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Complete 2023-2024<\/h3>\n

Kyrie Blackman (Fall 2023)<\/strong><\/span>
\nRedefining Our Future: A Semiotic Approach to Understanding the Black Otaku<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Jason Weems<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian J. Valdez (Spring 2024)<\/strong><\/span>
\nVessels of Illumination: The Ritual Transformation of Space, Sound and Vision at the Los Angeles K\u014dyasan Buddhist Temple<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Yong Cho<\/span><\/p>\n

Kekoa Jackson (Spring 2024)<\/strong><\/span>
\nSites of Contestation: Darrel Ellis and the Decipherment of Family Photographs<\/span><\/em>
\nCommittee Chair: Jason Weems<\/span><\/p>\n

Melissa N. Reyes (Spring 2024)<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Amalgamation of Art and Science in the 16th Century: Ligier Richier\u2019s Transi of Ren\u00e9 De Ch\u00e2lon and Vesalius\u2019 Muscle-Men<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Kristoffer Neville<\/span><\/p>\n

Athena Sesma (Spring 2024)<\/strong><\/span>
\nImaging and Imagining: Photographic Views of Mexico During the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67) and the Porfiriato (1884-1911)<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc<\/span><\/p>\n

Complete 2022-2023<\/h3>\n

Ian Peltz (Fall 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nStill White: Attitudes and Aesthetics<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Liz Kotz<\/span><\/p>\n

Beck Lou (Summer 2023)<\/strong><\/span>
\nExtending Belonging: Martin Wong\u2019s Sociality in Practice<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Jason Weems<\/span><\/p>\n

Completed 2021-2022<\/h3>\n

Alexandra T. Henry  (Fall 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nChristian Architecture within the Kingdom of the Kongo: A Case Study of the Igreja de Jesus<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Kristoffer Neville<\/span><\/p>\n

Caitlyn M. Lawler (Spring 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nAsserting Space: Noah Purifoy\u2019s Outdoor Desert Art Museum<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Liz Kotz<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy E. Spencer (Spring 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nMieko Shiomi: A Bodily Exploration of Selected Objects<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Liz Kotz<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria I. Bonato (Summer 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nLove, Beauty, and Memory: An Examination of Fra Filippo Lippi\u2019s Double Portrait<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Jeanette Kohl<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesse M. Rocha (Summer 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nDocumenting the Queer Experience: Self-Preservationist Tendencies in Gay Brazilian Artists<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaitlyn Sturgis-Jensen (Summer 2022)<\/strong><\/span>
\nIndigenous Languages and Practices of Place: Sandra de la Loza, Mercedes Dorame, and Cog\u2022nate Collective at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Savannah Esquivel<\/span><\/p>\n

Completed 2020-2021<\/h3>\n

Shannon M. Chestnut (Spring 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nClaiming the Louvre: Kingship, Revolution, and Empire in Early Modern France<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Johannes Endres<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebekkah C. Hart (Spring 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nStony Flesh: Consumption and Healing in English Alabaster ‘St. John’s Heads’ (c. 1430-1550)<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Jeanette Kohl<\/span><\/p>\n

Chloe S. Millhauser (Summer 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nOrnaments of Subversion: Subjectivity in Neue Sachlichkeit Still Life Photography<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Susan Laxton<\/span><\/p>\n

Estefania Sanchez (Summer 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nMateriality in Mexico\u2019s Arte Popular: Amate as a Case Study<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauren L. Tesoro (Summer 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nBetween Futurist Fashion and Avant-Garde Haute Couture: Relationships Between Body and Environment<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Johannes Endres<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer Vanegas Rocha (Summer 2021)<\/strong><\/span>
\nLocating Immigrant Experiences in U.S. Art Institutions<\/em><\/span>
\nCommittee Chair: Aleca Le Blanc<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
<\/span>Theses Completed 2019-2020<\/div>
\n

Completed 2019-2020<\/h3>\n

Zoe Appleby (Spring 2020)<\/strong>
\nFrom impietas insana to dulcissima pictura: A Historical Analysis of Augustine of Hippo’s Writings on Visual Art
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n

H.C. Arnold (Spring 2020)<\/strong>
\nAction Required: Michael Brewster and Sound as Sculpture
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Liz Kotz<\/p>\n

Savannah Dearhamer (Spring 2020)<\/strong>
\nThe Corpse Ballet: Existentialism in Madame d’Ora’s Slaughterhouse Photographs
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Susan Laxton<\/p>\n

