Past Honors Theses in Art History
Sadie A. Weil '25
"From Degeneracy to Democracy: Collecting German Expressionism in America, 1939–1959"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Justin Lewis '25
"Ernest Mancoba and the Twentieth-Century Modern: Abstraction for a New Black World"
Advisor: Katie Hornstein
Caitlyn M. King '24
"Uncovering the Legacy of the Secret War on Laotian Textiles"
Advisor: Sunglim Kim
Nathan J. Savo '24
"De/colonial Abstractions: Miss Chief at the Hood Museum of Art"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Lydia R. Davis '23
"A Seat in the Kingdom: Resituating the Sculptures of Bessie Harvey Within Contemporary Art History"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Abigail J. Smith '23
"Between the Redneck and the Belle: Against Metronormativity and Towards a Queer Southern Art History"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Amy M. Zaretsky '23
"The Redistribution of Soviet Nonconformist Art"
Advisor: Katie Hornstein
Samantha E. Fried '22
"Painting a Public Façade: The Construction of Elisabetta Sirani's Gendered Identity"
Advisor: Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Lucille M. Turnipseed '22
"The NFT Art Market: Changing Artistic Conceptions of Authorship, Ownership, and Value in the Digital Age"
Advisor: Chad Elias
Devon Mifflin '21
"The (Re)Production of Power: Social Space in the Abstractions of Mark Bradford and Julie Mehretu"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Samuel Fox '20
"Predappio's Casa Del Fascio: Fascist Monument to Museum"
Advisors: Mary Coffey & Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Isabella Marchal '18
"The Art of Healing: Treating Earthly & Divine Wounds in Ancient Roman Art"
Advisor: Ada Cohen
Kimberly Yu '18
"Spectres of Trauma: Queered Asian American Video and Performance Art under Neoliberalism"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Sarah Lund '16
"The Politics of History and Print During the French Revolution: A Study of Pierre Blin's Portrait's des grands hommes, femmes illustres, et sujet mémorables de France"
Advisor: Katie Hornstein
Bay Lauris ByrneSim '15
"Red, Black and White: Photomontage in the LEAR's Frente a Frente (1934-1938)"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Shweta Raghu '15
"Religion, Meditations, and Visions for Empire: Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights and its Reception in Philip II's Spain"
Advisor: Jane Carroll
Jane Cavalier '14
"Feedback for Whom? Closed Circuit Video Installations in 1970s America"
Advisor: Katie Hornstein
Tausif Noor '14
"Violence, Subjectivity, Media: T.V. Santhosh and the Art of Global Terror"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Liliana Rembar '14
"The Myth of Busiris: Understanding the Ancient Greek Conception of the 'Other'"
Advisors: Ada Cohen & Joy Kenseth
Jessica Womack '14
"Shaping a Discourse: Afrocubanismo and Religious Symbolism in the Work of Four 20th Century Cuban Artists"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Sydney E. Ayers '13
"Development of the 'Adam Style': The Grand Tour and the Work of Robert Adam in the 1760s"
Advisor: Kristin O'Rourke
Benjamin M. Riley '13
"Robert Adam and Charlotte Square: The Completion of Edinburgh's New Town Vision"
Advisor: Kristin O'Rourke
Elizabeth Walch Doe '12
"John Singer Sargent's Escapism: Theatricality and the Exotic in His Early Figural Paintings"
Advisor: Kristin O'Rourke
Maria E. Fillas '11
"Renaissance Temptations: Michelangelo's Adam, Eve, and the Serpent"
Advisor: Adrian Randolph
Jonathan Lohse '11
"Tourist Spectatorship and the Auratic (Re)representation of the Contemporary Thai Temple"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Hilary Becker '10
"Mirrored Identities in Early Modern Self-Portraiture"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Natalie Falsgraf '10
"The Four Continents: New Perspectives on Tiepolo's Würzburg Treppenhaus"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Virginia F. Deaton '09
"Polyphemus: Character Development of the Monster in Greek and Roman Art"
Advisor: Ada Cohen
Cynthia C. Galvez '09
"Duccio's Ruccellai Madonna and its Communities of Reception"
Advisor: Adrian Randolph
Jeewon Monica Kim '09
"Contemporary Korean Women Artists: The Unexplored and the Uninvited"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Adam M. Levine '08
"One God, Two God, Old God, New God: The Formation of Christ's Canonical Image in the Age of Syncretism"
Advisor: Kathleen Corrigan
Mary G. Cooper '07
"Carnal Knowledge: The Female Body in Anatomical Illustrations, 1500-1800"
Advisor: Joy Kenseth
Heather A. Hughes '07
"Rembrandt's Representations of Jews: Sympathetic or Stereotypical?"
