NAMEADVISORDISSERTATION TITLEPHD DATEVuk VukovićEllenbogenElectronic Superhighway: The Networks of Nam June Paik in the Global Village6/2025Brooke WyattMcCloskeyDeinstitutionalizing Modernism: The Paintings and Letters of Séraphine Louis, c. 1910–19416/2025Isaiah BertagnolliTaylorDisarming Landscapes: US Art Against the Arms Race4/2025Diana FlattoJostenFiguring Gender in Antifascist Visual Culture between Argentina and Uruguay, 1935-19494/2025Katie LoneySavageLockwood de Forest, the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company, and the Global Circulation of Luxury Goods, 1881-19144/2025İlhan OzanSmith and TaylorExhibiting Contemporaneity: Turkish Art in International Biennials, 1956–199212/2024Marisol Villela BalderramaJostenJosé Venturelli’s Revolutionary Art: Murals and Prints in Chile, China, East Germany, and Cuba, 1938–19644/2024Paula KupferJostenMarc Ferrez’s Landscapes of Intervention: Photography, Ecology, and Enslavement in Imperial Brazil4/2024 Jacob EisensmithNygrenAnxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with the Ottoman Empire, 1400 - 16003/2024Emily MazzolaSavageIdentities on Display In the Smithsonian's First Ladies Hall4/2023Emily FinkelsteinMcCloskeyBeyond the Wall: Post-Socialist Museums in the Former German Democratic Republic4/2023Sarah Reiff ConnellNygrenModeling the Miraculous: Tracing the Agency of Marian Cults in the Germanic South, 1400-16006/2022Krystie StricklinSavageGrave Visions: Photography, Violence, and Death in the American Empire, 1898 – 19134/2022Ellen LarsonGaoOn Time: Contemporary Video Art from China3/2022Jacqueline Marie LombardFoziRace and the Romanesque: Visualizing Blackness Between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-12503/2022Lily BrewerEllenbogenNuclear Citizenship: Mary Kavanagh and Photography as Civil Resistance3/2022Andrea Kibler MaxwellNygrenPainting and Persecution: Anti-Jewish and Anti-Protestant Visual Rhetoric in Northern Italy2/2022Marina TyquiengcoSmithWhat Native Looks Like Now: Embodiment in Contemporary Indigenous Art, 1992–Present8/2021Clarisse Fava-PizSavageSculpting Beyond Borders: Local Identity and Transnational Mobility in the Age of Rodin6/2021Nicole CoffineauEllenbogenBinding Identities: Photograph Albums and Italian Nationalism, 1857-675/2021Alan LondonSavage"My Own Place, May Own Name" Figuration, Abstraction and the Tragic in the Art of Stephen Greene3/2021Paulina Pardo GaviriaJostenLetícia Parente: Embodying New Media Art Strategies in 1970s Brazil7/2020Meredith North McCloskeyCybernetic Impulses and Serial Systems: The Art of Peter Roehr in Frankfurt am Main7/2020Isaac KingSavageThe One and the Many: Authenticity and Multiplicity in the Posthumous Lives of George Washington's Portraits4/2020Kylie SeltzerArmstrongHousing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870-18924/2020Carolyn WargulaGerhartEmbodying the Buddha: The Presence of Women in Japanese Buddhist Hair Embroideries, 1200-17004/2020Maria CastroJostenBetween São Paulo and Paris: Tarsila do Amaral and the Intersecting Identities of Antropofagia4/2020Allison McCannFoziWomen's Books? Gendered Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Bohemian Illuminated Codices12/2019Ben OgrodnikSmithSteel City Cinema: Independent and Experimental Filmmaking in the Rust Belt12/2019Annika JohnsonSavageAgency at the Confluence of Dakhóta and Euro-American Art, 1835-19124/2019Nicole ScalissiSmithSomething to See Here: Staged Violence in Contemporary Art4/2019Jennifer DonnellyArmstrongThe Physiognomy of a Collection: Architectural Legibility and Historical Expression at the Musée des monuments français, 1795-18168/2018Colleen O'ReillyEllenbogenVisual Pedagogy in Cold War America: Berenice Abbott, Will Burtin, and the International Visual Literacy Association8/2018Madeline EschenburgGaoMigrating Subjects: The Problem of the "Peasant" in Contemporary Chinese Art4/2018Jung Hui KimGerhartReligion, Politics, and Gender: Childbirth Images in Edo Japan4/2018Elizabeth MorrisseyGerhartMemorializing Imperial Power through Ritual in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyama-dera Handscroll4/2018Lihui DongGaoThe Way to be Modern: Empress Dowager Cixi’s