Theses/Dissertations from 2022
“Alice and the White Knight”: John Tenniel’s Satire of the Victorian Idea of the Medieval, Jason K. Burnett
Spiritual Capital at the Yongning Pagoda: A Study of Glass Beads, Emily Jane Magyar
Black Madonnas, Christa M. Mariottini
More Than a Housewife: The 1950s Housewife in Postwar Magazine Illustration, Mary Agnes Ratelle
I Will Be A Witness: Bessie Harvey and Alternative Legacies in American Feminist Art Qualifying Paper, Frederica Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Orpheus-Christus and Roman Identity in the Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus, Marit Anderson
Prefabricated Housing for the World War II Defense Workers: A Case Study of Vallejo, California, Jayne Barden-Oddan
The Problem of the Heroine: Persephone as “Hero”?, Gabriella Gillette
Why Wood? Restoring the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, Cecelia M. Matt
Street Art as Historical Narratives: Cultural Memory and Colonial Trauma in the Murals of Derry, Northern Ireland, Molly McIntosh
The Power of the Garden in Hannah Höch’s Photomontages During World War Two, Taylor Menendez
Rediscovering the Imaginative Drawings of Richard Holzschuh: Storytelling though Art and Nostalgia, Louise E. Nemmers
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Examining Class Distinctions in a J.C. Leyendecker Arrow Collar Ad, Brianna Nielson
Otto Frank and the Creation of the Anne Frank House, Ryan N. Niezgocki
We Become the Flowers: A Woman Reclaims Her Corpse, Brittany Plachecki
The Grain Belt and Schmidt Breweries: Facilitating Their Communities Through Architecture, Michael P. Rainville Jr.
The Cave, The Wind, and The Cosmos: A Study of the Villa Eolia as a Sacred Space, Annie N. Vitale
“We Can’t Breathe” An Analysis of George Floyd Square, Rachel Weiher
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
ANTIRACIST COUNTER MONUMENTS: Kara Walker: Fons Americanus and the Graffiti-Altered Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, Virginia, Marilyn Elizabeth Burnett
Harriet Tubman as a Visionary Leader in the Work of Charles White, Kira Lapinsky
Ferdinand Hodler’s Fin-de-Siècle Feminine: Symbolism and Women at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Theresa M. Nelson
Tell Me, Where Was God? Monuments of Remembrance at Dachau and Auschwitz, Jessy Saffell
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Community-based Collaboration at the Field Museum, Fort Snelling, and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Alexandra Buffalohead
Dressing Up? Costume, Identity, and Performative Expectations in the Works of John Singer Sargent, Rachel E. Decker-Di Flauro
Dislocation and Nostalgia: Thomas Hovenden and the Home in the American Gilded Age, Bridget Gallagher-Larkin
When Death Sleeps She Dreams Of You: Dario Robleto’s Semiotic Reworking of Sylvia Plath, Hanna Kathleen Stoehr
LAYERED IDENTITIES: SONIA BOYCE’S USE OF WALLPAPER IN EXPLORING SOCIAL SPACE, Michelle Turner
Visualizing Mongolian National Identity in the Work of Baatarzorig Batjargal, Samantha J. Wisneski
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Remembering the Holocaust in Hungary: An Examination of Political and Popular Memorials in Budapest, Lauren Marie Balogh
Propaganda and Portraiture: Samuel Fosso, Kehinde Wiley, and China-Africa Relations, Jayne Cole
REDEFINING THE SACRED: THE INTERSECTION OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES’ PROGRAM MODEL AND SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS ARCHITECTURE, Margaret A. George
After the Museum: Immersive Experience as Art-Object in the Cases of Sakura Yume and Graffiti Nature, Ashleigh Mary Jakaj
The Broad and the Rubell Family Collection: Contemporary Donor Memorial Museums, Floris Anita Lafontant
Memorial Museums: Shaped by Memory, Defined by Politics, Amanda Rose Lesnikowski
Taking Control of the Narrative with Ink and Pixel: Three Women's Adventures in Autobiographical Comics, Keith Pille
Memory in Museum Design at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lindsay Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Critical Battle: An Analysis of the Early Colonial Cartography of Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, Bret Campion
IGLESIA BAUTISTA HOREB: A MODEL FOR BAPTIST ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ORLEANS, Rachel A. Houck
STEILNESET MEMORIAL | Peter Zumthor’s Atmospheres as an Architectural Means for Memory, Kathryn Joy
TUNNEL VISION: An Examination of Asmat Shields and Ancestor Poles in Institutional Exhibitions, Elizabeth J. Madden
Visual and Thematic Harmony in Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s Religious Pendants, Dakota Passariello
An Investigation of Death Iconography and Female Fertility Imagery in Aztec Art, Alyssa Helene Thiede
Reinvestigating Pictish Stone Monuments: Memory Themes and The Quadruped, Sandy L. Tomney
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Pop Art - Make It Significant, Make It Last: Lawrence Alloway's Evolving Theory On Pop Icons, Marquette Dionne Bateman-Ek
CONVERGENCE AND RESTORATION: ASMAT ART THROUGH THE WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS OF TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM, Gretchen Michelle Burau
Framing the Narrative: Alchemical Psychology and Pictorial Devices in Une Semaine de Bonté by Max Ernst, Sarah Crandall
Das Berliner Schloss and Humboldt Forum: A Contemporary Repository of Cultural Identity, Rachel Florence Goldstein
Creating the Mona Lisa: Isabella d’Este’s Influence on Leonardo da Vinci’s New Portrait Type, Megan Harrington
Visual Culture, Ritual, and Landscape at the Holy Wells of St. Brigid in Ireland, Clare Ave Monardo
Rubrics and Recitations: Books of Hours in Public Influencing the Protestant Reformations in England, Nicole Alexis Sheridan
Heritage Redefined: Post-Preservation and the Historic Ford Center, Hayley E. Stoen
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A PLATFORM FOR IDENTITY: USING LARGE-SCALE EXHIBITION TO POSITION BAHIA, BRAZIL’S CONTEMPORARY CONDITION, Angela Kay Daniels
Whatever You Want Me to Be: The Purse, Identity, and Exchange in Ancient Greece, Zachary John Forstrom
Anxiety in Experience: H.R. Ginger's Swiss Bars, Abigail Hall Gilmore
ENTREPRENEURIAL ABOLITION: RE-EXAMINING THE PORTRAIT CAREER OF JOSHUA JOHNSON, Alex Kermes
Reality in Fantasy: Disneyland's New Orleans Square, Nyssa Yau-Mei Lee
The Thesmophoria of Morgantina, Jennifer Lynn Smith