 1899" 2006 (Advisor: Nancy Locke).
  • Newman, Emily."The Search for Sarah Lucas in her Self-Portraits 1990-1998" 2006(Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Poulin, Katie A."Debatable Sexuality: The Religious Conflict Between the Calvinists and the Libertines in Joachim Wtewael's Maryrdom of Saint Sebastian" 2006 (Advisor: Charlotte Houghton).
  • Wisehart, Christiane."Blood, Sweat and a Clean Uniform: The Laboring Body in Depression-Era Photography" 2006 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
    2005
  • Dynof, Rachel M."Female Saint Imagery: A New Tradition in Renaissance Painting" 2005 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Fenner, Matthew."Conversations in Medieval Architecture: A Guide to Deciphering Relationships Between Local Lower Austrian Architecture and the Cistercian Abbeys of Heiligenkreuz and Zwettl"2005 (Advisor: Elizabeth B. Smith).
  • Jordan, Courtney."Uccello's Battle of San Romano in Connection to Domestic Art and the Medici" 2005 (Advisor: Charlotte Houghton).
  • Newberry, Elesha,"Walkenried, Goslar, and the Harzburg: Monastic and Secular Systems of Water Control in Medieval Germany" 2005 (Advisor: Elizabeth B. Smith).
  • Spielvogel, Kathryn Eileen. "'We Are the Same as Prostitutes': The Politics of Desire, Commodity, and Ambiguity in Kirchner's Artillerymen" 2005 (Advisor: Nancy Locke).
    2004
  • Monrad, Margaret M."Marketing Magnolias in Flagler's Florida: Martin Johnson Heade and the Performance of Natural History." 2004 (Advisor: Leo Mazow).
  • Veil, Adam H."Romancing the South: The Author-Artist Persona of T. Addison Richards" 2004 (Advisor: Leo Mazow).
  • Szalay, Gabriella."Contesting the Colossal: Maerten van Heemskerck’s Eristic Self-Portrait," 2004 (Advisor: Charlotte Houghton).
  • Johnson, Elizabeth."Choose Your Own Adventure: Miwa Yanagi’s Challenge to Norms of Femininity in Japan," 2004 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Howell, Stacey Lynn. "Il Crocifisso di Michelangelo nella Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Firenze: A Look at the Michelangelo Controversy." 2004 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Hartnett, Beverlie. "Bawdy, but Learned: A New Analysis of the Vespucci Bacchanals of Piero di Cosimo." 2004 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
    2003
  • Ehrfurth, Carrie."The Lustron Home: An Analysis of a Remarkable yet Flawed Design." 2003 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Russo, Caroline. "Sofonisba Anguissola: Self-Images of a Woman Artist." 2003 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Wheeler, Sarah B."Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death." 2003 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
    2002
  • Hess, Kristine M. "The Saint’s Presence and the Power of Representation: A Reliquary Box Depicting the Life of St. John Prodromos," 2002 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
  • Fritsch-Hammes, Christine."Architectural Changes to the Insane Asylum in 17th-Century Amsterdam" 2002 (Advisor: Charlotte Houghton).
  • Boehman, Jessica Marie. "Between Florence and Rome, 1630: Finelli's Portrait of Michelangelo il Giovane Dell'Api," 2002 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Dolan, Julia K."Retribution à la Mode: Vogue Magazine's Response to the Holocaust," 2002 (Advisor: Glenn Willumson).
  • Hanson, Kate E. "'Autographs' and Autonomy: The Portal of Sant' Andrea Within the Context of Early Communal Pistoia," 2002 (Advisor: Elizabeth Bradford Smith).
    2001
  • Colón Mendoza, Ilenia. "Ramon Frade's El Pan Nuestro: El Jíbaro as Symbol of Puerto Rican National Identity." 2001 (Advisor: Carmen B. Lord)
  • Dierkes, Anne-Louise. "The Two Faces of Janis: Marisol's Portrait of an Art Dealer, in Context," 2001 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Hess, Gerald A. "Exploring a Contrast: The Tivoli Centaurs: Hellenistic or Hadrianic?" 2001 (Advisor: Elizabeth J. Walters).
  • Malone, Sara G. "The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Architecture of Controversy." 2001 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Roy, Jennifer L. "The Concorso Clementino of 1713 at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome." 2001 (Advisor: Susan C. Scott).
