Ph.D. Recipients
Source: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/ph-d-recipients/ Parent: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/undergraduates-major-and-minor/
2025
David BardeenArboreal Formations: The Dynamics of Wood in Italian Intarsia and Painting, 1450-1530*Chair: Bronwen Wilson *
Laura Hutchingame Ship Hull Ceilings in the Upper Adriatic: Wood, Craft, and Politics, ca. 1300–1560*Chair: Bronwen Wilson*
Nicolyna EnriquezSurrounded by Sea, Rooted in Land: An Environmental History of Late Byzantine Art on Crete\ Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Talia Lieber*Rwanda in Form: Collections and Displays of a Kingdom’s Art in the Twentieth Century*Chairs: Saloni Mathur and Allen Roberts
2024
Rachel Weiss **Chair: Bronwen Wilson
Hannah Thomson *A Gallery of Stones: The Castilian Frontier City of Ávila*Chair: Meredith Cohen
Yeo Hoon Choi *Wang Meng (ca. 1308–1385) and the Visualization of Sacred Landscapes*Chair: Hui-shu Lee
Connor Hamm *Inventing the South: Regional Tourism After the Civil War*Chair: Saloni Mathur
Joon Hye Park *Untimely Matters: Korean Experimental Art 1967-1979*Chair: Miwon Kwon
2023
Miranda Saylor *Painting the Two Marías: Sor María de Ágreda and Marian Iconography in Colonial Mexico*Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Hannah Kahng *This Film Which Is Not One: Expanded Cinema and Feminism, 1970-1979*Chair: George Baker
Anthony Meyer *The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds*Chair: Stella Nair
Sayantan Mukhopadhyay *Making Worlds, Making Way: Queer Belongings in Indian Contemporary Art (1980-2000)\ Chair: Saloni Mathur*
Christine Robinson *To Picture, Her Picture: Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographies*Chair: George Baker
Max Tolleson *The Museum After Minimalism: The Chinati Foundation, 1978-Present*Chair: George Baker
2022
Alessandra Amin *Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream State, 1965-1982*Chair: Saloni Mathur
Louise Deglin Creative Reinvention: Forging a Visual Identity for the Wari Empire (600-1000 CE)**Chair: Stella Nair
Franka Horvat Insular Power: Reconstructing the Social, Economic and Artistic Networks of the Elaphiti Islands**Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Carlos RivasAerial Views of Central America’s Rio Lempa Basin in the Descripcion Geografico-Moral de la Diocesis de Goathemala, 1768-1770**Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
2021
Jamin AnThe Curator as the Artist’s Friend: Henry Geldzahler Negotiating Artistic Autonomy in the 1960s**Chair: Miwon Kwon
JoAnna ReyesPiety, Plata, and Place: Civic Development and Devotion in Colonial Zacatecas**Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Rebecca Wolff*Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) and Nigerian Contemporary Art*Chair: Steven Nelson
2020
Kristina Borrman*Planning the American Neighborhood: The Science of Sociability at the Dawning of Desegregation (1933-1965)*Chair: Dell Upton
Mya Chau*Communities & Cultural Exchanges of Champa: the Art of the Chams in Central and Southern Vietnam*Chair: Robert Brown
Campbell Garland*Case Studies on Agency and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Late Medieval Morea, Epirus, and Kingdom of Naples*Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Zachary Rottman\ *A Cinematic Atopia: Robert Smithson and the Filmic Afterlife of the Soviet Avant-Garde*Chair: George Baker
2019
Megan Bernstein*Civil Service: English Parochial Architecture, 1150-1300*Chair: Meredith Cohen
Soyeon Kim*Worshipping the Stars: The Buddha of Polaris in Early Modern Korean Visual Culture*\ Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Mark Pawlowski*Housing and the Village Landscape in the Byzantine Mani*Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Lauren Taylor*The Art of Diplomacy in Dakar: The International Politics of Display at the 1966 Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres*\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Hye-shim Yi*The Calligraphic Art of Chen Hongshou 陳鴻壽 (1768-1822) and the Practice of Inscribing in the Middle Qing*\ Chair: Hui-shu Lee
2018
Megan Driscoll*Art on the Internet and the Digital Public Sphere, 1994 – 2003*Chair: Miwon Kwon
Lakshika Senarath Gamage*The Dwelling of the War God: the Art and Architecture of Embekke Devale in Medieval and Early Modern Sri Lanka*Chair: Robert Brown
