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



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