Dissertations

Listings are extracted from among those published annually in The Art Bulletin and The Archives of American Art Journal.

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2008 -- Dissertations in Progress



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Abbamontian, Ramela, “Armenian-American Artists: Forging a Diasporic Identity in Los Angeles” (UCLA, C. Villaseñor Black)
 
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Anderson, Virginia, "'A State of Anxious Uncertainty': The Critical Reception of Jasper Johns, 1957–1987" (Boston, C. Jones, G. Williams)
 
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Andrus, Timothy, “Stuart Davis’s Art Theory, 1920–1928” (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)
 
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Applegate, Heidi, “Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
 
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Atkins, Ashley, "Winslow Homer and Aestheticism in the United States" (Rutgers, W. Bellion)
 
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Backer, Matthew, "Building a Brave New World: The Future Made Present at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, 1933–34" (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)
 
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Bailey, Matthew, "Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1890–1950" (Washington University, A. Miller)
 
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Ball, Jeffrey, "The Missouri State Capitol: Architecture, Mural Painting, and Sculptural Decoration" (Missouri, O. Overby)
 
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Beggs, Margo, “Harriet Hosmer (1830 to 1908): The ‘Sister Arts,’ Modernity, and the ‘American Sculptress’” (Toronto, M. Gotlieb)
 
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Bilbo, Rebecca, "The Art Academy of Cincinnati: A Social, Cultural, and Institutional History" (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)
 
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Boone, Jobyl, "Christo and Jean-Claude in the Unites States, 1964–2005” (Delaware, A. Gibson)
 
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Brooks, Leronn, “An Art of Resistance: The Legacy of Hale Woodruff (1900–1980)” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
 
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Buckner, Cindy Medley, “Sketched on Copper: The Etching Revival in Late Nineteenth-Century America” (CUNY, S. Webster)
 
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Buhler, Doyle L., “Capturing the Game: The Artist-Sportsman and Animal Conservation in American Hunting Imagery, 1844–1894” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
 
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Burgess, Lana A., “Advancing American Art: Survival of an Idea” (Florida State, K. Bearor)
 
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Byrd, Dana E., "Reconstructions: Material Life of the Postbellum Plantation, 1861–1877" (Yale, E. Cooke Jr.)
 
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Campbell, Kathryn, “Imaging Russia during the Cold War: Photographs in Life Magazine, 1945–1962” (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)
 
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Campbell, Mary, “Holy Lands and Profane Women: Charles Ellis Johnson and the Practice of Mormon Photography” (Stanford, B. Wolf)
 
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Carr, H. Christian, “Sweet Briar, 1800–1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat” (Virginia Commonwealth, C. Brownell)
 
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Carroll, Katherine, "Modernizing the American Medical School, 1893–1940: Architecture, Pedagogy, Professionalization, and Philanthropy" (Boston, K. Morgan)
 
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Cooper, Lynda, “The Larz and Isabel Anderson House, Washington, D.C., by Little & Browne (1902–1905)” (Virginia Commonwealth, C. Brownell)
 
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Costello, Eileen Elizabeth, "Between the Easel and the Mural: The Dissolution of Abstract Expressionist Painting into the Realm of Architecture" (UT Austin, R. Shiff)
 
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Coyle, Heather Campbell, “Having Fun with Art: Pranks, Performances, and Parody in American Art Schools, 1890–1915” (Delaware, M. Leja, M. Werth)
 
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Curtiss, Kimberly, “Painting Skin: The Construction of Racial Identity through Representations of American Indians in Jacksonian America, ca. 1828–1848” (Rutgers, W. Bellion)
 
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Dasch, Rowena Houghton, “‘Now Exhibiting’: Charles Bird King’s Picture Gallery; Fashioning Taste and Nation, 1824–1861” (UT Austin, S. Rather)
 
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Davis, Alexandra, "'Artists Look Like This': Representations of Artists in American Mass-Market Magazines, 1923–1951" (Pennsylvania, M. Leja)
 
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De Armendi, Nicole, “Shifting Perception: Labyrinths and the Rise of Phenomenology in American Art of the 1960s and 1970s” (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs)
 
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Delamaire, Marie-Stéphanie, “Transatlantic Encounters: Franco-American Artistic Exchanges in the Civil War Era” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
 
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Diaz, Eva, “Chance and Design: Experimental Art at Black Mountain College” (Princeton, H. Foster)
 
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Dierkes, Anne-Louise, “Assemblage as Opposition: California’s Counterculture and the Struggle for U.S. Cultural Definition” (CUNY, A. Chave)
 
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Dooley, Michael C., “Citizen Bird: American Ornithological Art of the Progressive Era and the Beginnings of the Bird Conservation Movement” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
 
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Douberley, Amanda Ann, “The Corporate Model: Sculpture, Architecture, and the American City, 1954–1969” (UT Austin, A. Reynolds)
 
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Elder, Nika, “Show and Tell: Representation, Communication, and the Still Lifes of William M. Harnett” (Princeton, R. DeLue)
 
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Elliott, Katherine L., "Epic Encounters: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Representations of First Contact" (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
 
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Ellis, Amy, "‘Not a Mere Leaf-Painter’: Thomas Cole and the Figure" (Columbia, J. Crary, E. Hutchinson)
 
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Faletti, Rina Cathleen, “Water, Architecture, and Landscape in California and the American West” (UT Austin, M. Charlesworth, R. Shiff)
 
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Fay, Brendan, "American Photography and Abstraction, 1940–1960: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan" (Harvard, R. Kelsey)
 
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Fisher, Joshua F., "The Spiral Jetty in the Landscape of Time and Space" (Iowa, C. Adcock)
 
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Folland, Thomas F., “Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines and a Queer Neo-Avant-Garde, 1954–59” (UCLA, G. Baker)
 
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Foutch, Ellery, “Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale’s Butterflies, Heade’s Hummingbirds, Blaschka’s Flowers, and Sandow’s Body” (Pennsylvania, M. Leja)
 
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Fredericks, Keri, “‘Black Saturday’: Eudora Welty’s Unpublished Photographic Essay of Depression-Era Mississippi” (Florida State, R. Neuman)
 
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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)
 
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Gerhold, Emily, “American Beauties: The Cult of the Bosom in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture” (Virginia Commonwealth, E. Garberson)
 
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Glenn, Kimberly L., "The Chicago Renaissance: Art, Racial Pride, and Identity" (Iowa, B. Mooney)
 
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Glick, Paula F., “The Life and Career of Paul Sample” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson, D. Rosand)
 
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Glisson, James, “Anxiety and Occlusion: New York in the Imagination of American Impressionist and Ashcan School Artists, 1885–1914” (Northwestern, S. H. Clayson)
 
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Gohari, Sybil E., "Through the Looking Glass: Race and Gender in the Reception of Helen Frankenthaler's and Alma Thomas's Paintings" (Maryland, College Park, R. Ater)
 
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Gönlügür, Emre, “The Promise of Modernization in Architectural Backwaters: The Americanization of Postwar Turkish Architectural Culture” (Toronto, P. Scrivano)
 
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Green, Midori, "Sec's Appeal: The Secretary in American Popular Culture, 1900–1964" (Minnesota, K. Solomonson)
 
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Green, Robin C., "'A Certain Slant of Light': Exhilaration, Oppression, and the Forces of Sunlight in American Impressionism" (Yale, A. Nemerov)
 
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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)
 
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