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2008

Brigit Ferguson
The Viewer in the Screen: Emotion, Identification and Salvation in the West Choir Screen at Naumburg Cathedral
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi

Katherine Kaford
Politics of Good Design: The "Threat" to American Democracy
Faculty Chair: Volker Welter

Patricia Lee
"No More Chop Sewie for Me": African Americans, Chinese Immigrants, and Nativism in the United States c. 1850-1900
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson

Leslie-Ann Woofer
Mujer vestida de hombre: Tranvestism and Decoro in Francisco Pacheco's 1630 Portrait of Catalina de Drauso
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson

2007

Jessica Ambler
Sacred Soapbox: The Role of Templa Rostrata in the Julio-Claudian Period
Faculty Chair: Fikret Yegul

Christine Bolli
Provencal Masons and Cistercian Mythology: Senanque, Silvacane and Le Thoronet
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi

Abelina Galustian
Challenging Orientalist Representations: Houria Niati Reconfigures the Portrayal of Algerian Women 
Faculty Chair: Nuha Khoury

Shauna Jones
Iceland and the Environmental Sublime
Faculty Chair: Laaurie Monahan
                
2006

Ellen Caldwell
"Make Life Worth Living": Changing Images of Race, Modernity, and Masculinity in Alcohol Advertisements in Post-Independent Ghana, c. 1957-1963
Faculty Chair: Laurie Monahan
     
Natalie H. Garrett
Becoming a Prophet: Transculturation and the Construction of Self in the Life and Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
Faculty Chair: Nuha Khoury
                         
2005

Anna Hennessey
"The Troublesomeness of Metaphysicians: Subjectivity, Objectivity and Aesthetic Relativism"
Faculty Chair: Robert Williams
     
Elena Athwal
By Exam
Faculty Chair: Nuha Khoury
     
Melinda Gandara
Contested Sites: Latinos in the U.S. Landscape after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Jennifer Hammerschmidt
Rogier van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments Altarpiece: The Intertwining of Liturgical and Devotional Practice
Faculty Chair: Mark Meadow

Veronica Roberts
Playing with History: America's Darker Moments by Chris Burden
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson

George Flaherty
Fiel Copia?: Mimetic Conceit in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Portraits, c. 1713-1800
Faculty Chair: Swati Chattophadhyay
     
Catherine Howe
Negotiating Race in the Field Museum of Natural History's Hall of Man
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
                       

2004

Kelly Turner
The Spectacle of Masculinity: The Macaronis in Late Eighteenth-Century London
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Linda Teasdale
Vehicles of Critique: The Image of the Bruning Monk as Relic, Ruin and Commodity
Faculty Chair: Swati Chattophadhyay
     
Katherine Sterns
The Lintels of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines and Saint-Andre-de-Sorede: State of the Question and Connoisseurship
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi
     
Courtney Fischer
David Shelton's Milpas Street Corn Project: An Analysis of the Project and Interview with the Artist.
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi
     
Mahlon Chute
Themed Lands and Global Metaphors: Understanding Epcot Center and the Kingdom of Morocco Pavilion
Faculty Chair: Swati Chattophadhyay
                
Charles Peterson
Permissible Falsehoods: Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts and the Reception of Trompe-l'Oeil painting in the Seventeenth Century
Faculty Chair: Ann Adams
     
Emily Engel
Moving in Place: Andean Pilgrimage and Transcultured Indigenous Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Paintings of Our Lady of Cocharcas
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson
     
Emma Cryer

Interpreting the Tactile Tools of Sculpture: Haptics, Kinesthesis and Proprioception
Faculty Chair: Robert Williams
                               
2003
     
Angela Sagues
Wondrous Nature and Witchcraft: Crafting the Organic in the Work of Jacques de Gheyn II
Faculty Chair: Ann Adams
     
Sarah Haight
Transcendence and the Monarch: The Queen's Robing Room, Westminster Palace
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Ursula Ginder
The Simple and the Grand: Paula Modersohn-Becker's Primitivist Vocabulary
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller

Sarah Honorowski
Layers of Meaning: Interpretation of Photographic Essays on the Black Panthers
Faculty Chair: Laurie Monahan
                         
Laura Hagel
MA By Examination: Greek
Faculty Chair: Rainer Mack
     
Brian Dale
Militarism and Masculinity In the Search for Identity in Scottish Art, 1745—1832
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Henry Au-Yeung
Design, Landscape and Modernity: Wucius Wong and the Development of Modern Hong Kong Art
Faculty Chair: Peter Sturman

Amara Solari
Lords of all created things, Aztec political ideology in the collections of Motecuhzoma II
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson
    
Francine Kubel

The Earthly and the Divine: Aesthetic Beauty in Service of Higher Truths in the Paintings of Alessandro Allori
Faculty Chair: Robert Williams
     
2002

Blair Hixson-Davis
The Septizodium: Monument of Eastern Ascendency
Faculty Chair: Fikre Yegül
                               
Nancy Caponi
Title not available (subject: Artist Mary Miss)
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Jessica Tade-Spring
Decorative Preoccupation: The Sculptured Spaces of Autun Cathedral
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi
                      
Adam Johnson
Experience, Symbolism and Function of the Rotunda of St. Benigne at Dijon
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi

Amy Buono
Natural History and the Space of Empire in Jean-Baptiste Debret's Voyage pittoresque et historique au Bresil
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson
     
2001
                             
Hollis Price
Extra! Read All About It: The Headlines of Reginald Marsch
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Cassandra Sciortino
The Papunya Paintings in Context
Faculty Chair: Rainer Mack
     
Cody Hartley
Harmonious Anarchy in Robert Henri's Southwestern Portraiture
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Christie Biscoe
African Influences in Barbadian Art and Culture
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
2000

Melanie Corn
Queer Looks: Investigating the Photography of Catherine Opie
Faculty Chair: Solomon-Godeau
     
1999

Daria Yudacufski
Nature of Portraiture in the Work of Asian-American Women Artists
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson

Brigitte Kollochrussell
Kathe Kollwitz's Mourning Parents: A Personal and Historical Engagement
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
   
Hyonjeong Han
Chanting of Heaven on Earth: Pan Zengying and the Aesthetic Identity of Nineteenth-Century Suzhou
Faculty Chair: Peter Sturman

Alison Fraunhar
The Economy of Desire: Cigarette Marquillas and the Representation of Cubanidad
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson

Michael Hamson

Art of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole

John Decker
Blessed are the Pure in Heart For They Shall See God: Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Man of Sorrows and the Technics of Salvation
Faculty Chair: Mark Meadow
     
Mieke Strand
The Presentation of Self in Jan Van Eyck's Man with the Red Turban
Faculty Chair: Mark Meadow

1998
    
Sarah Thompson
The Chapel of Nine Altars at Fountains Abbey and the Character of Thirteenth-Century English Gothic
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi

Emily Jo Peters
The Most Powerful and Blessed Knight in Christianity. The Construction of the Ideal Image of Prince Philip of Spain at the Chateau Tenebreux, Binche, 1549
Faculty Chair: Edson Armi
     
Michelle Duran-Mclure
The Hand of the Master: Pacino di Bonaguida and the Morgan Life of Christ
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres

Denise Baxter

La Vertu male et republicaine: Brutus in the Cultural Imaginary of the French Revolution
Faculty Chair: Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Nancy Arnold
Communal Material: The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson

Michelle L. Russell
Surrealism in Mexico: Gunther Gerzso and the days of Gabino Barreda Street
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson

Eric Lutz

A Bounded Utopia: The Metaphysical Landscapes of the Shaker Sacred Sheet Drawings
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson                  

Cynthia M. Canejo
Antonio Manuel: A Dialectical Response to Brazillian Developments in Modern Art
Faculty Chair: Ramon Favela
     
Jeffrey Garner

The Astronomers Monument: Los Angeles Visual Culture-Invented National Heritage: Intervention and Collaboration in New Deal Art
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
                                 
