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Material Culture
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Barrow, Robyn, "Tracking North: Art, Ecology, and Exchange in the Medieval Nordic World In progress" (University of Pennsylvania, S. Guérin)

Hutchingame, Laura, "Ship Hull Ceilings in the Upper Adriatic: Wood, Labor, and Craft, 1300–1450" (University of California, Los Angeles, B. Wilson)

Joslyn, Sybil F., "Worth Its Salt: Salvage in the Maritime Visual and Material Culture
of America’s Long Nineteenth Century" (Boston University, W. Moore)

Qian, Wenyi, "The Artisanal Interface: The Art of Pietre Dure Tables in Early Modern Italy, 1550–1660" (University of Toronto, P. Sohm)

Racaniello, Kris Hahn, "The Power of Material Narratives: Constructing Shrines Across the Pyrenees Over the Long Twelfth Century" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), C. Hahn, J. Ball)

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