In Progress
Joshua Basseches
“The ‘American School’ at the International Expositions of the Late Nineteenth Century“
First Reader: Hills
Shannon Bewley
“Earth Artists, Indigenous Earthworks, and Land Reclamation Sculpture from 1965 to 1985”
First Reader: Williams
Renée Brown
“Eye to Eye: Paul Vanderbilt and the Ordering of Photographic Knowledge, 1940-1970”
First Reader: Sichel
Kimber Chewning
“Facing Niemandsland: The Photographic Subjects of Divided Berlin”
First Reader: Sichel
İkbal Zeynep Dursunoğlu
“Imitators of God: The Moral Economy of Safavid and Mughal Painting, c. 1540-1640”
First Reader: Fetvaci
Colleen Foran
“At the Intersection of Ritual, Procession, and Performance Art: Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana”
First Reader: Becker
Sarah Horowitz
“Designing Postwar American Performing Arts Centers, 1955-1971”
First Reader: Abramson
Carter Jackson
“The Architecture of Britain’s Imperial Institutes and the Misgivings of Empire”
First Reader: Abramson
Hannah Jew
“The Best Piece of Furniture: Picturing Care Work and Care in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic”
First Reader: Zell
Sybil F. Joslyn
“Worth its Salt: Salvage in the Maritime Visual and Material Culture of America’s Long Nineteenth Century”
First Reader: Moore
Defne Kirmizi
“Building Artistic Autonomy in Turkey: Conceptual Strategies and Group Exhibitions between 1974 and 1994.”
First Reader: Williams
Jillianne Laceste
“Creating Columbus: The Visual Culture of Colonial Encounters in Early Modern Genoa”
First Reader: Cranston
Liz Neill
“Ancient Geographies, Modern Travels: Provenance(s) of Imagined Creatures on Archaic Painted Pottery (660-480 BCE)”
First Reader: Martin
Phillippa Pitts
“Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art and America’s Medical Democracy, 1800-1860”
First Reader: Barrett
Gabriel Quick
“Organizing Activist Art in 1980s New York: Political Art Documentation/Distribution”
First Reader: Williams
Althea Ruoppo
“Places of Assemblage: The Transnational German Sculpture of Isa Genzken, Reinhard Mucha, and Rosemarie Trockel”
First Reader: Williams
Constanza Robles Sepúlveda
“Visualizing Alliances: Pan Americanism, Hispanismo and Latin Americanism in the Art and Architecture of World Fairs, 1901-1929.”
First Reader: Reyes
Ana María Sánchez Lesmes
“The Emergence of Professional Art Curatorship in Colombia in the 1970s and 1980s”
First Reader: Reyes
Morgan Snoap
“The State of Silk: Silk brocade textiles (the hizam and khrib) in Fes, 19th c to present.”
First Reader: Becker
Completed Dissertations by Academic Year
2024-25
Bailey Benson
“In the Eye of the Beholder: Memory, Identity, and the Role of Viewer Reception in Roman Imperial Portraiture, 193-284 CE”
First Reader: Kleiner
2023-24
Kiernan Acquisto
“The Self-Conscious Kings: Agency and the Representation of Power on the Figural Relief Sarcophagi from The Aya’a Necropolis, Sidon” PDF
First Reader: Martin
Rebecca Arnheim
“Ephemera Made Permanent: The Creation, Collection, and Display of Portrait Drawings In Early Modern Italy” PDF
First Reader: Cranston
Willie Granston
“”As if it had Growed There”: Resort Architecture and the New England Landscape, 1875-1915″ PDF
First Reader: Abramson
Rachel Kase
“From Goltzius to Rembrandt: Landscapes of Change in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints and Drawings” PDF
First Reader: Zell
Katherine Mitchell
“Photographic Currents: The Nineteeth-Century US River Series of John P. Doremus, Carleton Watkins, and Timothy O’Sullivan” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Casey Monroe
“Economic Imperialism on the Global Frontier: William Henry Jackson’s Photographs for the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1897” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Carlos J. Muñoz
“The Image of the Strigil-Bearer in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 530 BCE-350 CE” PDF
First Reader: Martin
Julián Serna Lancheros
“Haciendo Patria: The Transatlantic Construction of the Official Artist. Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela (1860-1890)”
First Reader: Reyes
Francesca Soriano
“Feathers and Skins: Avian Art in the Nineteenth Century and Imperial Imagination” PDF
First Reader: Barrett
2022-23
Christina An
“Johannes Vermeer, Asian Porcelain, and the Primacy of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Holland”
First Reader: Zell
Tina Barouti
“A Critical Moroccan Chronology: The National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan Since 1946″ PDF
First Reader: Becker
Hyunjin Cho
“Illustrated Manuscripts and Lithographic Books in Dialogue: Firdawsi’s Shahnama in Nineteenth-Century Iran”
First Reader: Fetvaci
Lydia Harrington
“”Improve and Reform Them”: Ottoman Vocational Schools in Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut, 1869-1918”
First Reader: Fetvaci
Catherine O’Reilly
“Last Supper Refectory Frescoes in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Painting, Performance, Senses, and Space”
First Reader: Cranston
Joseph Saravo
“Re-Covering Gerrit Dou: Still Life Covers, Embodiment, and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting”
First Reader: Zell
Jennifer S. Tafe
“Nikosthenes: Innovation and Identity in Late Archaic Vase Painting”
First Reader: Martin
Alexandria H. Yen
“The Door Motif in Roman Art: 200 BCE – 320 CE”
First Reader: Kleiner
2021-22
Lynne Cooney
“From the Gertrude Posel Gallery to the Wits Art Museum: Exhibiting African Art at a South African University” PDF
First Reader: Becker
Lauren Graves
“The Politics of Place: Photographing New York City during the New Deal” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Alison Terndrup
“The Sultan’s Gaze: Power and Ceremony in the Imperial Portraiture Campaign of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839)” PDF
First Reader: Fetvaci
2020-21
PJ Carlino (AMNESP)
“Docile by Design: Commercial Furniture and the Education of American Bodies 1840-1920” PDF
First Reader: Moore
Jordan Karney Chaim
“Do It Yourselves: Artists, Alternative Spaces and the Rise of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 1970-1990.” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Elisa Germán
“The Creative State: The Calcografía Nacional and Printmaking in the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Madrid, 1939-1959” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Sasha Goldman
“Torno Subito: Maurizio Cattelan and the Return(s) of Italy” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Kelsey Gustin
“Picturing Reform: Ashcan Women and the Visual Culture of the Progressive Era in New York City” PDF
First Reader: Hills
Ewa Matyczyk
“Intervention, Memory, and Community: Public Art and Architecture in Warsaw since 1970” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Samuel Palfreyman (AMNESP)
“The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its Twentieth-Century Architecture” PDF
First Reader: Moore
2019-20
Tessa Hite
“Rebranding the Enemy: American Propaganda and Photography in Germany, 1944-1949” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Amanda Lett
“Valuable Paper and Counterfeit Presentments: Alfred Jones, the American Art-Union and Antebellum Bank Note Engraving” PDF
First Reader: Hills
Bryn Schockmel
“The Historical Procession of Andrea Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar: From the Palazzo Ducale to Hampton Court Palace” PDF
First Reader: Cranston
Samuel Shupe (AMNESP)
“Pedaling Vacationland: Bicyclists, Genteel Recreation, and the Maine Landscape, 1878-1902” PDF
First Reader: Moore
2018-19
Lara Ayad
“Picturesque Peasants: Painting Egyptian Identity at the Fuad I Agricultural Museum in Cairo” PDF
First Reader: Becker
Leslie K. Brown
“The Kodak Picture Spot Sign: American Photographic Viewing and Twentieth-Century Corporate Visual Culture” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Caitlin Dalton
“Imprinting Art and Ideology: Memory and Pedagogy in the Early German Democratic Republic” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Jamie Devol (AMNESP)
“William Henry Furness, Frank Furness, and Louis Sullivan: From Transcendentalism to Architecture, 1802-1924”
First Reader: Morgan
Margaret Shortle
“Illustrated Divans of Hafiz: Islamic Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Literature, 1450-1650”
First Reader: Fetvaci
2017-18
Rebekah Beaulieu (AMNESP)
“Accounting for the Past: Historic House Museums and America’s Urban Midwest” PDF
First Reader: Moore
Melanee Harvey
“Upon this Rock: Architectural, Material, and Visual Histories of Two Black Protestant Churches, 1881-1969” PDF
First Reader: Morgan
Anjuli Lebowitz
“Faith in the Field: The Art of Discovery in Auguste Salzmann’s Photographic Albums, 1854-1875” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Erin McKellar
“Tomorrow on Display: American and British Housing Exhibitions, 1940-1955” PDF
First Reader: Hochhäusl
Erin Hyde Nolan
“Ottomans Abroad: The Circulation and Translation of Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Portrait Photographs” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Sarah Parrish
“Anthropologies of Fiber: Claire Zeisler, Ed Rossbach, Sheila Hicks” PDF
First Reader: Williams
Lana Sloutsky
“Quasi Alterum Byzantium: The Preservation of Identity Through Memory and Culture by Aristocratic Byzantine Women, 1440-1600” PDF
First Reader: Cranston
Emily Voelker
“From Both Sides of the Lens: Anthropology, Native Experience & Photographs of American Indians in French Exhibitions, 1870-1890″
First Reader: Sichel
2016-17
Lindsay Alberts
“From Stuidiolo to Uffizi: Sites of Collecting and Display under Francesco I de’ Medici” PDF
First Reader: Cranston
Second Reader: Zell
Susan Barahal
“Repaint, Reframe, Renew: Updating Sacred Images during the Early Italian Renaissance” PDF
First Reader: Cranston
Second Reader: Kahn
Caroline M. Riley
“’Ambassador of Good Will’: The Museum of Modern Art’s Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe and the United States” PDF
First Reader: Hills
Second Reader: Sichel
Deborah Hartry Stein
“The Visual Rhetoric of Charles Callahan Perkins: The Early Italian Renaissance and a New Fine Arts Paradigm for Boston” PDF
First Reader: Morgan
Second Reader: Cranston
Alona Wilson
“The Formation of an African American Artis, Hughie Lee-Smith, From 1925 to 1968” PDF
First Reader: Hills
Second Reader: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
2015-16
George Born (AMNESP)
“Home Rule: Local Historic Districting in the New Boston, 1953-1983”
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Kathleen Daly (AMNESP)
“Fit to Mother: Women, Architecture, and the Performance of Health, 1865-1930” PDF
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Second Reader: William D. Moore
Beth Pugliano
“All Those Who Fight: The Motif of Single Combat in Romanesque Art, c. 1050-1215” PDF
First Reader: Kahn
Casey Riley (AMNESP)
“From page to stage: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s photograph albums and the development of her museum, 1874-1924”
First Reader: Sichel
Karen Robbins (AMNESP)
“Discipline and Polish: Designing the “Family System” at the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, 1868-1921” PDF
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Second Reader: William D. Moore
Seung Yeon Sang
“The Trajectory of Modern Ceramic Scholarship: Okuda Seiichi’s Ceramic Appreciation in the Taishō Period, 1912 – 1926” PDF
First Reader: Alice Y. Tseng
Second Reader: Louise Cort
George Schwartz (AMNESP)
“‘Collecting and Arranging…a History of the Globe’: A Reconsideration of the Salem East India Marine Society and Antebellum American Museology” PDF
First Reader: Morgan
Naomi Slipp
“The Secret Figure: Artistic Anatomy and the Search for the Medical Body in Nineteenth-Century American Art”
First Reader: Hills
Ginger Elliott Smith
“Technology and Artistic Practice in 1960s and 1970s Southern California” PDF
First Reader: Gregory Williams
Second Reader: Patricia Hills
Martina Tanga
“Arte Ambientale and Arte nel Sociale in Italian Art of the 1970s”
First Reader: Gregory Williams
Catherine Walsh
“Renaissance Landscapes and the Figuration of Giambologna’s Appennino: An Ecocritical Analysis” PDF
First Reader: Jodi Cranston
Second Reader: Michael Zell
2014-15
Judy Ditner
“Art is a Lie that Makes Us Realize Truth: Walid Raad’s Abstract Realism” PDF
First Reader: Kim Sichel
Second Reader: Gregory Williams
Kenneth Hartvigsen
“‘Patriotism, Race, and Gender Bending Through American Song: Cover Illustrations of Popular Music from the Civil War to World War I” PDF
First Reader: Patricia Hills
Second Reader: William D. Moore
Keely Orgeman
“Visualizing the Irradiated Body and Radioactive Landscape in American Art, 1945-2010” PDF
First Reader: Patricia Hills
Second Reader: Gregory Williams
Brian Sirman (AMNESP)
“Concrete Dreams: Architecture, Politics, and Boston’s New City Hall, 1960-2010” PDF
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Zachary Violette (AMNESP)
“The Decorated Tenement: Working-Class Housing in Boston and New York, 1860-1910” PDF
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Second Reader: William D. Moore
2013-14
Carrie Anderson
“Johan Maurits’s Brazilian Collection: The Role of Ethnographic Gifts in Colonial Discourse” PDF
First Reader: Michael Zell
Second Reader: Jodi Cranston
John Gordon (AMNESP)
“Lurelle Guild’s Historical Modernism: Americana and Industrial Design” PDF
First Reader: Keith N. Morgan
Second Reader: Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Katherine Harper
“Hendrick Goudt: New Light on an Artist and Nobleman” PDF
First Reader: Michael Zell
Second Reader: Jodi Cranston
Yanchiuan He
“The Materiality, Style, and Culture of Calligraphy in the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)” PDF
First Reader: Qianshen Bai
Second Reader: Heping Liu
Meghen Jones
“Tomimoto Kenkichi and the Discourse of Modern Japanese Ceramics” PDF
First Reader: Alice Y. Tseng
Second Reader: Louise Allison Cort
Dean George Lampros (AMNESP)
“Like a Real Home: The Residential Funeral Home and America’s Changing Vernacular Landscape, 1910 – 1960″ PDF
First Reader: Richard M. Candee
Second Reader: William D. Moore
Austin Porter
“Paper Bullets: The Office of War Information and American World War II Print Propaganda” PDF
First Reader: Hills
Jessica Roscio (AMNESP)
“Photographic domesticity: The home/studios of Alice Austen, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward, and Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1885–1915” PDF
First Reader: Sichel
Benjamin Zweig
“Depicting the Unforgivable Sin: Images of Suicide in Medieval Art” PDF
First Reader: Kahn
2012-13
Katherine Carroll
“Modernizing the American Medical School, 1893-1940: Architecture, Pedagogy, Professionalization, and Philanthropy”
First Reader: Morgan
Susanne Moebus-Bergeron
“The Adaptation and Application of Goldsmith Techniques in Medieval Manuscripts from the Early Eleventh to the Mid-Thirteenth Century”
First Reader: Kahn
Colin Root (AMNESP)
”Living on the Level’: The Significance of Horizontality in Shaping Cold-War America”
First Reader: Morgan
Tara Ward
“Personal Space: Simultaneity in the 1913 Work of Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay”
First Reader: Cranston
Francine Weiss (AMNESP)
“Visual Verses: Edward Weston’s Photographs for Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 1941-1942”
First Readers: Hills, Sichel
2011-12
Virginia Anderson
” ‘A State of Anxious Uncertainty’: The Critical Reception of Jasper Johns”
First Readers: Jones, Williams
Christine Hult-Lewis (AMNESP)
“The Mining Photographs of Carleton Watkins, 1858-1891 and the Origins of Corporate Photography”
First Reader: Sichel
Amber Ludwig
“‘Becoming Emma Hamilton: Portraiture and Self-Fashioning in Late Enlightenment Europe”
First Reader: Redford
Melissa Renn
“LIFE in the Art World, 1936-1972”
First Reader: Hills
2010-11
Stacey Cutshaw
“Intimate Images: The Public and the Private in Twentieth-Century American Photography”
First Readers: Jones, Sichel
Keith Doherty
“Roman Landscape Painting, Narrative, and Ancient Cartography
First Reader: Kleiner
Dalia Habib Linssen
“Imprints of Their Being: the Photographs of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel.”
First Reader: Sichel
Holly Markovitz Goldstein
“American Landscapes as Revisionist History: The Frontier Photographs ofMark Klett, John Pfahl, Deborah Bright, and Robert Adams”
First Reader: Sichel
Timothy Orwig
“Patriotism, Taste, and Authenticity: Joseph Everett Chandler, the Preservation Movement and the Colonial Revival.”
First Reader: Morgan
Ellen Roberts
“Japanese Art and the American Aesthetic Interior, 1870-1900”
First Reader: Morgan
Pre 2010
| 2009 | ||
| Dolan, Julia | “I will Take you into the Heart of Modern Industry: Lewis Hine’s Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age” | K. Sichel |
| DuBois, Michelle | “Picturing ‘The Structure of Becoming’ – Charles Seliger’s Expressions of Complexity.” | P. Hills,G. Williams |
| Dumett, Mari | “Corporate Imaginations: The Fluxus Collective in the Age of Multinational Capitalism” | C. Jones,P. Hills |
| Emans Moore, Charlotte (AMNESP) | “Art as Text, War as Context: The Art Gallery of the Metropolitan Fair, New York City’s Artistic Community, and the Civil War” |
P. Hills |
| Lamunière, Michelle | “The Social Museum at Harvard: Francis Greenwood Peabody and Early Twentieth-Century Social Reform Photography in Context “ | K. Sichel |
| 2008 | ||
| Albers, Kate Palmer | “Archive/Atlas/Album: The Photographic Records of Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. Lê, and Gerhard Richter” | C. Jones,K. Sichel |
| Barrett, Ross | “Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Art and Visual Culture” | P. Hills |
| Burgess, Rebekah(AMNESP) | “Collecting Agency: Turn-of-the-Century Lowell, Massachusetts Workers Return the Camera’s Gaze’ | K. Sichel |
| De Appolonia, Giovanna | “Profane and Sacred Justice: The Symbolism of the Romanesque Column-Bearing Lion from Northern Italy” | D. Kahn |
| Mayer, Stephanie | “The Art of The Gift: Mount, Sully, Huntington, and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry” | P. Hills |
| 2007 | ||
| Senf, Rebecca | “Intimate Places: Ansel Adams’s Photographs in the American West and Southwest, 1916-1936” | K. Sichel |
| Steck, Stuart | “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” | C. Jones,P. Hills |
| 2006 | ||
| Blais, Catherine | “The Artist/ Curator Phenomenon: Maneuvers In The Economy of a Relation” | C. Jones,J. Ribner |
| Driemeyer, Laura(AMNESP) | “Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of 19th Century Building Culture in Charlestown, Massachusetts” | K.N. Morgan |
| Seaman, Natasha | “Archaism and the Critique of Caravaggio in the Religious Paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen” | M. Zell |
| Tronchin, Francesca | “An Eclectic Locus Artis: The Casa Di Octavius Quartio At Pompeii” | F. Kleiner |
| 2005 | ||
| Hamilton, Jaimey | “Strategies of Excess: The Postwar Assemblages of Alberto Burri, Robert Rauschenberg, and Arman” | C. Jones,P. Hills |
| 2004 | ||
| Gertsman, Elina | “Debeo Saltare: Theology, Reception and Performativity in the Medieval Dance of Death.” | J. Cranston |
| Hoss, Mary Louise | “The Female Collegian in Black and White: Institutional Photography of Women Students 1895-1915” | K. Sichel |
| Shafer, Deborah | “Fashioning an Ideal of Intimacy: British Family Portraits, 1730-1790” | J. Ribner |
| 2003 | ||
| Altvater, Francis A | “In Fonte Renatus: The Iconography and Context of Twelfth-CenturyBaptismal Fonts in England” | D. Kahn |
| Furth, Leslie | “Imaging Transgression: Subverting the Victorian Norm in the Work of Thomas Satterwhite Noble, John Singer Sargent and John White Alexander” | P. Hills,J. Ribner |
| Kjellman-Chapin, Monica | “Embodying Aestheticism: Whistler and the Tradition of the Nude” | J. Ribner |
| Lawrence, Kathleen(AMNESP) | “Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy: Margaret Fuller, William Wetmore” | S. Mizruchi, P. Hills |
| Richardson, Milda B | “The Metamorphosis of the Lithuanian Wayside Shrine, 1850-1990” | K.N. Morgan |
| 2002 | ||
| Bresler, Ross | “Between Ancient and All’antica: The Imitation of Roman Coins in the Renaissance” | H. Wohl,F. Kleiner |
| Lane, Grayson Harris | “Duncan Phillips and the Phillips Memorial Gallery: A Patron and Museum in Formation, 1918-1940” | P. Hills |
| Iarocci, Louisa | “Spaces of Desire: The Department Store in America” | K.N. Morgan |
| Rhee, Jieun | “Performing the Order: Asian Bodies in Performance and Video Art” | C. Jones,P. Hills |
| Rubin, Sydelle | “Emigrants in Harlem: New Perspective on Miguel Covarrubias and Winold Reiss” | P. Hills,S. Nelson |
| Vure, Sarah | “Independent American Artist: The Post-Armory Show Careers of Robert Henri and John Sloan” | P. Hills |
| 2001 | ||
| Carso, Kerry Dean(AMNESP) | “Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of RomanticLiterature, 1800-1850” | K.N. Morgan |
| D’Ambrosio, Paul S(AMNESP) | “Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997): The Making of a Working-Class Artist” | P. Hills |
| Dermer, Rachelle | “Led to Believe: Photography and the Construction of the Medical Subject” | C. Jones,K. Sichel |
| Spinari-Pollalis, Tatiana | “André Breton: Psychiatry in the Service of Surrealism” | K. Sichel |
| Taylor, Stephanie | “Constructing Cornell: Artistic Identity and the Invention of Joseph Cornell” | C. Jones |
| Wilcox-Titus, Catherine | “Skin Deep: Authorship, Authenticity, and Picturing a Self in American Art since the 1970s” | C. Jones,P. Hills |
| 2000 | ||
| Georgi, Karen | “Asher B. Durand’s American Landscapes and the Nature of Representation” | P. Hills |
| 1999 | ||
| Alexander-Shilland, Kimberly | “Ware and Van Brunt: Architectural Practice and Professionalization (1863-1881)” | K.N. Morgan |
| Housefield, James E | “French Interpretations of Leonardo da Vinci’s Modernity: A Mind at Work in Art and Science” | H. Wohl |
| Kao, Deborah Martin | “Radioactive Icons: The Critical Reception and Cultural Meaning of Modern Religious Art in Cold War America” | P. Hills,C. Jones |
| Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle(AMNESP) | “’Haunting Echoes’: Histories and Exhibition Strategies for Collecting Nineteenth-Century African-American Crafts” | P. Hills |
| Lyons, Maura | “William Dunlap and Construction of an American Art History” | P. Hills,K.N. Morgan |
| Payne, Carol J. | “Interactions of Photography and the Mass Media, 1920-1941” | K. Sichel |
| Stomberg, John | “Art and Fortune: Machine-Age Discourse and the Visual Culture of Industrial Modernity” | P. Hills,K. Sichel |
| 1998 | ||
| Bookbinder, Judith | “Figurative Expressionism in Boston and its Germanic Cultural Affinities: An Alternative Modernist Discourse on Art and Identity” | P. Hills,C. Jones |
| Ehrenpries, David | “Beyond the Femme Fatale: Female Types in Wilhelmime Visual Culture” | J. Ribner |
| Fontana, Jeffrey | “Federico Barocci: Imitation and the Formation of Artistic Identity” | H. Wohl |
| Gruskin, Nancy B | “Building Context: The Personal and Professional Life of Eleanor Raymond, Architect (1887-1989)” | K.N. Morgan |
| 1997 | ||
| Barr, Peter | “Becoming Documentary: Berenice Abbott’s Photographs, 1925-1939” | K. Sichel |
| Brody, David Eric(AMNESP) | “Fantasy Realized: The Philippines, Orientalism, and Imperialism in Turn-of-the century American Visual Culture” | P. Hills,K.N. Morgan |
| 1996 | ||
| Hanni, Margaret | “The Marriage Portrait in 18th-Century England” | A. Binion |
| Riccardi, Lee Ann | “Roman Imperial Portraiture in the Eastern Provinces, A.D. 235-270: A Study of Reception and Rejection of Imperial Models” | F. Kleiner |
| Trump, Erik Krenzen(AMNESP) | “The Indian Industries League and its Support of American Indian Arts 1893-1922:A Study of Changing Attitudes Towards Indian women and Assimilationist Policy” | P. Hills |
| 1995 | ||
| Allen, Nina(AMNESP) | “Thomas Hart Benton and John Steinbeck: Populist Realism in the Depression Era” | W. Vance,P. Hills |
| Carson, Jeanie Cooper(AMNESP) | “Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in United States Office of War Information (OWI) Photography, 1940-1945” | K. Sichel |
| White, Eric | “Hugo Van Der Goes and the Art of Imitation in Early Netherlandish Painting” | A. Binion |
| 1994 | ||
| McInnes, Mary Drach | “Taboo and Transgression: The Subversive Aesthetics of Georges Bataille and Documents” | K. Sichel,F. Licht |
| Patton, Pamela A | “The Cloister of San Juan de la Pena and Monumental Sculpture in Aragon and Navrre” | S. Von Daum Tholl |
| Steinberg, Norma Sheila | “William Gropper: Art and Censorship from the 1930s Cold War Era” | P. Hills |
| Thompson (Moriarty), Phyllis Anina | “The Triumph of Poverty Over Fortune: Illuminations From Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium” | N. Miller |
| 1993 | ||
| Murphy, Debra | “The Fresco Decoration of the Pauline Rooms in the Palazzo Dei Conservatori” | H. Wohl |
| Nahum, Katherine | “Coborn Harding ‘The Importance of Velazquez to Goya, Manet and Sargent’” | F. Licht |
| 1992 | ||
| Bauman, Priscilla | “Regional Iconography in Auvergne: Pre-Chistian and Gallo-Roman Vocabulary in Romanesque Sculpture” | S. Von Daum Tholl |
| Green, Caroline V | “Fabricating a Dream: American World’s Fair Sculpture, 1876-1915” | F. Licht,K.N. Morgan |
| Hirshler, Erica E | “Lillian Westcott Hale (1880-1963): A Woman Painter of Boston School” | P. Hills |
| Milhous, Margaret | “Honos and Virtus in Roman Art” | F. Kleiner |
| 1991 | ||
| Ashbrook, Susan | “The Private Press Movement in Britain 1890-1914” | J. Ribner,K. N. Morgan |
| Porterfield, Todd B | “Art in the Service of the French Imperialism in the Near East, 1798-1848: Four Case Studies” | F. Licht,J. Ribner |
| Sheckler, Allyson | “Roman Honorary Arches in Iberia” | F. Kleiner,J. Wiseman |
| 1990 | ||
| Goodwin, Mary | “Minor White: Silence of Seeing. Teaching Photography’s Visible Language” | C. Chiarenza, K. Sichel |
| Kahn, Lisa C | “Gallo-Roman Sculpture from Soulosse, France” | F. Kleiner |
| Milne, Louise S | “Dreams and Popular Beliefs in the Imagery of Pieter Bruegal the Elder c. 1528-1569” | H. Wohl,N. Miller |
| 1989 | ||
| Doezema, Marianne | “George Bellows & Urban America 1905-1913” | P. Hills,D. Hall |
| Panzer, Mary(AMNESP) | “Romantic Origins of American Realism: Photography, Arts & Letters in Philadelphia 1850-1875” | C. Chiarenza |
| 1988 | ||
| Cassidy, Donna | “The Painted Music of America in the Works of Arthur G. Dove, John Marin and Joseph Stella: An Aspect of Cultural Nationalism” | P. Hills |
| Glavin, Ellen Marie | “Maurice Prendergast: The Development of an American Post-Impressionist, 1900-1925” | P. Hills |
| Hoff, Michael C | “The Roman Agora at Athens” | F. Kleiner |
| Johnston, Patricia | “Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography: The Visual Strategies of Persuasion” | C. Chiarenza, P. Hills |
| Nessen, Susan W | “Surrealism in Exile: The Early New York Years, 1940-1942” | H. Wohl |
| Stewart, David Alan | “G.F. Watts: The Social and Religious Themes” | K. Bendiner, K.N. Morgan |
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1987 |
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| Black, Janet Phyrn | “Aspects of the Artist’s Education in Eighteenth-Century France” | A. Binion |
| Dabakis, Melissa | “Saul Baizerman (1889-1957)” | P.Hills,F. Licht |
| Longsworth, Ellen L | “The Renaissance Tomb in Milan” | H. Wohl |
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| Calo, Carole Gold | “Aspects of Wood Sculpture in America During the 1950’s” | F. Licht |
| Stott, Annette | “American Painters who worked in the Netherlands” | P. Hills |
| Webbe, Nancy Lodge | “The Three Graces in Renaissance Art: Origins and Transformations of a Theme” | H. Wohl |
(AMNESP) denotes the student is a doctoral candidate in the American and New England Studies Program; all others are History of Art & Architecture doctoral candidates/recipients.