Institute Graduates

May 2022 Master of Arts and Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Julia Berman

“Flexible Forms: Exploring Possibilities of Mutability in Pre-Dynastic and Early Dynastic Art” Advisor: Kathryn Howley

Sophia Lenora Bevacqua Collins

“On the Nature of Change: Metamorphoses and Materialism in the Artistic Process of Piero di Cosimo’s Figural Drawings” Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Shelby Nicole Bray

“Performing the Body: The Use of the Feminine Body in the Work of Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneemann in the 1960s and 1970s” Advisor: Christine Poggi

Tiarra Inez Brown

“More than Black Pain” Advisor: Lowery Stokes Sims

Minghao Chen

“Traversing Nights: Sensuous Cultivation of Shen Zhou’s Nocturnal Paintings” Advisor: Jonathan Hay

Andy Ho Tung Cheng

“One Thing as Another: Queerness in Robert Morris’s Art of the 1960s and ‘70s” Advisor: Robert Slifkin

M. Claire Davis

“Performing Pavements: Theatricality and Phenomenology in the Narcissus Mosaic of the House of Menander at Antioch” Advisor: John Hopkins

Zhilong Deng

“Buddha of Medicine: The Making of a Magnificent Mural in Fourteenth-Century Southern Shanxi, China” Advisor: Jonathan Hay

Jason Drill

“Complicated, Messy, and Slow: Mark Bradford’s Deep Blue” Advisor: Pepe Karmel

Elizabeth Jean Fischer

“Beaux-Arts Muralism: Triumph and Failure of the Gilded Age. A Study of John White Alexander’s The Apotheosis of Pittsburgh through the lens of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth” Advisor: Thomas Crow

Emma Myrette Flood

“Satirical Sales and Society Weddings: Women and Class in the Work of Florine Stettheimer” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Rachel Rose Garbade

“‘Open Mesh of Possibilities’: Three Artists Queer the Canon” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Eric Chea Choong Goh

“Choong Kam Kow: An Outlier Artist” Advisor: Christine Poggi

Goldie Gross

“Painting the Party: The Radical Art of Lydia Gibson (1891-1964)” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Catherine G. Hartmann

“Seeing the Law, Again: On the Temporality of Alciato’s Legal Emblems” Advisor: Linda Wolk-Simon

Paul Horatio Henkel

“The Visual Implications of Arminius the Unifier in Germanic Culture” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Katherine Elizabeth Hobart

“Ausdruckstanz and the Avant-Garde: The Language of Dance in the Work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Oskar Schlemmer” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Kaylee Faye Kelley

“‘Illustrious Through Her Own Virtues’: An Alternative Vision of Laura in Cinquecento Florentine Portraiture” Advisor: Linda Wolk-Simon

Christina Gina Lee

“Reconsidering Realism in Korean Photography: Geopolitics, Territory, and Space” Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Martina Lentino

“Visión fotográfica: Horacio Coppola’s Multidisciplinary Representations of a ‘Modern’ Buenos Aires” Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Frances Samuel Lilliston

“‘What Need Do I Have for this Vision?’: Images from Fourteenth-Century St. Katharinenthal” Advisor: Robert Maxwell

Maria Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros

“Beyond the Gaucho: Historical and Contemporary Depictions” Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Abigail Manville

“Malleus Matrorum Maleficarum: The Perversion of Motherhood in Hans Baldung’s Works on Witches” Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Deborah Lyn Miller

“Salvador Dali’s ‘Nuclear Mysticism’” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Janelle Catherine Miniter

“Image to Concept: Sturtevant’s Repetitions and the Art of Thinking” Advisor: Christine Poggi

Madeleine Olshansky Morris

“Hiding in Plain Sight: Revisiting the Art and Legacy of Bill Traylor” Advisor: Robert Slifkin

Leigh Christine Peterson

“Armor Makes the Man: The Role of Armor in Cosimo I de’ Medici’s State Portrait by Bronzino” Advisor: Linda Wolk-Simon

Thomas Jay Rice

“Dual Images: Self-Representation in Portraiture and Architecture of Early Severan Emperors 193-217 CE” Advisor: Katherine Welch|

Erika A. Robbins

“Robert Henri Paintings of Spanish Types” Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Gabriela Romero Gonzalez

“Xul Solar: An Artistic Freedom Found in Hybridity” Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Diane Marie Russo

“Magical Figurines in Greco-Roman Egypt” Advisor: Kathryn Howley

Jasmine Smith

“The Unusual and Creative in Private Theban Tombs” Advisor: Kathryn Howley

Isla Marie Stewart

“Chiseling Feminism: Vinnie Ream and Adelaide Johnson inside the United States Capitol Rotunda” Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

Daniel Patrick Umstaedter

“Tell Me Everything: Re-Presenting Identity and Desire in the Work of Richard Prince” Advisor: Thomas Crow

Lijie Wang

“Jeremy Deller: The Popular Artist” Advisor: Thomas Crow

Yuchen “Angel” Xiang

“Around 2020: Emergent Trend of Young Artists on the Chinese Social Media, Little Red Book / Secrets Unfold by an Insider” Advisor: Thomas Crow

May 2022 Master of Arts and Master of Science Dual-Degree Graduates and Thesis Titles

sasha arden

“Temporal Instability in Incandescent Light-Based Artworks” Advisor: Michele Marincola

Adrienne Gendron

“Collective Memory Theory and Objects of Trauma: Case Studies from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum” Advisor: Michele Marincola

Tess Bronwyn Hamilton

“Person, Patient, Specimen: The Transformation of Medical Photography in the Harvey Cushing Brain Tumor Registry” Advisor: Prita Meier

Natasha Kung

“Photographic Exposure: Charles DeForest Fredricks in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba” Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan

Derek Anthony Lintala

“Perfect Stranger in the Great Metropolis: The Portrait of Lady Willoughby de Broke and George Romney’s Position in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture” Advisor: Dianne Dwyer Modestini

Celeste Kathleen Mahoney

“Digging in to Imaging: Conservation Photodocumentation through the Lens of Archaeological Theory” Advisor: Kathryn Howley

Shaoyi Qian

“Paper Transparencies: How They Were Made, Viewed, and Enjoyed” Advisor: Margaret Holben Ellis

May 2022 PhD Graduates and Dissertation Titles

Elizabeth Eisenberg

“Modeling Life: Transformations of Verrocchio’s Sculpture in Leonardo’s Painting and Drawings” (Summer 2021) Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Ayse Pinar Gnepp

“Carving and Painting Sacred Space: Working with Wood in the Mosques of Medieval Anatolia” Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

Lyla Marie Halsted

“‘For Every Gazing Eye’: Magic, Medicine, and Material Culture from Late Antiquity to Medieval Islam” Advisor: Finbarr Barry Flood

Charlotte Alexandra Healy

“Paul Klee’s Hand” Advisor: Robert Lubar Messeri

Da Hyung Jeong

“Soviet Architectural Postmodernism, 1977-1991” Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

Elizabeth Lee

“Landscape of Buddhas: Rock-Carved and Monumental Stone Sculpture of the Unified Silla (668-935) – Koryŏ (918-1392) Transition” Advisor: Hsueh-man Shen

Anna Theresa Majeski

“Visualizing the Cosmos in Trecento Padua: From Giotto di Bondone to Giusto de’ Menabuoi” Advisor: Alexander Nagel

Johanna Sluiter

“Building Habitat: Reconstruction, Decolonization, and the Atelier des Batisseurs, 1945-1962” Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen

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