Complete 2023-2024
Kyrie Blackman (Fall 2023)
Redefining Our Future: A Semiotic Approach to Understanding the Black Otaku
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Christian J. Valdez (Spring 2024)
Vessels of Illumination: The Ritual Transformation of Space, Sound and Vision at the Los Angeles Kōyasan Buddhist Temple
Committee Chair: Yong Cho
Kekoa Jackson (Spring 2024)
Sites of Contestation: Darrel Ellis and the Decipherment of Family Photographs
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Melissa N. Reyes (Spring 2024)
The Amalgamation of Art and Science in the 16th Century: Ligier Richier’s Transi of René De Châlon and Vesalius’ Muscle-Men
Committee Chair: Kristoffer Neville
Athena Sesma (Spring 2024)
Imaging and Imagining: Photographic Views of Mexico During the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67) and the Porfiriato (1884-1911)
Committee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc
Complete 2022-2023
Ian Peltz (Fall 2022)
Still White: Attitudes and Aesthetics
Committee Chair: Liz Kotz
Beck Lou (Summer 2023)
Extending Belonging: Martin Wong’s Sociality in Practice
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Completed 2021-2022
Alexandra T. Henry (Fall 2021)
Christian Architecture within the Kingdom of the Kongo: A Case Study of the Igreja de Jesus
Committee Chair: Kristoffer Neville
Caitlyn M. Lawler (Spring 2022)
Asserting Space: Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum
Committee Chair: Liz Kotz
Amy E. Spencer (Spring 2022)
Mieko Shiomi: A Bodily Exploration of Selected Objects
Committee Chair: Liz Kotz
Victoria I. Bonato (Summer 2022)
Love, Beauty, and Memory: An Examination of Fra Filippo Lippi’s Double Portrait
Committee Chair: Jeanette Kohl
Jesse M. Rocha (Summer 2022)
Documenting the Queer Experience: Self-Preservationist Tendencies in Gay Brazilian Artists
Committee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc
Kaitlyn Sturgis-Jensen (Summer 2022)
Indigenous Languages and Practices of Place: Sandra de la Loza, Mercedes Dorame, and Cog•nate Collective at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Committee Chair: Savannah Esquivel
Completed 2020-2021
Shannon M. Chestnut (Spring 2021)
Claiming the Louvre: Kingship, Revolution, and Empire in Early Modern France
Committee Chair: Johannes Endres
Rebekkah C. Hart (Spring 2021)
Stony Flesh: Consumption and Healing in English Alabaster ‘St. John’s Heads’ (c. 1430-1550)
Committee Chair: Jeanette Kohl
Chloe S. Millhauser (Summer 2021)
Ornaments of Subversion: Subjectivity in Neue Sachlichkeit Still Life Photography
Committee Chair: Susan Laxton
Estefania Sanchez (Summer 2021)
Materiality in Mexico’s Arte Popular: Amate as a Case Study
Committee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc
Lauren L. Tesoro (Summer 2021)
Between Futurist Fashion and Avant-Garde Haute Couture: Relationships Between Body and Environment
Committee Chair: Johannes Endres
Jennifer Vanegas Rocha (Summer 2021)
Locating Immigrant Experiences in U.S. Art Institutions
Committee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc
Completed 2019-2020
Zoe Appleby (Spring 2020)
From impietas insana to dulcissima pictura: A Historical Analysis of Augustine of Hippo’s Writings on Visual Art
Committee Chair: Conrad Rudolph
H.C. Arnold (Spring 2020)
Action Required: Michael Brewster and Sound as Sculpture
Committee Chair: Liz Kotz
Savannah Dearhamer (Spring 2020)
The Corpse Ballet: Existentialism in Madame d’Ora’s Slaughterhouse Photographs
Committee Chair: Susan Laxton
Timothy Lithgow (Fall 2019)
Seeing and Then Seeing Again: Empathy, Mood and the Artistic Milieu of New Orleans’ Storyville and French Quarter as Manifest by the Photographs and Lives of E.J. Bellocq and George Valentine Dureau
Committee Chair: Liz Kotz
Daniel Powazek (Spring 2020)
International Projects with a Local Emphasis: Collecting and Representing Saxon Identity in the Dresden Kunstkammer and Princely Monuments in Freiberg Cathedral
Committee Chair: Kristoffer Neville
Completed 2018-2019
Heather Casseday (Summer 2019)
“Worthy to be Gifts”: A Microhistory of Haudenosaunee Moccasins at the Historic Northampton Museum