Aparna Kumar*Partition and the Historiography of Art in South Asia*Chair: Saloni Mathur
Ja Won Lee*Visualizing the Past: Collecting and Representing Chinese Antiquities in Late Chosŏn Korea*Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Kathy Mak*The New Look of Mountains and Rivers: Landscape and the Imagining of Socialist China during The Seventeen Years Period (1949-1966)*Chair: Hui-shu Lee
Megan Metcalf*In the New Body: Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions (1960-61) and their Acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)*Chair: Miwon Kwon
Alice Sophia Powers*Intimate Durations: Reimagining Contemporary Indian Photography*Chair: Saloni Mathur
Elizabeth Searcy*By Any Means Necessary: The Art of Carrie Mae Weems, 1978-1991*Chair: Steven Nelson
2017
Tracy Bonfitto*The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India*\ Chair: Saloni Mathur
Dwight Carey*Building the Creole Empire: Architecture, Urbanism, and Social Space in the French Colonial World, 1659-1818*Chair: Steven Nelson
Yve Chavez*Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance at the California Missions After 1769*Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Jessica Farquhar*Beyond Binding: Reconceptualizing Watson and Kaye’s ‘The People of India’ (1868-1875)*Chair: Robert Brown
Joanna Fiduccia*Hollow Man: Alberto Giacometti and the Crisis of the Monument, 1935-45*\ Chair: George Baker
Andrea Gyorody*‘Object into Action and Action into Object’: Joseph Beuys and the Political Work of Social Sculpture*Chair: George Baker
Ka-yi Ho\ *Art Production of the Late Ming Court during the Wanli Era, 1573-1620*Chair: Hui-shu Lee
Nicholas Machida*The Syntax of Sites: Art and United States Urban Infrastructure, 1956-1980*\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Julia McHugh*Dressing Andean Spaces: Textiles, Painting, and Architecture in the Colonial Imagination*Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Gabriel Ritter*Beyond Surrealism: Kitawaki Noboru and the Avant-Garde During Wartime Japan, 1931-1951*\ Chair: Steven Nelson
2016
Tenley Bick*Figure as Model: The Early Work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1956–1966*\ Chair: George Baker
Helen Ellis\ Quetzalcoatl, and Grass Imagery: Science in the Central Mexican Codex Borgia\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Kavior Moon*From Site to Comparative Relations: Works by Michael Asher, 1976–1998*Chair: Miwon Kwon
2015
Erica Jones*The Multiple Lives of Objects: Museum, Memory, and Modernity in the Cameroon Grassfields*\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Ying-chen Peng*Staging Sovereignty: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) and Late Qing court Art Production*\ Chair: Hui-shu Lee
Naomi Pitamber*Replacing Byzantium: Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss (1204-1261)*Chair: Sharon Gerstel
Julie Romain*Courtly Culture and Visual Art in India: Ramayana Reliefs on Hindu Temples of the Sixth to Eighth Century*\ Chair: Robert Brown
Yoonjung Seo*Connecting Across Boundaries: The Use of Chinese Images in Late Choson Court Art from Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives*\ Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Sarah-Neel Smith\ Art, Democracy, and the Culture of Dissent in 1950s Turkey\ Chair: Saloni Mathur
2014
James Fishburne\ Casting an Ecclesiastical Prince: Portrait Medals of Pope Julius II\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Peter Weller\ Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
2013
Natilee Harren*Objects Without Object: The Artwork in Flux, 1958-1969*\ Chair: George Baker
Beth Rosenblum\ From “Special Period” Aesthetics to Global Relevance in Cuban Art: Tania Bruguera, Carlos Garaicoa, and Los Carpinteros\ Chair: David Kunzle
Daniel Maze\ The Bellini Workshop: Emancipations, Enterprises, and Cittadini Originari\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Janet Stephens\ Constructing the Pre-Columbian Past: Peruvian Paintings of the Inka Dynasty, 1572-1879\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
2012