Timothy Lithgow (Fall 2019)<\/strong>
\nSeeing and Then Seeing Again: Empathy, Mood and the Artistic Milieu of New Orleans\u2019 Storyville and French Quarter as Manifest by the Photographs and Lives of E.J. Bellocq and George Valentine Dureau
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Liz Kotz<\/p>\n

Daniel Powazek (Spring 2020)<\/strong>
\nInternational Projects with a Local Emphasis: Collecting and Representing Saxon Identity in the Dresden Kunstkammer and Princely Monuments in Freiberg Cathedral
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Kristoffer Neville<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2018-2019<\/div>
\n

Completed 2018-2019<\/h3>\n

Heather Casseday (Summer 2019)
\n<\/strong>\u201cWorthy to be Gifts\u201d: A Microhistory of Haudenosaunee Moccasins at the Historic Northampton Museum
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Shannon Dailey (Spring 2019)<\/strong>
\nFraming Guinevere: Gender, Nation, and Myth-Making in Jessie M. King\u2019s Illustrations of The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Johannes Endres<\/p>\n

Hanna Lee (Spring 2019)<\/strong>
\nCaught in the Act: Korean Experimental Performance of the 1960s and the 1970s
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Angela Lessing (Spring 2019)<\/strong>
\nMitos, Musas Muxe, y Mujeres Zapotecas: Illuminating Magnolia
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Rebecca Manness (Fall 2018)<\/strong>
\nThe White Woman’s Indian: Laura Gilpin in the American Southwest
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Jason Weems
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2017-2018<\/div>
\n

Completed 2017-2018<\/h3>\n

 Lily Allen (Spring 2018)<\/strong>
\nEternal Sunlight” of 1909: Examining the Appeal of Joaqu\u00edn Sorolla’s First U.S. Exhibition
\n<\/em>Committee Chair: Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Daniel Medina (Summer 2018)
\n<\/strong>John Heartfield and the Memory-Image<\/em>
\nCommittee Chair: Susan Laxton<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2016-2017<\/div>
\n

Completed 2016-2017<\/h3>\n

Robin Hextrum (Spring 2017)<\/strong>
\nThe Return of The Academy: The 21st Century Classical Realist Movement & its Use of Pastiche<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton, Johannes Endres, J.P. Park<\/p>\n

Karlyn Olvido (Spring 2017)<\/strong>
\nReenactment, Reconstruction, Recovery: Nineteenth-Century Photographs in the History of Surgery<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton, Liz Kotz, Mazie Harris<\/p>\n

Sara Rowe (Spring 2017)<\/strong>
\nChallenging Authority & Authenticity: How Native Humor Can be Used as Institutional Critique<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton, Jason Weems, Patricia Morton<\/p>\n

Elaine Wilson (Spring 2017)<\/strong>
\nThe Via Crucis Paintings within the California Missions
\nCommittee: Kristoffer Neville, Aleca Le Blanc, Conrad Rudolph
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2015-2016<\/div>
\n

Completed 2015-2016<\/h3>\n

Melissa Wolf (Fall 2015)<\/strong>
\nFrom Steamboats to Snow White: How the Mickey Mouse Short Films Between 1928 and 1934 resulted in a Shift from an Abstract to a Naturalistic Animation Style in the Disney Studios<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Catherine Gudis (History)<\/p>\n

Kelly Filreis (Spring 2016)<\/strong>
\nPicturing Process: Lynda Benglis’ Cantilevered Pours<\/em>
\nCommittee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Sara Greenberg (Spring 2016)
\n<\/strong>Two Sides of the Same Street: Depression-Era Photography of Central Park and Fifth Avenue<\/em>
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton (Chair), Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Reva Main (Spring 2016)<\/strong>
\nEggleston, Christenberry, Divola: Color Photography Beyond the New York Reception<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Diana Navarrete (Spring 2016)<\/strong>
\nThe End of Things: Reading Exegetical Apocalypticism in the Prefatory Miniatures of Private Female Ottonian Manuscripts<\/em>
\nCommittee: Conrad Rudolph (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Kristoffer Neville<\/p>\n

Victoria Taormina (Spring 2016)<\/strong>
\nCollaborative Bodies in Action: Senga Nengudi’s R.S.V.P. Respondez S’il Vous Plait (1977\/2003)<\/em>
\nCommittee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Jason Weems, and Jayna Brown (Ethnic Studies)<\/p>\n

