NAME | ADVISOR | THESIS TITLE | THESIS DATE
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CJ Dawson | McCloskey | The Past, Present, and Future of the Teenie Harris Archive | 2022 |
Ellie Downs | D'Anniballe | Repatriation as Resistance: The Evolving Dialogue of Native American Artifact Repatriation | 2022 |
Abreihona Lenihan | Smith | ABC: The Education of Raymond Saunders | 2022 |
Izumi Miyazaki | Bender | Mother Beheading Japanese Patriarchy: Reimagining Artemisia | 2022 |
Brianna Stellini | Morton | Fayum Mummy Portraits: Object Biography and Museum Display | 2022 |
Maja Lynn | Bender | The Politics of Possession: Herero Spiritual Epistemologies, Repatriation of Remains, and the Memorialization of the 1904-1908 Genocide | 2022 |
Louisa Post-Zwicker | Nygren | Sculpting Identity: Power and Representation in Italian Baroque Portraiture | 2021 |
Joseph Scapellato | Weaver | Gazing on the Plague: The Curative Power of Early Modern European Painting | 2021 |
Jada Crittendon | Hosseini | From Gert to Royal Tent | 2021 |
Maria Doku | Armstrong | Modular Housing: Efficiency and Sustainability for the 21st Century | 2021 |
Delia Franklin | Fozi | The Book of Kells: How a Medieval Manuscript Became a Modern Representation of Irishness | 2021 |
Roy Gao | Ellenbogen | History Lost and Found: Performative Re-enactments and Simulation in 'The Act of Killing' | 2021 |
Joshua Jordan | Morton | Roots of the Affordable Housing Crisis: How 20th-Century Racially Motivated Housing Policies Continue to Impact Today's Housing Market | 2021 |
Morgan Powell | Ellenbogen | Subject to Change: Greer Lankton and Memory Practices | 2021 |
Annie Abernathy | Taylor | From the Mixed-Up Files of E. L. Konigsburg: Mysteries of Value in the Museum | 2021 |
Angelina Veneziano | Nygren | A Historical Comparison of the Clapp Collection and the Albertina Facsimile | 2020 |
Anna Kate Payha | Armstrong | Resin Tables and Digital Fabrication: Defining the Furniture of the 21st Century | 2020 |
Wanyan Ma | McCoy | Art of the Cadaver: A Cross-Cultural Comprehension | 2020 |
Georgina Laube | Ellenbogen | Welt im Film, der Augenzeuge, und Deutsche Demokratische Republik: The Power of Propaganda in Germany's Post-World War II Climate | 2020 |
Claudia Haines | Taylor | Do Touch: Sculpture as a Means for Accessibility in Art Museums | 2020 |
Gillian Carver | Fozi | Reality v. History: An Introspective on American History through Black Artists Kehinde Wiley and Kara Walker | 2020 |
Molly Wight | Taylor | Childe Hassan, American Japonist | 2019 |
Emma Vescio | McCloskey | A House, But Not Here: On Adam Milner | 2019 |
Gabriela Schunn | Ellenbogen | Affective Solidarity: Exploring Trauma Art and Transformation | 2019 |
Rebecca Moser | Taylor | Queer Entomologist: Andrey Avinoff's Butterflies | 2019 |
Elena Marzina | Morton | Child's Play | 2019 |
Tom Lucy | Armstrong | Allegheny Center: Method and Mentality in Neighborhood Revitalization | 2019 |
Rose Hawk | Taylor | John Kane at Kennywood | 2019 |
Reagan Harper | Morton | Preservation of the Everyday | 2019 |
Emily Anne Ebersol | Armstrong | Design that Empowers: The Malawi Scholl Project | 2019 |
Heather Alvarado | Savage | Saamis: Perspectives Past and Present | 2019 |
Amanda Bartko | Taylor | Instananeous Ingenuity: Contemporary Artists and their use of Instagram | 2018 |
Imani Williford, | Taylor | The Art and Politics of Faith Ringgold's Children's Books | 2018 |
Emily Kathryn Campbell | McCloskey | Kameradschaft: Sculpture and the Cultural Politics of the Nazu Regime | 2018 |
Ilana Curtis | Rajagopalan | Model Affordability: Mass Housing Solutions from Berlin to the Bronx | 2018 |
Esra Daghestani | Rajagopalan | Designing for Disaster: Student Design Competition Entries in Response to Natural Disasters | 2018 |