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Shannon Dailey (Spring 2019)
Framing Guinevere: Gender, Nation, and Myth-Making in Jessie M. King’s Illustrations of The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
Committee Chair: Johannes Endres
Hanna Lee (Spring 2019)
Caught in the Act: Korean Experimental Performance of the 1960s and the 1970s
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Angela Lessing (Spring 2019)
Mitos, Musas Muxe, y Mujeres Zapotecas: Illuminating Magnolia
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Rebecca Manness (Fall 2018)
The White Woman’s Indian: Laura Gilpin in the American Southwest
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Completed 2017-2018
Lily Allen (Spring 2018)
Eternal Sunlight” of 1909: Examining the Appeal of Joaquín Sorolla’s First U.S. Exhibition
Committee Chair: Jason Weems
Daniel Medina (Summer 2018)
John Heartfield and the Memory-Image
Committee Chair: Susan Laxton
Completed 2016-2017
Robin Hextrum (Spring 2017)
The Return of The Academy: The 21st Century Classical Realist Movement & its Use of Pastiche
Committee: Susan Laxton, Johannes Endres, J.P. Park
Karlyn Olvido (Spring 2017)
Reenactment, Reconstruction, Recovery: Nineteenth-Century Photographs in the History of Surgery
Committee: Susan Laxton, Liz Kotz, Mazie Harris
Sara Rowe (Spring 2017)
Challenging Authority & Authenticity: How Native Humor Can be Used as Institutional Critique
Committee: Susan Laxton, Jason Weems, Patricia Morton
Elaine Wilson (Spring 2017)
The Via Crucis Paintings within the California Missions
Committee: Kristoffer Neville, Aleca Le Blanc, Conrad Rudolph
Completed 2015-2016
Melissa Wolf (Fall 2015)
From Steamboats to Snow White: How the Mickey Mouse Short Films Between 1928 and 1934 resulted in a Shift from an Abstract to a Naturalistic Animation Style in the Disney Studios
Committee: Jason Weems (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Catherine Gudis (History)
Kelly Filreis (Spring 2016)
Picturing Process: Lynda Benglis’ Cantilevered Pours
Committee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems
Sara Greenberg (Spring 2016)
Two Sides of the Same Street: Depression-Era Photography of Central Park and Fifth Avenue
Committee: Patricia Morton (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems
Reva Main (Spring 2016)
Eggleston, Christenberry, Divola: Color Photography Beyond the New York Reception
Committee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Elizabeth Kotz
Diana Navarrete (Spring 2016)
The End of Things: Reading Exegetical Apocalypticism in the Prefatory Miniatures of Private Female Ottonian Manuscripts
Committee: Conrad Rudolph (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Kristoffer Neville
Victoria Taormina (Spring 2016)
Collaborative Bodies in Action: Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. Respondez S’il Vous Plait (1977/2003)
Committee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Jason Weems, and Jayna Brown (Ethnic Studies)
Juliann Walker (Spring 2016)
Carlo Fontana and the Origins of the Architectural Monograph
Committee: Kristoffer Neville (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Conrad Rudolph
Completed 2014-2015
Leslie Paprocki (Fall 2014)
Rush and Wait: Airports, Seriality, and Undecidability in the Work of Garry Winogrand
Committee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz
Mateusz Ferens (Spring 2015)
Dionysius of Fourna: Artistic Identity Through Visual Rhetoric
Committee: Conrad Rulolph (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Kristoffer Neville
Theresa Knopp (Spring 2015)
Facing Independence: Portraiture and the Figuring of Nationalism in the Work of Jose Gil de Castro
Committee: Aleca Le Blanc (Chair), Malcolm Baker, and Jason Weems
Ashley Medina (Spring 2015)
Melchiorre Cafa and Camillo Pamphilj: The Art of Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Rome
Committee: Kristoffer Neville (Chair), Malcolm Baker, Jeanette Kohl
Cyle Metzger (Spring 2015)
Queer Phenomenology in Sarah Oppenheimer’s W-120301
Committee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Jason Weems, and Jack Halberstam (USC)
Sandra Schmitz (Spring 2015)
