The MA program in Art History at the University of St. Thomas focuses on the development of key skills that serve professionals working in many capacities. Students submit a qualifying paper during the last semester of study. This paper demonstrates the ability to carry out original and extensive scholarly work in the discipline. Students give a presentation of their work at the annual graduate forum sponsored by the department. Art History MA qualifying papers from 2015 to the present are available here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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POP ART - MAKE IT SIGNIFICANT, MAKE IT LAST: LAWRENCE ALLOWAY'S EVOLVING THEORY ON POP ICONS, Marquette Dionne Bateman-Ek

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CONVERGENCE AND RESTORATION: ASMAT ART THROUGH THE WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS OF TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM, Gretchen Michelle Burau

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Framing the Narrative: Alchemical Psychology and Pictorial Devices in Une Semaine de Bonté by Max Ernst, Sarah Crandall

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Das Berliner Schloss and Humboldt Forum: A Contemporary Repository of Cultural Identity, Rachel Florence Goldstein

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Creating the Mona Lisa: Isabella d’Este’s Influence on Leonardo da Vinci’s New Portrait Type, Megan Harrington

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Visual Culture, Ritual, and Landscape at the Holy Wells of St. Brigid in Ireland, Clare Ave Monardo

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Rubrics and Recitations: Books of Hours in Public Influencing the Protestant Reformations in England, Nicole Alexis Sheridan

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Heritage Redefined: Post-Preservation and the Historic Ford Center, Hayley E. Stoen

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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A PLATFORM FOR IDENTITY: USING LARGE-SCALE EXHIBITION TO POSITION BAHIA, BRAZIL’S CONTEMPORARY CONDITION, Angela Kay Daniels

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Whatever You Want Me to Be: The Purse, Identity, and Exchange in Ancient Greece, Zachary John Forstrom

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Whatever You Want Me to Be: The Purse, Identity, and Exchange in Ancient Greece, Zachary John Forstrom

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Anxiety in Experience: H.R. Ginger's Swiss Bars, Abigail Hall Gilmore

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ENTREPRENEURIAL ABOLITION: RE-EXAMINING THE PORTRAIT CAREER OF JOSHUA JOHNSON, Alex Kermes

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Reality in Fantasy: Disneyland's New Orleans Square, Nyssa Yau-Mei Lee

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The Thesmophoria of Morgantina, Jennifer Lynn Smith