Senior Theses

This is a list of senior theses; earlier years are, unfortunately, incomplete. If you find an inconsistency or would like to add an entry, please contact us.

Senior Theses Through the Years

  • Annalise Ashman, “Shake, Tag, Flee: An Investigation into Graffiti Art’s Evolution in the ‘Mural Capital of the World’”
  • Felix Townley Bakewell, “Dionysus Transformed: Dionysian Mythology on Late Antique Egyptian Textiles”
  • Ava Cappitelli, “A Bedroom & Brush of Her Own: Reappraising Femininity in Elizabeth Okie Paxton’s Domestic Interiors”
  • Laura Chung, “Seeing Double: Identity Fragmentation through Double Self-Portrait Photography”
  • Cole Hannah, “Afrosurreal: Behold the Invisible Worlds of Ringgold and Kentridge”
  • Maya Johnson-Fraidin, “The Witch as a Mirror: Dürer and Grien’s Demonization of the Female Body”
  • Teri Ke, “From the New Flesh to Spam: The Crisis and Ethics of Embodied Subjectivity in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983)”
  • Chloé Rimmerman, “Double Exposure: Finding Subjectivity in the (Dis)embodiment of Lee Miller (1907-1977)”
  • Michaela Spurr, “Andy Warhol: Disrupting the Simulacrum”
  • AJ Rose Wallihan, “Krishna & Company: Re-centering India in the World of Botanical Company Painting”
  • Stephanie Wang, “Spectral Landscapes: The Aesthetics of Haunting in Postwar Japanese Photography”
  • Liz Burke, “Emotional and Political Transformation in Crystal Pite’s The Statement”
  • Gisella De La Portilla, “Continuity and Change: The Multidimensionality of Amate Paper in Alfonso García Tellez’s Contemporary Otomí Codex”
  • Hilda Delgado, “Porcelain, Pottery, and Protest: Roberto Lugo’s Trans-temporal Visions of Art and Activism for the 21st Century”
  • Olivia Harkins-Finn, “Architectural Entanglement: Bryn Mawr’s Merion Hall as an Embodiment of the Quaker Influence on Women’s College Dormitories”
  • Janice Li, “Text as Medium in Xu Bing’s The Suzhou Landscripts”
  • Frances Millar, “Suspending the Shroud: Ebony G. Patterson’s Material Spaces of Remembrance”
  • Rhian Muschett, “Fault Lines: Mapping Bodies and Space in Christopher Cozier’s Turbulence”
  • Ryan Quenemon, “The Augmented Self at the Disintegrating Boundaries between Virtual and Physical Worlds in Peter Burr’s Arcology”
  • Yi Ren, “Transcending Time and Space: An Examination of Song Dong and Cai Guoqiang’s Work in the Context of Chinese Funeral Rituals and the Practices of Zhizha”
  • Christina Altman, “The Empathetic Body: A Phenomenological Exploration of Immersive Virtual Reality”
  • Linda (Yilin) Chen, “Subverting the Unstaged Authenticity,… Akerman D’Est: aubord de la fiction”
  • Siwei He, “Comfort Women Portrait: Desexualizing Sexual Violence Victim and Remembering our ‘Grandma’s’”
  • Zi Li, “Control and Constraint: The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Dollhouses and Women’s Fantasy”
  • Yilian Lu, “Reconsidering the Aesthetic Standard of Kesi Tapestry Painting: Weaving Under the Patronage of Men in the Southern Song”
  • Sofia Isabel Mondragon, “Hito Steyerl and the Museum”
  • Maggie (Margaret) Parham, “Reclamation and Revelation: Photography and its Relation to White Supremacy and Black Personhood”
  • Esme Read, “Embroidery as an Essential: Uncovering Nuance in Women’s Work of Nineteenth-Century France”
  • Annabelle Renshaw, “The Queer In-Between: Androgyny in the Art of Simeon Solomon”
  • Lucia (Xun) Wang, “More than a Man-Eater: The Tiger Representation in Fritz Lang’s The India Epic”
  • Shelley (Xiaoyi) Zhu, “Preserving Melancholia: The Meditation of Abject Bodies”
  • Rachel Adler, “Hegemonies of Sound and d/Deaf Perspectives in Christine Sun Kim’s Sound Art Installations and Performances”
  • Kirsten Bernhardt, “Transforming Tradition: Exploring the Bounds of National Identity in Contemporary Korean Ceramic Art”
  • Elise Black, “A Woman of the Orient: Salomé in Nineteenth-Century France”
  • Maeve Donnelly, “The Portrait of an “Ideal France”: Edgar Degas, Anti-Semitism, and the Dreyfus Affair”
  • Rachel Grand, “Modernity and Masculinity: Grappling with Depictions of Jewish Men in the fin-de-siècle Portraits of Isidor Kaufmann”
