UC Santa Barbara History of Art and Architecture
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current graduate students

 
           
           

 

 
       

jessica ambler

     

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

 

 

 
       

christine bolli

     

chris333@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Edson Armi
Dissertation topic:

 

 

 
       

amy buono

     

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

 

 

 
       

mahlon w.l. chute

     

lapis@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: United States Architecture and Urban Planning; Critical Theory
Faculty advisor: Swati Chattopadhyay

Dissertation title:

 

 

 
       

roberto de souza

     

cdesou00@umail.ucsb.edu

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.

 

 

 
       

abelina galustian

     

abelina_galustian@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration: Islamic Art and Architecture; Women's Studies.
Faculty advisor: Nuha Khoury

Dissertation topic:


 

 

 
   

julianne gavino

     

jpgavino@umail.ucsb.edu 
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Laurie Monahan and Bruce Robertson
Dissertation title:

 
   
       

ursula ginder

     

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

 

 

 
       

jennifer hammerschimdt

     

jen_hammerschmidt@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Mark Meadow
Dissertation title:

 

 

 
       

blair hixson-davis

     

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

Faculty Advisor: Ann Bermingham

Dissertation title:

 

 

 
       

katherine kaford

     

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

 

 

 
       

patricia lee

     

pgl@umail.ucsb.edu 
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Swati Chattopadhyay and Laurie Monahan
Dissertation title:

 
       
       

mary mcguire

     

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

 

 

 
       

jessica tade

     

utadej00@umail.ucsb.edu
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Edson Armi
Dissertation title:

 

 

 
       

helen taschian

     

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:

 
       
       

wencheng yan

     

wenchengyan@umail.ucsb.edu 
Area of concentration:
Faculty advisor: Peter Sturman and Swati Chattopadhyay
Dissertation title:

 
       
       

 

     


 

 

 
       
           

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