Graduate
MA Papers 1988 - 2009
Student |
Date |
Advisor |
Title |
| Jewitt, James | Apr-09 | Harris | "The Landscape of Fortune in Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture" |
| Long, Courtney | Apr-09 | Stones | "A Relic of the Last Supper: King Arthur’s Round Table" |
| Oliver, Alexandra | Apr-09 | Ellenbogen | "Economies of the Enigmatic: Legibility and Illegibility in the Art of Jeff Wall" |
| Simpson, Don | Apr-09 | Savage | "American Halicarnassus: The Mary E. Schenley Memorial, Andrew Carnegie, and the Origin of Pittsburgh’s Oakland Cultural Center" |
| Sumpter, Sara | Apr-09 | Gerhart | "The Shôkyû Version of the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki:The Religious Iconography and Functionality of a Thirteenth-Century Japanese Handscroll" |
| Rents, Natalia | Dec-08 | Ellenbogen | "The Petersburg Theme in the Artistic Practice of Miriskusniki in 1898-1905" |
| Cymbala, Amy | Apr-08 | Harris | "The Splendid Force of Her Presence: Self-Fashioning in the Portraits of Vittoria della Rovere" |
| Yang, Yu | Apr-08 | McCloskey | "Yin Yiuzhen's Narrative of Urban Life: A Tale of Two Cities" |
| Albu, Cristina | Apr-07 | Smith | "The site specific Installations of Andy Goldsworthy at Oldfur Eliasson: Environmental Problematics and Relational Aesthetics" |
| Bailey, Robert | Apr-07 | Smith | "A Paradigm Shift: The Reception of Conceptual Art in Print, 1967-1973" |
| Chen, Yanli | Apr-07 | Gao/Smith/ Linduff |
"The Making of Modern Beauty: Reading the Emergence of the 'Calendar Girl' in Republican Shanghai 1910s-1930s" |
| Morishima, Yuki | Apr-07 | Gerhart | "Fuji Pilgrimige Mandard: Possibilities of Female Patronage" |
| Han, Jiayao | Apr-06 | Linduff | "In & Out of Space: Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs from Sichuan" |
| Lansdown, Sara | Apr-06 | Gerhart | "Ritual Presence, Ritual Perpetuity: A Study of the Japanese Haniwa" |
| Finch, Julia | Dec-05 | Stones | "Class in Session: Images of Readers at Chartres Cathedral" |
| Hartnett, Gerald | Dec-05 | Smith | "On the Origins of Detourment: Guy Debord's Historical Menagerie, 1954-56" |
| Nygard, Travis | Dec-05 | Savage | "Oscar Howe and the Metaphorical Monarchy of Maize: Indigenism and Power" |
| Glaser, Jessica | Apr-05 | McCloskey | "Mediating Modernism Ostalgie & East German Design of 1950s & 1960s" |
| Richart, Jennifer | Apr-05 | Savage | "Looking Beyond Visuals: Fraktur Examples in Notenbuchlein Bookplates Made by and to the Schwenkfelder Community in Early Pennsylvania" |
| Wallace, Leslie | Apr-05 | Linduff | "Chinese Pictorial Bronzes and the Rise and Fall of Ministerial Lineages in Ancient China" |
| Rojas, Miguel | Dec-04 | Smith | "Journey to the Global World: Visual Trades and Counter-Colonialism in Contemporary Art and Culture, an Approximation for Colombia" |
| D'Anniballe, Maria | Apr-04 | McCloskey | "Italy's Fascist Regime and the Restoration of the Medieval Past: The Case of Verona" |
| Kreig, Annie | Apr-04 | McCloskey | "'As the blood speaks, so the people build': King Heinrich I, Heinrich Himmler, and the Construction of the 1000-Year Reich in Quedlinburg" |
| Johnston-Keane, Kathy | Dec-03 | Harris | "Caravaggio's Drama: Traces of Early Drama in the Works of Caravaggio" |
| Harkness, Kristen | Apr-03 | McCloskey | "Mikhail Vrubel's Fairy-Tale Heroines and Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia" |
| Lullo, Sheri | Apr-03 | Linduff | "Balancing the Power: The Queen Mother of the West in Dynasty |
| Wu, Jui Man (Mandy) | Apr-03 | Linduff | "What Role Does Gender Play in Mortuary Display in the Northern Frontier of Ancient China: The Late Neolithic Cemetery at Adianzi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region" |
| Bortel, Ellen | May-02 | "The Art of Pottery and Persona in George Ohr" | |
| Castagna, Allison | May-02 | Sheon | "Reveler Revealed: Manet at the Masked Ball" |
