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 -- Art of the United States



Zalman, Sandra, “A Vernacular Vanguard: Surrealism and the Making of American Art History, 1936–1986” (USC, N. Troy)
 
Williams, Thomas, “Object Pornography, Objective Expressionism: Claes Oldenburg, Eros, and the 1960s” (SUNY Stony Brook, J. Katz, J. Rubin)
 
Smith, Laura, "Obscuring the Distinctions, Revealing the Divergent Visions: Modernity and Indians in the Early Works of Kiowa Photographer Horace Poolaw, 1925–1945" (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)
 
Senf, Rebecca, "Ansel Adams's 'Practical Modernism': The Development of a Commercial Photographer, 1916–1936" (Boston, K. Sichel)
 
Reynolds, Rebecca, “Sculpture Parks, Sculpture Gardens, and Site Specific Practices in the U.S., 1965–1991” (Chicago, M. Ward)
 
Osman, Michael, "Regulation in the Architecture of American Modernism, 1890–1920" (MIT, M. Jarzombek)
 
Napolitano, Laura Groves, "Nurturing Change: Lilly Martin Spencer's Images of Children" (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)
 
Murphy, Joni, “Beyond Sweetgrass: The Life and Art of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith” (Kansas, S. Goddard)
 
Kroiz, Lauren, "New Races, New Media: The Struggle for a Modern American Art, 1890–1925" (MIT, C. Jones)
 
Johnson Bidler, Tiffany, “Delineations: American Art History and the Discourse of Inheritance” (Minnesota, J. Blocker)
 
Heyrman, Joy Peterson, "'Signature Drawings': Social Networks and Collecting Practices in Antebellum Albums" (Maryland, College Park, S. Promey)
 
Hereford, Kimberly, "The Fashionable Disease: Illness, Spiritualism, and Victorian Femininity in British and American Art" (University of Washington, S. Casteras)
 
Guglielmo, Antoniette, "Workbench of American Taste: Richard F. Bach, Industrial Art, and Consumerism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917–1940" (UC Santa Barbara, E. B. Robertson)
 
Enderle, Melanie, "The Canvas as Stage: The Spectacle of New York City Popular Entertainment, ca. 1895–ca. 1940" (University of Washington, S. Casteras)
 
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)
 
Dolan, Julia, "'I Will Take You into the Heart of Modern Industry': Lewis Hine's Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age” (Boston, K. Sichel)
 
Clancy, Jonathan, “Transcendentalism and the Crisis of Self in American Art and Culture, 1830–1930” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
 
Chung, Nogin, “Picturing American Women: Popular Culture Images of Postwar Womanhood in the United States” (Minnesota, K. A. Marling)
 
Caro, Julie Levin, “The Early Career of Allan Rohan Crite (1930–1950)” (UT Austin, L. Henderson, C. Smith)
 
Caffey, Stephen Mark, “An Heroics of Empire: Benjamin West and Anglophone History Painting, 1764–1774” (UT Austin, S. Rather)
 
Burgess, Rebekah, "Collecting Agency: Reversing the Camera's Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts" (Boston, K. Sichel)
 
Anderson, Sherman Reed, “James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings: An Epic of the American Farm” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
 
Anderson, Marvin, "The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects and Academic Ideals in Early Twentieth-Century American Architecture (1894–1941)" (University of Washington, M. Clausen)
 
Anderson, Kristin, “The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota” (Minnesota, K. A. Marling)
 
Abbott, Janet, “The Barnett Aden Gallery: A Home for Diversity in a Segregated City” (Penn State, J. Robinson)