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2009

Austen Bailly
Painting the American Historical Epic: Thomas Hart Benton and Race, 1919-1936
Faculty Chair: Robertson

Carlos Roberto Desouza
The Law of the Heart: Geneaology, Narrative and Audience of a Minor Genre: The Argentinean Fotonovela
Faculty Chair: Keller

Blair H. Davis
The Roman Drawings of Charles Percier
Faculty Chair: Williams

Sarah Thompson
Inventing 'Gothic': Notre-Dame d'Etampes and the Impact of Design Process on architectural change in the Ile-de-France, 1120-1150
Faculty Chair: Armi

2008

Paul Anderson
Roman wooden Church Ceilings: The Collaboration of Artists and Monumental commissions in Renaissance and Baroque Rome
Faculty Chair: Williams   

Antoniette Guglielmo
Workbench of American Taste: Richard F. Bach, Industrial Art, and Consumerism at the Metropolitian Museum of Art, 1917-1940
Faculty Chair: Robertson          

2007

Amy Buono
Feathered Identities and Plumed Performances: Tupinamba Interculture in Early Modern Brazil and Europe
Faculty Chair: Peterson
 

Lucia Ricciardelli
Who is the Artitst?: The Politics of Photomechanical Representation & Historical Narration in Contemporary Documentary Practice.
Faculty Chair: Solomon-Godeau and Gardner

Carolyn Smith Older
American Artists' Frames: Paintings, Environments, and Viewers 1860-1920.
Faculty Chair: Robertson                               

Amara Solari
Maya Spatial Biographies in Communal Memory and Cosmic Time: The Franciscan Evangelical Campaign of Itzmal, Yukatan
Faculty Chair: Peterson

2006

Stephanie Schrader
Jan Gossaert's Art of Imitation: Fashioning Identity at the Burgundian Court
Faculty Chair: Meadow

Lynette Korenic
The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination
Faculty Chair: Robertson
   
Chak-Kwong Lau
Ding Jing (1695-1765) -- Art, Hangzhou, and the Foundation of the Xiling Identity
Faculty Chair: Sturman

Shi-Pu Wang
Becoming American ? Asian Identity Negotiated Through the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Faculty Chair: Monahan

Jessica Robey
From the City Witnessed to the Community Dreamed: The Civitates Orbis Terrarum and the Circle of Abraham Ortelius and Joris Hoefnagel
Faculty Chair: Meadow

Elizabeth K. Mitchell
Mechanical Reproduction and the Mechanical Philosophy: The Idea of Originality in Eithteenth-Century British Printmaking
Faculty Chair: Bermingham

2005

Cody Hartley
Art in an Arid Climate: The Museum of New Mexico and the Cultivation of the Arts in Santa Fe
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Kevin Murphy
Economics of Style: The Business Practices of American Artists and the Structure of the Market, 1850—1910
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
Narrative Performance and Devotional Experience in the Art of Hans Memling
Faculty Chair: Meadow

Cynthia Canejo
Transforming Early Gothic Form: The Cistercian Church of Pontigny, Saint-Martin at Chablis, and Northern Burgundian Architecture
Faculty Chair: Armi
          
Emily Peters
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 Chair: Meadow

Melinda McCurdy
History and Human Experience in the Art of David Wilkie, 1806—1835
Faculty Chair: Bermingham
     
Lynn Horiuchi
Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Environments of Japanese American Internment
Faculty Chair: Robertson

2004

Joy Kunz
Bodies of Work: New York School Abstract Expressionists' Images of Men and Women, 1940—1960
Faculty Chair: Robertson

William Stern
Being Queer, Seeing Queer: A Gay Body of Work
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Eric Lutz
The Architect's Eye: R.M. Schindler and his Photography
Faculty Chair: Keller

John R. Decker
The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans: Manifestations of Soteriology in Material Culture
Faculty Chair: Meadow

2003

Della Jenkins
Nineteenth Century Loango Coast Ivories
Faculty Chair: Cole
     
Denise Baxter
Fashions of Sociability in Jean-Francois de Troy's "tableaux de mode", 1720—1740
Faculty Chair: Bermingham

Jeffrey D. Garner
The Fine Arts and Hollywood Visual culture: Art Practices and Artistic Identity in The California Southland of The 1930's
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Michelle Duran-McLure
Style, Ideology & Identity: Issues of Patronage and Courtly Culture in the Work of Simone Martini
Faculty Chair: Ayres

Holly Unruh
A Pilgrimage of the Eyes: Sacred Topography in Black and White
Faculty Chair: Robertson

2002

Elizabeth J. Hornbeck
Visions of Modernity: The Architectural Landscape of the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts, Paris
Faculty Chair: Monahan

