Modern/Contemporary Program

Alumni

Dissertations completed since 1997

Carolyn Butler-Palmer
2006
Dissertation: I Won't Play Primitive to Your Modern: The Art of David Neel (Kwagiutl), 1985-2000

Ivy (Schroeder) Cooper
1997
Disseration: Minimalism for the Masses: Public Sculpture Under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program, 1972–1989
Currently: Department Chair and Professor of Art History, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville IL

April Eisman
2007
Dissertation: Bernhard Heisig and the Cultural Politics of East German Art
Currently: Assistant Professor, tenure track, Iowa State University

Anne Knutson
1997
Dissertation: Art, Desire, and Empire: American Propaganda Posters of World War I

Alison McQueen
Dissertation: The Modern Artist and the Old Master: The Reinvention of Rembrandt in France, 1850–1900
Currently: Associate Professor of Art History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Charles Pearo
2002
Dissertation: Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837–1922): Tracing the Construction of Artistic Identity
Currently: Professor at College Andrè-Laurendeau, Montreal

Sylvia Rhor
2004
Dissertation: Educating America: Murals in Chicago Public Schools, 1905–1943
Currently: Assistant Professor of Art, Carlow University, Pittsburgh PA

Leesa Rittelmann
2003
Dissertation: Constructed Identities: The German Photobook from Weimar to the Third Reich
Currently: Assistant Professor, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia NY

Paul Scolari
2005
Dissertation: Indian Warriors and Pioneer Mothers: American Identity and the Closing of the Frontier in Public Monuments, 1890-1930
Currently: Historian and American Indian Liaison, National Park Service