Juliann Walker (Spring 2016)<\/strong>
\nCarlo Fontana and the Origins of the Architectural Monograph<\/em>
\nCommittee: Kristoffer Neville (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2014-2015<\/div>
\n

Completed 2014-2015<\/h3>\n

Leslie Paprocki (Fall 2014)<\/strong>
\nRush and Wait: Airports, Seriality, and Undecidability in the Work of Garry Winogrand <\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Mateusz Ferens (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nDionysius of Fourna: Artistic Identity Through Visual Rhetoric<\/em>
\nCommittee: Conrad Rulolph (Chair), Jeanette Kohl, and Kristoffer Neville<\/p>\n

Theresa Knopp (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nFacing Independence: Portraiture and the Figuring of Nationalism in the Work of Jose Gil de Castro<\/em>
\nCommittee: Aleca Le Blanc (Chair), Malcolm Baker, and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Ashley Medina (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nMelchiorre Cafa and Camillo Pamphilj: The Art of Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Rome<\/em>
\nCommittee: Kristoffer Neville (Chair), Malcolm Baker, Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Cyle Metzger (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nQueer Phenomenology in Sarah Oppenheimer’s W-120301<\/em>
\nCommittee: Elizabeth Kotz (Chair), Jason Weems, and Jack Halberstam (USC)<\/p>\n

Sandra Schmitz (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nSaving Carnegie Hall: A Case Study of Historic Preservation in Postwar New York City<\/em>
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Catherine Gudis (History)<\/p>\n

Rachel Zimmermann (Spring 2015)<\/strong>
\nAddresses To\/Through\/Within a Public Sphere: Politics and Performativity in Contemporary Photo-Works<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Jason Weems, and Judith Rodenbeck (Media Cultural Studies)<\/p>\n

Astara Light (Summer 2015)<\/strong>
\nThe Power of “Visual Movement:” Re-shaping and Re-affirming Religious Practices in Modern Balinese Paintings<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Committee: Jeanette Kohl (Chair), Jong Phil Park, Christina Schwenkel (Anthropology), and Maria See (Media Cultural Studies)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2013-2014<\/div>
\n

Completed 2013-2014<\/h3>\n

Andrew Turner <\/strong>(Fall 2013)
\nSex, Myth, and Metaphor in Moche Pottery<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (chair), Karl Taube (Anthropology), Jeanette Kohl and Stella Nair (UCLA)<\/p>\n

Fernando Ramirez <\/strong>(Fall 2013)
\nObject and Image in the Work of Jack Goldstein<\/em>
\nCommittee: Elizabeth Kotz (chair), Susan Laxton and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Ana Ramey <\/strong>(Spring 2014)
\nPortrait Paradox: Complicating Identity in Catherine Opie’s “Being and Having”<\/em>
\nCommittee: Elizabeth Kotz (chair), Susan Laxton and Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Margaret Wallace <\/strong>(Spring 2014)
\nGeorge Bellows Paints California: A Summer Escape Out West<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (chair), Susan Laxton and Jessica Smith (Chief Curator of American Art, The Huntington)<\/p>\n

Edgar Ramirez <\/strong>(Spring 2014)
\nThe Canterbury Roll: A Viewer’s Guide of the Twelve Typological Windows at Canterbury Cathedral<\/em>
\nCommittee: Conrad Rudolph (chair), Jason Weems and Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Amy Whitacre <\/strong>(Summer 2014)
\nProposed: The Warriors of Tula: Iconography, Identity, and the Sculpted Body in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (chair), Jeanette Kohl, Karl Taube (Anthropology) and Stella Nair (UCLA)<\/p>\n

Brooke Devenney <\/strong>(Summer 2014)
\nGregory Ain: Challenging the Anonymity of the Utopian Ideal in Planned Housing Communities, 1939-1948<\/em>
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton (chair), Jason Weems and Kristoffer Neville<\/p>\n

Chelsea Herr <\/strong>(Summer 2014)
\nProposed: The Native American as Commodity: The Visual Production of Native Students at Sherman Institute, 1930-1947<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (chair), Susan Laxton, and Clifford Trafzer (History)<\/p>\n

Jessica Orzulak <\/strong>(Summer 2014)
\nProposed: Picturing Soldaduras: Images of Female Revolutionaries in the 1910 Mexican Revolution<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jason Weems (chair), Elizabeth Kotz and Freya Schiwy (Hispanic Studies)<\/p>\n

