Name | Date | Advisor | Title |
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Amanda Bartko | Apr. 2018 | Taylor | "Instantaneous Ingenuity: Contemporary Artists and their use of Instagram" |
Emily Kathryn Campbell | Apr. 2018 | McCloskey | "Kameradschaft: Sculpture and the Cultural Politics of the Nazi Regime" |
Ilana Curtis | Apr. 2018 | Rajagopalan | "Model Affordability: Mass Housing Solutions from Berlin to the Bronx" |
Esra Daghestani | Apr. 2018 | Rajagopalan | "Designing for Disaster: Student Design Competition Entries in Response to Natural Disasters" |
Caroline Fazzini | Apr. 2018 | Josten | "Bookworks as Networks: Feminist Artists' Book Projects of the 1980s-90s" |
Rebecca Lee Koshner | Apr. 2018 | Rajagopalan | "Eyes on the Strip: Past, Present, and Future of Pittsburgh's Strip District" |
Annika Napier-Smith | Apr. 2018 | McCloskey | "Expressing Identity through Art: Reaching Pittsburgh's Teens Experiencing Homelessness" |
Mairin Plant | Apr. 2018 | McCloskey | "St. George Rides Again: The Russian Nationality Room in the Era" |
Ahona Raka Sarkar | Apr. 2018 | Self | "How the Past Persists in Period Rooms: An Examination of the Sun Ka Raku Teahouse" |
Abigail Frances Sites | Apr. 2018 | Armstrong and McCloskey | "Henry Clay Frick's Mansions: From Private to Public" |
Imani Williford | Apr. 2018 | Taylor | "The Art and Politics of Faith Ringgold's Children's Picture Books" |
Lydia Andeskie | Apr. 2017 | Bender | "Rhetoric and Spectacle: What Historical Instances of Iconoclasm Can Tell Us About the Islamic State" |
Mariah Flanagan | Apr. 2017 | Peters | “How We View Egypt: the Importance of Intertemporality in Museum Displays” |
Elizabth Hill | Apr. 2017 | Ellenbogen | “Child Labor Signified: Utility and Motion in Gustave Courbet's the Stonebreakers” |
Lin Hou | Apr. 2017 | Rajagopalan | “The Triangle of Sustainability: A comparative study of contemporary sustainable architecture in Beijing and Pittsburgh” |
Katherine Lipinski | Apr. 2017 | Josten | “From Coca Plant to Cocaine: Metamorphosis in Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium” |
Marie Manske | Apr. 2017 | Bender and Josten | "Nazi Rallies at Luna Park Stadium: Assessing the Visual Evidence" |
Angelica Marks | Apr. 2017 | Josten | “+43 Anti-Monument: A Critical Call to Reform through Popular Will” |
Abigail Meloy | Apr. 2017 | Nygren | “Modalities of Visualizing the Divine: Image and Word in Lorenzo Lotto's Trescore Frescoes, Trinity, and Madonna of the Rosary ” |
Max Poost | Apr. 2017 | Armstrong | "The Nine Mile Run Watershed: Tracing the Elements of Ecological Design" |
Sonnie Solomon | Apr. 2017 | Ellenbogen | “Inside/Out: Reconsidering the Photographic Binary with LaToya Ruby Frazier's The Notion of Family” |
Nikita Costantini | Apr. 2016 | McCloskey | “Upside-Down in London: Georg Baselitz and His Entrance into the International Art Scene” |
Meghan Hipple | Apr. 2016 | Och | "Showing and Exposing: Re/encountering the Environment through American Painting, Photography, and Television." |
Brianna Humbert | Apr. 2016 | Bender | “The Feminist Secretary: Activism, Typewriting, and the Gendering of Labor in the Work of Sheryl Oring” |
Emily Mirales | Apr. 2016 | Weis | “Building a ‘City of Reference: The United States Botanic Garden and Washington, D.C.’ ” |
Melissa Quarto | Apr. 2016 | Josten | “Performing Incanismo: Cultural Tourism at Machu Picchu, Peru” |
Grace Strong | Apr. 2016 | Nygren | “Carlo Crivelli Matters: A View of the Renaissance from the ‘Periphery’ ” |
Shengyu Wang | Apr. 2016 | Smith | “Should Art Labor Be Free?” |
O'Brien, Abbey | Apr. 2015 | Josten | "Radical Muralism in Three Dimensions: A Reexamination of Siqueiros' New York Workshop" |
Kelly, Grace | Apr. 2015 | Josten | "The University Studio: Oiticica, Rhodislandia, and Peripheral Strategies in Art Making" |
Sova, Matthew | Apr. 2015 | Fozi | "Women and Empore: The Issue of Gendered Space in Ottonian Architecture" |
Armstrong, Kirsten | Apr. 2015 | Fozi | "Sprituality of Non-Sacred Space: Sanctifying a More Socialist Agenda" |
Mosco, Allison | Apr. 2015 | McCloskey | "Religion Transformed: The Christian Roots of a Secular Russian Craft" |
Kilpatrick, Kaley | Apr. 2015 | Savage | "Flight 93 National Memorial, the African Burial Ground National Monument, and the Pursuit of Child-Appropriate Memorial Designs" |
Gallagher, Alice | Apr. 2015 | Savage | "Creation and Contemplation: The Flight 93 Memorial and the National September 11th Museum" |
Chen, Liyi | Apr. 2015 | Linduff | "Reinforcing Femininity: Exhibiting Empress Dowager and Marie Antoinette in the 21st Century" |
Weber, Jonathon T. | Apr. 2015 | Savage | "Faces of Empire: Social Discourse of Field Marshal, 1st Baron, Sir Jeffrey Amherst's Portraits Create in Life" |
