Modern/Contemporary
Current graduate students
Cristina Albu
Research Area: Contemporary Art and Critical Theory
MA Paper: The Site-Specific Installations of Andy Goldsworthy and Olafur Eliasson: Environmental Problematics and Relational Aesthetics
Robert Bailey
Research Area: Contemporary Art and Critical Theory
MA Paper: A Paradigm Shift: The Reception of Conceptual Art in Print, 1967-1973
Yanli Chen
PhD in progress: The Experienced Modern and the Transfigured Style: Modern Beauty in Popular Prints, Photography, and Cinema 1880s-1930s
Brianne Cohen
Research Area: Contemporary Art and Critical Theory
Maria D'Anniballe
PhD in progress: Urban Space in Fascist Italy: Contested grounds for Mass Spectacle, Tourism, and Celebration of the Historic Past. The case of Verona.
Jessica Margaret Glaser
PhD in progress: The Pre-War Roots of Socialist Modernism in East German Design
Kristen Harkness
PhD in progress: Designing Russianness: Empire, Nation and Gender in Fin-de-Siècle Russian Art
Karla Huebner
PhD in progress: Eroticism, Identity, and Cultural Context: Toyen and the Prague Avant-Garde
Annie Kellogg-Krieg
PhD in progress: The Confrontation of the Major Religions with the German Nation-State via the Architectural Language of Medievalism during the Kaiserreich
Jenny Li Jun Liu
Research area: new media/digital art
Travis Nygard
PhD in progress: The Art of Agribusiness: How Visual Culture Shaped Grain Production in the US, 1893-1943
Alexandra Oliver
Research area: contemporary art; history of photography
Natalia Rents
Research area: Contemporary Art, Visual Culture/History of Photography
Don Simpson
Research area: American Architecture
Miguel Rojas Sotelo
Research Area: Contemporary Art and Critical Theory
PhD in progress: Cultural Maps, Networks and Flow in Contemporary Art. A Case Study: Third World Art and the Havana Biennale