Leslie Paprocki <\/strong>(Fall 2014)
\nProposed: Rush and Wait: Airports, Seriality, and Undecidability in the Work of Garry Winogrand<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Kaelyn Rodriguez <\/strong>(Summer 2014)
\nAuthorship and Memory in Judy Baca’s Murals<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (chair), Patricia Morton, and Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2012-2013<\/div>
\n

Completed 2012-2013<\/h3>\n

Betty Schlothan (Spring 2013)<\/strong>
\nIntriguing Relationships: An Exploration of Early Modern German Prints of Relic Displays and Reliquaries<\/em>
\nCommittee: Jeanette Kohl (Chair), Conrad Rudolph, and Blair Davis<\/p>\n

Michaeline Anderson (Summer 2013)<\/strong>
\nRobert Adams and the Mythology of the Landscape of the American West<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Elizabeth Kotz, Susan Laxton, and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Franks (Summer 2013)<\/strong>
\nCapturing Motion: A Catalog Raisonne of the Photomontage Works of Barbara Morgan 1935-1980<\/em>
\nCommittee: Susan Laxton (Chair), Elizabeth Kotz, and Patricia Morton<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2011-2012<\/div>
\n

Completed 2011-2012<\/h3>\n

Avivi, Adele<\/strong>
\nBetween Dada and Architecture: Marcel Janco in Zurich and Bucharest, 1916-1939
\n<\/em>Chair: Susan Laxton, Patricia Morton and Eva Forgacs<\/p>\n

Garcia, Dominique<\/strong>
\nMaterials of the Sacred: 16th to 18th Century Religious Materiality in Michoacan
\n<\/em>Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, Kristoffer Neville and Jennifer Hughes<\/p>\n

Goetting, Carol
\n<\/strong>Guarino Guarini: His Architecture and the Sublime
\n<\/em>Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl and Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n

Gomez, Gabriela Rodriguez<\/strong>
\nRe-Conceptualizing Social Medicine in Diego Rivera’s History of Medicine in Mexico: The People’s Demand for Better Health Mural, Mexico City, 1953.
\n<\/em>Chair: Jason Weems, Elizabeth Kotz and Karl Taube<\/p>\n

Machado, Erin<\/strong>
\nImagining Chivalry: Charles V’s Suits of Steel
\n<\/em>Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Charlene Villase\u00f1or Black (UCLA)<\/p>\n

Owen, Caroline<\/strong>
\nAllan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor
\n<\/em>Chair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Freya Schiwy<\/p>\n

Peltakian, Danielle<\/strong>
\nDemonstrating Modernism: Richard Neutra’s Early Model Houses<\/em>
\nChair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Catherine Gudis<\/p>\n

Pfahler, Zachary
\n<\/strong>Robert Heinecken’s TV\/Time Environment
\n<\/em>Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Catherine Gudis<\/p>\n

Rotfeld, Masha<\/strong>
\nThe Fantasy and Fear of Chernobyl’s Ruins<\/em>
\nChair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton and Liz Kotz<\/p>\n

Williams, Sarah<\/strong>
\nA Language of Rebuilt Reality: The Photography of Robert Cumming in the 1970s
\n<\/em>Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Erika Suderburg<\/p>\n

Wolfe, Harmony<\/strong>
\nLandscapes of Dance: the 1960 Summer Workshop of Anna Halprin
\n<\/em>Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, and Jacqueline Murphy
\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2010-2011<\/div>
\n

Completed 2010-2011<\/h3>\n

Cho, Younhee<\/strong>
\nThe Relationship Between Architecture and Sculpture of St. Paul’s, London<\/em>
\nChair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Corey, Mary<\/strong>
\nSalvador Dali’s Bacchanale: A “Paranoiac” Ballet<\/em>
\nChair: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Susan Laxton and Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Hampton, Steve<\/strong>
\nBad Painting and Kitsch
\n<\/em>Chair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Osenbaugh, Elizabeth<\/strong>
\nReplacing the Icon: Seventeenth-Century Tomb Monuments for Dutch Naval Heroes by Rombout Verhuls<\/em>t
\nChair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker and Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Ridel, Amanda-Nicole<\/strong>
\nModification of Market: John Smith and the Mezzotint Print in Eighteenth-Century England<\/em>
\nChair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and George Haggerty<\/p>\n