portraits of the Late Qing Dynasty8/2017Jungeun LeeGerhartDisplaying Authority: Ashikaga Formal Display in the Muromachi Period4/2017Elizabeth SelfGerhartArt, Architecture, and the Asai Sisters4/2017Henry SkerrittSmithWhen Time’s Arrows Collide: Historical Critique in Indigenous Contemporary Art8/2017Heidi CookMcCloskeyPicturing Peasant: Maksimilijan Vanka’s Folkloric Paintings and the “Croatian Question” from Habsburg12/2016Amy CymbalaHarris and Armstrong‘Dearest Wife, Most Famous Woman:’ Gender, Commemoration, and Women’s Funerary Monuments in Rome, 1550-17508/2016Jessica GoganSmithCurating Publics in Brazil: Experiment, Construct, Care4/2016Courtney LongArmstrongRe-Categorizing Great Britain's Medieval Architecture: A Lesson in Nineteenth-Century Visual Taxonomy4/2016Rachel MillerHarris and SavagePatron Saint of a World in Crisis: Early Modern Representations of St. Francis Xavier in Europe and Asia4/2016Sara SumpterGerhartThe Socio-Political Functions of Japanese ‘Vengeful Spirit’ Handscrolls, 1150-12304/2016Nadav HochmanSmithThe Social Media Image: Modes of Visual Ordering on Social Media8/2015Alexandra Oliver †EllenbogenCritical Realism in Contemporary Photography4/2014James JewittHarrisThe Evolution of Landscape in Venetian Painting, 1475-15254/2014Yuki MorishimaGerhartPolitical and Ritual Usages of Portraits of Japanese Emperors in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries12/2013Saskia BeranekArmstrong and HarrisPower of the Portrait: Production, Consumption and Display of Portraits of Amalia van Solms in the Dutch Republic4/2013Izabel GallieraSmithReclaiming Public Life, Building Public Spheres: Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Institutions in post-1989 Europe4/2013Jiayao HanLinduffCreating Visual Emblems for Eastern Zhou Militarized Frontier Societies (771-221 BCE)4/2013Donald SimpsonArmstrong and SavageCivic Center and Cultural Center: The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis4/2013Sarah BrombergStonesThe Context and Reception History of the Illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam: Fifteenth-Century Case Studies12/2012Cristina AlbuSmithMirror Affect: Interpersonal Spectatorship in Installation Art since the 1960s4/2012Robert BaileySmithArt & Language and the Politics of Art Worlds, 1969-19774/2012Brianne CohenSmithContested Collectivities: Europe Reimagined by Contemporary Artists4/2012Julia FinchStonesBibles en images: Visual Narrative and Translation in New York Public Library Spencer Collection ms. 22 and Related Manuscripts12/2011Rebekah PerryStonesSacred Image, Civic Spectacle, and Ritual Space: Tivoli's Inchinata Procession and Icons in Urban Liturgical Theater in Late Medieval Italy12/2011Maria D'Anniballe WilliamsMcCloskey and SavageUrban Space in Fascist Verona: Contested Grounds for Mass Spectacle, Tourism, and the Architectural Past12/2010Shalmit BejaranoGerhartPicturing Rice Agriculture and Silk Production: Appropiation and Ideology in Early Modern Japanese Painting8/2010Kathy Johnston-KeaneHarrisCaravaggio’s Drama: Art, Theater, and Literature during Italy’s ‘Spanish Age’4/2010Annie KriegMcCloskeyThe Walls of the Confessions: Neo-Romanesque Architecture, Nationalism, and Religious Identity in the Kaiserreich4/2010Leslie WallaceLinduffChasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs (25-220 CE) from Shaanxi and Shanxi4/2010Karen WebbStonesMedieval Manuscripts, Architectural Structures, and their Relationships4/2010Jui-Man WuLinduffMortuary Art in the Northern Zhou China (557-581 CE): Visualization of Class, Role, and Cultural Identity4/2010Travis NygardSavageSeeds of Agribusiness: Grant Wood and the Visual Culture of Grain Farming 1862-195712/2009Sheri LulloLinduffToiletry Case Sets Across Life and Death in Early China (5th c. BCE-3rd c. CE)12/2009Miguel Rojas-SoteloSmithCultural Maps, Networks, and Flows: The History and Impact of the Havana Bienniale 1984 to the Present4/2009Cornelie Piok ZanonWeisThe Sanctuary of Demeter at Pergamon: Architecture and Dynasty in the Early Attalid Capital4/2009Kristen HarknessMcCloskey"The Phantom of Inspiration: Elena Polenova, Mariia Iakunchikova and the Emergence of Modern Art in Russia"4/2009