Horton, Sarah | Apr. 2015 | Gao | "Methodological Suffering: Chinese Buddhism as a Tool in Zhang Huan's Early Performance Art" |
Lue, Karen | Apr. 2015 | Savage | "The Politics of Display: Transnational Convergence in the Chinese Nationality Room" |
Burgess, Lauren | Apr. 2014 | Bender | “Embodiment and Decoration: Henri Matisse’s Rosary Chapel in Vence, France” |
DiBitetto, James | Apr. 2014 | Bender & Savage | “Curating Minimalism at the Carnegie Museum of Art” |
Hazel, Chris | Apr. 2014 | Armstrong | “Re-Thinking Architecture: A Call for a New Social Space” |
Kemp, Joanna | Apr. 2014 | Bender | “The Encounters Project: Teaching Art History Outside of the University” |
Kresse, Kelsey | Apr. 2014 | Bender | “Tracey Emin’s My Bed: Creative Space and Mythic Consequences” |
Marriott, Elizabeth | Apr. 2014 | Eppihimer | “The Display of Cylinder Seals” |
Meloy, Grace | Apr. 2014 | Bender | “Circulation, Access, and Tourist Experience: Berlin’s Center and Periphery as Cast Study” |
Selya, Stephanie | Apr. 2014 | Ellenbogen | “Painting with Light: The Composite World War I Photography of Frank Hurley” |
Warren, Julia | Apr. 2014 | Rajagopalan | “The Nature of the High Line: A Jacobsian Perspective on New Yorks ‘Park in the Sky’” |
Williams, Elana | Apr. 2014 | Ellenbogen | “Representing Genetic Disease in Modernity: Rick Guidotti as the Contemporary Medical Photographer” |
Lu, Siqiao | Dec. 2013 | Savage | “Antagonistic Therapy – Krzysztof Wodickzko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection” |
Castro, Maria | Apr. 2013 | McCloskey | “‘A Semana de Arte Moderna’ and the Creation of a Brazilian National Identity for Art in 1922” |
Harris, Kristina | Apr. 2013 | Bender and Langmead | “Food for Thought: Rethinking the Process of Processing with Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules” |
Henke, Kelsey | Apr. 2013 | Bailey | “Gender, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Hipster Visual Culture” |
Shine, Tyler | Apr. 2013 | Ellenbogen | “Taboo Icons: The Photography of Andres Serrano and the Visual Politics of the Body” |
Sweet, Natalie | Apr. 2013 | Bailey | “Pinning Up Venus: Origins of the Newbrow” |
DiDonna, Gabriela | Apr. 2012 | Ellenbogen | “Reconstructing Vision: David Hockney’s Photocollage” |
Goldstein, Alexandra | Apr 2012 | Armstrong | "A.W.N. Pugin's Medieval Court in the Great Exhibition of 1851” |
Haley, Sarah | Apr. 2012 | McKim | “Past, Present and Future: A Study of Pittsburgh’s ‘Ghost’ Signage” |
Labash, Chanelle | Apr. 2012 | Harris | “’Oriental’ Carpets in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings” |
Peterson, Lucy | Apr. 2012 | Gerhart | “Flowers: Form and Function in Medieval Japanese Handscrolls” |
Ross, Allison | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scenes: Embodying Modern Berlin” |
Taylor, Lauren | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “Representing Africa at the Carnegie Museum of Art” |
Trum, Stephanie | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “’Tragedy of the People’: Representing Human Suffering in Moscow’s Victory Park” |
Cooperstein, Shana | Apr. 2011 | Ellenbogen | “Likeness in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Photo Portraits” |
Jackson, Trudy | Apr. 2011 | Harris | “Franz Landsberger and the Myth of the ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt” |
Lue, Jennifer | Apr. 2011 | Minglu | “Woman as City: Depictions of Women and the City Urban Project in Chinese Contemporary Art" |
Murin, Carolyn | Apr. 2011 | Christian | “Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty? Venetian Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century, Titian’s La Flora and La Bella" |
Ostergaard, Liesl | Apr. 2011 | Savage | “Separation Barrier Graffiti at Bethlehem: Public Art in a Contested Area” |
Williams, Marie | Apr. 2011 | McCloskey | “Veshch'/Gegenstand/Objet: El Lissitzky and the Socialist Object in Western Europe” |
Yadloskey, Sherry | Apr. 2011 | McCloskey | “Representations of the New Woman in Weimar Art and Political Propaganda” |
Zhang, Hanlu | Apr. 2011 | Ellenbogen | “Sontag Against Sontag: Problems in Photographic Presentation" |
Lewis, Stephen | Apr. 2010 | Ellenbogen | "Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas" |
Mansfield, Patrick | Apr. 2010 | Bender and McCloskey | "Progression, Stasis and Gender: The Postage Stamp in East Germany" |
McLaughlin, Lauren | Apr. 2010 | Christian | "Dante Portraiture in the Time of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici: Bronzino's Mute Poetry-Two Allegories in Context" |
Weingartner, Amy | Apr. 2010 | Ellenbogen | "Monstrous Monsters in Modern China" |