University of Pittsburgh

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"
Currently: Legacy Chair in Modern and Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest, tenure-track, University of Victoria

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

Kristen Harkness
2009
Dissertation: "The Phantom of Inspiration: Elena Polenova, Mariia Iakunchikova and the Emergence of Modern Art in Russia"

Karla Huebner
2008
Dissertation: "Eroticism, Identity, and Cultural Context: Toyen and the Prague Avant-garde"
Currently: Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department

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

Cindy Persinger
2008
Dissertation: "The Politics of Style: Meyer Schapiro and the Crisis of Meaning in Art History"
Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

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

Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
2009
Dissertation: "Cultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The History and Impact of the Havana Bienniale 1984 to the Present"

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

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