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recent Ph.D's
2007
Carolyn Smith Older
Dissertation title:American Artists' Frames: Paintings, Environments, and Viewers 1860-1920
Faculty Advisor: Robertson
Amara Solari
Dissertation title:Maya Spatial Biographies in Communal Memory and Cosmic Time: The Franciscan Evangelical Campaign of Itzmal, Yukatan
Faculty Advisor: Peterson
2006
Stephanie Schrader
Dissertation title: Jan Gossaert's Art of Imitation: Fashioning Identity at the Burgundian Court
Faculty Advisor: Meadow
Lynette Korenic
Dissertation title: The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination
Faculty Advisor: Robertson
Current employment: Art Librarian, Univ. of Wisconsin
Chak-Kwong Lau
Dissertation title: Ding Jing (1695-1765) : Art, Hangzhou, and the Foundation of the Xiling Identity
Faculty Advisor: Sturman
Current employment: Ass't Professor, Univ. of Hong Kong
Shi-Pu Wang
Dissertation title:Becoming American ? Asian Identity Negotiated Through the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Faculty Advisor: Monahan
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Univ. of Calif. Merced
Jessica Robey
Dissertation title:From the City Witnessed to the Community Dreamed: The Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Circle of Abraham Ortelius and Joris Hoefnagel
Faculty Advisor: Meadow
Elizabeth K. Mitchell
Dissertation title:Mechanical Reproduction and the Mechanical Philosophy: The Idea of Originality in Eithteenth-Century British Printmaking
Faculty Advisor: Bermingham
2005
alison fraunhar
Dissertation title: Re-visioning the Mulata in Cuban Visual Culture, 1880-2000
Faculty Advisor: Swati Chattopadhyay
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, St. Xavier University, Chicago
lynn horiuchi
Dissertation title: Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Environments
of Japanese American Internment
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
Current employment: Adjunct lecturer, University of California Santa Cruz
kevin m. murphy
Dissertation topic: Economics of Style: The Business Practices of American
Artists and the Structure of the Market, 1850-1910.
Faculty advisor: Bruce Robertson
Publications:
2002, “Painting for Money: Winslow Homer as Entrepreneur,” Winterthur
Portfolio 37, nos. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn).
Current Employment: Bradford and Christine Mishler Curatorial Fellow in American Art, The Huntington Art Collections.
melinda mccurdy
Dissertation title: History and Human Experience in the Art of David Wilkie,
1806-1835
Faculty Advisor: Ann Bermingham
Current employment: Ass’t Curator, British Art, Huntington Museum
California
mitzi kirkland-ives
Dissertation title: Narrative Performance and Devotional Experience in
the Art of Hans Memling
Faculty advisor: Mark Meadow
Publications:
“Virtue & Vice: the personifications in the Index of Christian
Art” (book review), Visual Resources— An International Journal
of Documentation Vol. XVII, No. 2, 2001
Current Employment: University of British Columbia
emily peters
Dissertation title: ‘Den gheheelen loop des weerelts’ (The
whole course of the world): Printed Processions and the Theater of Identity
in Antwerp during the Dutch Revolt.
Faculty advisor: Mark A. Meadow
Publications:
1998, “1549 Knight's Game at Binche: Constructing Philip II's Ideal
Identity in a Ritual of Honor,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch
Jaarboek;
v49, 11-35.
Forthcoming, “Ommegang and Image: Performing Print during the Dutch
Revolt,” Papers from the 12th Interdisciplinary
Conference on Netherlandic Studies, held at the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, 3-6 June, 2004,
Jenneke Oosterhoff, ed., Publications of the American
Association for Netherlandic Studies, Münster: Nodus Publikationen.
Current Employment: Ass’t Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
jessica robey
Dissertation title: From the City Witnessed to the Community Dreamed: The
Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Circle of Abraham Ortelius and Joris
Hoefnagel.
Faculty advisor: Mark Meadow
Publications:
2003, “Appetite for Destruction: Public Iconography and the Artificial
Ruins of SITE, Inc.,” Invisible
Cultures (September).
1994, Book review: "Motion and Document,
James L. Sheldon and Jock Reynolds; Art of the Electronic Age, Frank Popper." Camerawork, vol.
21, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 37-38.
1991, “Beyond Belief,” catalogue text for exhibition Beyond
Belief (San Francisco Camerawork, July 9-Aug. 16).
1989, Book review: "Fragments for a History of
the Human Body, Michel
Feher, ed." SF Camerawork Quarterly,
vol. 16, nos. 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall):
54.