Saving Carnegie Hall: A Case Study of Historic Preservation in Postwar New York City
Committee: Patricia Morton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Catherine Gudis (History)
Rachel Zimmermann (Spring 2015)
Addresses To/Through/Within a Public Sphere: Politics and Performativity in Contemporary Photo-Works
Committee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Judith Rodenbeck (Media Cultural Studies)
Astara Light (Summer 2015)
The Power of “Visual Movement:” Re-shaping and Re-affirming Religious Practices in Modern Balinese Paintings
Committee: Jeanette Kohl (Chair), Jong Phil Park, Christina Schwenkel (Anthropology), and Maria See (Media Cultural Studies)
Completed 2013-2014
Andrew Turner (Fall 2013)
Sex, Myth, and Metaphor in Moche Pottery
Committee: Jason Weems (chair), Karl Taube (Anthropology), Jeanette Kohl and Stella Nair (UCLA)
Fernando Ramirez (Fall 2013)
Object and Image in the Work of Jack Goldstein
Committee: Elizabeth Kotz (chair), Susan Laxton and Jason Weems
Ana Ramey (Spring 2014)
Portrait Paradox: Complicating Identity in Catherine Opie’s “Being and Having”
Committee: Elizabeth Kotz (chair), Susan Laxton and Jeanette Kohl
Margaret Wallace (Spring 2014)
George Bellows Paints California: A Summer Escape Out West
Committee: Jason Weems (chair), Susan Laxton and Jessica Smith (Chief Curator of American Art, The Huntington)
Edgar Ramirez (Spring 2014)
The Canterbury Roll: A Viewer’s Guide of the Twelve Typological Windows at Canterbury Cathedral
Committee: Conrad Rudolph (chair), Jason Weems and Jeanette Kohl
Amy Whitacre (Summer 2014)
Proposed: The Warriors of Tula: Iconography, Identity, and the Sculpted Body in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Committee: Jason Weems (chair), Jeanette Kohl, Karl Taube (Anthropology) and Stella Nair (UCLA)
Brooke Devenney (Summer 2014)
Gregory Ain: Challenging the Anonymity of the Utopian Ideal in Planned Housing Communities, 1939-1948
Committee: Patricia Morton (chair), Jason Weems and Kristoffer Neville
Chelsea Herr (Summer 2014)
Proposed: The Native American as Commodity: The Visual Production of Native Students at Sherman Institute, 1930-1947
Committee: Jason Weems (chair), Susan Laxton, and Clifford Trafzer (History)
Jessica Orzulak (Summer 2014)
Proposed: Picturing Soldaduras: Images of Female Revolutionaries in the 1910 Mexican Revolution
Committee: Jason Weems (chair), Elizabeth Kotz and Freya Schiwy (Hispanic Studies)
Leslie Paprocki (Fall 2014)
Proposed: Rush and Wait: Airports, Seriality, and Undecidability in the Work of Garry Winogrand
Committee: Susan Laxton (chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz
Kaelyn Rodriguez (Summer 2014)
Authorship and Memory in Judy Baca’s Murals
Committee: Susan Laxton (chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz
Completed 2012-2013
Betty Schlothan (Spring 2013)
Intriguing Relationships: An Exploration of Early Modern German Prints of Relic Displays and Reliquaries
Committee: Jeanette Kohl (Chair), Conrad Rudolph, and Blair Davis
Michaeline Anderson (Summer 2013)
Robert Adams and the Mythology of the Landscape of the American West
Committee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Elizabeth Kotz, Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems
Elizabeth Franks (Summer 2013)
Capturing Motion: A Catalog Raisonne of the Photomontage Works of Barbara Morgan 1935-1980
Committee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Elizabeth Kotz, and Patricia Morton
Completed 2011-2012
Avivi, Adele
Between Dada and Architecture: Marcel Janco in Zurich and Bucharest, 1916-1939
Chair: Susan Laxton, Patricia Morton and Eva Forgacs
Garcia, Dominique
Materials of the Sacred: 16th to 18th Century Religious Materiality in Michoacan
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, Kristoffer Neville and Jennifer Hughes
Goetting, Carol
Guarino Guarini: His Architecture and the Sublime
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl and Conrad Rudolph
Gomez, Gabriela Rodriguez
Re-Conceptualizing Social Medicine in Diego Rivera’s History of Medicine in Mexico: The People’s Demand for Better Health Mural, Mexico City, 1953.