  • Yupeng Wu, “The Materiality of Memory: Urban Demolition and Its Aftermath in Yin Xiuzhen’s Transformation (Bianxing 變形), 1997”
  • Beck Morawski, “A Saturated Campus: Assessing Bryn Mawr College’s Self Promotion and the Embodied Experience in Dormitories, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and Beyond”
  • JiaJing Ding, “The New Woman Artist of The Weimar Republic: An Investigation of Lotte Laserstein’s Identity Through Her Self-Portraiture”
  • Gracia Zhao, “Painting and Embroidery as One: A Case Study of Gu Family Embroidery Through Han Ximeng's Masterpieces of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and Fish and Flowers Albums”
  • Ceara Buzzell, “Reinventing the Wheel: Optical Science and Color Theory in the Experimental Paintings of Franti?ek Kupka”
  • Hanjun Huang, “Living in the Past, Present, and Future: The Imaginative and Imaginary Estate Construction in Wen Zhengming’s Living Aloft”
  • Alyssa Kerper, “Imagining Africa: Négritude and Primitivism in Corps perdu”
  • Rachel Kline, “When All the Graves Were Full”: Anthropological Confrontations at The Triumph of Death of Pisa”
  • Claire Knight, “Embodying the Garden: Cultivating Identity in the Elizabethan Court through the Ornament of Smell in the 16th-17th Centuries”
  • Sophie Loring, “Sublimity, Industry, and Indigeneity: An Ecocritical Examination of Frederic Church’s Plein Air Oil Sketches”
  • Cecilia Moure, “The ‘Triumph’ of Good Design and the ‘Modern’ Style: A Re-Defining of MoMA’s Good Design Program”
  • Deeya Parikh, “Blurred Lines: Partition Historiography and the Art of Zarina Hashmi”
  • MacK Somers, “A Thousand Eyes Open: Agnes Denes and Systems Theory”
  • Naomi Stock, “Revitalizing Space and Curating Culture: The Effects of Site-Specific Art on Naoshima Island and its Community”
  • Maya Stucky, “Authority, Trauma and Lebanese Memory Culture in Walid Raad’s Atlas Group”
  • Jennifer Tham, “Painting Beatrice: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Ideal Representations of Women Through the Lens of his Imagination”
  • Aria Diao, “Glorifying the Tokugawa Japan: Kanō Tan’yū’s Synthetic View of Mount Fuji and the Chinese Landscape”
  • Emily Dombrovskaya, “The Nation's Youth: Sovietization of Uzbek Life in the Photographs of Max Penson”
  • Phoebe Dopulous, “That Agony is Our Triumph! Ben Shahn’s Revisitations of The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti”
  • Jialu Guo, “Protective Frame: The Boundaries and Space Construction in the Western Han: A Preliminary Study with the Case of Liu Fei’s Tomb”
  • Ashley Guzman, “Digital Editing, Narrative Construction and the Filter: How History in RGB Creates Space for Dynamic Frameworks”
  • Elana Kates, “German Aesthetics: Michel Majerus’ Expressions of National Identity in the Age of the Internet”
  • Zhaohong Liu, “The Hybrid Identity of Qing Dynasty Chinese Court Art: A Case Study of Beauties in the Shade of Phoenix Trees Screen”
  • Abigail Lua, “Woven Layers of Philippine History: Weaving, Wearing, and Exhibiting Nineteenth-Century Pi?a Textiles”
  • Nana Nieto, “Collecting & Exhibiting Mount Pleasant: Period Room Displays in Historic House Interiors at The Philadelphia Museum of Art”
  • Danielle Pidgeon,”’Help Me God’: History and Identity Embodied in the Fourteenth-Century Ring of Venetian Proveditor Zeno Donati”
  • Anya Prussin, “Silence and Noise: Tracing the Visual and Didactic Importance of “The Scream” in 17thCentury Netherlandish Depictions of Susanna and the Elders”
  • Melinda Rother, “’Oh, He’s Playing with the Medium’”: Andy Kaufman’s Performance and the Destabilization of Televised Myth”
  • Minyue Ruan, “Redefining Mitchell’s Paintings: A complex embodiment of masculinity and femininity”
  • Talia Shiroma, “Making Material Matter: Cotton in Manet’s Olympia (1863)”
  • Kaying Wang, “A Quest for the Permanence: The Different Presentations of Time in Feng Zikai’s Cartoons During the Second Sino-Japanese War”
  • Yiran Zhao, “Propagandizing Shenzhen as a Political Legacy: A Study of the Lighting Project in the Central Area of Futian District”
  • Zichu Zhao, “Paolo Sorrentino and 'The Young Pope'”
