Institute Graduates May 2020 Master of Arts Graduates and Thesis Titles Alexa Elena Breininger
Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri Thesis: (In)animate Women: Mannequins, Masquerade, and the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
Alexa Troy Chabora
Advisor: Robert Slifkin Thesis: Art & Taxes: The Convergence of Art, the Vernacular, and the Instrumentalized in the 1940s WPA Tax Photographs
Advisor: Hsueh-Man Shen Thesis: A Place of Parergon: The Spatiality of Mogao Cave 231 at Dunhuang
Andrea Chu
Advisor: Jonathan Hay Thesis: From Grid to Cloud: An Exploration of Materiality through Contingency in Ian Cheng’s Emissaries
Ling Ding
Advisor: Hsueh-Man Shen Thesis: Indian Stupas inside a Chinese Pagoda: Building a Buddha Land in Hangzhou in the Wuyue Kingdom
Tara Sami Dutt
Advisor: Prita Meier Thesis: Portraits of Sheedis in the Ishqnama: A Study of the Perceived Invisibility of the Lucknow Sheedi Community
Miray Eroglu
Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood Thesis: In the Market for Love: Depictions of Couples in Late 17th-18th Century Ottoman Paintings
Drue Henegar
Advisor: Robert Slifkin Thesis: Difference and Decoloniality in the Work of Women Land Artists: Michelle Stuart, Ana Mendieta, Agnes Denes, Alice Aycock, and Beverly Buchanan
Advisor: Alexander Nagel Thesis: Beyond iconography: Reflections on G.B. Tiepolo’s Royal Ceiling Fresco (1762-64)
Xiaohan Hu
Advisor: Hseuh-Man Shen Thesis: From Ruixiang to State Icon: The Transmission and Transformation of the Acuoye Guanyin Ruixiang in Yunnan
Kaitlin Johndrow
Advisor: Roger Wieck Thesis: Robes Reconsidered: Textile Allusions and their Exegetical Function in the Book of Durrow’s Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew
Stephanie Katsias
Advisor: Thomas Crow Thesis: Combat Photography: Bruce Conner, Search & Destroy, and the Politics of the San Francisco Punk Scene
Hannah Sage Kay
Advisor: Robert Slifkin Thesis: Weathering the Storm: Media Hoaxing as a Quasi-Antidote to Disinformation
Charlotte Kinberger
Advisor: Thomas Crow Thesis: Absent Bodies, Material Histories: Surrogates and Stereotypes in the Work of Gary Simmons
Angelika Klein-Amunategui
Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen Thesis: The National World War II Memorial: At Peace Between Monument and Memorial
Lilia Kudelia
Advisor: Robert Slifkin Thesis: The Problem of Scale in Television as an Art Medium: Robert Rauschenberg’s Brazos River Project (1976)
Aiqi Li
Advisor: Jonathan Hay Thesis: Painting Religious Icons in the Early Republican Era: Wang Yiting’s Buddhist Art and Practices in the Mid-1920s
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