Ethan Cole\ Moche Marks of Distinction: Time and Politics in Painted Pottery Substyles of the Moche Culture, North Coast, Peru AD 100-900\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Jenny Lin\ Above Sea: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Ruins of Shanghai’s New Heaven on Earth\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Mika Yoshitake\ Lee Ufan and the Art of Mono-Ha in Postwar Japan (1968-1972)\ Co-Chairs: Miwon Kwon and George Baker
2011
Kristin Chiem\ Fashioning Identity: Hua Yan (1682-1756) and Art Production in Eighteenth-Century Hangzhou and Yangzhou\ Chair: Hui-shu Lee
Hope Childers\ The Visual Culture of Opium in British India\ Chair: Saloni Mathur
Michelle Craig\ (In)Secure Space: The Mellah of Fez, Morocco\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Amanda Herring\ Structure, Sculpture and Scholarship: Understanding the Sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina\ Chair: Susan Downey
Lisa Homann\ When Muslims Masquerade: Lo Gue Performance in Southwestern Burkina Faso\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Jungsil Lee\ Reconsidering the Body in Korean Modern Art: Ku Ponung’s Body, World, and Art\ Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Victoria Lyall\ Between Two Worlds: Northern Maya Mural Painting and the Development of a Regional Identity\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Keelan Overton\ A Collector and his Portrait: Book Arts and Painting for Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah Ii of Bijapur (R. 1580-1627)\ Chair: Irene Bierman-McKinney
Tobias Wofford\ Africa as Muse: The Visualization of Diaspora in African American Art, 1950-1980\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Lisa Boutin\ Displaying Identity in the Mantuan Court: The Maiolica of Isabella D’Este, Federico Ii Gonzaga, and Margherita Paleologa\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Minku Kim\ The Genesis of Image Worship: Epigraphic Evidence for Early Buddhist Art in China\ Chair: Lothar von Falkenhausen
2010
Marie Biederman\ Biennial Rising — Prospect.1 New Orleans The Spectacle of Disaster / The Disaster of Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Globalization\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Doris Chon\ Narrating Shadows: W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Historiography\ Co-Chairs: Miwon Kwon and George Baker
Thomas Folland\ Robert Rauschenberg’s Queer Modernism: Decoration, Theatricality and Camp in the Combines, 1953-59\ Chair: George Baker
Susan Gagliardi\ Crossing Borders, Pushing Boundaries: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural “Frontier”\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Patricia Goldberg\ Ptolemaic Queens and a Roman Empress with Aspects of Tyche and Other Goddesses\ Chair: Susan Downey
Heather Graham\ Affecting Bodies: Guido Mazzoni’s Lamentations in Context\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Simon Kenrick\ Art, Medicine and Propaganda in Antoine-Jean Gros’ Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken at Jaffa, 1804\ Chair: David Kunzle
Anita Morris\ Images of Debauchery: The Prodigal Son’s Revels In Netherlandish Art of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\ Chair: David Kunzle
Melody Rod-Ari\ Visualizing Merit: An Art Historical Study of the Emerald Buddha and Wat Phra Kaew\ Chair: Robert Brown
Kim Richter\ Identity Politics: Huastec Sculpture and the Postclassic International Style and Symbol Set\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Emily Scott\ Wasteland: American Landscapes in/and 1960s Art\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Carolyn Stuart\ American Autoscapes: Stuart Davis and the View from the Road, 1920-1940\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Robert Summers\ A Queer Aesthetics of Existence: Vaginal Davis’s Performative Life and Un-Becoming Artworks\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Christopher Tradowsky\ After Sherrie Levine: Appropriation and the Semiotics of Seriality\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Chinghsin Wu\ Japan Encounters the Avant-Garde: The Art and Thought of Koga Harue, 1895-1933\ Chair: Donald McCallum
2009
Ramela Abbamontian\ Armenian-Americans: Art and Diasporic Identity in Los Angeles\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Melia Belli\ Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Political Propaganda, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Architecture\ Chair: Irene Bierman