    2000
  • Cumming, Laura Beth. "Symbols of a Courtly Era: Elaine de Kooning's John F. Kennedy Portraits." 2000 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Haxall, Daniel. "Through the Eyes of a Poet: Nicolas Calas in the 1940s." 2000 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
  • Malady, David S. "The Origins of Sexpartite Rib Vaulting in 12th Century Norman Architecture." 2000 (Advisor: Elizabeth B. Smith).S
  • LaMore, Stephanie. "Jan Müller: Living in America." 2000 (Advisor: Sarah K. Rich).
    1999
  • Costanzo, Denise Rae. "The House of the Griffins Revisited: Luxury and Taste in Republican Rome." 1999 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Foster, Andrea L. "'Tu Vincis in Martir': Images of Martyrdom and the Revival of Ecclesiastical Antiquity in Early Counter-Reformation Rome." 1999 (Advisor: Brian A. Curran).
  • Goodman, Ellen W. "One Man's Trash: Bruce Conner and the Beat Generation." 1999 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Hertwig, Petra. "The Image of the Consul in Late Antiquity: A Phenomenon of Cultural Similitude." 1999 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
  • Waring, Courtney M. "'The Quest for the Holy Grail' Murals by Edwin Austin Abbey." 1999 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
    1998
  • Geiger, Melissa S. "Frederick Carl Frieseke and the Macbeth Gallery: An American Impressionist and his New York Gallery." 1998 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Johns, Gwyn Ann. "The Re-Evaluation of Sparta's Terracotta 'Masks.'" 1998 (Advisor: Elizabeth J. Walters).
  • Livingston, Kathrine S. "Propaganda, Politics and Papal Rome: Suger's Mosaic Tympanum on the West Facade of Saint-Denis." 1998 (Advisor: Elizabeth Bradford Smith).
  • Paris, Laura. "Frederick L. Olds and the Early Buildings of Penn State." 1998 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Seymour, Roberta P. "'Do this in remembrance of me:' Supper Scenes and the Importance of the Eucharist in the Choir of San Martino." 1998 (Advisor: Jeanne Chenault Porter).
    1997
  • Bruhn, Heather C. McCune. "The Construction of German and French Late Gothic Monstrances." 1997 (Advisor: Elizabeth Bradford Smith).
  • Dow, Douglas N. "Facility Causes the Greatest Wonder: Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Sixteenth-Century Artistic Conventions." 1997 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
  • Eanes, Brian D. "'To The Earth, To The Light': Michelangelo's Pauline Chapel Frescoes As Catholic Reaction." 1997 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
  • Fisher, Gretchen Anna. "The Tomb of Hor em Khauef: A Survey of the Tomb of an Egyptian High Priest from the Second Intermediate Period in Consideration of the Unusual Circumstances and Consequences Surrounding the Depiction of Women in Said Tomb." 1997 (Advisor: Elizabeth J. Walters).
  • Price, Marshall. "Eugène Boudin: Normandy Landscape Tradition, Landscape Theory, and the Notion of Modernity." 1997 (Advisor: George Mauner).
  • Streb, Jennifer L. "Henry Koerner and the Second World War: An Artistic Response to the Holocaust." 1997 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Vickers, Jennifer Louise. "Living the Fantasy: Southern Vernacular Used Within the Entertainment Architecture at Walt Disney World." 1997 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).
  • Wentzel, Lawrence R. "Shaping the Byzantine Mind: The Function of Decoration in 10th-12th Century Illuminated Manuscripts." 1997 (Advisor: Anthony Cutler).
    1996
  • Dearing, Robin. "Catherine Morris Wright (1899-1988): A Study of her Life and Work." 1996 (Advisor: George Mauner).
  • Lombardi, Beth. "The Influence of Jacob Jordaens on Artists in the Seventeenth Century Artists in the Northern Netherlands." 1996 (Advisor: Roland Fleischer).
  • Richard, Susanne Loomis. "The French Caravaggeschi: An Iconographical Study of the Fortune-Teller." 1996 (Jeanne Chenault Porter).
    1995
  • Gliem, David E. "Art as Philosophy: The Thematic Relationship between Thomas Couture and Edouard Manet." 1995 (Advisor: George Mauner).
  • Malady, Jennifer J. "The New York Skyscraper on Film, Circa 1933." 1995 (Advisor: Craig Zabel).

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