  • Alexa Chabora, “But What Happens Next? Narrative Ambiguity and the Cinematic in Jeff Wall’s An Eviction”
  • Mackenzie Crean, "Antagonizing Fit: Empathy and Appropriation as Viewers Experiencing Inclusion and Exclusion, Migration and Refuge in Relational Art"
  • Isabella Falla: “Recognizing the Interplay between History Painting and the Mexican Print Tradition in Pieter Bruegel’s and Artemio Rodriguez’s The Triumph of Death”
  • Ye Diana Feng, "Embroidered Curtain: Approaching Reality through Farewell My Concubine (1993)"
  • Tessa Bachi Haas, “Unbelievable? Tracing Colonial Systems of Power from Cabinets of Curiosity through Damien Hirst”
  • Elinor Haney, “The (Club) Kids are All Right: Self-Styling and Affective Production in the 90’s Nightclub”
  • Julius Honey, “Labor of Love: Performance and Artistry in Telling Black Visual Histories, Sarah/Sartjee, Saartjee/ Saat-je/ Saartji Baartman and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus”
  • Cassandra Paul, "The Light of Knowledge: Bryn Mawr College Lantern Traditions as (Re) Enforcement of Community Identity"
  • Olivia Porte, “Getting (Un)Dressed with the ‘Nuwaubian, Black, Cunt Queen’ that is and is not Juliana Huxtable”
  • Poppy Pu, “An Ordinary Person in an Imaginary Land: Picturing Immigration and Transformation in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival”
  • Zanira Sandhu, “The Materialities, Geometries and Philosophies of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Louis I. Kahn’s Capitol Complex at Dhaka: Built Environment is the Language of the American Colonial Empire”
  • Esme Trontz, “The Multiplicity of Spatial Experience: An Art Historical Analysis of a Monument to Refugees”
  • Cassie Wang, “Paris the Prism: Illumination in the City of Light”
  • Zhongying Yan, “Transcending Life and Death: The Magical Self-Portrait in The Poeny Pavilion”
  • Wen Yao, "Reacquainting Ria Munk Through Her Three Posthumous Paintings"
  • Xiaoya Yue, “The Language of Fans: Fluidity, Transition, and Performativity in Paintings by Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and ?douard Manet”
  • Zixin Zeng, “The Pilgrimage on the Way: Xuanzang’s Portraits and the Rise of Chinese Portraiture in Medieval China”
  • Lily Elisabeth Zogbaum, “Klimt’s Golden Cells The Interplay between Science and Art in Nineteenth-Century Vienna”
  • Emma Cohen, "Common Spaces in Ann Hamilton's habitus"
  • Lizhu Duanmu,"Mirror or Mask?: Pan Yuliang’s Self-portraits and Female Nudes"
  • Margaret Hurley, "Fantasy and Transformation: The Value of Cookbooks Hidden in Aesthetics"
  • Courtney Lau, "Waiting for Thunderbird Immolation"
  • Madeleine Mark, "Pillars of Papal Persuasion: The Appropriation of the Vatican and Lateran Obelisks in Pope Sixtus V’s Rome"
  • Sophie Mongoven, "Small Wonders: Domesticity and Foreignness in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Dolls' Houses"
  • Chau Nguyen, "Sky/Stars Allegories: Tower of God, Starry Night, and the South Korean Desire for a Transnational Utopia"
  • Yunqiu Stephanie Ni, "The Image of Mao in Chinese Propaganda Posters: From the Early Years of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"
  • Deirdre Quinn, "Greer Lankton and the Medicalization of Gender Transgression"
  • Maria Shellman, "Connoisseurship and Art Fraud: Examining Intentional Displays of Forgeries"
  • Alex Wilson, "Creating Color: Racial Formation and the Duality of Portraiture in 1900"
  • Pia Wong, "The Ajanta Caves: Visions of Luxury in a Monastic Setting"
  • Yue Xiu, "Visualizing the History: Reading Artistic Representations in the ‘Revolutionary Pictorial Broadside’"
  • Kate Beschen, "Photorealism as a Masquerade: Painting in the Age of the Photograph"
  • Caroline Cassidy, "Museums with Momentum: The Dancer's Body at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Barnes Foundation"
  • Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, "Reading as Resistance: 'Contraproyecto' by Carla Grandi and 'La Nueva Novela' by Juan Luis Martínez as Works of Conceptual Art Against the Chilean Dictatorship"