Chair: Jason Weems, Elizabeth Kotz and Karl Taube
Machado, Erin
Imagining Chivalry: Charles V’s Suits of Steel
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA)
Owen, Caroline
Allan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor
Chair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Freya Schiwy
Peltakian, Danielle
Demonstrating Modernism: Richard Neutra’s Early Model Houses
Chair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Catherine Gudis
Pfahler, Zachary
Robert Heinecken’s TV/Time Environment
Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Catherine Gudis
Rotfeld, Masha
The Fantasy and Fear of Chernobyl’s Ruins
Chair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton and Liz Kotz
Williams, Sarah
A Language of Rebuilt Reality: The Photography of Robert Cumming in the 1970s
Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Erika Suderburg
Wolfe, Harmony
Landscapes of Dance: the 1960 Summer Workshop of Anna Halprin
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, and Jacqueline Murphy
Completed 2010-2011
Cho, Younhee
The Relationship Between Architecture and Sculpture of St. Paul’s, London
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and Jeanette Kohl
Corey, Mary
Salvador Dali’s Bacchanale: A “Paranoiac” Ballet
Chair: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Susan Laxton and Jason Weems
Hampton, Steve
Bad Painting and Kitsch
Chair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Elizabeth Kotz
Osenbaugh, Elizabeth
Replacing the Icon: Seventeenth-Century Tomb Monuments for Dutch Naval Heroes by Rombout Verhulst
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker and Jeanette Kohl
Ridel, Amanda-Nicole
Modification of Market: John Smith and the Mezzotint Print in Eighteenth-Century England
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and George Haggerty
Siegfried, Laura
The Art of Seeing in Perspective: How Medieval Optical Science Transformed into Renaissance Painting
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Conrad Rudolph
Vasiliou, Tia
The Power of Suggestiveness: Sadakichi Hartmann, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and American Modernism
Chair: Jason Weems, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Jessica Smith (The Huntington)
Wilder, Courtney
Staging Display in the Sculptural Work of Yinka Shonibare MBE
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Elizabeth Kotz and Jeanette Kohl
Completed 2009-2010
Blythe, Megan
The Meisterhauser and Director’s House at the Dessau, Bauhaus: Experiments in Factory-Made Homes
Chair: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Patricia Morton, Elizabeth Kotz
Brocka, Melinda
Thinking Inside the Square: Contemporary Monumentality, Site Specificity and Trafalgar Square’s Empty Fourth Plinth
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Jason Weems, Malcolm Baker
Dickey, Caitlin
The Development of the First Public Opera Houses: the Demands, the Form, and the First Scenographic Engineer
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker, Rogerio Budasz
Sadoyan, Lilit
Collecting at Court and Beyond: The Dissemination and Display of Girardon’s Sculptural Groups
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville, Catherine Hess
Spear, Elizabeth
History on Stage: Looking Back at “The West as America”
Chair: Jason Weems, Stella Nair, Françoise Forster-Hahn
Thoreson, Natasha
Stitching the Divide: Mary Morris, Gender, and the Amateur in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and the United States
Chair: Jason Weems, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Malcolm Baker
Completed 2008-2009
Entwistle, Conley Wayne
Le Train a-t-il quitte la gare? Hybrid Modernities at the Muse d’Orsay
Chair: Patricia Morton, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Elizabeth Kotz
Johnson, Julianne
Constructing an Identity for Artist and City: An analysis of the Trans-Atlantic Career of Mateo Perez de Alesio
Chair: Stella Nair, Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl, Jason Weems
Millard, Robert
Compassion and Convention: A Study of Piero di Cosimo’s Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville, Conrad Rudolph
Park, Alice
The Doni, Raphael and Michelangelo – Patrons and Purveyors of Domestic Art
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Dale Kent, Jeanette Kohl
Picano, Bruce
Constructing Identities: Race, Gender and Class in the Photography of Martin Chambi
Chair: Stella Nair, Jason Weems, Jonathan Ritter
Yang, Hsiao-Chi
Reading Fashion, Reading Taiwan: The New Period of Taiwan in the 1990s
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Heidi Brevik-Zender
Completed 2007-2008
Barron, Jennifer Adair
Chimu Feather Imagery: The Mercantile Shift Symbolized
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube and Carol Mackey
Gomez-Adams, Rosalva
Creating Identity in New Spain: Translation in the Biombo “El Encuentro de Cortes y Moctezuma”
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, and Monica Dominguez Torres
Hickey, Benjamin
The Aesthetics of Trying
Chair: Pat Morton, Françoise Forster-Hahn and Liz Kotz
Huh, Jee Woon
De la vision a la realite: Devotional Images of Three Female Patrons at Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Burgundian Court
Chair: Kris Neville, Dale Kent, and Conrad Rudolph
Peng, Min
Fluid Bridge: The Cultural Identity of the Overseas Chinese Artist, Huang Yong Ping
Chair: Liz Kotz, Ginger Hsu, and Pat Morton
Popp, Lauren Diane
Beyond the White Cube: Ideology of the Alternative Museum
Chair: Liz Kotz, Françoise Forster-Hahn and Pat Morton
(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