Caroline Fazzini | Josten | Bookworks as Networks: Feminist Artists' Book Projects of the 1980s-90s | 2018 |
Rebecca Lee Koshner | Rajagopalan | Eyes on the Strip: Past, Present, and Future of Pittsburgh's Strip District | 2018 |
Mairin Plant | McCloskey | St. George Rides Again: The Russian Nationality Room | 2018 |
Ahona Raka Sarkar | Self | How the Past Persists in Period Rooms: An Examination of the Sun Ka Raku Teahouse | 2018 |
Abigail Sites | Armstrong and McCloskey | Henry Clay Frick's Mansions: From Private to Public | 2018 |
Annika Napier-Smith | McCloskey | Expressing Identity through Art: Reaching Pittsburgh's Teens Experiencing Homelessness | 2018 |
Sonnie Solomon | Ellenbogen | Inside/Out: Reconsidering the Photographic Binary with LaToya Ruby Frazer's 'The Nation of Family' | 2017 |
Max Stefan Poost | Armstrong | The Nine Mile Run Watershed: Tracing the Elements of Ecological Design | 2017 |
Abigail Hope Meloy | Nygren | Modalities of Visualizing the Divine: Image and Word in Lorenzo Lotto's Trescore Frescoes, 'Trinty' and 'Madonna of the Rosary' | 2017 |
Angelica Marks | Josten | + 41 Anti-Monument: A Critical Call to Reform Through Popular Will | 2017 |
Marie Manske | Bender and Josten | Nazi Rallies at Luna Park Stadium: Assessing the Visual Evidence | 2017 |
Katherine Lipinski | Josten | From Coca Plant to Cocaine: Metamorphosis in 'Helio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium' | 2017 |
Lin Hou | Rajagopalan | The Triangle of Sustainability: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Sustainable Architecture in Beijing and Pittsburgh | 2017 |
Elizabeth Hill | Ellenbogen | Child Labor Signified: Utility and Motion in Gustave Courbet's the Stonebreakers | 2017 |
Mariah Flanagan | Peters | How We View Egypt: The Importance of Intertemporality in Museum Displays | 2017 |
Lydia Andeskie | Bender | Rhetoric and Spectacle: What Historical Instances of Iconoclasm Can Tell Us About the Islamic State | 2017 |
Blair Marie Wedescheide | Bender | The World Trade Center Site: A Spectrum of Function and Emotion | 2016 |
Shengyu Wang | Smith | Should Art Labor Be Free? | 2016 |
Grace Elizabeth Strong | Nygren | Carlo Crivelli Matters: A View of the Renaissance from the 'Periphery' | 2016 |
Melissa Quarto | Josten | Performing Incanismo: Cultural Tourism at Machu Picchu, Peru | 2016 |
Emily Jane Mirales | Weis | Building a 'City of Reference': The United States Botanic Garden and Washington D.C. | 2016 |
Summer Liu | Rajagopalan | The Aesthetics and Architecture of Gentrification through a Case Study of Shoreditch, London | 2016 |
Brianna Marie Humbert | Bender | The Feminist Secretary: Activism, Typewriting, and the Gendering of Labor in the Work of Sheryl Oring | 2016 |
Meghan Ann Hipple | Och | Showing and Exposing: Re/encountering the Environment though American Painting, Photography and Television | 2016 |
Michael Vincent Guttilla | Armstrong | Big Ideals/BIG Ideas: The Emerging Architectural Epoch as Seen in the Hill | 2016 |
Nikita Marie Costantini | McCloskey | Upside-Down in London: George Baselitz and His Entrance into the International Art Scene | 2016 |
Paige Anderson | Rajagopalan | The Design of Dissent: Protest and Urban Space in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement | 2016 |
Daniel Augenbraun | Bender | Learning Through Teaching: Answering the Question of Why Art History Matters | 2015 |
Liyi Chen | Fozi and Linduff | Reinforcing Femininity: Exhibiting the Empress Dowager and Marie Antoinette in the 21st Century | 2015 |
Alice Gallagher | Savage | Creation and Contemplation: The Flight 93 Memorial and The National September 11 Museum | 2015 |
Sarah Jane Horton | Gao | Methodical Suffering: Chinese Buddhism as a Tool in Zhang Huan's Early Performance Art | 2015 |
Glace Alana Kelly | Josten | The University Studio: Oiticica, Rhodislandia, and Peripheral Strategies in Art Making” | 2015 |