Siegfried, Laura<\/strong>
\nThe Art of Seeing in Perspective: How Medieval Optical Science Transformed into Renaissance Painting<\/em>
\nChair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n

Vasiliou, Tia<\/strong>
\nThe Power of Suggestiveness: Sadakichi Hartmann, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and American Modernism<\/em>
\nChair: Jason Weems, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Jessica Smith (The Huntington)<\/p>\n

Wilder, Courtney<\/strong>
\nStaging Display in the Sculptural Work of Yinka Shonibare MBE<\/em>
\nChair: Malcolm Baker, Elizabeth Kotz and Jeanette Kohl
\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2009-2010<\/div>
\n

Completed 2009-2010<\/h3>\n

Blythe, Megan <\/strong>
\nThe Meisterhauser and Director\u2019s House at the Dessau, Bauhaus:  Experiments in Factory-Made Homes<\/em>
\nChair: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Patricia Morton, Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Brocka, Melinda <\/strong>
\nThinking Inside the Square: Contemporary Monumentality, Site Specificity and Trafalgar Square’s Empty Fourth Plinth<\/em>
\nChair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Jason Weems, Malcolm Baker<\/p>\n

Dickey, Caitlin  <\/strong>
\nThe Development of the First Public Opera Houses:  the Demands, the Form, and the First Scenographic Engineer<\/em>
\nChair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker, Rogerio Budasz<\/p>\n

Sadoyan, Lilit  <\/strong>
\nCollecting at Court and Beyond: The Dissemination and Display of Girardon\u2019s Sculptural Groups<\/em>
\nChair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville, Catherine Hess<\/p>\n

Spear, Elizabeth  <\/strong>
\nHistory on Stage: Looking Back at \u201cThe West as America\u201d<\/em>
\nChair: Jason Weems, Stella Nair, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn<\/p>\n

Thoreson, Natasha  <\/strong>
\nStitching the Divide:  Mary Morris, Gender, and the Amateur in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and the United States<\/em>
\nChair: Jason Weems, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Malcolm Baker
\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2008-2009<\/div>
\n

Completed 2008-2009<\/h3>\n

Entwistle, Conley Wayne <\/strong>
\nLe Train a-t-il quitte la gare?  Hybrid Modernities at the Muse d\u2019Orsay<\/em>
\nChair: Patricia Morton, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Elizabeth Kotz<\/p>\n

Johnson, Julianne  <\/strong>
\nConstructing an Identity for Artist and City:  An analysis of the Trans-Atlantic Career of Mateo Perez de Alesio<\/em>
\nChair: Stella Nair, Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl, Jason Weems<\/p>\n

Millard, Robert  <\/strong>
\nCompassion and Convention:  A Study of Piero di Cosimo\u2019s Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs<\/em>
\nChair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville, Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n

Park, Alice<\/strong>  <\/strong>
\nThe Doni, Raphael and Michelangelo – Patrons and Purveyors of Domestic Art<\/em>
\nChair: Kristoffer Neville, Dale Kent, Jeanette Kohl<\/p>\n

Picano, Bruce  <\/strong>
\nConstructing Identities:  Race, Gender and Class in the Photography of Martin Chambi<\/em>
\nChair: Stella Nair, Jason Weems, Jonathan Ritter<\/p>\n

Yang, Hsiao-Chi  <\/strong>
\nReading Fashion, Reading Taiwan:  The New Period of Taiwan in the 1990s<\/em>
\nChair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Heidi Brevik-Zender
\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Theses Completed 2007-2008<\/div>
\n

Completed 2007-2008<\/h3>\n

Barron, Jennifer Adair<\/strong>
\nChimu Feather Imagery: The Mercantile Shift Symbolized<\/em>
\nChair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube and Carol Mackey<\/p>\n

Gomez-Adams, Rosalva<\/strong>
\nCreating Identity in New Spain: Translation in the Biombo “El Encuentro de Cortes y Moctezuma”<\/em>
\nChair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, and Monica Dominguez Torres<\/p>\n

Hickey, Benjamin<\/strong>
\nThe Aesthetics of Trying<\/em>
\nChair: Pat Morton, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn and Liz Kotz<\/p>\n

Huh, Jee Woon<\/strong>
\nDe la vision a la realite: Devotional Images of Three Female Patrons at Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Burgundian Court<\/em>
\nChair: Kris Neville, Dale Kent, and Conrad Rudolph<\/p>\n