  • Claudia Delaplace, "Myrna Báez: Puerto Rican Identity, Landscape, and the Female Nude"
  • Zhujun BamBoo Ding, "Collective Western Fantasies of Chinese Culture & Yves Saint-Laurent’s Chinoiserie"
  • Elisabeth Hawthorne, "Our El Grecos: The Legacy of a Complex Historiography in Current El Greco Scholarship"
  • Dylan Kahn, "Constructing a New Woman for the Twentieth Century: Transgressing Gender Divisions in John Singer Sargent's 'Miss M. Carey Thomas'"
  • Jillian Moroney, "Vincent Price and Sears: The Act of Marketing Art"
  • Sara Symozcko, "Love & [Blood] Money: The Function of Commodity and Domestic Space in HBO's 'The Sopranos'"
  • Alex Adams, "Free of Your Own History": Constructing Anthony Harvey's Dutchman as Slave Narrative
  • Kristen Andersen, "The Complicated Truth of Yinka Shonibare's The Scramble for Africa"
  • Tianmin Chen, "The Social Life of Empress Wu's Calligraphy"
  • Christine Dickerson, "Transforming the Hard-Boiled Detective Genre: An Analysis of Chinatown in Relation to Vertigo and Volver"
  • Micah Dornfeld, "Awa Tsireh's "Costume Dancer Series": Resistance and Identity in Pueblo Painting"
  • Sarah Ferrieri, "Depictions of Early Colonial Medical Care in Central Mexican Codices, 1500-1600"
  • Gabrielle Fiorillo, "Separation and Stillness: A Reflection on Tacita Dean's Film Installation Merce Cunningham Performs STILLNESS (in Three Movements) to John Cage's Composition 4'33"
  • Ariane Giles, "Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Legitimacy in African American Visual Culture"
  • Lili Hutchnison, "Finding "Englishness" in William Kent's Rousham"
  • Elsa Liao,"Turner Mixing Genres in Aeneas Paintings"
  • Jenna McKinley, "Fashion Forward: Clothing and Controversy in Madame X"
  • Leigh Peterson, "Appropriation, Identity, and Universal Power: The Art of King Roger II of Sicily, 1130-1150"
  • Abby Placik, "Les Deux Amis Lyonnais: Association and Local Identity in Paintings of Pierre Révoil and Fleury Richard"
  • Jennifer Rabowsky, "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril: A Performance of Hysteria"
  • Pailyn (Nina) Singhapakdi, "The Visual Objectification of Eve in the Venetian Renaissance"
  • Ellie Stewart, "The Ancient Narrative of a New Nation: Rome’s Cultural Patrimony as Italy’s Legacy"
  • Yifei Wu, "The Dots and the Mountains: An Analysis of Roy Lichtenstein's Landscape of the Chinese Style"
  • Joana Yasui, "A Bit Like You and Me": The Creation and Reception of Yoshitomo Nara's Depictions of Youth in Post-Disaster Japan
  • Camilla Aguais, "Structure, Form, and Meaning in Pre-Inca Peruvian Textiles: Gauzes of the Chancay"
  • Isabel Andrews, "The Living Discourse of Quilting: Practice, Social History, and Exhibition"
  • Ingrid Asplund, "A Loop after Loop: Olek and Yarn in the Streets"
  • Wendy Chen, "Iterations of the Void"
  • Allie Eisenberg, "Humanist Aesthetics and Politics of the Body in the Late Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini"
  • Michael Ferrara, "Chris Ware's Building Stories"
  • Emiliee Finkelstein, "Mourning, Meloncholia, and the Palast der Republik"
  • Ivy Gray-Klein, "Alternative Histories: Temporality, Diaspora, and Reclamation in the Brooklyn Museum's Period Rooms"
  • Emma Gulley, "Resurrecting the Midwife: Re-examining 15th Century Birth of the Virgin Scenes"
  • Xingzhe He, "A Contemporary Portrait: Buying Everything on You and Love Stories"
  • Micaela Houtkin, "Vincent Van Gogh's Treatment of the Night Sky with a Concentration on Art as Consolation"
  • Megha Joshi, "National Identity in the Popular Culture of India"
  • Allie Kandel, "Home is Where the Heart Is: An Exploration of the Role of the Home"
  • Joanna Kessler, "Examining and Contextualizing Monica Sjoo"
  • Allie Levitan, "Creating Community through Visual Imagery: Photography and Public Art"
  • Egina Manachova, "The Conditions of Violence and the Role of Imagination in Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing"
  • Deborah Matus, "Compartmentalization of Loss: Jasper Johns as Precursor to Robert Gober"
  • Alexis Miller, "Edgar Degas: Self-Representation in/as Other"
  • Euna Park, "Why Does the Gardener Heist Matter?"
