Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Twenty-first Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Brown, Elizabeth, "The Voracious Archival Appetite of Theaster Gates: Glass Slides, JPC Library, and Edward J. Williams Collection in the Stony Island Arts Bank" (Duke University, K. Stiles)

Courtney, Chloë, "Modern Mexico to Global Contemporary: Craft and Participatory Art" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, E.Sullivan)

Foran, Colleen, "At the Intersection of Ritual, Procession, and Performance Art: Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana" (Boston University, C. Becker, G. Williams)

Guiraud, Jessica, "L’immersion numérique comme outil de développement d’une expérience patrimoniale sensorielle et sensible" (University of Montreal, H. Rousteau-Chambon, E.Château-Dutier)

Haas, Tessa, "Digital (Dis)possession: Critical Perspectives from Objects in Transition Media" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King)

Katzeman, Aaron, "Aloha ‘Āina as Medium: Land, Art, and Sovereignty in Post-Statehood Hawai‘i" (University of California, Irvine, J. Nisbet)

Kim, Eana, "Becomings: Self-Organization in the Contemporary Works of Pierre Huyghe and Anicka Yi" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, T. Crow, R. Slifkin)

Korol Gold, Zachary, "Reconfiguring Nature, Technology, and Sense: Pierre Huyghe’s Situated Artworks" (University of California, Irvine, J. Nisbet)

Korroch, Kate, "The Intimacies of Queer Subjects: TT Takemoto's 'Looking for Jiro' (2011), 'Semiotics of Sab' (2016), and 'Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung)' (2021)" (University of California, Santa Cruz, J. Gonzalez)

Lu, Wei, " Ecofeminist Art in China" (University of Alberta, L. Claypool)

Mickle, Allie, "Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

Park, SaeHim, "Imaging 'Comfort Women': Girl Statue of Peace (2011) in the Expanded Field" (Duke University, S. Abe)

Renaudie, Zoë, "The exhibition put to the test of conservation: Digital Humanities as an interdisciplinary documentary approach" (University of Montreal, E. Château-Dutier)

Ruoppo, Althea, "Places of Assemblage: The Transnational German Sculpture of Isa Genzken, Reinhard Mucha, and Rosemarie Trockel" (Boston University, G. Williams)

Schwartz, Stacy, "Unsettling Authenticity: Renegotiating Contemporary Identities
and Cultural Trauma in Post-Jewish Art" (University of California, Santa Cruz, D. Murray)

Slater, Hannah, "Reframing '3.11': Visualizing Disaster Landscapes after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster" (Ohio State University, N. Kunimoto)

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

Tedford, Matthew, "Botanical Visualities: Mediating Human-Plant Becomings in an Age of Environmental Collapse" (University of California, Santa Cruz, TJ.Demos)