| Loyd, Sarah | May-02 | McCloskey | "Success, Sensuality, and Self: Two Sarahs by Ceilia Beaux" |
| Pustorino, Alia | May-02 | Hearn | "Flying Solo: Architectural Design of Greater Pittsburgh International Airport" |
| Rigo, David | May-02 | Wilkins | "A Coincidentia Oppositorium: Reinterpreting the Chancel Arch in the Arena Chapel" |
| Dolan, Marion | Apr-01 | Stones | "An Analysis of the Cosmological Diagrams in the Liber Floridus" |
| Gerwing, Robert | Apr-01 | Savage | "Warhol’s Commissioned Portraiture of the 70s: Avant-Garde Innovation or Modern Day Sargent?" |
| Ginchereau-Paradis, Holly | Apr-01 | Sheon | "Manet’s Portraits of Actors as Hamlet: Are They Self-Portraits?" |
| Lei, Lai | Apr-01 | Linduff | "Unity and Diversity in Jade Age China: The Case of the Liangzhu Culture" |
| Mitchell, Stacy | Apr-01 | Wilkins | "Poetic Sculptor or Humble Potter: Gendered Revisions in the Construction in The Construction of Luca Della Robbia’s Historical Persona" |
| Giberman, Katherine | Apr-00 | McCloskey | "Mstislav Dobujinsky's Petersburg and the Russian Revolution of 1905" |
| Marr, Erin | Apr-00 | Toker | "Patterns of Green and White: Exploring the City-Specific Marble Decoration of Romanesque Tuscany" |
| Persinger, Cynthia | Apr-00 | Williams | "Meyer Schapiro and the Jongleurs: Reexaming Identity at Silos" |
| Piok-Zanon, Cornelie | Apr-00 | Weis | "The Propylon to the Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon" |
| Prince, Elizabeth | Apr-00 | Linduff | "An Open Book From the Sky: Xu Bing's A Book From The Sky and Meaning Through Context" |
| Schroll, Savannah | Apr-00 | McCloskey | "Black Empowerment Through German Culture: George Grosz and Romare Bearden in 1930s America" |
| Valdimir Voloshin | Apr-00 | McCloskey | "John Heartfield: The Modern Publicity Artist" |
| Wu, Xiaolong | Apr-00 | Linduff | "Female and Male Status as Displayed at the Maoqinnggou Cemetery" |
| Penn, Catherine | Dec-99 | Wilkins | "The Tomb of the Olympiads - Or Not" |
| Ying, Yong | Dec-99 | Linduff | "Social Status, Foreign Affairs and the Official Wife of the Governor of the Huang State in Mid-7th Century BC China" |
| Dimitroff, Katherine | Apr-99 | Stones | "Late Medieval Hunting Tapestries with Special Reference to Rabbit-Hunting with Ferrets" |
| Jiang, Yu | Apr-99 | Linduff | "The Bronzes of the Wei Shi Family Clan: The Stylistic Tradition and the Patronage" |
| Troy, Lisa | Apr-99 | Harris | "Compromising Positions: Sofonisba Anguissola's Golden Chains of Gift Exchange" |
| Young, Adam | Apr-99 | McCloskey | "From National to Irrational: The Changing Role of the Gesantkunstwerk in Germany from Wagner to Dada" |
| Fazio, Vincent | Dec-98 | Toker | "Henry Clay Frick: Architectural Patron and Art Collector" |
| Zitterbart, Susan | Dec-98 | Linduff | "Myoe Shonin: The Chinzo and Issues of Portraiture within the Context of Eastern Philosophy, Religion and Art" |
| Althouse, Carol | Apr-98 | Toker | "Peter Eiseman’s Design for the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute" |
| Bauersfeld, Kristin | Apr-98 | Savage | "The Challenges and Complexities of Landscape Planning and Exhibition Design at a Commemorative Site: The Homestead Pumphouse" |
| Butler-Palmer, Carolyn | Apr-98 | Toker | "Boullee and Newton on Models of Architecture and the Universe" |
| Reddy, Tara | Apr-98 | Savage | "Precious Garbage: An Investigation of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules" |
| Smith, Marla | Apr-98 | Williams | "Art and Ethnic Identity in Medieval Spain: The Case of the El Tránsito Synagogue" |
| Pearlman, Jeanne | Dec-97 | McCloskey | "Joseph Beuys in America" |
| Greenwell, Brenda | Apr-97 | Stones | "The Ox and the Ass in Nativity Iconography: The Eating Animals" |
| Szanto, Susanna | Apr-97 | Savage | "Recovering Context and Meaning: Andy Warhol’s Last Supper in Milan" |