  • Samone Rowe, "The Architectural Mirror and Romanita: Agents of Identity in Rome"
  • Anni Turkel, "Papoose: A Work of Conceptual Dance by Jill Sigman"
  • Christine Villanueva, "Bent Out of Shape: Exploring Gumby in Raymond Pettibon's Drawings"
  • Grace Yue Xie, "Painting Neighborhood in Self-Exile"
  • Qianni Zhu, "Les Fleurs du Mal? Odilon Redon's Pursuit of Happiness through Embracing the Exteriority"
  • Kyle Aguilar, "Theatrical Femininities: Mary Robinson on the Stage of British Portraiture"
  • Emily Bartell, "Portraiture and Identity in the Age of Social Media: Ray Beldner's 101 Facebook Friends"
  • Sitara Chowfla, "Action is the Antidote to Despair: Candy Chang and the Activation of Urban Communities through Participation"
  • Athena Christie, "Striking Encounters: Visual Violence in the Religious Artwork of the Spanish Golden Age"
  • Alexandra Colon, "The Aesthetics of Remembrance: Film Form and Memory Work in Los Rubios and El Edificio de los Chilenos"
  • Gracie Copplestone, "Curating an Experience: John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Barnes Foundation"
  • Xin Du, "Beyond Connoisseurship and Forgery: Contextualizing Riverbank in the Biography of Zhang Daqian"
  • Adriana Grossman, "Analogous Constructs: From Beethoven's Ninth to Klimt's Frieze"
  • Young-In Karen Han, "The Double Life of Tintin"
  • Sarah Henkind, "The Value of Forgery: A Study on Art Forgery and the Case of Han van Meegeren"
  • Alida Jekabson, "Representing Constructive Universalism: Joaquin Torres-García and the United States Museums"
  • Nicole Johnson, "All Dressed Up in Nostalgia: The Dichotomy of an Ironic Spanish National Identity as Told though the Use of the Flamenco Dress"
  • Rachel Kobasa, "You Can't Hang This on a Wall: Project Row Houses and the Art of Cultivating Creativity"
  • Hyoungee Kong, "Unfulfilled Pygmalion: Edouard Manet's Portraits of Berthe Morisot from 1868 to 1874"
  • Veronica Maldonado, "Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Gar?ons: A New Feminity"
  • Valerie Smosna, "Cleansing Utopia, Staining Utopia: Monika Sosnowska's A Dirty Fountain in Zamo??, Poland"
  • Julia Stuart, "Forging Identity in Contemporary Iran: Shadi Ghadirian's Representations of Women in the United Qajar Series"
  • Alexa Valenstein, "The Unorthodox Couturier: Elsa Schiaparelli and Surrealism"
  • Alison Whitney, "Gustav Klimt's Artistic Rebellion: Dana? and the Golden Tradition"
  • Michelle Wilson, "Damaged by Desire, Blood, Sex, and Celebrity of Tyler Shields' Lindsay Lohan Series"
  • Franklyn Cantor, "Modernity in the Metropolis: Portrayals of Symbolic Structures in New York City and Paris"
  • Isabel Donlon, "Negotiating the Self in the Portraiture of Jamel Shabazz and Kehinde Wiley"
  • Sarah Gzesh, "Art as Activism: The Wall, Calligraffiti, and Al-Shawa"
  • Jillian Johnson, "Without a Shadow of Doubt: Andy Warhol's Use of Shadows in His Late Work"
  • Natalie Muniz, "The Rise & Decline of the New Woman in Weimar Cinema: Tracing Female Sexuality and Patriarchal Order in 'Pandora's Box' and 'M?dchen in Uniform'"
  • Maggie Murphy, "'Identities in Stone': The Rejuvenation Projects of the Dawoodi Bohras and Their Quest for Community"
  • Thea Rockwell, "Lithographic Interiority: Reading Odilon Redon with Walter Benjamin"
  • Julia Ryan, "Dans Le Rêve: Odilon Redon's Childhood Inspiration and Artistic Compensation"
  • Lily Scott, "The Pictorial Idealization of the Virgin: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation of the Tympana Images at Chartres"
  • Michelle Smiley, "A Portrait of Loss: Photo-Objects of the American Civil War"
  • Julia Vasko, "The Feeling of Blindness: Repairing the Broken Narrative in Sensuously Rich Transnational Adoptee Videos"
  • Lee Wacker, "The Sacred and the Secular: Medieval Misericord Carvings as Seen by Monks at the Exeter Cathedral in the Thirteenth Century"
  • Stephanie Webster, "Historic Preservation at Old Salem Museums and Gardens: Crafting an American History with German Moravian Architecture"
  • Kim Wegel, "Performing the Victim, Performing the Perpetrator: Immortality and Inheritance in Joseph Beuys's 'How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare'"
  • Jessica Cosmas, "Fritz Scholder and Native American Art"
