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Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Adomanis, Asia, "On the Borders of Abstraction: Chinese American Artists and the Politics of Style in American Art, 1940s–1960s" (Ohio State University, J. Patterson, J.F. Andrews)

Armstrong, Toni, "Taking Care: The Queer Making of American Modernism, 1914-–1935" (Boston University, R. Barrett W. Moore)

Asplund, Ingrid, "Tracing a Genealogy of Light as Art: Sacred Traditions in Twentieth-Century American Visual Culture" (University of California, San Diego, A. Williams, W. Tronzo)

Angelos, Meghan, "Picturing Modern Movement: American Dance Photography, 1900–1960" (University of Delaware, J. Hill)

Baker, Megan, "Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758–1814" (University of Delaware, J. Van Horn)

Beeber, Emily, "Visualizing Jewishness in the Atlantic World, 1715-–1830" (University of Delaware, J. Van Horn)

Benson, Madalen, C., "Land-Based Relations: Art and its Contestations with Settler State Law and Property Regimes" (1989–2024) (University of California, Santa Cruz, Tj. Demos)

Bewley, Shannon, "Earth Artists, Indigenous Earthworks, and Land Reclamation Sculpture from 1965 to 1985" (Boston University, G. Williams, R. Barrett)

Brown, Renee, "Eye to Eye: Paul Vanderbilt and the Ordering of Photographic Knowledge, 1940-1970" (Boston University, K. Sichel, W. Moore)

Buist, Colin, "The Dematerialization of AIDS (on Robert Blanchon, Charles Lum, and Doug Ischar)" (University of Toronto, J. P. Ricco)

Cluck, Alyson, "Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez's Erotic Topologies in 1960s" New York (University of Maryland, College Park, A. McEwen)

Flora, Karin, "Karl The Grisaille Image: Encounters between Art and Matter" (Ohio State University, C. Kleinbub, K. Whittington)

Florey, Audrey, "Women Artist-Educators' Construction of the Modern American Art World: The Case of Elsa Ulbricht, Otellie Loloma, and Samella S. Lewis" (University of Missouri-Columbia, K. Schwain)

Graham, Anthony, "Infrastructures of Embodiment: Postminimalism and the Art of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi" (University of California, Irvine, B. Cooks)

Hamer-Light, Julia, "Part of the Continuum: Arthur Amiotte’s Fiber Wall Hangings and Lakȟóta Ecological Pedagogy, 1960–1978" (University of Delaware, J. Horton)

Havet, Isabelle, "Beneath the Surface: Representations of Subterranean Space, 1850–1900" (University of Delaware, N. Kallmyer)

Humphrey, Elizabeth S., "Visualizing Racial Ambiguity and Fluidity in North America, 1750–1870) (University of Delaware, J. Van Horn)

Kohleal, Justine, "Unveiling Factory Logics: Contemporary Art Museums and the Production of the Colonial-Contemporary" (University of Alberta, N. Loveless, L. McTavish)

Leifer, Emily, "Los Angeles Light and Space: Installation Art and the Environment of the 1970s" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King)

Mapstone, Molly, "Mediating Vision and Negotiating Narratives: Contemporary U.S. Installation Art and Its Expanding Publics, 1966–2019" (Temple University, E. Pauwels, A.Patel)

McClendon, Emma, "Sizing the Fashionable Body: Butterick Patterns, Grading, and Normalcy 1860–1910" (Bard Graduate Center, M. Linn, M. Majer)

Oh, Sehyun, "The Immigrant's Ecology: Japanese American Art and Environment, 1923–1943" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Pitts, Phillippa, "Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art & America's Medical Democracy, 1800–1860" (Boston University, R. Barrett A. M. Reyes)

Pivo, Hannah, "Charting the Future: Graphic Methods and Planning in the United States, c. 1910–40" (Columbia University, Z. Çelik Alexander)

Price, Thomas, "Body Work: Masculinity and Extraction in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art" (University of Delaware, W. Bellion)

Raina, Vidhita, "Fabricating Sarasa: Patterns of Global Exchange in Early Modern Japanese Textiles and Visual Culture" (University of Kansas, S. Fowler)

Renaudie, Zoë, "Conserver l'éphémère: les Humanités Numériques pour la documentation de l'exposition" (University of Montreal, E. Château-Dutier)

Sánchez González, Julián, "Lucerna Extincta: Spiritual Promiscuities in Performance and Installation Art, 1970s-80s" (Columbia University, K.E. Jones)

Scaturro, Sarah, "The Professionalization of Costume Conservation in North America and the United Kingdom, 1964–1986" (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen, M. Majer)

Schwartz, Stacy, "Unsettling Authenticity: Renegotiating Contemporary Identities and Cultural Trauma in Post-Jewish Art" (University of California, Santa Cruz, Murray D. C.)

Skeath, Alicia, "On the Other Side: Representations of the Ojibwe from the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century" (Penn State University, A. Cross)

Sklarz, Cambra, "The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America" (University of California, Riverside, J. Weems)

Smyth, Peter, "Cartoon Theory" (Ohio State University, L.Florman)

Spratley, Sinclair, "We Remember Attica": Carceral Politics and Art in the "Long" 1970s" (Columbia University, K. Jones)

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

Weldon-Yochim, Zoe, "Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in Art of the United States, 1979–2011" (University of California, Santa Cruz, T.J.,Demos)

Wichmann, Cecilia, "Sanctuary: Craft, Performance, and Memorial Sculpture Converge in the Work of Joyce J. Scott" (University of Maryland, College Park, J. Shannon, R. Ater)

Williams, Ashley, "Unfree Artists on the Borders of U.S. Empire, 1850–1930 (Columbia University, E. Hutchinson, N. Cooke)