Advisor: Joy Kenseth
Meredith D. Raucher '06
"In the Battle of Good and Evil, the State Always Wins: An Analysis of the Façade of San Michele in Foro"
Advisor: Jane Carroll
Elisabeth F. Sherman '06
"Identity Games: Kay Sage's Your Move and/as Autobiography"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Emily G. Salas '06
"Wesselmann's Matisse: Challenging Greenbergian Modernism and Postwar Taste Boundaries"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Jill P. Baskin '05
"New England, an American Place: The Impressionist Landscapes of Robert Emmett Owen (1878-1957)"
Advisor: Mary Coffey
Michelle A. Maydanchik '05
"Cross-Influences in Cubist and Futurist Art in the Early 20th Century"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
Ellen Y. Tani '05
"Isamu Noguchi's "Akari" lamps: products of the sculptural imagination"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Brigit Ferguson '04
"Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Representations of Mothers and Children"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Sarah Maxwell '04
"Gendering Modern Consumption: Women's Western Fashion in Japanese Interwar Print Culture"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Jennifer Schreck '04
"Representations of 'Self' and 'Other' in Hellenistic Baroque Sculpture at Pergamon: The Iconography and Thematic Significance of the Great Altar of Zeus"
Advisor: Ada Cohen
Amy Catlin '03
"Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints: Competing Visions of Modernity"
Advisor: Allen Hockley
Caitlin McNally '03
"Taking on the Myth"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Melissa Mowat '03
"Perugia's Fontana Maggiore: Making Meaning of an Enduring Monument"
Advisor: Adrian Randolph
Anna Serotta '03
"The Impact of Culture on Art Conservation Ethics and Practice"
Advisor: Joy Kenseth
Holly Shaffer '03
"Women of Algiers in their Apartment"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Sarah Honorowski '01
"Restructuring History: Appropriation Art in Post-Postmodern Society"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
Madeline Medeiros '01
"The Creation of Brazilian Modernism: Form and Theory in the Architecture of Oscar Niemeye"
Advisor: Marlene Heck
Jaime Kleinman '00
"The Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: Original Meanings of Modern Reception"
Advisor: Ada Cohen
Alexis Bunten '99
"Contemporary Northwest Coast Art in Southeast Alaska"
Advisors: Sergei Kan & Kathleen Corrigan
Melissa Draper '99
"On the Cusp of Christianity: An Analysis of the Mausoleum of Constantina in Rome"
Advisor: Kathleen Corrigan
Antony Hudek '99
"Do You Know Where Your Chilren Are?: Claude Cahun and her Poupées"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
Yuriko Jackall '99
"Student, Painter, Poet, Muse: Proclaiming the Self in the Work of Marie-Guillelmine Benoist (1776-1826)"
Advisor: Angela Rosenthal
Katie Lewis '99
"Pollock's Legacy Reconsidered; Four Paths from Painting to Performance"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
Matthew Sargent '97
"An Unknown 16th Century German Deposition in the Hood Museum of Art"
Bissera Pentcheva '95
"The Churches of St. John Aliturgitos and Christ Pantokrator at Mesemvria in the Context of Late Byzantine Architecture"
Advisor: Kathleen Corrigan
Raymond Wadlow '95
"Michelangelo's Last Judgement Revisited"
Advisor: Joy Kenseth
Sarah Brooks '92
"Imperial Triumph and the Joshua Roll"
Advisor: Kathleen Corrigan
Courtney Gilbert ' 92
"Mark Rothko's Use of Themes and Imagery from the Greek Tragedies: 1938-1945"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
M. Carolin Harris '92
Allegra Kochman '92
Bonnie Kramer '89
"The Appearance and Disappearance of the Figure in Paintings of Willem de Kooning"
Catherine Truman '89
"The continuity of a principle: an examination of the buildings, projects, and writings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1911-1936"
John O. Parker, Jr. '89
Andrew Schulz '86
"'Not Precisely an Artist, But Rather a Man of the World': Edouard Manet and The Luncheon in the Studio"
Stacey Sell '85
"Benvenuto Cellini and Naturalism"
Richard Burnham 'GL
"Architecture of Housing in the 1900s in Europe and the Third World"
Patrick S. Grider '83
"Adolf Loos and Walter Gropius: Two Modern Architects"
Advisor: John Jacobus
Andrea Krahmer '83
"The Evolution of Henri Matisse's Style: Experimentation and Revolution in Joy of Life"
Michelle Meyers '83
"Piet Mondrian, the Transitional Years (1912-1921): Art and Theory an Approach"
Advisor: Jim Jordan
Elliot A. Stultz '83
"Repetition and Variation in the Works of Stuart Davis"
Julia Collins '82
Susan Elliott '82
Lawrence von Bamford 'GL
Susan C. Ball '80
Maxwell Anderson '77
"Greek Vase Painting and Pictorial Space"
Robert Dance '77
"John Vanbrugh and English Baroque Architecture"
George Shackelford '77
"An Exhibition of Nineteenth-Century American Prints"
Nicholas Miller '76
Howard Lay '76