Kaley Joyce Kilpatrick | Savage | Flight 93 National Memorial, the African Burial Ground National Monument, and the Pursuit of Child-Appropriate Memorial Designs | 2015 |
Karen Lue | Savage | The Politics of Display: Trans-national Convergence in the Chinese Nationality Room | 2015 |
Allison Mosco | McCloskey | Religion Transformed: The Christian Roots of a Secular Russian Craft | 2015 |
Abbey Katherine O’Brien | Josten | Radical Muralism in Three Dimensions: A Close Look at Siqueiros’ 'May Day Political Float' | 2015 |
Matthew Sova | Fozi | Women and 'Empore': The Issue of Gendered Space in Ottonian Architecture | 2015 |
Kirsten Armstrong | Fozi | Spirituality of Non-Sacred Space: Sanctifying a More Socialist Agenda | 2015 |
Jonathon Thomas Weber | Savage | Faces of Empire: Social Discourse of Field Marshal, 1st Bar-on, Sir Jeffery Amherst's Portraits Created in Life | 2015 |
Lauren Burgess | Bender | Embodiment and Decoration: Henri Matisse’s Rosary Chapel in Vence, France | 2014 |
James DiBitetto | Savage | Curating Minimalism at the Carnegie Museum of Art | 2014 |
Joanna Kemp | Bender | The Encounters Project: Teaching Art History Outside of the University | 2014 |
Kelsey Kresse | Bender | Tracy Emin’s 'My Bed' as Creative Space | 2014 |
Siqiao Lu | Savage | Antagonistic Therapy: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection | 2014 |
Elizabeth Marriott | Eppiheimer | The Display of Cylinder Seals | 2014 |
Stephanie Selya | Ellenbogen | Painting with Light: The Composite World War I Photography of Frank Hurley | 2014 |
Elana Williams | Ellenbogen | Representing Genetic Disease in Modernity: Rick Guidotti as the Contemporary Medical Photographer | 2014 |
Chris Hazel | Armstrong | Re-Thinking Architecture: A Call for a New Social Space | 2014 |
Grace Meloy | Bender | Circulation, Access, and Tourist Experience: Berlin's Center and Periphery as Case Study | 2014 |
Julia Warren | Rajagopalan | The Nature of the High Line: A Jacobsian Perspective on New York's 'Park in the Sky' | 2014 |
Maria Castro | McCloskey | A Semana de Arte Moderna’ and the Creation of a Brazilian National Identity for Art in 1922 | 2013 |
Kristina Harris | Bender and Langmead | Food for Thought: Rethinking the Process of Processing with Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules | 2013 |
Kelsey Henke | Bailey | Gender, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Hipster Visual Culture | 2013 |
Tyler Shine | Ellenbogen | Taboo Icons: The Photography of Andres Serrano and the Visual Politics of the Body | 2013 |
Natalie Sweet | Bailey | Pinning Up Venus: Origins of the Newbrow | 2013 |
Lauren Bucher | Bender | Bar Architecture: Design of the Third Place | 2013 |
Chong Hu | Linduff | The Return of Traditional Elements in Chinese Architecture during the Economic Upswing of the Early 21st Century | 2013 |
Eric Kobal | Rajagopalan | The Spirit of a Landscape: Designing North and South Park in the Interwar Period | 2013 |
Maeve Sattler | Armstrong | Early Twentieth-Century Social Housing Design in Vienna and London | 2013 |
Stephanie Trum | McCloskey | Tragedy of the People': Representing Human Suffering in Moscow's Victory Park | 2012 |
Lauren Taylor | McCloskey | Representing Africa at the Carnegie Museum of Art | 2012 |
Allison Ross | McCloskey | Kirschner's Berlin Street Scenes: Embodying Modern Berlin | 2012 |
Lucy Peterson | Gerhart | Flowers: Form and Function in Medieval Japanese Handscrolls | 2012 |
Chanelle Labash | Harris | Oriental' Carpets in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings | 2012 |
Sarah Haley | McKim | Past, Present and Future: A Study of Pittsburgh's 'Ghost' Signage | 2012 |
Alexandra Goldstein | Armstrong | A. W. N. Pugin's Medieval Court in the Great Exhibition of 1851 | 2012 |