Marguerite A. Keane
Remembering Louis IX as a Family Saint: The Art Patronage of Jeanne, Blanche, and Marie of Navare
Faculty Chair: Ayres

Cathleen M. Paquette
Mexican Art of New York's Museum of Modern Art: 1929-1954
Faculty Chair: Monahan
     
John R. Senseney
The Shaping of Imperial Order: Rome's Porticoed Enclosures from the Late Republic to the High Principate and the Question of Hellenistic Antecedents
Faculty Chair: Yegül
     
Claude Baillargeon
Religious Fervor and Photographic Propaganda: Dvandelle's Anatohical Studies of the Sacre-Coeur de Monthartre
Faculty Chair: Keller

2001

Kristin M. O'Rourke
Liberty, Fraternity, Genius: Eugene Delacroix and the Making of the Modern Artist 1822—1832
Faculty Chair: Bermingham

Cristina M. Carbone
Building Propaganda: Architecture of the American National Exhibition in Moscow of 1959
Faculty Chair: Robertson

C. Olson Vibeke
The Ornamental Colonnettes of the Royal Portal of Charters: Architecture and Sculpture in the Context of Design and Labor
Faculty Chair: Armi

Carol L. Magee
Re-Presenting Africa: American Displays of African Visual Culture in the 1990's
Faculty Chair: Cole

2000

Robin M. Wyshak
Italian Bronze Doorknockers: Mainly Renaissance. A Study in Functional Sculpture
Faculty Chair: Meller

Sarah C. Parsons
In the Service of Sympathy: Fine and Satirical Prints of the British Abolition Campaign
Faculty Chair: Bermingham
     
Brian D. Parshall
Tourbillon: Myth, Cosmology, Pataphysics
Faculty Chair: Solomon-Godeau

Todd L. Larkin
Marie Antoinette and Her Portraits: The Politics of Queenly Self-Imaging in Late 18th Century France
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Judith L. Pearson
California Chicano Collectives and the Development of a Liberatory Artistic Praxis
Faculty Chair: Bermingham                                

Pamela L. Post
East Meets West: The Model Homes Exhibits at the 1939—1940 New York and San Francisco World's Fairs
Faculty Chair: Yegül
     
Karen A. Hilson
The Reputation of Eugene Delacroix and the Modernist Ethos
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan

1999

Benjamin G. Hufbauer
The Father in the Temple: Memory and Masculinity in Presidential Commemoration
Faculty Chair: Keller

Richard D. Serros
The Verrocchio Workshop: Techniques, Production and Influences
Faculty Chair: Meller

1998

Jane A. Dini
Public Bodies: Form and Identity in the Work of John Singer Sargent
Faculty Chair: Robertson
     
Bret L. Rothstein
On the Order of Seeing in the Burgundian Netherlands (Rogier Van Der Weyden, Jan Van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Flemish, Painting, Fifteenth Century)
Faculty Chair: Meadow
     
Andrew A. Doerr
Jean Tinguely: Technology and Identity in Postwar Art, 1953-1970 (Switzerland, Sculpture)

1997

Michael Darling
Ambient Modernism: The Domestic Furniture Design of the George Nelson Office, 1944—1963
Faculty Chair: Armi
     
Charles Sturm Buchanan
A Late Eleventh-Century Illustrated Hagiographic Lectionary from Lucca (Biblioteca Capitolare, Passionario C): Expression of Ecclesiastical Reform
Faculty Chair: Ayres
    
Virginia DaCosta
Funerary Portraiture and Symbolism: The Depiction of Women in Roman Asia Minor
Faculty Chair: Yegül

1996

Thomas LeRoy Larson
Gaan/Gahe: The Art and Performance of the Apache Mountain Spirit Dancers
Faculty Chair: Cole
    
Diane Grinkevich Kane
Westlake and Irvine, California: Paradigms for the 21st Century?
Faculty Chair: Yegül
    
Charlene G. Garfinkle
Women at Work: The Design and Decoration of the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—Architecture, Exterior Sculpture, Stained Glass, and Interior Murals
Faculty Chair: Walker
    
Dorothy Bess Reed
Engendered Spirits: Politics and Performance in an Urban Masquerade Festival in Nigeria
Faculty Chair: Cole

1995

Barbara Vilander
The Hoover Dam Photographs of Ben Glaha Completed under the Auspices of the Bureau of Reclamation
Faculty Chair: Keller

Andrea Pearson
Gender, Image, and Ideals at the Cistercian Convent Of Flines, 1500—1575
Faculty Chair: Williams
     
Alan Langdale
Art History and Intellectual History: Michael Baxandall's Work between 1963 and 1985
Faculty Chair: William

1994

Soo Yun Kang
The Iconography of Georges Rouault
Faculty Chair: Robertson

Naomi Sawelson-Gorse
Marcel Duchamps's 'silent guard': A Critical Study of Louise and Walter Arensberg
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan
     
