Department of Art History
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Prizes
Each year the Department of Art History awards the Feitler Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work to the best BA Paper written in the each year. The prize is awarded by the middle of Spring Quarter.
Feitler Prize
| 2024 | "Toward Meta-Object: Self-Reflexive Porcelains at the Imperial Qing Court (1796-1861)," Ruofan Zhao |
| 2023 | "A Cheyenne Boy’s Scaffold Burial: A Case Study that informs NAGPRA," Angelike Koniaris "¡El Mundo Me Da Asco!: The Material World of Asco as a Strategy of Disidentification," Sarahi Rincon Molina |
| 2022 | "Mapping Potable Water in Baroque Rome: An Investigation of Politics and Aesthetics," Ella Anderson |
| 2021 | "A Prism for the Divine," Elma Hoffman |
| 2020 | "New Forms of Communications: The Boundary-Making Practices of Hélio Oiticica," Jonathan Mandel |
| 2019 | “Specific Objects without Specific Form: Félix González-Torres and the Curatorial Act,” Elizabeth Smith |
| 2018 | “River City (1968-1986): The Form of Urban Redevelopment in Chicago’s South Loop,” Cecilia Santos |
| 2017 | “Out of Stone, Into Water: Reflecting History and Myth on Tres Zapotes Monument C,”Theodore Watler |
| 2016 | “Architectures of Collectivity: Swedish Cooperative Housing in Stockholm, 1935-1945,” Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty |
| 2015 | “Domestic City: Frank Lloyd Wright Apartment Houses in Chicago, 1895-1909,” Daniel Cioffi |
| 2014 | “Smooth Sides and Shining Surfaces: Looking Closely at Olmec Style,” Abigail LaPier |
| 2013 | “Time Pieces: Suture in Christian Marclay's The Clock (2010),” Minna Schilling |
| 2012 | “Seeing Through Crystal: Picturing Transformation in a Late Medieval Morse of Saint Francis,” Julia Silverman |
| 2011 | “Paul Strand’s Peopled Landscapes: Re-reading Form and Politics in The Mexican Portfolio and Beyond,” Emilia Mickevicius |
| 2010 | “Absolutism for Dessert: Louis XV's Biscuit Porcelain Figurines and the Construction of French Royal Authority,” Stephen Kolb |
| 2009 | “Digging Deeper: Massimo Vignelli's Map and the Redesign of the New York Subway, 1968-1979, “Emma Boast |
| 2008 | “Form or Fingernails: On the Situation of the Art of the Mentally Ill in Modernity,” Kaitlin Pomerantz |
| 2007 | “The Paradox of Representation: Gerhard Richter's Abstract Figuration,” Antonia Pocock |
| 2006 | “The Imitator's Art: Devotion and Ethics in an Early Goltzius Print,” Emily Warner |