| Grannon, Jill | Dec-96 | Linduff | "Two Tasted In One: British Collectors and the 1935-36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art" |
| Yan, Sun | Dec-96 | Linduff | "Burial and Cultural Remains at the Cemetery of Liulihe: Social and Political Implications" |
| Coursey, Kelly Mari | Apr-96 | Savage | "Imagery and Intentions - Narratives of Evolution in the Fountain of Energy at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915" |
| Gaines, Heather | Apr-96 | Wilkins | "Michelangelo’s Bacchus and an Ancient Model" |
| Kefalos, Roberta | Apr-96 | Savage | "Thomas Addison Richards: The Search for the Picturesque and the Landscape of the South" |
| Patel, Medha | Apr-96 | Savage | "John Singer Sargent’s Sitwell Family: The Culmination of the 'Picture-Portrait' Problem" |
| Teller, Elizabeth | Apr-96 | McCloskey | "Christian Schad’s Portraits of the 'New Woman': Spectatorship and Sexual Indentity in Weimar Germany" |
| Vadnal, Jane | Apr-96 | Stones | "Depictions of Christ’s Childhood Miracles in 14th-Century England" |
| Warchol, Michelle | Apr-96 | Wilkins | "17th- and 18th- Century Cuzco Paintings of Archangels: Syncretism, Spirituality, and Social Strategy in the Context of the Corpus Christi Celebration" |
| Gibbon, Deborah | Dec-95 | Sheon | "Totems and Taboos: Some Points of Agreement Between the Work of David Smith and the Primitive" |
| Kobayashi, Takako | Dec-95 | Kita | "Hiroshige’s Jojo (Lyricism) In His Landscape Prints" |
| Zienlinski, Nancy | Dec-95 | McCloskey | "The Evolution From Pictorialism to Purism: References to James M. Whistler in Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work (1903-1917)" |
| Rhor, Sylvia | Apr-95 | McCloskey | "Fear and Fascination at the Masked Ball: Paul Gavarni’s Carnival Lithographs during the July Monarchy" |
| Elliot, Therese | Dec-94 | Williams | "San Pelayo de Perazancas: The Church, Its Frescoes, and a Possible Patroness" |
| Hofelt, Miranda | Dec-94 | Kita | "Utamaro's Women: Politics, Gender and Cultural Production in Tokugawa, Japan" |
| Dame, Kimberly | Apr-94 | Williams | "The Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem: Kingship and Genealogy in the 12th Century Mosaic Program" |
| Gatewood, Deborah | Apr-94 | Stones | "The Evolution of Roland as 'Rechtssymbol' in the Medieval German Empire" |
| Martin, Nona | Apr-94 | Savage | "Negro Life in the South: Eastman Johnson's Rendition of Slavery and Miscegenation" |
| Rosenberg, Jessica | Apr-94 | Savage | "Irreconcialable Differences: John Vanderlyn's The Death of Jane Macrea" |
| Chang, Hui-lan | Dec-93 | Sheon | "Reconsidering Degas and Women: The Myth of Women at Their Toilette" |
| Golden, Judith | Dec-93 | Harris | "The Melisende Psalter Reconsidered: A Reassessment of its Patron and its Miniaturist" |
| Montoya, Ana | Dec-93 | McCloskey | "The Representaton of Frida Kahlo in the work of Rupert Garcia" |
| Boldrick, Stacy | Apr-93 | Stones | "The Eleanor Crosses: A Study in Typology and Meaning " |
| Costa, Patrizia | Apr-93 | Sheon | "Primitivism and the Italian Futurists" |
| McCall, Janet | Apr-93 | McCloskey | "Otto Dix's Metropolis: Gender and German Identity in the Weimar Republic" |
| McQueen, Alison | Apr-93 | Harris | "Images of Lucretia and the Politics of Gender" |
| Montani, Prisca | Apr-93 | Harris | "The Art of Patronage of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte" |
| Rittelmann, Leesa | Apr-93 | McCloskey | "The Private and Public Worlds of Nineteenth-Century American Photographer Alice Austen" |
| Schwerha, Diana | Apr-93 | Savage | "Hot Springs, Geysers and Canyons: The Packaging and Publication of Photographs for Political Power" |
| Steele, LuAnn | Apr-93 | Harris | "The Life of Constantine Tapestries: Politics and Patronage" |
| Greiner, Peter | Dec-92 | Linduff | "Hill Jars: Lien Cosmetic Boxes" |
| Hsu, Miao-lin | Dec-92 | Linduff | "The Lui-Juan T'ien-T'ai Painting, The Taoists Lui and Juan Entering Paradise at T'ien-t'ai Mountain - Yang Chin's Paradise Landscape Painting in the Carnegie Museum" |
