Undergraduate
Honors Thesis
Students electing the intensive track in the HAA program who have at least a 3.50 overall and departmental GPA can qualify for departmental honors by completing a senior thesis with a minimum grade of A-. Students develop a research paper under the direction of a faculty member suitable for application to graduate programs in art history and architecture, or to other professional schools.
Spring 2009
Christine Carpenter
Subject: I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art
Faculty advisor: Gretchen Bender
Lori Frola
Subject: Contemporary Art in Chile
Faculty advisor:
Terry Smith
Ike Harijanto
Title: "Pictorial Confrontation to Science and Universal Communication"
Faculty advisor:
Josh Ellenbogen
Julie Hodas
Subject: Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany
Faculty advisor:
Barbara McCloskey
Steven Lewis
Working title: "Emil Nolde: Reconciling Past and Party"
Faculty advisor:
Barbara McCloskey
Tasha Mowery
Subject: Science and Art Restoration
Faculty advisor:
Barbara McCloskey
Nicole Scalissi
Working title: "One Cold Hand: Relational Aesthetics in Pittsburgh"
Faculty advisor:
Terry Smith
Julie Steinbrink
Subject: Art as Therapy for WWI Artist-Veterans in Weimar Germany
Faculty advisor:
Barbara McCloskey
Fall 2008
Savannah Fisher
Working title: "US Reception to a Proclaimed 'Degenerate': A Study on Edvard Munch" Faculty advisor: Barbara McCloskey
Alex Dixon
Working title: "The New Castles of Potsdamer Platz"
Faculty
advisor: Gretchen Bender
Kristi Jan Hoover
Working title: "Violence and Psychology in Photography"
Faculty advisor: Josh Ellenbogen
Nicole Hinkle
Working title: "An Exploration of Abstraction through Titles and Authorship during the Abstract Expressionist Period"
Faculty advisor: Josh Ellenbogen