Lauren Kilroy\ Dissecting Bodies, Creating Cults: Imagery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in New Spain\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Natasha Medvedev\ The Contradictions in Vereschagin’s Turkestan Series: Visualizing the Russian Empire and its Others\ Chair: Saloni Mathur
Nicolas Morrissey\ Sakyabhiksus, Palimpsests and the Art of Apostasy: The Emergence and Decline of Mahayana Buddhism in Early Medieval India\ Chair: Robert Brown
Jean Murachanian\ Leon Tutundjian: Trauma, Identity and Modern Art in the Aftermath of Genocide\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Gloria Sutton\ The Experience Machine: Stan Vanderbeek’s “Movie-Drome” and Expanded Cinema Practices of the 1960S\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Angélica Afanador Pujol\ The Politics of Ethnicity: Re-Imagining Indigenous Identities in the Sixteenth-Century Relacion de Michoacan (1539-1541)\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Gianna Carotenuto\ Domesticating the Harem: Reconsidering the Zenana and Representations of Elite Indian Women in Colonial Painting and Photography of India, 1830-1920\ Chair: Robert Brown
Afroditi Climis\ Locating the Politics of Contemporary Public Art: Towards a New Historiography\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Ross Elfline\ Superstudio and the Staging of Architecture’s Disappearance\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Tushara Bindu Gude\ Between Music and History: Ragamala Paintings and European Collectors in Late Eighteenth-Century Northern India\ Chair: Robert Brown
Jiyeon Kim\ Gathering Paintings of Chungin in Late Choson (1392-1910), Korea\ Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Beth Lauritis\ Lucy Lippard and the Provisional Exhibition: Intersections of Conceptual Art and Feminism, 1970-1980\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Edward Rothfarb\ The Architecture of Raja Bir Singh Dev of Orchha (R.1605-1627): Continuity; Adaptation and Invention\ Chair: Robert Brown
Cristina Stancioiu\ Objects and Identity: An Analysis of Some Material Remains of the Latin and Orthodox Residents of Late Medieval Rhodes, Cyprus, and Crete\ Chair: Sharon Gerstel
2008
Aliaa El Sandouby\ The Ahl Al-Bayt in Cairo and Damascus: The Dynamics of Making Shrines for the Family of the Prophet\ Chair: Irene Bierman
Alkim Akdag Salah\ Discontents of Computer Art: A Discourse Analysis on the Intersection of Arts, Sciences nd Technology\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Susan Croteau\ “But it Doesn’t Look Indian”: Objects, Archetypes and Objectified Others in Native American Art, Culture and Identity\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Rebecca Hall\ Of Merit and Ancestors: Buddhist Banners of Northern Thailand and Laos\ Chair: Robert Brown
Shanna Kennedy-Quigley\ Illuminating the Memphite Sarapieion\ Chair: Susan Downey
Elena Shtromberg\ Conceptual Encounters: Art and Information in Brazil (1968-1978)\ Chair: Charlene Villaseñor Black
Jennifer Wehmeir\ Constructing a Pantheon of Allies: Princely Portraits and All’Antica Palace Decorations in Renaissance Italy During the Reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
2007
Jae Emerling\ The Gesture of Collecting: Walter Benjamin and Contemporary Aesthetics\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Saleema Waraich\ The Ramifications of Ramparts: The Mughal Forts of Lahore, Pakistan and Delhi, India\ Chair: Robert Brown
Liangren Zhang\ Ancient Society and Metallurgy: A Comparative Study of Bronze Age Societies in Central Eurasia and North China\ Chair: Lothar von Falkenhausen
Bo-Kyung Kim\ Indefinite Boundaries: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Borobudur and Loro Jonggrong in Central Java\ Chair: Robert Brown
2006
Sean Anderson\ In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea, 1890-1941\ Chair: Steven Nelson
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi\ The Replication of Ritual in the Colonial Andes: Images of the Virgin of Pomata and Christ of the Earthquakes\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Amy Pederson\ Wie er in die Welt kam: Supermen and Modernism in Mid-Century America\ Chair: Mary Kelly