| Reiland, Terry | Dec-92 | Hearn | "Gropius and Breuer's Frank House Assimilation of the 'International Style' in American Domestic Architecture" |
| Rode, Penny | Dec-92 | Linduff | "Piece Moulds in Early Chinese Bronze Casting: Another Look" |
| White, Susanna | Dec-92 | Savage | "Had Nature Fashioned Indian Girls of Marble: The Image of the Native American Woman In Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture" |
| Craven, Jennifer | Apr-92 | Wilkins | "Anatomy of Desire: Unveiling Petrarchan Metaphor In Raphael's 'Fornarina'" |
| Manning, Anne Marie | Apr-92 | Wilkins | "The Bridgettine Adoration, The Family and Civic Values in Renaissance Florence" |
| Pajewski, Stephen | Apr-92 | Weinstein | "The City as a Theme: Georgia O"Keefe and the 'Masculine Protest'" |
| Schroder, Ivy | Apr-92 | Hearn | "Pittsburgh's Schenley Park: Design Toward Moral Improvement?" |
| Golightly, Kate Taylor | Dec-91 | Wilkins | "Sir David Wilkie: A Source for Early Nineteenth-Century American Genre Painters" |
| Bertrand, Anne | Apr-91 | Harris | "Portraying the Soul: The Portraits and Self-Portraits of Simon Vouet's Roman Period" |
| Midkiff, Andrew | Apr-91 | Linduff | "Tomb I at Mawangdui: A Study of Political Authority and Ethnic Identity" |
| Morss, Ruth | Apr-91 | Harris | "True Titles and False Subjects: The Iconography of Nicolas Poussin: Garden of Flowers (1630-1631)" |
| Scolari, Paul | Apr-91 | Wilkins | "The Civic Ideal of Racial Harmony: Pittsburgh's Monument to Stephen Foster" |
| Berkelaer, Lut Van |
Dec-90 | Linduff | "The Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences" |
| Sargent, Elizabeth Kennedy | Dec-90 | Harris | "Annibale and Agostino Carracci's Landscape Drawings" |
| Xie, Chang | Apr-90 | Linduff | "Classification of the Li and the Study of Proto-Zhou Culture" |
| Burger, Simone Carol | Dec-89 | Wilkins | "The Depiction of Saint Francis in Dominican Art" |
| Johnsen, Mary Catharine | Dec-89 | Stones | "St. Augustine: An Illuminated Initial 'L' in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: A Question of Attribution" |
| Piller, Josienne | Dec-89 | Wilkins | "Albert Bierstadt: A Greater Ambition" |
| Silverman, Marc | Dec-89 | Weinstein | "Aperture Magazine Under the Editorship of Minor White, 1952-1964" |
| Rusnock, Andrea | Aug-89 | Weinstein | "The"First Russian Art Exhibition:" Art and Politics in the Soviet Union and Germany, 1922" |
| Devine, Chris | Apr-89 | Sheon | "A Reconsideration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Personality in Light of Narcissism and its Implications for Viewing his Life, Dantesque Iconography and Relationship with Elizabeth Siddal" |
| Farrell, Michele | Apr-89 | Weis | "The Portraiture of Germanicus Caesar" |
| Ge, Yan | Apr-89 | Linduff | "Sanxingdui Site: An Example of the Early Shu Culture" |
| Helmreich, Anne | Apr-89 | Weinstein | "British Artists and the Great War: The Studio and Blast, 1914-15" |
| Huang, Tsui-mei |
Apr-89 | Linduff | "The Yueh Culture and its Relationship to the Tien Culture in Yunnan" |
| Miksche, Uta | Apr-89 | Weinstein | "The Turn to Religious Subject Matter in German Expressionist Art and Gustav F. Harblaub's 1918 Exhibition 'New Religious Art' in Mannheim" |
| Nama, Sigrid | Apr-89 | Wilkins | "Martin B. Leisser and the Life Class in Pittsburgh" |
| Poole, Andrea | Apr-89 | Linduff | "Two Late Period Polychrome Vessels at the Carnegie Museum of National History: Evidence of Post-Classic Mexican Influence in Costa Rica" |
| Lin, Hsiu-Fang | Dec-88 | Linduff | "The Neolithic Base for the Yunnan Bronze Age" |
| Crary, Laura | Apr-88 | Weinstein | "Constructing a National Identity: The Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo" |
| Higman, Susan | Apr-88 | Gordan/ Weis |
"Examples of Primitive Influence in the Work of E.L. Kirchner" |