  • Audra Fanon, "Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Islamic Architecture, Aggression, and Identity Formation in Southern Spain"
  • Sarah Gelfand, "Portrait of the Artist: Painting Mary Cassatt"
  • Kristen Grubbs, "Deconstructing Masculinity: Violence in the Boxing Film"
  • Colleen Haley, "Vargas and the Pin-up Girl in Esquire Magazine in World War II"
  • Elizabeth Harnett, "Space in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock"
  • Katelyn Kazan, "Spirituality in the Art of Jackson Pollock's Spring Period"
  • Amanda King, "Act Da Fool: Redefining Contemporary Spectatorship"
  • Velislava Kirilova, "The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program as Social Progress"
  • Ally Mintz, "Transnational Artists from North Africa and the Middle East"
  • Anna O'Neill, "Touch and Tactility in the Work of Meret Oppenheim, Eva Hesse, and Rachel Whiteread"
  • Raisha Park, "Redirected Fates: Houses as Museums"
  • Emily Rose, "Images of Death in France During the Black Death"
  • Larissa Rubic, "Spirituality Through Form: Le Corbusier's Chapel at Ronchamp and Monastery of La Tourette"
  • Kathleen Scalera, "Japonisme Embodied: The Cultural Authentication of Japanese Motifs in the Design of the House of Worth"
  • Taylor Stacey, "Depictions of Race in Robert Frank's Photobook The Americans"
  • Darren White, "Fashioning the New Bourgeoisie"
  • Caroline Connelly, “Gunta St?lzl: Artist within a Context”
  • Michelle Crepeau, "Caspar David Friedrich and the Wandering Ruins: Geology, Philosophy, and Entropy in the Art of 19th-Century German Romanticism"
  • Christina Frithsen, “Silencing the Deaf: The Film Industry’s Practice of Assimilation through Speech”
  • Hadley Garrettson, “The Architecture of Fashion”
  • Rachel Goddard, "Signed in Blood: The Legacy of Gran Fury's Posters in the Red Ribbon"
  • Arielle Hansen, “The Interplay between Patronage, Politics, and Portraiture: King Philip IV, Velazquez and Rubens”
  • Sam Kaplan: “In the Realm of ‘Feathers and Fur’”
  • Jessamine Kelley, “Create, Destroy, Liberate: Blu’s Muto Animates Public Walls”
  • Christine K. Lee, “Erotic Desire and Fantasy: the Development of Hentai Manga”
  • Rachel Lieberman, “Context, Conservation, Complexity: Andean Textiles in American Museums”
  • Clare Mallett, “Three Ways of Looking at Martha Rosler's Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful”
  • Elise Marraro, “Dual Intentions: Mind-Body Connections in Images of the Virgin Mary”
  • Sarah Mitchell, "Clipped, Filed, Pasted, and Traced: Henry Darger and His Practices of Collecting"
  • Lauren Montgomery: “It Hurts So Good: Sadomasochism and the Psychological Thriller”
  • Nathalie Schallock, “Marketer Murakami. Building the Ultimate ‘Art’ Brand”
  • Janet Yoon (HC), “A Portable Home: A Study of Do-Ho Suh's Seoul Home and 348 West 22nd St.”

 

  • Catherine Bloxsom: "Re-Reading Lee Krasner Through Biography"
  • Jenny Castle: "Understanding the Self in Video Art"
  • Bree Effron: "Black Photography During Apartheid South Africa from Photograph to Photographer"
  • Lauren Eisenbrey: "Coming Apart: Cindy Sherman's Photographic Account of the Effect of the Male Gaze on Women"
  • Pinky Lark Farnum: "Voyeurism Exposed: Helmut Newton's Manipulation of the Female Viewer Through His Fashion Photography"
  • Lavanya Jayakar: "Crusading Citizen Joan of Arc and Female Citizenship in Edwardian England and Vichy France"
  • Eurie Kim: "Poof: The Reality of American Beauty"
  • Gabriela Kogut: "Trap for a Communion: The Double Consecration of the Artist and the Body in Michel Journiac's Messe Pour Un Corps (1969)"
  • Francesca Marangell: "Representations of Medieval Childbirth: Portrayal of a Gendered Space"
  • Sarah Meller: "Unearthing the Soil and Herself: Re-Uniting Ecofeminism and the Siluetas of Ana Mendieta"
  • Kate Michelson: "The Crinoline in Nineteenth Century Satirical Cartoons: Its Meanings and Connotations"
  • Sarah Placke: "Seeing is Believing: The Function of Medieval Head Reliquaries and the Power of Sight"
  • Aheli Purkayastha: "Replacing Memories: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images"
  • Rachel Townsend: "Gender Confounded: Cross-Dressing in Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night"
  • Arianae Tsavaris: "Venetian Courtesans Dressing in the Costume of Nymphs"
  • Virginia Jane Tseng: "Hello, My Name is Mr."