Gabriella DiDonna | Ellenbogen | Reconstructing Vision: David Hockney's Photocollage | 2012 |
Shana Cooperstein | Ellenbogen | Likeness in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Photo Portraits | 2011 |
Trudy Jackson | Harris | Franz Landsberger and the Myth of the ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt | 2011 |
Jennifer Lue | Gao | Woman as City: Depictions of Women and the City Urban Project in Chinese Contemporary Art | 2011 |
Carolyn Murin | Christian | Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty? Venetian Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century, Titian’s La Flora and La Bella | 2011 |
Liesl Ostergaard | Savage | Separation Barrier Graffiti at Bethlehem: Public Art in a Contested Area | 2011 |
Mathew Showman | Smith | Ragnar Kjartansson | 2011 |
Marie Williams | McCloskey | Veshch'/Gegenstand/Objet: El Lissitzky and the Socialist Object in Western Europe | 2011 |
Sherry Yadlosky | McCloskey | Representations of the New Woman in Weimar Art and Political Propaganda | 2011 |
Hanlu Zhang | Ellenbogen | Sontag Against Sontag: Problems in Photographic Presentation | 2011 |
Seth Bartlett | Savage | Tiber Creek: Washington D.C.'s Unrelenting Piece of History | 2010 |
Jennifer Houseman | Bender | The Allure of the Garden Theatre: Its Existence as a Northside Institution | 2010 |
Steven Lewis | Ellenbogen | Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas | 2010 |
Lauren Maceross | Harris | El Greco's Embedded Portraiture | 2010 |
Patrick Mansfield | Bender and McCloskey | Progression, Stasis and Gender: The Postage Stamp in East Germany | 2010 |
Amy Weingartner | Ellenbogen | Monstrous Monsters in Modern China | 2010 |
Christine Carpenter | Bender | I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art | 2009 |
Lori Frola | Smith | Contemporary Art in Chile | 2009 |
Ike Harijanto | Ellenbogen | Pictorial Confrontation to Science and Universal Communication | 2009 |
Julie Hodas | McCloskey | Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany | 2009 |
Steven Lewis | McCloskey | Emil Nolde: Reconciling Past and Party | 2009 |
Lauren MacLaughlin | Christian | Dante Portraiture in the Time of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici: Bronzino's Mute Poetry-Two Allegories in Context | 2009 |
Tasha Mowery | McCloskey | Science and Art Restoration | 2009 |
Nicole Scalissi | Smith | One Cold Hand: Relation Aesthetics in Pittsburgh | 2009 |
Julie Steinbrink | McCloskey | Art as Therapy for WWI Artist-Veterans in Weimar Germany | 2009 |
Michele Campbell | Christian | The Influence of Dante's Beatrice on Michelangelo's Female Figures | 2008 |
Erin Hinson | Christian | Mantegna's visione all'antica: The St. James Frescoes, Northern Italian Antiquarianism, and the Roman Bias | 2008 |
Cory Rice | Ellenbogen | Reflections of Rrose: Duchamp and Warhol on Gender | 2008 |
Meaghan Colahan | Weis | Examining the Winemaking Motif on Attic Pottery and in Egyptian Tomb Paintings | 2008 |
Hannah Kauffmann | Ellenbogen | The Decisive Moment: Explored through the HCB's Photography and Garry Winogrand | 2008 |
Rachel O'Hara | Bender | Commonalities between the Landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the Early Chinese Landscapes | 2008 |
Nicole Rosato | Ellenbogen | Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore: How Painters See Photographically | 2008 |
Emma Waterloo | Toker | The Rise of the Architectural Drawing: A Journey in Development | 2008 |
Lindsay Wharton | Stones | Bibles of Kings: Images of David in the Bibles Moralisées and the Morgan Picture Bible | 2008 |
Alex Dixon | Bender | The New Castles of Potsdamer Platz | 2008 |
Savannah Fisher | McCloskey | US Reception to a Proclaimed 'Degenerate': A Study of Edvard Munch | 2008 |