Christine Buckingham-Rolland
Louis-Michel Van Loo (1707—1771), Member of a Dynasty of Painters
Faculty Chair: Robertson

1993
    
Michael Norris
Early Gothic Illuminated Bibles at Bologna: the "Prima Maniera" Phase, 1250—1274
Faculty Chair: Ayres

Stephen Michael Bailey
Carracci Landscape Studies: The Drawings Related to the Recueil de 283 Estampes de Jabach
Faculty Chair: Moir
     
Jeanne Willette
The Archaeology of "Le Cubisme"
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan      

1992

Barbara Rand
The Art of Everett Shinn
Faculty Chair: Walker

Ann Lenard
19th Century European Paintings in the Collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan

Lauren Bricker
The Contributions of Fiske Kimball and Talbot Faulkner Hamlin to the Study of American Architectural History
Faculty Chair: Gebhard

Katherine McIver
Music in Italian Renaissance Painting, 1480—1580: A Study in Iconology
Faculty Chair: Meller
     
Maximiliaan Martens
Artistic Patronage in Bruges Institutions, ca. 1440—1482
Faculty Chair: Moir

1991

Gary Sampson
Samuel Bourne and 19th Century Bristish Landscape Photography in India
Faculty Chair: Keller
     
1990

Roxanne Robbin
Ottacio Leoni and Early Roman Baroque Portraiture
Faculty Chair: Moir
     
Roger Chandler
United States Domestic Architectural Marketing: History and Methods, 1909—1987
Faculty Chair: Gebhard

1989

Oscar Vazquez
Recalling the Golden Age: Collections and Taste in Madrid, 1833—1868
Faculty Chair: Dorra

Robin Ptacek
Bisson freres: Two Pioneers of Photography
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan
     
Jeanne Hokin
Pinnacles and Pyramids: Marsden Hartley's " Mountain Madness" An Iconographic Study
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan                            

1988
                            
Sandra Knudsen
The Portraits of Constantine the Great Types and Chronology, A.D. 306—337
Faculty Chair: Yegül                                

Glenn Willumson
W. Eugene Smith: A Critical Analysis of Four Photographic Essays
Faculty Chair: Keller
     
Jeanne LaBarbera
Studies on Female Etruscan Terracotta Votive Heads
Faculty Chair: Del Chiaro
     
Hans Van Miegroet
Gerard David: Patronage and Artistic Preeminence at Bruges
Faculty Chair: Wallen

1987

Joseph Lamb
Lions in Their Dens: Lord Leighton and late Victorian Studio Life
Faculty Chair: Walker
     
Leslie Ross
Anglo-Norman Hagiographic Illustration at Canterbury in the Early Romanesque Period
Faculty Chair: Ayres

Gayle Marie Seymour
The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840—1905)
Faculty Chair: Dorra
     
1986
                            
Gavin Townsend
The Tudor House in America: 1890—1930
Faculty Chair: Gebhard
     
1985

Lynda Joy Sperling
Northern European Links to Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting
Faculty Chair: Walker

1984

Faya Frel
Studies on Greek, Etruscan, and Italic Carved Ambers
Faculty Chair: Del Chiaro
     
Janice Lyle
Dante in British Art: 1770—1830
Faculty Chair: Walker
     
Anne Edgerton
John D. Graham: 1886—1961
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan

Puran Khalsa
Thomas Nast and Harper's Weekly: 1862—1886
Faculty Chair: Walker

1983
                            
Mary Lynn Zink
Gauguin's Polynesian Pantheon as a Visual Language
Faculty Chair: Dorra
     
Monica Visona
Art and Authority Among the Akye of the Ivory Coast
Faculty Chair: Cole
    
1982
                     
Lynn Orr
Classical Elements in the Paintings of Caravaggio
Faculty Chair: Moir
     
Bruce Davis
The Drawings of Ciro Ferri
Faculty Chair: Moir
     
Eva Raun 
Eliel Saarinen in Finland: 1897—1923
Faculty Chair: Gebhard

1981
                            
Melinda Lorenz
The Work and Writing of George L.K. Morris
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan
     
1980

Stephen Polcari
The Intellectual Roots of Abstract Expressionism
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan

Selma Holo
Goya's La Tauromaquia: Another Interpretation
Faculty Chair: Walker

1978
                            
Patricia Crane
Aowin Terracota Sculpture in Ghana
Faculty Chair: Cole

1977
                            
Nils Walter Ramstedt
The Photographs of Gustave Le Gray
Faculty Chair: Farwell Duncan

1972
                            
Hope Benedict Werness
Essays on Von Gogh's Symbolism
Faculty Chair: Dorra