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Recent MA Thesis
(By filing date)
Kwon, Myoung-Jung. "Alternative Realities: Representations of U.S. Race Relation in Korean American Video," 1998.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Edward T. Chang
Lin, Chia-Jung. "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Female Figures and Victorian Womanhood," 1998.
Committee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Jennifer Brody
Weller, Rebecca A. "Writing the Body: The Work of Mira Schor, Lynn Hershman, and Catherine Opie," 1998.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton, Carole-Anne Tyler
Preston, Genevieve M. "A Modern Setting for a Modern Life: Madame Stringberg, Ethel Sands, and Lady Drogheda's Innovative and Avant-garde Interiors," 1998
Committee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Kimberly Devin
Christensen, Nina M. "The Myth of Danae in Pompeian Domestic Painting," 1997
Committee: Steven F. Ostrow, Chairperson; Conrad Rudolph, Michele Salzman
McFaull, Michele L. "Patroness of the Gilded Age: Isabella Stewart Gardner," 1997
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Steven F. Ostrow; Cecile Whiting
Ogle, Susan F. "Laura Gilpin: Unconventional Daughter of the West," 1997
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Jonathan Green
Parsley-Welsh, Krista L. "Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies: A Reflection of Conventual Franciscan Beliefs," 1997
Committee: Steven F. Ostrow, Chairperson; Conrad Rudolph; Dale V. Kent
McCullough, Thomas P. "The Admonitions of the Court Instructress to the Palace Women: Gender Roles, Gender Ideology and Gender Difference in Early Medieval China," 1997.
Committee: Ginger Hsü, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Yenna Wu
Vellucci, Sabine M. "The Milan Sarcophagus: A Reconsideration," 1997.
Committee: Conrad Rudolph, Co-Chair; Michael Behen, Co-Chair; Steven F. Ostrow
Willick, Damon. "Jackson Pollock as a Critical Construction: The Author-Function Pollock," 1996.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Erika Suderburg
Roy, Nina T. "The Third Space Critique: The Diasporic Cinema of Ismail Merchant and Mira Nair in Relation to Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory," 1996.
Committee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Steven Ostrow; Marguerite Waller
Chau, Amelia Kit-Yiu. "East-West Negotiations: The Evolution of the Void in the Paintings of Zao Wou-Ki," 1995.
Committee: Ginger Hsü, Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Zhang Longxi
Powell, Barbara D. "Henry Ives Cobb: Architecture, Culture and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition," 1995.
Committee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Sharon Salinger
Ota, Pauline A. "Tanomura Chikuden's Mata mata ichiraku jo: Personal Expression Through the Imported, Symbolic Vocabulary of the Chinese literati," 1995.
Committee: Ginger Hsü, Chairperson; Vivian-Lee Nyitray; Steven F. Ostrow
Hickman, Madelia A. "Fulfilling a Prophecy: Feminist Images of Women at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition," 1995.
Committee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Carole Shammas
Elliott-Tespitaks, Tara J. "International Fluidity Versus National Constraint: Cross Border Performativity and its Role in the Construction of a Tai-centric Aesthetic,"1995.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Zhang Longxi
Rojas-Jara, Carlos L. "Wifredo Lam's 'Jungle': A Contextual Reading of the Image," 1995.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Regina Stefaniak; Karl A. Taube
Ontiveros, Mario J. "Circumscribing Identities: Chicana Muralists and the Representation of Chicana Subjectivity," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Alicia Arrizón; Jonathan W. Green; Erika Suderburg
Forman, Kurt R. "Postmodernity and the Death of Painting," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Erika Suderburg; Jonathan Green
Rayfield, Elizabeth K. "Making Mankind's Acquaintance: Sterographic Viewing and Colonial Domination," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan Green; Marguerite Waller
Meyer, Laura D. "The 'Essential' Judy Chicago: Central Core Imagery and the Language of Fetishism in Womanhouse and The Dinner Party," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Steven Ostrow; Carole-Anne Tyler
Leonard, Deirdre C. "The Representaion of Meiji Japan in the Photographic Work of Kusakabe Kimbei," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan Green; Ginger Hsü
McCarroll, Stacey S. "Fixing an Image of Florence Henri: The New Woman, the Avant-Garde, and Photography in the Early Twentieth Century," 1994.
Committee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan W. Green; Judith G. Coffin
Fortunati, Allegra. "David as Penitent, David as Pope: An Interpretation of Francesco Salviati's Fresco Cycle of the Life of King David for the Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti in Rome Within Its Cultural Context," 1994.
Committee: Regina Stefaniak, Chairperson; Loren Patridge; Brian Copenhaver
Surber, Robin F. "Michael Graves: San Juan Capistrano Public Library," 1993.
Committee: Derickson Brinkerhoff, Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel
Terry, Shauna. "Domestic Visions: The Relationship of Arthur Hughes' Illustrations to George MacDonald's Fairy Tales," 1993.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Robert N. Essick; Steven F. Ostrow
MacCaskey, Laura. "The Zuccari Coronation of the Virgin: An Interpretation of the High Altarpiece of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome within its Cultural Context," 1993.
Committee: Regina Stefaniak; Dale V. Kent; Steven F. Ostrow
Bailey, Michelle A. "Utopian Visions: An Inquiry into the Social and Artistic Theories that Inspired Kandinsky's Point and Line to Plane and the Bauhaus Book Series," 1993.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Heidi Gilpin
Fiacco, Lori L. "The Emperor's New Clothes: A Critical Analysis," 1992.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Erika Suderburg; Jonathan W. Green
Flores, Nadine M. "Galka Scheyer Collection in Pasadena," 1992.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel; Theda Shapiro
Walsh, Gregory W. "The Mangrove Coast in Context: Walker Evans and the Photographic Book," 1992.
Committee: Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Jonathan W. Green
Karthaus-Hunt, Beatrix. "Posters of the American Women's Suffrage Movement, 1911-1917," 1992.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Sally A. Stein, Co-Chairperson; Amelia Jones
Koeninger, Betty Kathryn. "Theodore Robinson's La Débâcle,1892: An American Artist in France," 1992.
Committee: Dericksen Brinkerhoff, Chairperson; Gerald M. Ackerman; Marjorie L. Harth
Perbetsky, Patricia A. "The Ferus Gallery 1957-1961," 1991.
Committee: Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Françoise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; William Bradshaw
Miyagawa, Stacy L. "Imagining the Orient: Francis Frith's Views of Egypt and the Middle East," 1991.
Committee: Françoise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel; Sally Stein
Hamara, Heather J. "The Wilton Diptych: Propaganda or Prophecy," 1991.
Committee: Regina Stefaniak, Chairperson; Dericksen Brinkerhoff; Theda Shapiro