Yoko Shirai\ Senbutsu: Figured Clay Tiles, Buddhism, and Political Developments on the Japanese Islands, ca. 650 CE – 794 CE\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Acacia Warwick\ Prefabricated Desire: Surrealism, Mannequins, and the Fashioning of Modernity\ Chair: Albert Boime
Jung Ah Woo\ The Postwar Art of On Kawara and Yoko Ono: As if Nothing Happened\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
2005
Jennifer Marshall\ The Stuff of Modern Life: Materiality and Thingness in the Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Show, 1934\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Yu Suzuki\ The Medicine Master: Yakushi Buddha Icons and Devotional Practices in Heinan Japan\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Allyson Williams\ “Le Donne, I Cavalier, L’Arme, Gli Amori”: Artistic Patronage at the Court of Alfonso I D’Este, Duke of Ferrara\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Margartia Wuellner\ Adolf Loos in Central European Culture\ Chair: Anthony Vidler
Colette Apelian\ Negotiating the City: Conserving Fez, Morocco During the French Protectorate (1912-1956)\ Chair: Irene Bierman
Debashish Banerji\ Locating Abanindranath Tagore: Local, National and Transnational Concerns in a Turn-of-the-Century Indian Artist\ Chair: Robert Brown
Kate Mondloch\ Thinking Through the Screen: Media Installation, its Spectator, and the Screen\ Chair: Miwon Kwon
Mario Ontiveros\ Reconfiguring Activism: Inquiries into Obligation, Responsibility and Social Relations in Post 1960s Art Practices in the United States\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
2004
Pearlie Baluyut\ Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines During the Marcos Years, 1965-1986\ Chair: Albert Boime
Roxanna Brown\ The Ming Gap and Shipwreck Ceramics in Southeast Asia\ Chair: Robert Brown
Paul Koudounaris\ Barbarians Within and Without: The Visual Construction of Alterity in Early Modern Europe\ Chair: David Kunzle
Elisa Mandell\ The Birth of Angels: Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Mexican Art\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Ivana Mladenovic\ John Ruskin: The Medieval Mission\ Chair: Albert Boime
Damon Willick\ Conceptualizing Kienholz: Reconsidering Ed Kienholz in Contemporary Art History\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Maria Deprano\ The Art Works Honoring Giovanna Degli Albizzi: Lorenzo Tornabuoni, the Humanism of Poliziano, and the Art of Niccolo Fiorentino and Domenico Ghirlandaio\ Chair: Joanna Woods-Marsden
Beverly Grindstaff\ Designing the Mensch als Kunstwerk: Kant, Hygiene and the Aesthetics of Health in Wilhelmine Germany\ Chair: Albert Boime
Eulogio Guzman\ Sculpting Imperialism?: The Diverse Expression of Local Cults and Corporate Identity in the “Two Tufted” Figure at the Templo Mayor\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Paul Lavy\ Visnu and Harihara in the Art and Politics of Early Historic Southeast Asia\ Chair: Robert Brown
2003
Christine Sellin\ Uitgedreven en Door Gods Engel Geredt’: The Biblical Hager and Ishmael in Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Painting and Literature\ Chair: David Kunzle
Cynthia Skvorec\ The Art of Interaction: Distance and Social Status in Prepalatial Crete\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
2002
Justine Andrews\ Imagery in the Aftermath of the Crusades: A Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Commentary on Job (Paris B.N., MS. Graecus 135)\ Chair: Barbara Zeitler
John Bowles\ Bodies of Work: Autobiography and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Conceptual and Performance Art\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Delia Cosentino\ Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Geneologies of Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Susanne Anderson\ Print Makers at the French Academy in the 18th and 19th Centuries\ Chair: Albert Boime
Santhi Kavuri\ From Picturesque Ruin to World Heritage Site: A Spatial History of Fatehpur Sikri\ Chair: Robert Brown
Guolong Lai\ The Baoshan Tomb: Religious Transition in Art, Ritual, and Text During the Warring States Period (408-211 BCE)\ Chair: Lothar von Falkenhausen
Elizabeth Lopez\ The Mexican Front: Artist Collectives in Mexico City, 1968-1985\ Chair: Albert Boime
