Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Twenty-first Century
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2023

Show in progress dissertations

Aaron, Katzeman, "Whiting Aloha ‘Āina as Medium: Land, Art, and Sovereignty in Post-Statehood Hawai‘i" (University of California, Irvine, N. James, W. Cécile)

Gray, Jonah, "Troubling Settler-Colonial Imaginaries in Contemporary Art" (University of California, San Diego J.C.Welchman, G. Kester)

Halajian, Shoghig, "Coalitional Experiments: Queer-of-Color Collective Life and Anti-Assimilationist Politics in Performance since the 1980s" (University of California, San Diego, A. Williams)

Korroch, Kate, "THE INTIMACIES OF QUEER SUBJECTS:TT TAKEMOTO’S "LOOKING FOR JIRO" (2011), "SEMIOTICS OF SAB" (2016), AND "EVER WANTING (FOR MARGARET CHUNG)" (2021) (University of California, Santa Cruz, J.A. González)

Schilaro Santa Rosa, Tatiane, "Reclaiming Representations: Transnational Photographic Practices from Brazil and the Challenging of Mestiçagem and Branquitude" (University of California, Santa Cruz, J. Gonzalez, P. Pinho)

Slater, Hannah, "Reframing 3.11: Visual Ecologies of Reconstruction in Japan" (The Ohio State University, N. Kunimoto)

Wander, Maggie, "Materializing History: Contemporary Art and the Temporalities of Climate Change in Oceania" University of California, Santa Cruz, S. Kamehiro)

Zhang, X. Amy, "Globalizing the Ideology of Art: Art Museums in the Arabian Peninsula" (George Mason University, P. Smith, M. Greet)