Peng, Min<\/strong>
\nFluid Bridge: The Cultural Identity of the Overseas Chinese Artist, Huang Yong Ping<\/em>
\nChair: Liz Kotz, Ginger Hsu, and Pat Morton<\/p>\n

Popp, Lauren Diane<\/strong>
\nBeyond the White Cube: Ideology of the Alternative Museum<\/em>
\nChair: Liz Kotz, Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn and Pat Morton
\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/span>Older Theses<\/div>
\n

(By filing date)<\/p>\n

Kwon, Myoung-Jung<\/strong>. “Alternative Realities: Representations of U.S. Race Relation in Korean American Video,” 1998.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Edward T. Chang<\/p>\n

Lin, Chia-Jung<\/strong>. “Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Female Figures and Victorian Womanhood,” 1998.
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Jennifer Brody<\/p>\n

Weller, Rebecca A<\/strong>. “Writing the Body: The Work of Mira Schor, Lynn Hershman, and Catherine Opie,” 1998.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton, Carole-Anne Tyler<\/p>\n

Preston, Genevieve M<\/strong>. “A Modern Setting for a Modern Life: Madame Stringberg, Ethel Sands, and Lady Drogheda’s Innovative and Avant-garde Interiors,” 1998
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Kimberly Devin<\/p>\n

Christensen, Nina M<\/strong>. “The Myth of Danae in Pompeian Domestic Painting,” 1997
\nCommittee: Steven F. Ostrow, Chairperson; Conrad Rudolph, Michele Salzman<\/p>\n

McFaull, Michele L<\/strong>. “Patroness of the Gilded Age: Isabella Stewart Gardner,” 1997
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Steven F. Ostrow; Cecile Whiting<\/p>\n

Ogle, Susan F<\/strong>. “Laura Gilpin: Unconventional Daughter of the West,” 1997
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Jonathan Green<\/p>\n

Parsley-Welsh, Krista L<\/strong>. “Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna of the Harpies: A Reflection of Conventual Franciscan Beliefs,” 1997
\nCommittee: Steven F. Ostrow, Chairperson; Conrad Rudolph; Dale V. Kent<\/p>\n

McCullough, Thomas P<\/strong>. “The Admonitions of the Court Instructress to the Palace Women: Gender Roles, Gender Ideology and Gender Difference in Early Medieval China,” 1997.
\nCommittee: Ginger Hs\u00fc, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Yenna Wu<\/p>\n

Vellucci, Sabine M<\/strong>. “The Milan Sarcophagus: A Reconsideration,” 1997.
\nCommittee: Conrad Rudolph, Co-Chair; Michael Behen, Co-Chair; Steven F. Ostrow<\/p>\n

Willick, Damon<\/strong>. “Jackson Pollock as a Critical Construction: The Author-Function Pollock,” 1996.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Erika Suderburg<\/p>\n

Roy, Nina T<\/strong>. “The Third Space Critique: The Diasporic Cinema of Ismail Merchant and Mira Nair in Relation to Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory,” 1996.
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Steven Ostrow; Marguerite Waller<\/p>\n

Chau, Amelia Kit-Yiu<\/strong>. “East-West Negotiations: The Evolution of the Void in the Paintings of Zao Wou-Ki,” 1995.
\nCommittee: Ginger Hs\u00fc, Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Zhang Longxi<\/p>\n

Powell, Barbara D<\/strong>. “Henry Ives Cobb: Architecture, Culture and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition,” 1995.
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Sharon Salinger<\/p>\n

Ota, Pauline A<\/strong>. “Tanomura Chikuden’s Mata mata ichiraku jo: Personal Expression Through the Imported, Symbolic Vocabulary of the Chinese literati,” 1995.
\nCommittee: Ginger Hs\u00fc, Chairperson; Vivian-Lee Nyitray; Steven F. Ostrow<\/p>\n

Hickman, Madelia A<\/strong>. “Fulfilling a Prophecy: Feminist Images of Women at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition,” 1995.
\nCommittee: Patricia Morton, Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Carole Shammas<\/p>\n

Elliott-Tespitaks, Tara J<\/strong>. “International Fluidity Versus National Constraint: Cross Border Performativity and its Role in the Construction of a Tai-centric Aesthetic,”1995.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Patricia Morton; Zhang Longxi<\/p>\n

Rojas-Jara, Carlos L<\/strong>. “Wifredo Lam’s ‘Jungle’: A Contextual Reading of the Image,” 1995.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Regina Stefaniak; Karl A. Taube<\/p>\n