John Ott\ The Gilded Rush: Art Patronage, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority in Victorian California\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Eric Segal\ Realizing Whiteness in U.S. Visual Culture: The Popular Illustration of J. C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, and The Saturday Evening Post, 1917-1945\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Pei-Jung Wu\ The Manjusri Statues and Buddhist Practice of Saidaiji: A Study on Iconography, Interior Features of Statues, and Rituals Associated with Buddhist Icons\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Laura Meyer\ Louise Bourgeois and the Subject of Modernism\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
2001
Sandra Esslinger\ Art in the Third Reich: The Fabrication of National Cultural Identity\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Amy Galland\ Immigrant in America\ Chair: Albert Boime
Travis Kranz\ The Tlaxcalan Conquest Pictorials: The Role of Images in Influencing Colonial Policy\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Patricia Mannix\ Mary Kelly’s Interim: A Reexamination and Reevaluation\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Marie Timberlake\ The Painted Image and the Fabrication of Colonial Andean History: Jesuit and Andean Visions in Conflict in Matrimonio de Garcia de Loyola con Nuestra Beatriz\ Cecelia Klein
Nancy Um\ A Red Sea Society in Yemen: Architecture, Urban Form, and Cultural Dynamics in the Eighteenth-Century Port City of Al-Mukha\ Irene Bierman
Mohamed El Amrousi\ Beyond Muslim Space: Jeddah, Muscat, Aden and Port Said\ Irene Bierman
2000
Margaret Jackson\ Notation and Narrative In Moche Iconography, Cerro Mayl, Peru\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Stacy Kamehiro\ Monarchs, Monuments and Museums: Public Art, National Culture, and the Reign of King Kalakaua in Late 19th-century Hawai’I\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
1999
Marie Clifford\ Brand Name Modernism: Helen Rubenstein’s Art Collection, Feminity, and the Marketing of Modern Style, 1925-1940\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Roberta Panzanelli\ Pilgrimage in Hyperreality: Images and Imagination in the First Phase of the “New Jerusalem” at Varallo (1486-1530)\ Chair: Carlo Pedretti
Wendy Shaw\ Possessors and Possessed: Objects, Museums and the Visualization in the Late Ottoman Empire\ Chair: Irene Bierman
Ralf Siegmund\ A Critical Review of Theories about the Origin of the Ancient Egyptian State\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Joann Byce\ Art, Myth & Magic: The Status of the Object in a Virtual World\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Robert Decaroli\ Haunting the Buddha: The Influence of Indian Spirit Religions on the Formation of Buddhism\ Chair: Robert Brown
Lynn Matheny\ Reactionary Modernism and Fascist Aesthetics: National Socialist Visual Culture and the Appropriation of Modernism\ Chair: Anthony Vidler
Mary Storm\ The Historic Image: Self-Sacrificial Decapitation in the Art of India\ Chair: Robert Brown
Hegnar Watenpaugh\ The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and the Representation of Urban Life in Aleppo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries\ Chair: Irene Bierman
1998
Louise Hitchcock\ Fabricating Signification: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships Between Room Types in Minoan Monumental Architecture\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Marilee Jantzer-White\ Beyond Modernism: Anishinaabe Abstraction, Activism, and Traditionalism\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Joanna Roche\ Joseph Cornell and the Making of Money\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Ellen Sacco\ Spectacular Masculinities: The Museums of Peale, Baker and Bowen in the Early Republic\ Chair: Albert Boime
Kerri Steinberg\ Photography, Philanthropy, and the Politics of American Jewish Identity\ Chair: Albert Boime
Ann Steinsapir\ Rural Sanctuaries of Roman Syria: The Dynamics of Architecture in the Sacred Landscape\ Chair: Susan Downey
Carel Bertram\ The Turkish House, an Effort of Memory\ Chair: Irene Bierman
James Grebl\ The Social and Cultural Context of Programs in Pompeian Wall Painting\ Chair: Susan Downey
Victoria Reed\ Discourses on (the art of) Eva Hesse\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