  • Hadass Blank: "In the Lapidus of Luxury: Morris Lapidus and the Architecture of Leisure"
  • Claire Brandon: "Sophie Calle's Prenez Soin de Vous"
  • Jennifer Brindisi: "John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Aesthetics of Silence"
  • Bianca Bromberger: "The Experiential Subline: Perception, Conception, and Emotion in Mark Rothko's Classic Color Field Paintings"
  • Jia Jia Fei: "Jeff Koons: Death of the Artist"
  • Brittany Golden: "An Examination of Late Pre-Reformation Devotion Through a Pair of Miniatures in a Book of Hours at the Free Library"
  • Tania Greenwald: "Without Location, Carsten H?ller's Test Site"
  • Luba Nisenbaum: "David Goldblatt: Censorship and the Photograph in Apartheid South Africa"
  • Moriah Scott: "A New View of a New World: How Frans Post Brought Reality to Tropical America"
  • Lucie Steinberg: "Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum"
  • Tania Apicella: "Rudimentary Tools: How Silhouettes and Shadows Combine to Depict Race and Sexuality in Kara Walker's Projector Works"
  • William Coleman: "An Independent, Self-Sufficient Man: Edward Redfield and the Monhegan Island Art Colony"
  • Emily Katharine Donati: "Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses As Influenced by Japanese Zen Gardens"
  • Alexis Gorby: "Symbols of the Afterlife in the Jewish Catacombs of Beit She'arim and Rome: A Defense of Erwin Goodenough"
  • Nadine Exie Huntington: "Home Front Heroines: The Parallel Emancipation of Women and Slaves in Twentieth Century Films of the American Civil War"
  • Hayley Patricia Kucich: "Redefining and Revitalizing Public Spaces through Temporary Public Art"
  • Amy Malleck: "Constantine's Marble Colossus: Historiography of Style"
  • Denise Kalolaina Marica: "Private Images, Public Statements: Madame de Pompadour and the Court of Versailles"
  • Amy Elaine Martin: "Towards A Feminist Gaze: Interpreting the Male Nudes of Sylvia Sleigh"
  • Indira Neill: "Now I Know You: Surveillance, Identity, and Motive in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Tom Kalin's Swoon"
  • Mark Ram: "Reflections on LastNightsParty: A Hope? for the Future"
  • Claire H Reyner: "Gloire as Translated Through Spectacle: the Axe Historique from Absolutism to Empire"
  • Sonya Safro: "Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov: Men with Movie Cameras and the Battle Between the Old and the New"
  • Victoria Salinger: "The Pont Neuf Wrapped: Framing the Bridge, Bridging the Frame"
  • Rosalyn Dolores Schorr: "A Study of the Birth of the American Collegiate Gothic Style"
  • Amanda Young: "(Re)Constructing the Artist: Modes of Self-Insertion in the Art of Steen and Vermeer"
  • Chloe Barnett: "Encountering the Fool and Death in Northern Renaissance Artwork"
  • Karl-Rainer Blumenthal: "Of Gods and Grizzlies: The Non-Aesthetic of Nature and the New Kinship of Werner Herzog and Caspar David Friedrich"
  • Elizabeth Carter: "A Re-Evaluation of the Post-Resurrection Imagery of the Saint Albans Psalter: The Absence of the Noli me tangere"
  • Elizabeth Catanese: "Undressing and Redressing Cindy Once Again, Once Again: An Analysis of the Productive Instability of Cindy Sherman's Artistic Work"
  • Nadia Christidi: "Lovers in a Cemetery? The Architecture of Bernard Khoury"
  • Emma Chubb: "'Hey, you there! Welcome to the Struggle': Adrian Piper Locates the Other Within"
  • Kristin Fallica: "Archival Allegories: Critical Histories in the Films of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi"
  • Nicole M. Huynh: "Dinh Doc Lap: A Vietnamese Cultural Monument"
  • Kate Phillips: "Carleton Watkins's Yosemite Valley from the Best General View: Commodity and Universality in an Ocular Age"
  • D. Jacob Rabinowitz: "Fury and Formalism: Turner's Awful Sublime"
  • Rachel Redington: "The Presumption of Mary: Mimesis of the Dormition of the Virgin through Repentinos de Monjas, Funerary Portraiture of the Criollo Women of the Convent"
  • Zahra Reynolds: "Portraits Beneath the Veil: Concealing and Revealing in Shirin Neshat's Women of Allah"
  • Amelia Sanchez-Moran: "Philadelphia's Duchamp Effect: Duchamp, the Arensberg Collection, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art"
  • Diane Scarpa: "Modernism is G-dliness, or Barnett Newman's Kabbalistic Process"