Nicole Hinkle | Ellenbogen | An Exploration of Abstraction through Titles and Authorship during the Abstract Expressionist Period | 2008 |
Kristi Jan Hoover | Ellenbogen | Violence and Psychology in Photography | 2008 |
Anne Pavlick | Harris | The Young Painter in His Studio": Rembrandt's Masterful Introduction of the "Artist in His Studio" Genre to the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art World | 2008 |
Kim Sorensen | Harris | Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and the French Revolution | 2007 |
Sarah Stewart | Ellenbogen | Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development in Tana Hoban's Picture Books | 2007 |
Ariane Sarno | Christian | Homosocial Networks of Patronage Within the Papal Court as Seen through Portraits by Raphael | 2007 |
Adam Amrhein | Armstrong | Throwing Stones: The Social and Architectural Implications of the Phipps Conservatory | 2007 |
Allison Frymoyer | Harris | Unmasking Sofonisba: Discovering her True Self-portraits | 2007 |
Jamie Leonardi | McCloskey | Sex, Serial Murders and Sensationalism: A Study of Otto Dix, George Grosz and Lustmord | 2007 |
Maureen Logan | Gerhart and Linduff | The Japanese Oil Painting of Takahashi Yuichi and Koyama Shotaro: A New Way of Seeing Capitalism? | 2007 |
Dallas Sheldahl | Harris | The Role of the Spanish Inquisition in the Work of Velazquez and Goya | 2007 |
Donald Simpson | Savage | The City Useful: The Planning of Schenley Plaza, 1911-1918 | 2007 |
Sara Vogel | Stones | The Annunciation: An Exploration of Aesthetic in Sacred Art with Byzantine and Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Examples | 2007 |
Felicite Zimmermann | Sheon | Vincent van Gogh's Admiration and Emulation of Adolphe Monticelli | 2007 |
Steven Guerrisi | Bender | Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, and the Psychological Effect of Spatial Experiences on Patrons | 2007 |
Jennifer Roth | McCloskey | Anselm Kiefer's Books | 2007 |
Gretchen Manthey | Churchill | The Altarpiece of the Nativity: Its Place in Early Netherlandish Painting | 2006 |
Darin Stine | Christian | Representations of Raphael's Muse | 2006 |
Przemyslaw Linka | Bender | The Coast of Rügen and the Artistic Development of Caspar David Friedrich | 2006 |
Holli Janoski | Harris | Mary Magadalen: 1st-Century Penitent or 17th-Century Aristocrat | 2006 |
Curt Riegelnegg | McCloskey | Unraveling Paul Klee’s Eastern Mystique | 2006 |
Emily Schantz | Toker | Schenley High School: A Textbook Example of Form Following Function | 2006 |
Emily Kirkpatrick | Stones | The Gotha Missal: Patronage and an Analysis of Illumination | 2005 |
Robert Bailey | Smith | Creating the Contemporary: The 2004 Carnegie International and the Biennale Explosion | 2005 |
Rebecca D'Acunto | Savage | A Homely Woman's Opinion of a Pretty One: Jane Grey Swisshelm, Vinnie Ream, and the Image of Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century America | 2005 |
Kevi Lee Furgason-Clem | Churchill | Death of the Miser and the Ship of Fools in Hieronymous Bosch | 2005 |
Renee Gondek | Weis | The Sundial of Augustus | 2005 |
Christian Schoening | Piller | Clement Greenberg | 2005 |
Brenna Drury | Bender | Methodological Concerns in the Research of Installation Art, Using the Use of Shadows and Light in the Work of Christian Boltanski as Case Study | 2004 |
Chirstopher Guignon | Hearn | A Comparison of Heidegger’s Philosophies of Dwelling and the Origin of Art and 16th and 17th c. Japanese Architecture | 2004 |
Norah Krakosky | Linduff | The Effects of the Three Rivers Dam Project on the Cultural Artifacts of the Yangtze River Region | 2004 |
Sarah Lukens | Toker | Reception and Promotion of Modern Architecture in American Periodicals of 1930s | 2004 |
Adam Secola | Neal | Antoni Gaudi | 2004 |
Emily Semrau | Sheon | Popular Imagery and the French Revolution | 2004 |