1997
Kurt Behrendt\ The Architecture of Devotion: Image and Relic Shrines of Gandhara (1st-6th C. C.E.)\ Chair: Robert Brown
Anastasia Easterday\ Charting a Course in an Intractable Profession: Women Sculptors in 19th-century France\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Andrea Fredericksen\ The Metropolitan Picturesque: Associating Ideas in Modern London\ Chair: Albert Boime
Lillian Joyce\ Maenads and Bacchantes: Images of Female Ecstasy in Greek and Roman Art\ Chair: Susan Downey
Rachel Hoffman\ Tourism and the Dogon Sculptor\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Ruth Iskin\ Impressionism, Women, and the Public Sphere of Modernity\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Wendy Katz\ Learning Taste: Art and the Making of an Antebellum Middle Class Identity\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins\ Sargent Claude Johnson: The Intersection Between a Double Consciousness and the Ideals of Modernism\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Jo-Ann Morgan\ African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Maria Pradel\ The Fragments of the Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara: Reconstruction of the Iconography and the Historical Contexts\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Dennis Sexsmith\ Going Up in the World, And Down: Social Mobility in the Caricature of J.J. Grandville, 1826-1847\ Chair: David Kunzle
May Talbot\ Reevaluating the Dura Synagogue’s West Wall Iconography: A Deuteronomic Response and Affirmation\ Chair: Susan Downey
1996
Dagmar Grimm\ Max Beckman: Sex and Politics\ Chair: David Kunzle
Katherine Hauser\ Something Happened: A Cultural History of Photorealism\ Chair: Cecile Whiting
Karen Lang\ The German Monument, 1790-1914: Subjectivity, Memory and National Identity\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Susan Masuoka\ Crossing Borders: Miguel Covarrubias and the Re-Representation of the Other\ Chair: Albert Boime
Alexander Waintrub\ Crime of Passion: Surrealism, Allegory and the Dismembered Body\ Chair: Albert Boime
1995
Constance Cortez\ Gaspar Antonio Chi and the Xiu Family Tree\ Cecelia Klein
Helen Crotty\ Anasazi Mural of the Pueblo IV Period, AD 1300-1600: Influences, Selective Adaptation, and Cultural Diversity in the Prehistoric Southwest\ Chair: Cecelia Klein
Joy Gritton\ The Institute of American Indian Arts: A Convergence of Modernism and U.S. Indian Policy\ Cecelia Klein
Lea Kaufman\ The Paintings of Isack Van Ostache, 1621-1649\ Chair: David Kunzle
Andrea Liss\ Trespassing Through Shadows: History, Memory and Photography in Contemporary Representations of the Holocaust\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Lyle Massey\ The Gamble of the Gaze: Anamorphosis and the Problem of Pictorial Illusion\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Sanda Agalidi\ The Mannheim Exhibition of 1925 and the Idea of the New Objectivity\ Chair: Albert Boime
Marie Alanen\ Architectural Reuse at Jerash: A Case Study in Transformations of the Urban Fabric, 100 BC – 750 AD\ Chair: Susan Downey
Philip Armstrong\ Readings in Iconography: An Essay on Poussin and Rilke\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Gail Bryant\ Kuhon Ojozu: Paintings of the Nine Grades of Birth: Context and Interpretation\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Elisabeth Cameron\ Negotiating Gender: Initiation Arts of Mwadi and Mukanda Among the Lunda and Luvale, Kabompo District, North-Western Province, Zambia\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Parme Giutini\ The Politics of Display: Familly Portraits, the Royal Academy and Modern Domestic Ideology\ Chair: David Kunzle
1994
Sherry Fowler\ Muroji: A Contextual Analysis of the Temple and its Images\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Susana Jacob\ Film and Political Advertisements of South India: Urban Spectacle, Popular Culture, Third World Industry\ Chair: Donald Preziosi
Yoshiko Kainuma\ Kaikei and Early Kamakura Buddhism – A Study of the An’Amiyo Amida Form\ Chair: Donald McCallum
Pamela Kort\ The Ugly Face of Beauty: Paul Klee’s Images of Aphrodite\ Chair: David Kunzle
Frauke von der Horst\ Anna Blume “Gut Aufgehoben”: A Semiotic Interpretation of Works by Kurt Schwitters\ Chair: Donald Preziosi