1988, Book review: "To the Promised Land,
Ken Light; Merci
Gonaives, Danny Lyon; Exiles, Josef Koudelka." SF
Camerawork Quarterly, vol.
15, no. 4 (Winter): 28-29.
Current Employment: Lecturer, Brooks Institute of Photography.
cynthia canejo
Dissertation title: Transforming Early Gothic Form: The Cistercian Church
of Pontigny, Saint-Martin at Chablis, and Northern Burgundian Architecture
Faculty Advisor: Edson Armi
Current employment: Lecturer, University of California Santa Barbara, Summer
session
Ass’t professor, California Polytechnic, Pomona, CA
sarah thompson (expected
to file in 2006)
Dissertation title: The Idea of Gothic at Saint-Denis: Medieval Design
Process and the Impetus for Architectural Change in 12th century Ile
de France
Faculty Advisor: Edson Armi
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Art
2004
john r. decker
Dissertation title: The Technology of Salvation and
the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans: Manifestations of Soteriology in Material
Culture
Faculty Advisor: Mark Meadows
Current employment: Lecturer, University of Illinois, Carbondale
eric lutz
Dissertation title: The Architect's Eye: R. M. Schindler
and his Photography
Faculty Advisor: Ulrich Keller
Current employment: Curator of Photography, St. Louis Art Museum
william stern
Dissertation title: Being Queer, Seeing Queer: A Gay
Body of Work
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
Current employment: Executive Director of Positive Being, a San Francisco-based non-profit
joy kunz
Dissertation title: Bodies of Work: New York School
Abstract Expressionists' Images of Men and Women, 1940-1960
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
Current employment: Westmont college
2003
holly unruh
Dissertation title: A Pilgrimage of the Eyes: Sacred
Topography in Black and White
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
Current employment: Research analyst, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center,
UCSB
Michelle duran-mclure
Dissertation title: Style, Ideology & Identity:
Issues of Patronage and Courtly Culture in the Work of Simone Martini
Faculty Advisor: Larry Ayres
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, University of Montevallo, Alabama
jeffrey d. garner
Dissertation title: The Fine Arts and Hollywood Visual
culture: Art Practices and Artistic Identity in The California Southland
of The 1930's
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
denise baxter
Dissertation title: Fashions of Sociability in Jean-Francois
de Troy's "tableaux de mode", 1720-1740
Faculty Advisor: Ann Bermingham
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Northern Texas University, Dallas
della jenkins
Dissertation title: Nineteenth-century Loango Coast
Ivories
Faculty Advisor: Herbert Cole
Current employment: Teacher, June Lake High School, California
2002
claude baillargeon
Dissertation title: Religious Fervor and Photographic
Propaganda: Dvandelle's Anatomical Studies of the Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre
Faculty Advisor: Ulrich Keller
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Oakland Univ., Detroit
john r. senseney
Dissertation title: The Shaping of Imperial Order:
Rome's Porticoed Enclosures from the Late Republic to the High Principate
and the Question of Hellenistic Antecedents
Faculty Advisor: Fikret Yegul
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Northern Illinois University,
Chicago
cathleen m. paquette
Dissertation title: Mexican Art of New York's Museum
of Modern Art: 1929-1954
Faculty Advisor: Laurie Monahan
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Cal State University, Long Beach
marguerite a. keane
Dissertation title: Remembering Louis IX as a Family
Saint: The Art Patronage of Jeanne, Blanche, and Marie of Navare
Faculty Advisor: Larry Ayres
Current employment: Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
elizabeth j. hornbeck
Dissertation title: Visions of Modernity: The Architectural
Landscape of the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts, Paris
Faculty Advisor: Laurie Monahan
2001
carol l. magee
Dissertation title: Re-Presenting Africa: American
Displays of African Visual Culture in the 1990's
Faculty Advisor: Herbert Cole
vikebe c. olson
Dissertation title: The Ornamental Colonnettes of
the Royal Portal of Charters: Architecture and Sculpture in the Context
of Design and Labor
Faculty Advisor: Edson Armi
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
cristina m. carbone
Dissertation title: Building Propaganda: Architecture
of the American National Exhibition in Moscow of 1959
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Robertson
Current employment: Ass’t Professor, Univ. of Kentucky, Louisville
kristin m. o'rourke
Dissertation title: Liberty, Fraternity, Genius: Eugene
Delacroix and the Making of the Modern Artist 1822-1832
Faculty Advisor: Ann Bermingham
