GRADRESOURCES
Recent Master's Theses
Completed (2011-2012)
Avivi, Adele
Between Dada and Architecture: Marcel Janco in Zurich and Bucharest, 1916-1939
Chair: Susan Laxton, Patricia Morton and Eva Forgacs
Garcia, Dominique
Materials of the Sacred: 16th to 18th Century Religious Materiality in Michoacan
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, Kristoffer Neville and Jennifer Hughes
Goetting, Carol
Guarino Guarini: His Architecture and the Sublime
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl and Conrad Rudolph
Gomez, Gabriela Rodriguez
Re-Conceptualizing Social Medicine in Diego Rivera's History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health Mural, Mexico City, 1953.
Chair: Jason Weems, Elizabeth Kotz and Karl Taube
Machado, Erin
Imagining Chivalry: Charles V's Suits of Steel
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA)
Owen, Caroline
Allan Sekula, Margarita Cabrera and Vik Muniz: Representations of the Social Conditions and Capital Relations of Labor
Chair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Freya Schiwy
Peltakian, Danielle
Demonstrating Modernism: Richard Neutra's Early Model Houses
Chair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Catherine Gudis
Pfahler, Zachary
Robert Heinecken's TV/Time Environment
Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Catherine Gudis
Rotfeld, Masha
The Fantasy and Fear of Chernobyl's Ruins
Chair: Patricia Morton, Susan Laxton and Liz Kotz
Williams, Sarah
A Language of Rebuilt Reality: The Photography of Robert Cumming in the 1970s
Chair: Susan Laxton, Elizabeth Kotz and Erika Suderburg
Wolfe, Harmony
Landscapes of Dance: the 1960 Summer Workshop of Anna Halprin
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, and Jacqueline Murphy
Completed (2010-2011)
Cho, Younhee
The Relationship Between Architecture and Sculpture of St. Paul's, London
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and Jeanette Kohl
Corey, Mary
Salvador Dali's Bacchanale: A "Paranoiac" Ballet
Chair: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Susan Laxton and Jason Weems
Hampton, Steve
Bad Painting and Kitsch
Chair: Patricia Morton, Jason Weems and Elizabeth Kotz
Osenbaugh, Elizabeth
Replacing the Icon: Seventeenth-Century Tomb Monuments for Dutch Naval Heroes by Rombout Verhulst
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker and Jeanette Kohl
Ridel, Amanda-Nicole
Modification of Market: John Smith and the Mezzotint Print in Eighteenth-Century England
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville and George Haggerty
Siegfried, Laura
The Art of Seeing in Perspective: How Medieval Optical Science Transformed into Renaissance Painting
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville and Conrad Rudolph
Vasiliou, Tia
The Power of Suggestiveness: Sadakichi Hartmann, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and American Modernism
Chair: Jason Weems, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Jessica Smith (The Huntington)
Wilder, Courtney
Staging Display in the Sculptural Work of Yinka Shonibare MBE
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Elizabeth Kotz and Jeanette Kohl
Completed (2009-2010)
Blythe, Megan
The Meisterhauser and Director’s House at the Dessau, Bauhaus: Experiments in Factory-Made Homes
Chair: Françoise Forster-Hahn, Patricia Morton, Elizabeth Kotz
Brocka, Melinda
Thinking Inside the Square: Contemporary Monumentality, Site Specificity and Trafalgar Square's Empty Fourth Plinth
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Jason Weems, Malcolm Baker
Dickey, Caitlin
The Development of the First Public Opera Houses: the Demands, the Form, and the First Scenographic Engineer
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Malcolm Baker, Rogerio Budasz
Sadoyan, Lilit
Collecting at Court and Beyond: The Dissemination and Display of Girardon’s Sculptural Groups
Chair: Malcolm Baker, Kristoffer Neville, Catherine Hess
Spear, Elizabeth
History on Stage: Looking Back at “The West as America”
Chair: Jason Weems, Stella Nair, Françoise Forster-Hahn
Thoreson, Natasha
Stitching the Divide: Mary Morris, Gender, and the Amateur in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and the United States
Chair: Jason Weems, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Malcolm Baker
Completed (2008-2009)
Entwistle, Conley Wayne
Le Train a-t-il quitte la gare? Hybrid Modernities at the Muse d’Orsay
Chair: Patricia Morton, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Elizabeth Kotz
Johnson, Julianne
Constructing an Identity for Artist and City: An analysis of the Trans-Atlantic Career of Mateo Perez de Alesio
Chair: Stella Nair, Kristoffer Neville, Jeanette Kohl, Jason Weems
Millard, Robert
Compassion and Convention: A Study of Piero di Cosimo’s Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, Kristoffer Neville, Conrad Rudolph
Park, Alice
The Doni, Raphael and Michelangelo - Patrons and Purveyors of Domestic Art
Chair: Kristoffer Neville, Dale Kent, Jeanette Kohl
Picano, Bruce
Constructing Identities: Race, Gender and Class in the Photography of Martin Chambi
Chair: Stella Nair, Jason Weems, Jonathan Ritter
Yang, Hsiao-Chi
Reading Fashion, Reading Taiwan: The New Period of Taiwan in the 1990s
Chair: Elizabeth Kotz, Patricia Morton, Heidi Brevik-Zender
Completed (2007-2008)
Barron, Jennifer Adair
Chimu Feather Imagery: The Mercantile Shift Symbolized
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube and Carol Mackey
Gomez-Adams, Rosalva
Creating Identity in New Spain: Translation in the Biombo "El Encuentro de Cortes y Moctezuma"
Chair: Stella Nair, Karl Taube, and Monica Dominguez Torres
Hickey, Benjamin
The Aesthetics of Trying
Chair: Pat Morton, Françoise Forster-Hahn and Liz Kotz
Huh, Jee Woon
De la vision a la realite: Devotional Images of Three Female Patrons at Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Burgundian Court
Chair: Kris Neville, Dale Kent, and Conrad Rudolph
Peng, Min
Fluid Bridge: The Cultural Identity of the Overseas Chinese Artist, Huang Yong Ping
Chair: Liz Kotz, Ginger Hsu, and Pat Morton
Popp, Lauren Diane
Beyond the White Cube: Ideology of the Alternative Museum
Chair: Liz Kotz, Françoise Forster-Hahn and Pat Morton