Ontiveros, Mario J<\/strong>. “Circumscribing Identities: Chicana Muralists and the Representation of Chicana Subjectivity,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Alicia Arriz\u00f3n; Jonathan W. Green; Erika Suderburg<\/p>\n

Forman, Kurt R<\/strong>. “Postmodernity and the Death of Painting,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Erika Suderburg; Jonathan Green<\/p>\n

Rayfield, Elizabeth K<\/strong>. “Making Mankind’s Acquaintance: Sterographic Viewing and Colonial Domination,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan Green; Marguerite Waller<\/p>\n

Meyer, Laura D<\/strong>. “The ‘Essential’ Judy Chicago: Central Core Imagery and the Language of Fetishism in Womanhouse and The Dinner Party,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Steven Ostrow; Carole-Anne Tyler<\/p>\n

Leonard, Deirdre C<\/strong>. “The Representaion of Meiji Japan in the Photographic Work of Kusakabe Kimbei,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan Green; Ginger Hs\u00fc<\/p>\n

McCarroll, Stacey S<\/strong>. “Fixing an Image of Florence Henri: The New Woman, the Avant-Garde, and Photography in the Early Twentieth Century,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Amelia Jones, Chairperson; Jonathan W. Green; Judith G. Coffin<\/p>\n

Fortunati, Allegra<\/strong>. “David as Penitent, David as Pope: An Interpretation of Francesco Salviati’s Fresco Cycle of the Life of King David for the Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti in Rome Within Its Cultural Context,” 1994.
\nCommittee: Regina Stefaniak, Chairperson; Loren Patridge; Brian Copenhaver<\/p>\n

Surber, Robin F<\/strong>. “Michael Graves: San Juan Capistrano Public Library,” 1993.
\nCommittee: Derickson Brinkerhoff, Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel<\/p>\n

Terry, Shauna<\/strong>. “Domestic Visions: The Relationship of Arthur Hughes’ Illustrations to George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales,” 1993.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Robert N. Essick; Steven F. Ostrow<\/p>\n

MacCaskey, Laura<\/strong>. “The Zuccari Coronation of the Virgin: An Interpretation of the High Altarpiece of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome within its Cultural Context,” 1993.
\nCommittee: Regina Stefaniak; Dale V. Kent; Steven F. Ostrow<\/p>\n

Bailey, Michelle A<\/strong>. “Utopian Visions: An Inquiry into the Social and Artistic Theories that Inspired Kandinsky’s Point and Line to Plane and the Bauhaus Book Series,” 1993.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Chairperson; Amelia Jones; Heidi Gilpin<\/p>\n

Fiacco, Lori L<\/strong>. “The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Critical Analysis,” 1992.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Erika Suderburg; Jonathan W. Green<\/p>\n

Flores, Nadine M<\/strong>. “Galka Scheyer Collection in Pasadena,” 1992.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel; Theda Shapiro<\/p>\n

Walsh, Gregory W<\/strong>. “The Mangrove Coast in Context: Walker Evans and the Photographic Book,” 1992.
\nCommittee: Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Jonathan W. Green<\/p>\n

Karthaus-Hunt, Beatrix<\/strong>. “Posters of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1911-1917,” 1992.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; Sally A. Stein, Co-Chairperson; Amelia Jones<\/p>\n

Koeninger, Betty Kathryn<\/strong>. “Theodore Robinson’s La D\u00e9b\u00e2cle,1892: An American Artist in France,” 1992.
\nCommittee: Dericksen Brinkerhoff, Chairperson; Gerald M. Ackerman; Marjorie L. Harth<\/p>\n

Perbetsky, Patricia A<\/strong>. “The Ferus Gallery 1957-1961,” 1991.
\nCommittee: Sally Stein, Co-Chairperson; Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn, Co-Chairperson; William Bradshaw<\/p>\n

Miyagawa, Stacy L<\/strong>. “Imagining the Orient: Francis Frith’s Views of Egypt and the Middle East,” 1991.
\nCommittee: Fran\u00e7oise Forster-Hahn; Thomas Pelzel; Sally Stein<\/p>\n

Hamara, Heather J<\/strong>. “The Wilton Diptych: Propaganda or Prophecy,” 1991.
\nCommittee: Regina Stefaniak, Chairperson; Dericksen Brinkerhoff; Theda Shapiro<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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