Eighteenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2016

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Adams, Alissa, “Depictions of Napoleon I’s Resurrection (1821–1848)” (Iowa, D. Johnson)

Berman, Daniella, “Aesthetics of Contingency: History and the Unfinished Paintings of the French Revolution” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow)

Bernstein, Margot, “Carmontelle’s Profile Pictures and the Things that Made Them Modern” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)

Brandner, Christine, “Addressing another Body in Jean-Etienne Liotard’s Portraiture” (Yale, N. Suthor)

Brosnan, Kelsey, “Seductive Surfaces: Anne Vallayer Coster and the Eighteenth-Century Still Life” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)

Cardon, Alexandra, “Circa 1700: Royal Retreats, Academic Unrest and the Roots of Rococo” (CUNY, J. Sund)

Casey, Emily, “Waterscapes: Representing the Sea in the American Imagination, 1750–1800” (Delaware, W. Bellion)

Caticha, Alicia, “Étienne-Maurice Falconet and the Matter of Sculpture: Marble, Porcelain, and Sugar in Eighteenth-Century Paris” (Virginia, S. Betzer)

Crawford, Katelyn D., “Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780” (Virginia, M. McInnis)

Desplanque, Kathryn, “Art, Commerce, and Caricature: Satirical Images of Artistic Life in Paris, 1750–1850” (Duke, N. McWilliam)

DiSalvo, Lauren Kellogg, “Micromosaics: Souvenirs, Collective Memory, and the Reception of Antiquity on the Grand Tour” (Missouri, M. Yonan; K. W. Slane)

Gear, Jennifer, “Paintings of the 1630–31 Plague in Venice and the Veneto” (Michigan, M. Holmes)

Gebauer, Elizabeth, “The Art of Speech: Flemish Baroque Pulpits, 1627–1794” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)

Gomez Todo, Sandra, “Abandoned Schools of Pleasure: Unmasking Gender and Identity in the Visual Culture of the Georgian Masquerade” (Iowa, D. Johnson)

Griffiths, Christine, “From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England” (Bard Graduate Center, D. Krohn)

Hahn, Monica, “Go-Between Portraits and the Imperial Imagination circa 1800” (Temple, E. Pauwels)

Hannebrink, Ashley, “Living with the Past: Antiquity and Sculptural Production in the Domestic Interior in Eighteenth-Century France” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)

Harmeyer, Rachel, “After Angelica Kauffman” (Rice, L. Costello)

Helprin, Alexandra, “The Sheremetevs and the Argunovs: Art, Serfdom, and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)

Kang, Changduk, “Before the Reality Effect: Wax Representations in Eighteenth-Century France” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)

Laux, Barbara M., “Claude III Audran, Modern Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)

Lehman, Bree, “Ancestors and Heirlooms: The Reception, Collection, and Display of Early American Portraiture, 1876–1941” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)

Mayer, Tamar, “Consequences of Drawing: Self and History in Jacques-Louis David’s Preparatory Practices” (Chicago, R. Ubl, M. Ward)

McHugh, Julia K., “Dressing Andean Spaces: Textiles, Painting, and Architecture in the Colonial Imagination” (UCLA, C. Villaseñor-Black)

Morrison, Alexandra, “Copying at the Louvre” (Yale, C. Armstrong)

Oleas-Mogollón, Isabel, “Jesuit Missionary and Visionary Experiences in Quito: La Compañía Prophet Paintings” (Delaware, M. Domínguez Torres)

Peterson, Laurel O., “The Decorated Interior: Artistic Production in the British Country House, 1688–1745” (Yale, T. Barringer)

Presutti, Kelly, “Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France” (MIT, K. Smentek)

Rado, Mei, “Xiyang Textiles in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Imperial Court: Fabrication, Display, and Representation of the West” (Bard Graduate Center, F. Louis)

Ridlen, Michael T., “Prud’ho’s Evolving Classicism” (Iowa, D. Johnson)

Spratt, Emily, “Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period” (Princeton, P. Brown)

Torbert, Amy, “Dissolving the Bonds: Sayer & Bennett, Print Publishers in an Age of Revolution” (Delaware, W. Bellion)

von Preussen, Brigid, “Manufacturing Classicism: Reproduction and Authorship in Late Georgian Britain” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)

Williams, Sarah Sylvester, “Delicious Decadence: Nicolas Lancret and the Art of Dining” (Missouri, M. Yonan)

Wunsch, Oliver, “Painting against Time: The Decaying Image in the French Enlightenment” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)

Zajac, Linda, “Miniature Worlds of Age and Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century English Domestic Interior” (University of Victoria, E. Campbell)