University of Pittsburgh

Modern/Contemporary

Current graduate students

Cristina Albu
Research Area: contemporary art and critical theory
PhD in progress: "Self-Mirroring as a Stimulus for Interactivity in Contemporary Installations and Display Settings"

Robert Bailey
Research Area: contemporary art and critical theory
PhD in progress: "A Late Avant-Garde: Art and Language New York"

Brianne Cohen
Research area: contemporary art and critical theory
PhD in progress: "Contemporary Artists Imagine Alternative Forms of Political Affiliation"

Stephen D'Andrea
Research area: modern/contemporary photography

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."

Lihui Dong
Research area: Chinese contemporary art, history of photography and critical theories

Izabel Anca Galliera
Research area: contemporary art and critical theory

Annie Kellogg-Krieg
PhD in progress: " The Walls of Confession: Neo-Romanesque Architecture and Religious Identity Negotiation in the Kaiserreich"

Jenny Li Jun Liu
Research area: new media/digital art

Courtney S. Long
Research area: 19th-century art and architecture
MA paper: "A Relic of the Last Supper: King Arthur’s Round Table"

Travis Nygard
Research area: modern visual culture, the history of food, and pre-Columbian civilization
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
MA paper: "Economies of the Engimatic: Legibility and Illegibility in the Art of Jeff Wall"

Natalia Rents
Research area: contemporary art, visual culture/history of photography
MA paper: "The Petersburg Theme in the Artistic Practice of Miriskusniki in 1898-1905"

Donald E. Simpson
Research area: American architecture
MA paper: "American Halicarnassus: The Mary E. Schenley Memorial, Andrew Carnegie, and the Origin of Pittsburgh’s Oakland Cultural Center"

Aaron Tacinelli
Research area: contemporary architecture and critical theory
MA in progress: Anti-rationalist grids in the architecture of Peter Eisenman

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