# Ph.D. Recipients

**Source**: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/ph-d-recipients/
**Parent**: https://arthistory.ucla.edu/undergraduates-major-and-minor/

## 2025

**David Bardeen***Arboreal 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 Enriquez***Surrounded 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** C*reative 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 Rivas***Aerial 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 An***T**he Curator as the Artist’s Friend: Henry Geldzahler Negotiating Artistic Autonomy in the 1960s**\*Chair: Miwon Kwon

**JoAnna Reyes***Piety, 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