Twentieth Century
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2023

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Caskey, Lauren, "Communities of Color: The Life and Painting of Alma W. Thomas" (1891–1978) (Ohio State University, L. Florman, J. Patterson)

Denison, James, "Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism" (University of Michigan, R. Zurier)

Defossez, Julie, "Take Care: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism in the Maintenance Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles" (Ohio State University, K. Paulsen)

Flattley, Megan, "Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Spatial and Social Construction in the Work of Diego Rivera, 1913–1933" (Tulane University, A.Anagnost, L. Klich)

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

Goddard, Brandi, " 'Humble Hands in Humble Homes': The Irish Homespun Society, Women's Labour, and Craft Co-operatives, 1935–65" (University of Alberta, J. Greer, M. Meagher)

Johal, Rattanamol S., "Forms of Despair: Postmodernist art in metropolitan India" (Columbia University, A. Alexander, R. Deutsche)

Katsura, Asako, "Busshitsu in Photography: Using the Camera to Liberate Materiality in Conceptual Art in Japan and California in the 1960s and 1970s" (University of California, Irvine, B. Winther-Tamaki)

Kherdeen, Riad, "Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco's Agadir Earthquake (1960)" (University of California, Berkeley, A. Lenssen)

Li, Yifan, "Transforming Landscape: Picturing the New Look of Mountains and Streams in Mao’s China" (Ohio State University, J. Andrews)

Liu, Yi, "Making Modern China in Photobooks: Contested National Narratives in the Photographic Archives of China 1900s–1950s" (University of California, San Diego, K. Shen)

Mohammadi, Banafsheh, "Images of the Experiential: Petroleum Roots of Architectural Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Religion" (1945–1967) (University of Alberta, S. Wilson, J. Greer)

Ponce de León, Mabi, "Interventions of History, Gender, and Politics: Four Argentine Women’s Artistic (Re)Visions Through Communication" (Ohio State University, B. Hamann, J. Patterson, L. Podasky, G. Latorre)

Querin, Camilla, "Dialectics of Malandragem: the Art of Resistance in Modern Brazil" (University of California, Riverside, A. Le Blanc)

Stepp, Sara, "Time, Place, and Identity in the Art of Hung Liu" (University of Kansas, D. Cateforis)

Superfine, Molly, "Ruins and Remains: Performative Sculpture and the Politics of Touch in the 1970s" (Columbia University, K. Jones)

Wies, Lillian, "Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900–1930" (University of Maryland, College Park, A.Volk)