1997
                             
Caroline Smith
Henry G. Marquand's Private and Public Art Collections: Constructing a Cultural Identity
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
    
Cathleen Paquette
U.S. Perceptions of Mexican Modern Art during th 1940's: The Case of MacKinley Helm
Faculty Chair: Ramón Favela
     
Jessica Robey
Sebastiao Salgado and the Aesthetics of Tradegy
Faculty Chair: Robert Williams
     
Leslie Ramsey
Louis Lozowick: Artist as Writer
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Hamid Severi
Political Authority and Historical Continuity in the Portraits of Fath Ali Shah Qajar
Faculty Chair: Nuha Khoury

Victoria Myers
Becoming Colonial: The Atrio Cross and Cultural Identity Construction in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson      

Melinda McCurdy
The Infant Academy and The Infant Academy: The Public, The Market, and Reynolds' Discourses
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
1996
                
Lu Sorensen
The Banqueting Figure in the Medieval Art of Dar al-Islam: Its Origin, Meaning, and Dissemination
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Allison Kohrs
Lactating Amerindian Mothers: New World Models of Rousseauian Domesticity
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Genevieve Fay
Male Violence and the Media: The Case of Belladonna
Faculty Chair: Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Sarah Watson
Figments of Masculinity: Reconsidering Garry Winogrand's Women are Beautiful Project
Faculty Chair: Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Holly Unruh
Imaging an Empire: The photograghic Collection of Sultan Abdulhamid II
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Susan Steinhart
Failed Women and Fearsome Goddesses: Death and Childbirth in Aztec Mexico
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson
     
Debra Singer
African Modern Art from an Historical Perspective
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
Tina Llorente
The World's Fairs of 1889 and 1893: Antecedents to Maya Revival Style Architecture
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
Meredith Cohen
The Master of the Saint George Codex and Florentine Painting in the Early Trecento
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres
     
John Senseney
The Triclinium of Claudius at Baiae
Faculty Chair: Fikret Yegül
     
Sarah McCarthy

The Fontainebleau Bathers: Eroticism and the Power of Women at the Sixteenth-Century French Court
Faculty Chair: Ann Jensen Adams
     
Amy Kesselhaut
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Yongmi Han
Two Ceiling Paniels from the Painted Chamber at Westminster Palace and the English Court Sytle
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres
     
1995
           
Deborah Wijas
M.A. by Examination — Emphasis: Architecture
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard                               

Margaret Phelp

The Power of the Picture: The Photography of the Serious Amateur as Anti-Modern Strategy
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Liesl Sullivan
19th Century Organic Tradition in Architecture of Frank Furness
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
Kristin Miller
The Evolution of the Italo-Estrucan Temple: A reexamination of the Virtuvian Model
Faculty Chair: Fikret Yegül
     
Carol Magee-Curtis

Negotiating Culture Contact: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
1994


Mary Keating Duley
Shawabtis
Faculty Chair: Mario Del Chiaro
   
Elizabeth Hunt
Van Dyck's Arundel Family Portrait
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir

Helen Taschian
Vittore Carpaccio's Two Courtesans and Hunting on the Lagoon: A New Look at a Dismembered Panel Painting
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller

Kristin O'Rourke
Delacroix's Maitresse: A Triangulation of Desire
Faculty Chair: Abigail Solomon-Godeau
 
Heather Marx
A Fantasy of Solitary Creation: Edward Burne-Jones's Pygmalion and the Image
Faculty Chair: Ann Bermingham
     
Todd Larkin
Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and the Tragic Muse
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Cristina Hernandez
Jaina-Style Figurines and Representations of The Moon Goddess in Maya Cosmology and Soceity
Faculty Chair: Jeanette Peterson
     
Elizabeth Hardcastle
John Haberle's A Bachelor's Drawer: Imaging Identity In Late Nineteenth Century America
Faculty Chair: Bruce Robertson
     
Lisa Darling

Kuka'ilimoku as Tiki: The Phenomenon of A New Old Sign
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole

Christi Richardson
Renaissance Homage Portraits: With Special Attention to Potraits of Artists
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller
     
Greta Halle
The Teste Divine of Michelangelo as Discussed by Vasari
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller
     
1993

Deanna Mc Hugh             
The Confluence of Art and Science: Figural Proportions and Anatomy in the Florentine Renaissance
Faculty Chair: Robert Williams
     
Pierre Liflan
Bandidos y Mojados: Popular Images of Chicanos
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Teresa Espana
Occupational Hazards of the Feminine in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Printmaking
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Judith Benton
St. Paul on Malta in Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Art
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Jacqueline Smalley
The Idea of Wilderness in the Images of Thomas Moran
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker

Mary Mangan
The Tenth Street Studio Paintings of William Merritt Chase
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
1992
                             
Rick Orr
The Changing Role of Cluny III
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres
     
Joann Skrypzak
Ernst Barlach's Der tote Tag: Relationship between Illustration and Text
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Michael Darling

Edward Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations: Points of Departure
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Elizabeth Mjelde
A View of the Maas at Dordrecht: An Analysis of an Early Riverscape Painting
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Benjamin Hufbauer
Cindy Sherman and Views from the Window of Culture
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
1991
     
Christopher Zook
Noel Halle's Sensibilite: An Academic Response to Rousseau's Educational Theories
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Robin Wyshak
The Imagery of Elimination: Number One and Number Two
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller
     
Bret Rothstein
A Brief Discussion of Randomness in Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
Brian Parshall
Entente Cordiale: Lithography and Caricature in England and France Before 1830
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan

Ann Wellman
A Third Century Etruscan Mirror
Faculty Chair: Mario Del Chiaro
     
Christine Kiessling
Johanna Ey: Art Patron and Kunstlermama
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Patricia Halloran
MA by examination — Architectural History
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
Monica Frank
Fayum Portraits in Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Faculty Chair: Mario Del Chiaro
     
Marianne Carden
Zoffany's Cockmatch: An Artist's Encounter with 18th Century British India
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Cristina Carbone
The Function of the Column in Hadrian's Pantheon: A Multidimensional Reading
Faculty Chair: Fikret Yegül
     
Linda Pallinger
A Drawing by Niccolo Martinelli, il Trometta in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Jane Dini
Charles Willson Peale's Gallery of Great Men
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Susan Chamberlin
Cypress Metamorphosis: The Impact of the The Italian Cypress Tree on Architecture and Landscape
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
1990

Maria Sammone

A Question of Title: Turner's van Tromp Controversy and the Romantic Sublime
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Elizabeth Hammel
Portrait of An English Patron: Waler Ramaden Fawkes(1769—1825)
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker

Suzanne Duca
The Drawings of Giovan Battista Spinelli
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir

Michiko Sato-Grube
Takeuchi Seiho, His Trip to Europe, 1900—1901, and His Lion and Tiger Painting
Faculty Chair: Peter Sturman
     
Kimberly Cooper

Red Revelation: Postulating Visceral Art as a Search for the Human Soul
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan
     
1989

Kristan Bentley

The Teste Divine of A Census of Fourteenth Century Construction in Paris as Discussed by Vasari
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres
     
Louise Halsey
The Hercules and Atlas Relief in the Morgenroth Collection of UCSB's Art Museum
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller
     
Thomas Larson
The Zuni War God: Ahayu:da
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
1988

Anita Gross
The Sculpture of Peter Grippe
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell
     
Richard Merrill
A Re-examination of the Origins and Development of Thirteenth Century Parisian Ivory Carving
Faculty Chair: Larry Ayres
     
Virginia Abblitt
A Re-assement of the Avant-garde Influences on Modersohn-Becker's Late Work
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
Ladislav Pugel
Literary Subjects and the Art of Fernand Kbnopff
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
Jeanette Hanisee
The Evolution of Taste as Seen in the Residential Interiors, Decorative Arts, and Paintings Collection for Private Art Patrons in France
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Peg Pei Chung
Four Landscape Handscrolls by Wang Meng
Faculty Chair: Prudence Myer

