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



Zundo, Mary Elizabeth, “Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier” (UIUC, D. O’Brien)
 
Yoshida, Atsushi, "Modern Eremites: Art and the Vocation of Withdrawal in Gilded Age America" (Washington University, A. Miller)
 
Wolf, Vanessa, "Surplus Feeling: War and Remembrance in Lee Bontecou's Wall Reliefs, 1958–1966” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
 
Wofford, Tobias, “Constructing Africa: The Visualization of Homeland and Diaspora in African American Art during the 1960s and 1970s” (UCLA, S. Nelson)
 
Witt, Susan Powell, “The Gendered Language of War: Picturing the Parlor in Civil War America” (Stanford, B. Wolf)
 
Wilde, Tamara L., “Virgins and Vixens: Women, Musical Instruments, and Identity in Gilded Age Art” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
 
Weathers, Chelsea Lea, “Shooting Underground: Andy Warhol’s Cinema and the Making of a Public Image, 1963–1966” (UT Austin, A. Reynolds)
 
Warak, Melissa Christine, “Sound Exchange: Interactions of Music and Art, 1955–1976” (UT Austin, L. Henderson)
 
Walz, Jonathan, "The New Face of Modernism: Anti-Mimetic Portraiture and the American Avant-Garde, 1912–1927" (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)
 
Vincenti, Marissa, “Our Spiritual Strivings: Gurdjieffian Philosophy, Spiritualism, and Politics in the Art of Aaron Douglas” (Duke, R. Powell)
 
Tuite, Diana, “Methods for Modernism: Arthur Wesley Dow Intersects the Stieglitz Circle” (Princeton, J. Wilmerding)
 
Tsen, Hsuan, “Spectacles of Authenticity: The Emergence of Mass Entertainment in Japan and America, 1890–1910” (Stanford, S. Bukatman)
 
Trent, Mary, "Innocence Reproduced: Girlhood in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger" (UC Irvine, C. Whiting)
 
Toteva, Maia Todorova, "Language Use in Conceptual Art: Eastern European and North American Strategies" (UT Austin, R. Shiff)
 
Tomlin, Patrick, “Op Art: Painting, Perception, and Visual Culture in the Sixties” (Northwestern, C. Lambert-Beatty)
 
Terry, Colleen, "William Hogarth's Prints in British North America" (Delaware, B. Herman)
 
Talbott, Jennifer, “Avis Mortis: Ornithology and Modern American Art” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
 
Swisher, Christine, “American Home, American Dream: Home Economics, Housing, and the University Response to Immigration, 1899–1933” (Penn State, C. Zabel)
 
Stuart, Carolyn, “American Autoscapes: The View from the Road, 1920–1949” (UCLA, S. Nelson)
 
Stevens, Jolee, “Modern Art and Modern Movement: Images of Dance in American Art, ca. 1900–1950” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
 
Stephens, Rachel E., "Ralph E. W. Earl and the Myth of Jacksonian Politics" (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
 
Stamey, Emily, “Pop, Place, and Personal Identity in the Art of Roger Shimomura” (Kansas, D. Cateforis, C. Eldredge)
 
Smith, Jerry, “Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, ca. 1900–1950” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
 
Snook, Sarah, "The Development of the American Art Market in Antebellum New York" (Columbia, E. Hutchinson, D. Rosand)
 
Sivard, Susan, "The Volcano in European and American Art, 1770–1865" (Columbia, B. Novak, E. Hutchinson)
 
Sherry, Karen, “Exposing the ‘Natural’ Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785 to 1830” (Delaware, M. Leja, W. Bellion)
 
Sels, Kim, "Assembling Identity: The Object-Portrait in American Art, 1917–1927" (Rutgers, J. Marter)
 
Scruggs, Dalila, “'The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here': The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia, West Africa" (Harvard, S. Blier)
 
Scott, Emily, “Wasteland Aesthetics: Art and the Postindustrial Landscape, 1962–1972” (UCLA, M. Kwon)
 
Scanlan, Patricia S., "'God-gifted girls': Women Illustrators, Gender, Class, and Commerce in American Visual Culture, 1885–1925" (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)
 
Samet, Jennifer, “Another New York School: The ‘Secret History’ of Figurative Painting, 1960–1980” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)
 
Sablove, Henrietta, "Study Abroad: American Architects and Their Travel Sketches, 1850–1920" (Rutgers, C. Yanni)
 
Rottner, Nadja, "Claes Oldenburg and the Emergence of the ‘Happening’" (Columbia, J. Rajchman, R. Krauss, B. Joseph)
 
Rosenbaum, Sarah, “In the Public Domain: Public Art, Advanced Capitalism, and the Contemporary City” (Harvard, Y-A. Bois)
 
Roethke, Leigh, “A Passion for Spain: Españolismo in American Visual Culture” (Minnesota, K. A. Marling)
 
Roeder, Katherine, "Cultivating Dreamfulness: Fantasy, Longing, and Commodity Culture in the Work of Winsor McCay” (Delaware, M. Leja, M. Werth)
 
Robertson, Letha Clair, “The Art of Thomas Hicks and Celebrity Culture in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
 
Robertson, Breanne, “Forging a New World Nationalism: Native Mexico in United States Art and Visual Culture, 1933–1945” (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)
 
Roach, Leigh Anne, “A Positive, Popular Art: Sources, Structure, and Impact of Gyorgy Kepes’s Language of Vision” (Florida State, K. Bearor)
 
Renn, Melissa, "Life in the Art World, 1936–1972" (Boston, P. Hills, K. N. Morgan)
 
Rees, Nathan, "Esoteric Primitivism: The Transcendental Painting Group and Native American Cultures" (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)
 
Raab, Jennifer, "Frederic Church and the Culture of Detail” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
 
Pultz, Janet, "Christian Abrahamsen (1887–1983), Norwegian-American Portrait Painter" (Missouri, O. Overby)
 
Price, Marshall, “John Ferren and the Development of Abstraction” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
 
Powers, Sarah, “Images of Tension: City and Country in the Work of Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton” (Delaware, A. Gibson, M. Leja)
 
Pohrt, Tanya, “Touring Pictures: The Exhibition of American History Paintings in the Early Republic” (Delaware, M. Leja, W. Bellion)
 
Peiffer, Prudence, "Routine Extremism: Ad Reinhardt and Modern Art" (Harvard, Y-A. Bois)
 
Palm, Nancy, "Unsettling Identities: Indian Iconography in Thomas Cole's National Landscapes" (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)
 
Nygard, Travis, “The Art of Agribusiness: How Visual Culture Shaped Grain Production in the U.S., 1893–1943” (Pittsburgh, K. Savage)
 
Niedzielski-Eichner, Nora, “Integrating Modernism: The Migration Paintings of Douglas, Lawrence, and Bearden” (Stanford, B. Wolf)
 
Newton, Gregory, “The Emergence of Monochrome Painting in 1950s New York” (CUNY, A. Chave)
 
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