  • Rebekah Schulz: "Red Light, Green Light: Vertigo's Influence on the Color, Mise-en-Scène, and Narrative of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love and 2046"
  • Jessica Taylor: "The Curatorial Influence on Internet Art: The Commissioned Works of Mark Napier in 010101: Art in Technological Times and Data Dynamics"
  • Nicole M. Wood: "Unifying the Republic or Restoring the Monarchy? Representations of Joan of Arc in the Third Republic"
  • Andrea Betancourt: "The New MoMA: Designing the 20th Century Museum"
  • Olivia Byron: "Fascist Italy's Cultural Program: Mario Sironi and the Problems of a Political Art"
  • Elizabeth Damore: "Fashioning Exhibitions: Commerce, Culture and the Costume Institute"
  • Abigail Fritz: "From the Margins to the Core: a critical examination of the place of art education in schools through the lens of Discipline-based Art Education"
  • Joanna Fu: "A Justification for Fashion as a Fine Art"
  • Zoe Irvine: "Painting the War: Picasso's Genre Works During the German Occupation of Paris"
  • Emily F. Jensen: "The Wives of the Artists: O'Keeffe, Kahlo, Krasner, and the Role of the Artist/Wife in Historical Modernism"
  • Sung Eun Jun: "Women's Power Dressing in Fashion: Synchronic View and Analysis of Presented Styles Today/Duality and Validity of Ideas: Gaze, Power, and Gender"
  • Raakhee Bénu Lahiry: "Generational Conflicts in South Asian Film"
  • Jessica Leger: "Sameness and Difference in Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle"
  • Cynthia Lugo: "Proof-Negative"
  • Josephine Mayer: "Relinquishing the Search - A Discussion of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights"
  • Molly Mulflur: "Kirchner's Urban Dancers: Mass Ornament and Mass Audience"
  • Brynne Norton: "Locating the Artist within the Environment: An Analysis of the Gendered Imagery in Andy Goldsworthy's Work"
  • Phaedra Robledo: "Tamara's Gaze: A Postfeminist Critique of Lempicka's Women"
  • Ana Ruediger: "Cinema and the City: Film Exhibition in Philadelphia"
  • Veronika Trufanova: "Lautrec's Legacy: Manifestations of Deformity and Synecdochical Depictions of Legs"
  • Devin Wachs: "'Absolute Pleasure' in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Exhibitionism, Identification, and Authorship"
  • Petra Williams-Lescht: "Sanctified Sexuality and Selective Censorship: Positioning Eroticized Images of the Magdalene within Counter-Reformation Theory and Practice"
  • Elysha Carouge:
  • Richard Gabriele: "The Barnes Foundation"
  • Katherine Hoy:
  • Alexandra Kaufmann: "Podestà Beware"
  • Afshan Khan:
  • Jillian Neustel: "Sinfest"
  • Jennifer Prince:
  • Stephanie Riley: "A Castile in Spain: Coca Castle as a Lens for Spanish History"
  • Laura Rosenblum:
  • Ramey Williams:
  • Netta Borshansky: "Homecoming and Homemaking in Zionist Photography of 20th Century Palestine"
  • Mahlone Burnette: "Fellini's Clowns"
  • Margaret Erlich: "Greek Revival Architecture in America"
  • IIlyssa Fisher: "Crucifixion and Passion Images in 13th- and 14thcentury Illuminated Manuscripts as Feminized Images"
  • Nora Gully: "Prostitution, Portraiture, and Language: Godard's Representation of Women"
  • Hala Hassoun: "Corsets - Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier"
  • Jean Kim: "Temporality and Perspective in David Hockney's Photo Collages"
  • Meredith Montague: "Southern Photography: Sally Mann and William Christenberry"
  • Amy O'Connor:
  • Larisa Reznich:
  • Jessica Richter: "Three Painters on Film: Frida, Pollack, and Vincent and Theo"
  • Liana Sterling: "Three video installations by Shirin Neshat"
  • Michelle Strizever: "The Book as Colonial Body: Amoxtli, Codices, And the Codex Espangliensis"
  • Lumi Tan: "Hans Bellmer"
  • Annie Zipper: "Ad-Jamming: Advertising and the Logo"
  • Sam Callard: "Clement Greenberg and Paul Tillich on Jackson Pollock: Religious resonance in abstract painting"
  • Heidi Dolamore: "Preserving the Berlin Wall"
  • Bey-Shan Chien: "Benozzo Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi: Who's Worshipping Whom?"
  • E. Andrea Cornejo: "The Conquest of Architecture: Spain and Two Versions of Construction"
  • Mallika Sager: "The Myth of the 'Indian Woman Artist': An Exploratory Journey Through the Canvases of Three Contemporary Women."

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