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Material Culture
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Hampton, Steven, "Dictator Kitsch and the Iraq War" (University of California, Riverside, P. Morton, J Weems)

Lally, Michael, "To Wear, to Eat, to Ride, to See: Object Biographies, Collections, and the History of Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century Horn of Africa and Southern Arabia" (Temple University, E. Neumeier)

Stephenson, Lea, "Sensing Egypt, Shaping Empire: American Collectors, Artists, and Egyptomania, 1870–1922" (University of Delaware, W. Bellion)

Watters, Marta, "Bodies of Experimental Philosophies: Animal Objects as Embodiments of Art and Science in Early Modern Northern Europe" (University of Missouri, Columbia, A. Rudloff Stanton)

Wilson, Margaret, "Making and Breaking Enclosure: the Movement of Art Through the Late Medieval Convent" (Ohio State University, K. Whittington)