1987
     
Donald Atkinson
Joseph Wright of Derby's Cavern Paintings
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Barry Heisler
Thomas Rowlandson and the Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Paul Anderson
Tintoretto's Paradiso in the Doge's Palace in Venice
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller
     
Ann Koepfli
A Drawing in Contect: Carlo Maratta and His Commission of the Negroni Chapel
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Jody Hoppe

Les fais d'Alexandre le grant: a 15th Century Manuscript
Faculty Chair: Burr Wallen

Virginia Heckett
A Photgrpahic Archive of Industrial Architecure: the Work of Bernd and Hill Becher
Faculty Chair: Ulrich Keller
     
Geoffrey Barraclough
Historical Theory and the Colonial Experience: Horace Vernet's Oreintaizing Bible Paintings
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan
     
1986

Charlene Garfinkle
Harriet Hosmer and Anne Whitney, Pioneers in Nineteenth Century American Sculpture
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker

Lorraine Lorenzin
The Starry Nights of Vincent Van Gogh
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
1985

Della Jenkins
The Art of Mamy Wata" A Popular Water Spirit Found Among the Igbo of Southeast Nigeria
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
Norma Crawford
Artists, Ancients and Parrots: Problematic Iconography of a Largillierre Portrait
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
1984
   
Jean Trapido-Rosenthal

Thomas Eakins' The William Rush Theme
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Clarke Speed

The Ikenga Figure Amont the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
     
Gail Wallace

Premonitions of War: Apoclyptic Visions in Pre-World War I German Expressionist Art
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Michael Brunner
Dacid with the Head of Goliath: The Caravaggesque Tradition
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Roma Harton
The Role of Landscape Photgraphers and Artists in the creation and Preservation of Yosemite National Park
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
David Bricker

Built for Sale: Cliff May and the Low Cost California Ranch House
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
1983
   
Nina Spray
Bertel Thorvaldsen's Revisions: The Evolution of the Artist's Style
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
       
Barbara Salibi
Architecture and Related Sculptural Forms in the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms
Faculty Chair: Prudence Myer
     
Lena Hyun

Vito Acconci's Seedbed and Related Works in the Context of Post-Modernist Art and Theory
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan        

Barbara Rand
Symbols of Regeneration in Martin Johnson Heade's Thunderstorm Over Narragansett Bay
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
Katherine McIver
The Pictorial and Social Context of Vermeer's Musical Paintings
Faculty Chair: Alfred Moir
     
Tracey Cooper
The Tradition of the Codez Purpureus in the Renaissance Revival and Survival, Adaptation, and Invention
Faculty Chair: Peter Meller     

Lauren Bricker

The Residential Architecture of Roland E. Coate
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard

Elizabeth Badger
Pioneers in Prefabrication: The American Contributions in the 19th Century
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
Kathleen Monaghan

Joseph Wright of Derby's A Philosopher Gicing A Lecture On the Orrery
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker
     
1982

Roberta Reid
Public Cult Statuary of the Igbo of Southeast Nigeria
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
      
Molly Lee
Baleen Basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo
Faculty Chair: Herbert Cole
       
Mary O'Toole
The Moderne in California: History, Symbolism, Preservation
Faculty Chair: David Gebhard
     
Patricia Boyer

The Nabis, the Parisian Vanguard Humorous Illustrators and the Circle of Le Chat Noir
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
Gary Sampson
The Mexican Period of Edward Weston, 1923—1927
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan
     
Robin Ptacek
Highway Culture Iconography in Pop Art and Superrealism
Faculty Chair: Beatrice Farwell Duncan
     
Gayle Smith-Seymour
A Victorian Outcast: The Iconographic Innovations of Simeon Solomon
Faculty Chair: Henri Dorra
     
Constance Okada
The Japonisme of John La Farge
Faculty Chair: Corlette Walker