jessica_ambler@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Roman Architecture
Faculty advisor: Fikret
Yegul
Dissertation title:
elena
athwal
eiathwal@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:Modern Art & Architecture of the Arab World;
Urbanism; Postcolonial Theory
Faculty advisor: Nuha
Khoury
Dissertation title:
austen
bailly
austenbailly@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Art of the United States; Photography
Faculty advisor: Bruce
Robertson
Dissertation topic: Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) and Race
amybuono@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Pre-Columbian; Colonial Latin American
Faculty advisor: Jeanette
F. Peterson
Dissertation title: Plumed Identities & Feathered
Performances: Tupinambá Interculture in Early-Modern Europe &
Brazil
ellen
caldwell
ellencaldwell@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Modern and Contemporary West African Art and Media;
Postcolonial Theory
Faculty advisor: Laurie
Monahan
Dissertation title:
han-yun
chang
hychang@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: 20th-Century Chinese painting
Faculty advisor: Peter
Sturman
Dissertation title: He Tianjian (1891-1977) and Defense
of Guohua
Area of concentration: History of Photography
Faculty advisor: Ulrich
Keller
Dissertation topic: The law of heart: Narrative and
audience in the Latin American fotonovela.
emily
a. engel
emilyengel@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Pre-Columbian; Colonial Latin America
Faculty advisor: Jeanette
F. Peterson
Dissertation title: (tentative) Facing Boundaries:
Representation of Colonial
Identity in Limeño and Porteño Portraiture
brigit
ferguson
bgf@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Edson
Armi
Dissertation title:
matthew
fisk
mhfisk@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: 18th- and Early 19th-century American Art
Faculty advisor: Ann
Bermingham and
Bruce Robertson
Dissertation title:
george
flaherty
gflaherty@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Americas; Postcolonial
and Gender Theory
Faculty advisor: Swati
Chattopadhyay
Dissertation title:
christine
fritsch-hammes
christinef-h@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Art and Architecture of the Low Countries, 1500-1700
Faculty advisor: Ann
Jensen Adams
Dissertation topic: Public Architecture in Amsterdam
in the 17th century.
uginde00@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Bruce
Robertson
Dissertation title:
antoinette
gugliemo
amguglielmo@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: American Art; History of Collecting; Museums and
Display in the U.S., 1800-present
Faculty advisor: Bruce
Robertson
Dissertation title: Cultivating Consumption: Merchandising Strategies
in
Art Museums in the United States, 1870-1940
blair.h.davis@gmail.com
Area of concentration: 17th and 18th c. Architecture in Italy and France
Faculty advisors:
Carole Paul and
Robert Williams, co-chairs
Dissertation topic: The Roman Drawings of Charles Percier
catherine
newman howe
cnhowe@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: American Art
Faculty advisor:
Bruce Robertson
Dissertation title:
alejandro
huerta
aahuerta@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Volker
Welter
Dissertation title:
rachel
johnson
racheljohnson@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Northern Renaissance/16th c. Netherlandish
Faculty Advisor: Mark
A. Meadow
Dissertation title:
shauna
laurel jones
sjones@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Modern and contemporary Western art; aesthetics
of
landscape and nature; Icelandic art and culture
kkaford@gmail.com
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Volker
Welter
Dissertation title:
shailini
kakar
shalini@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Contemporary Indian art; Indian Cinema
Faculty advisor: Swati
Chattopadhyay
Dissertation title: Fashioning the Divine: Bollywood Stars, Museum Temples
and Cultural Politics in Contemporary India
steven
kendall
xkendall@yahoo.com
Area of concentration: 19th Century British Art
Faculty advisor: Ann
Bermingham
Dissertation title: Classicism and Modernity: Frederic
Leighton and the English Nude
andrea
korda
akorda@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Ann
Bermingham
Dissertation title:
francine
kubel
fkubel@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Italian Renaissance
Faculty advisor: Robert
Williams
Dissertation Title: Desire and Decorum in the Religious
Paintings of Alessandro Allori
samantha
lauren
slauren@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Medieval Islamic Art & Architecture
Faculty advisor: Nuha
Khoury
Dissertation title: Swahili Architecture: Aesthetics of Power in Muslim
East Africa
mmcguire@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Laurie
Monahan
Dissertation title:
michelle
packer
mvpacker@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: 17th century Dutch painting; 15th century Netherlandish
painting and tapestry
Faculty advisor: Ann
Jensen Adams
Dissertation topic: Imagery of the 17th century Dutch city
lindsey
pedersen
lindseyped@aol.com
Area of concentration: 19th Century British Art; Pre-Columbian art
Faculty advisor: Ann
Bermingham
Dissertation title: Re-Viewing India: Gender, Empire and 'Indian-ness'
in Visual Representations of the Sepoy Revolt, 1857 to 1900.
robert
pellegrini
rpell@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: roman architecture
Faculty advisor:
Fikret yegul
Dissertation title:
charles
m. peterson
cpeterson@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: 17th c. Dutch painting; Colonial Latin American
art
Faculty advisor:
Ann Jensen Adams
Dissertation title:
lucia
ricciardelli
luciaric@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Documentary Photography; Historiography; Postmodern
Theory
Faculty advisor:
Swati Chattopadhyay
Dissertation title: Visual Culture and the Crisis
of History: American Documentary Practice in the Postmodern Era
staci
gem scheiwiller
s-g-s@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Modern Iranian Art; Islamic Art
Faculty advisor: Nuha
Khoury
Dissertation topic: Contemporary Iranian photography
amara
solari
amara@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Colonial Mexico; pre-Columbian Art
Faculty advisor: Jeanette
F. Peterson
Dissertation title: Processing the Ancestral Past:
Intercultural Maya Identity and Catholic Ritual in early colonial Izamal,
Yucatán
taschian@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Robert
Williams
Dissertation title:
noa
turel
nturel@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Mark
Meadow
Dissertation title:
kelly
s. turner
kellysturner@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: 18th and 19th Century French Art; 17-19th French
Architectural Theory and History
Faculty advisor:
Ann Bermingham
Dissertation title: The spatial dynamic of subjectivity:
The interiors of late 18th c. French pleasure pavilions
katherine
wendell
kwendell@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Laurie
Monahan
Dissertation title:
moira west
moriaw00@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Laurie
Monahan
Dissertation title:
leslie-ann
woofter
lwoofter@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Jeanette
F. Peterson
Dissertation title: