Twentieth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Adomanis, Asia, "On the Borders of Abstraction: Chinese American Artists and the Politics of Style in Cold War American Art"(Ohio State University, J. Patterson, J. Andrews)

Armandroff, Olivia, "Volcanic Matter: Land Formation and Artistic Creation" (University of Southern California, A. Ogata)

Asako, Katsura, "Busshitsu in Photography: The Materiality of Photographed Objects in Conceptual Photography in Japan and California in the 1960s–1970s" (University of California, Irvine, W. Bert)

Bolfo, Francesca, "The Embodied Island: Exile and Eros in the Art of Contemporary Cuba" (University of Pennsylvania, G. Shaw K., J. Katz)

Brown, Renee, "Eye to Eye: Paul Vanderbilt and the Ordering of Photographic Knowledge, 1940-1970" (Boston University, K. Sichel, W. Moore)

Carty, Rachel Spaulding, "Transmissions from the Cosmos: Challenging NASA’s Visual Language of Space Exploration in Postwar American Art, 1962–1975" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), M. Lobel)

Caskey, Lauren, "Communities of Color: The Paintings of Alma W. Thomas" (Ohio State University, L. Florman, J. Patterson)

Cesiro, Lauren, "The Body Is a Battleground: Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin and Sally Mann" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Chiu, Chao Chi, "Between Body and Spirit: Modern Japanese Buddhist Art in the context of twentieth-century transnational exchanges between India and Japan" (University of Maryland, College Park, A. Volk)

Curran, Mia, "Of Shadows, Specters, and Semblances: Aaron Douglas’s Figurative Returns, 1925–1975" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Indych-López)

DeFeo, Janine, "Food and the Social Body in U.S. Performance Art, 1962-1980" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), S. Wilson, M. Hadler)

Dennett, Alexandra, "Paths of Modern Photography in Central Asia (1890–1940)" (Harvard University, M. Gough) 

Duffey, Ashley E. Kim, "(Re)visioning Kinship: Photographies of U.S.-Korean Adoption since 1953" (University of Minnesota, J. Marshall)

Ferrari, Francesca, "Torres-García" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, C. Poggi, E.J. Sullivan)

Flaksman, Catarina, "A Country that Builds: Architecture Exhibitions and the Politics of Culture in Brazil" (Harvard University, P. del Real) 

Gandert, Sonja Elena, "La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Indych-López)

Hackett, Stephanie, "Julia Bracken Wendt: Sculpting Los Angeles, 1906-1942" (Julia Bracken Wendt: Sculpting Los Angeles, 1906-1942, K. Manthorne)

Henry, Joseph, "Spiritualized Machines: Die Brücke, Expressionism, and Wilhelmine Modernity" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), R. Golan)

Horowitz, Sarah, "Designing Postwar American Performing Arts Centers, 1955-1971" (Boston University, D. Abramson)

Hussein, Dareen, “ 'It’s up to women to lift the veil': Arab Women’s Cinema and Radical Politics" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

Jang, Jihan, "A State of Equilibrium: Korean Contemporary Art after Democratization In progress" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough)

Khalil, Duaa, "Unscripted: The Transformation of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Printmaking" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough)

Kincaid, Megan, "Imaginative Abstraction: The Possibility of Painting in Mexico City, 1920–1950” (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, R. Slifkin)

Kugo, Kasumi, "The Theory and Practice of 'Eizo' in 1960s’ and 1970s’ Japan" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Kylindreas, Miltiadis, "Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat)

Lee, Chaeeun, "Abstract Tendencies in Asian American Art: Race, Gender, Identity, and Politics Beyond Representation, 1960-1982" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), M. Hadler)

Leifer, Emily, "Los Angeles Light and Space: Installation Art and the Environment of the 1970s" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King)

Levinsohn, James Michael, "Realism Beyond Redemption: Wolfgang Tillmans and Photographic Realism's Reinvention after Postmodernism" (University of Toronto, L. Kaplan)

Little, Myles, "Blackout: New York City, Photography and Darkness 1965-1985" (University of Southern California, V. Schwartz)

Lynch, Sophie, "Blur: In definition in Photography and Film, ca. 1860–1940" (University of Chicago, D. Morgan, C. Mehring, T. Gunning)

Masgras, Alexandra, "Designing Modern Buildings and Bodies: Eugenic Architecture in Romania, 1920–44" (Duke University, P.B.Jaskot, A.J. Wharton)

McCreight, Maura, "A Photographic Gendered History of The War Without a Name: France and Algeria (1954–62)" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), A. Pelizzari, E. Boone)

McHutchion, Benjamin, "A Study of Responses to Built Heritage Destruction in WWII Britain" [Working Title] (Queens University, Canada, C. Hoeniger)

McShane Lodwick, Leslie, "Architectures of Education: School Construction Systems Development in California, 1961-69" (University of California, Santa Cruz, A. Narath)

Millar Fisher, Michelle, "Craft Schools: American Craft Culture and Sites of Collective Pedagogy, 1970–1985" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), K. Murphy)

Moblard Meier, Anna-Marie, "Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt" (Bryn Mawr College, C. Hertel, J.N. Davis)

Mongelluzzo, Keri, "Bauhaus/Dream House: the Uncharted Surrealism of New Vision Photography" (Penn State University, N. Locke)

Montanes-Lleras, Susana, "The Sleeping Princess and the Creeping Briar: Book Illustration, Pictorial Language, and the Rhetoric of Fantasy" (Case Western Reserve University, A. Rager, H. Adams)

Morrissy, Shane, "The Dream of a Unique Commodity: Art, Ephemera, and American Mass Media, 1890-1920" (Duke University, P. Jaskot)

Nicholas, Sasha, "Creative Figures: Portraiture and the Making of the Modern American Artist, 1918-1929" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), K. Manthorne)

Oetting, Blake, "The New Aesthetics of Administration, 1969-1998" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, R. Slifkin, E. Kessel)

Park, Joon Hye, "Untimely Matters: Korean Experimental Art 1967–1979" (University of California, Los Angeles, M. Kwon, S. Mathur)

Park, Joonsoo (Jason), "Reconsidering Environmental Art, 1965–1982: Agnes Denes, Hans Haacke, and Alan Sonfist" (State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Park, Sun Yang, "Translating Utopia: The Korean New Realism Group (Sinsasilpa)" (State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Puzyreva, Maria, "Inventing the Modern Japanese Print: Sōsaku Hanga Movement, 1900s–1960s" (University of Pennsylvania, J. Davis)

Quick, Gabriel, "Organizing Activist Art in 1980s New York: Political Art Documentation/Distribution" (Boston University, G. Williams, K. Sichel)

Ramirez, Bolivar, "The idea of Hispanoamérica in the Material and Visual Culture of Mexico and Colombia (1920–1940)" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, G. Juan, E. Sullivan)

Sato Analisa, "Post-Function: U.S. Fiber Art between Bauhaus and Feminist Textiles" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), M. Hadler, R. Bletter)

Shaikewitz, Joseph, "Incongruent, Incomprehensible: Travesti-Trans Aesthetic Imaginings in Latin America, 1900–1960" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, E. Sullivan)

Silverman, Julia, "Unmaking Tradition: Native Designers and the Representation of Knowledge during the 'Indian New Deal'” (Harvard University, J. Roberts, P. Deloria)

Son, Bookyung, "Antagonistic Feedback: Rethinking Korean Media Art through Nam June Paik’s Reimportation to Korea" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Kirkwood)

Sparks, Kaegan, "Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the Politics of Social Reproduction after 1969" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), S. Wilson)

Sproule, Peter, "Masculine Fashion Culture in Post-war Germany: Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration" (Queens University, Canada, A. Morehead, E. Otto)

Stepp, Sara, "Time, Place, and Identity in the Art of Hung Liu" (University of Kansas, D. Cateforis)

Stringer, Bryan, “Health Centers Come out of the Cellar”: The United States Public Health Service and the Design of Public Health Centers in Post War America" (Boston University, D. Abramson)

Szupinska, Joanna, "Imagine a Nation: Zofia Rydet, Photography, and the End of Communism in Poland" (University of California, Los Angeles, G. Baker)

Truc, Alice, "Opus International: histoires plurielles de la critique d'art. Proposition d'édition critique d'une revue d'art historique en contexte numérique" (University of Montreal, N. Thély, E. Château-Dutier)

Truxes, Anna, "Willem de Kooning and the Cinema" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), G. Levin, G. Lombardi)

Weldon-Yochim, Zoe, "Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in Art of the United States, 1979-2011" (University of California, Santa Cruz, T.J., Demos)

Wichmann, Cecilia, "Sanctuary: Craft, Performance, and Memorial Sculpture Converge in the Art of Joyce J. Scott" (University of Maryland, College Park, J. Shannon, R. Ater)

Wies, Lillian, "In Her Image: Representing Women Artists in Modern Japan" (University of Maryland, College Park, A. Volk)

Woody Nguyen, Melanie, "Embodied Ecologies: Performance Art and Environmentalism, 1970-1990" (University of Maryland, College Park, J. Shannon)

Yale, Margot, "From Red Feminism to the Blacklist: Labor Schools and the Work of Art, 1935–1957" (University of Southern California, S. Hudson)

Yezernitskaya, Mechella, "Wartime Art and Conflict in the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes 1914–1928" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King, T. Harte)

Yuan, Xinyue Lulu "Encounter the World at War: Aesthetics, Media, and Modern Chinese Artists' Wartime Books, 1938–1945" (University of California, Irvine, R. Wue)