Dissertations

Abbott, Janet, “The Barnett Aden Gallery: A Home for Diversity in a Segregated City” (Penn State, J.Robinson)

Anderson, Sherman Reed, “An Epic of the American Farm: James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)

Applegate, Heidi, “Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World’s Fair” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)

Archias, S. Elise, “The Body as a Material in the Early Performance Work of Carolee Schneemann,Yvonne Rainer, and Vito Acconci” (UC Berkeley, A. Wagner)

Atkins, Ashley, “Winslow Homer and Aestheticism in the United States” (Rutgers, W. Bellion)

Backer, Matthew, “Building a Brave New World: The Future Made Present at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition, 1933-34” (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)

Ball, Jeffrey, “The Missouri State Capitol: Architecture, Mural Painting, and Sculptural Decoration” (Missouri, O. Overby)

Beggs, Margo, “Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908): Fame, Photography, and the ‘American Sculptress’" (Toronto, M. Gotlieb)

Bilbo, Rebecca, “The Art Academy of Cincinnati: A Social, Cultural, and Institutional History” (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)

Boone, Jobyl, “The Spectacle in the Art of the United States after 1967” (Delaware, A. Gibson)

Brooks, Leronn, “An Art of Resistance: The Legacy of Hale Woodruff (1900-1980)” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)

Buckner, Cindy Medley, “Sketched on Copper: The Etching Revival in Late-Nineteenth-Century America” (CUNY, S. Webster)

Buhler, Doyle L., “Capturing the Game: The Artist-Sportsman and Animal Conservation in American Hunting Imagery, 1844-1894” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)

Burgess, Lana A., “Advancing American Art: Survival of an Idea” (Florida State, K. Bearor)

Campbell, Mary, “Holy Lands and Profane Women: Charles Ellis Johnson and the Practice of Mormon Photography” (Stanford, B. Wolf)

Cantor, Karen, “Art and Life of Boris Artzybasheff” (SUNY Stony Brook, M. Bogart)

Caro, Julie Levin, “The Early Career of Allan Rohan Crite (1930-1950)” (UT Austin, L. Henderson, C. Smith)

Clancy, Jonathan, “Transcendentalism and the Crisis of Self in American Art and Culture, 1840-1930” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)

Costello, Eileen Elizabeth, “Between the Easel and the Mural: The Dissolution of Abstract Expressionist Painting into the Realm of Architecture” (UT Austin, R. Shiff)

Coyle, Heather Campbell, “Having Fun with Art: Pranks, Performances, and Parody in American Art Schools, 1890-1915” (Delaware, M. Leja, M. Werth)

Curtiss, Kimberly, “Painting Skin: The Construction of Racial Identity through Representations of American Indians in Jacksonian America, ca. 1828-1848” (Rutgers, W. Bellion)

Dasch, Rowena Houghton, “‘Now Exhibiting’: Charles Bird King’s Picture Gallery, Fashioning Taste, and Nation, 1824-1861” (UT Austin, S. Rather)

De Armendi, Nicole, “Shifting Perception: Labyrinths and the Rise of Phenomenology in American Art of 1960s and 1970s” (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)

Delamaire, Marie-Stéphanie, “Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)

Diack, Heather, “The Benefit of the Doubt: an Aporetic Approach to Conceptual Art and Photography, 1965-1980” (Toronto, L. Kaplan)

Díaz, Eva, “Chance and Design: Experimental Art at Black Mountain College” (Princeton, H. Foster)

Dierkes, Anne-Louise, “Assemblage as Opposition: California’s Counterculture and the Struggle for U.S. Cultural Definition” (CUNY, A. Chave)

Dooley, Michael C., “Citizen Bird: American Ornithological Art of the Progressive Era and the Beginnings of the Bird Conservation Movement” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)

Dossin, Catherine Julie Marie, “‘I Like America & America Likes Me’: Artistic Exchanges between France, Germany, and the United States, 1945-1989” (UT Austin, R. Shiff, K. Arens)

Douberley, Amanda Ann, “The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American City, 1954-1969” (UT Austin, A. Reynolds)

Elliott, Katherine L., “Epic Encounters: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Representations of First Contact” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)

Ellis, Amy, “‘Not a Mere Leaf-Painter’: Thomas Cole and the Figure” (Columbia, J. Crary, E. Hutchinson)

Enderle, Melanie, “The Canvas as Stage: The Spectacle of the American Theater, ca. 1895-ca. 1940” (Washington, S. Casteras)

Evans, Yates, “Doors and Windows: Eastern Philosophy and Western Aesthetics in the Art of Ray Johnson” (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)

Faletti, Rina Cathleen, “Water, Architecture, and Landscape in California and the American West” (UT Austin, M. Charlesworth, R. Shiff)

Fisher, Joshua F., “The Spiral Jetty in the Landscape of Time and Space” (Iowa, C. Adcock)

Folland, Thomas, “Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines and a Queer Neo-Avant-Garde: 1954-59” (UCLA, G. Baker)

Foutch, Ellery, “Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale’s Butterflies, Heade’s Hummingbirds, Blaschka’s Flowers, and Sandow’s Body” (Pennsylvania, M. Leja)

George, Angela, “The Old New World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893” (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)

Gerhold, Emily, “American Beauties: The Cult of the Bosom in the Nineteenth-Century-American Art and Culture” (Virginia Commonwealth, E. Garberson)

Glenn, Kimberly L., “The Chicago Renaissance: Art, Racial Pride, and Identity” (Iowa, B. Mooney)

Glick, Paula F., “The Life and Career of Paul Sample” (Columbia, J. Beck)

Gohari, Sybil E., “Gender and Race in the Critical Reception and Market Value of Helen Frankenthaler’s and Alma Thomas’s Paintings” (Maryland, College Park, R. Ater)

Gönlögür, Emre, “The Americanization of Postwar Turkish Architectural Culture” (Toronto, P. Scrivano)

Gopinath, Gabrielle, “Figuration and Disappearance in the Work of Bruce Nauman, 1969-1990” (Yale, A. Nemerov, D. Joselit)

Green, Robin Cowie, “‘A Certain Slant of Light’: Exhilaration, Oppression, and the Forces of Sunlight in American Impressionism” (Yale, A. Nemerov)

Greene, Nikki, “The Rhythm of Glue, Grease, and Grime: Body and Indexicality in the Works of Romare Bearden, David Hammons, and Renée Stout” (Delaware, A. Gibson)