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Graduate Students
Blythe, Megan
megan.blythe@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: thesis in progress exploring masters and directors houses at the Dessau Bauhaus.
Brocka, Melinda
melinda.brocka@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: primarily American and European contemporary art, with an interest in architecture. Undergrad thesis on British artist Christine Borland.
Cho, Younhee
younhee.cho@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: 18th Century/Neoclassical Art: with an emphasis on Neoclassical sculpture; also interested in Ancient Greek and Roman art, and Italian language and culture. Undergrad thesis on Canova.
Cook, Amanda
amanda.cook@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: 18th and 19th Century European Art/Modern Art: with a focus on Orientalism, globalization and imperialism in the visual culture of the modern world.
Dickey, Caitlin
caitlin.dickey@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Ancient Greek and Roman Art, with interests in Asian art and comparative art history; particular emphasis on sculpture and architecture.
Entwistle, Conley Wayne
conley.entwistle@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: thesis in progress on architectural hybridity in the Parisian Musee d'Orsay.
Hampton, Steve
steven.hampton@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: with a focus on abstraction, painting and critical theory; interest in using contemporary culture as a lens for reading images of violence depicted in painting, especially within work made in reaction to or during times of war.
Johnson, Juli
julianne.johnson@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Early Modern/Transatlantic Exchange: thesis in progress on artistic exchanges between Europe and Latin America as seen through the work of Mateo Perez de Alesio, an Italian artist that practiced in Rome, Seville, and Lima.
Millard, Robert
robert.millard@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Italian Renaissance: thesis in progress examining the mythological paintings of the late fifteenth/early sixteenth-century Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo.
Olsen, Kaycee
kaycee.olsen@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: with a focus on photography, video and new media, and an interest in the relations between photography and contemporary art practices.
Park, Alice
alice.park002@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Renaissance: thesis in progress entitled, "The Doni Family, Raphael, and Michelangelo: Patronage in the Domestic Setting in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence."
Picano, Bruce
bruce.picano@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Photography: thesis in progress on twentieth-century Peruvian photographer Martin Chambi looking at his work in the context of indigenous rights politics, gender, and colonialism.
Sadoyan, Lilit
lilit.sadoyan@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: 18th & 19th Century French and Italian Art: with particular interests in the French patronage system and the history of the display of art objects.
Solis, Judy Lenore (Currently on Leave of Absence)
judy.solis@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Renaissance
Thesis Title: Proposed: Vittoria Colonna: Patronage of a Religious Reformer
Spear, Elizabeth
elizabeth.spear@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: American Art: with a focus on American painting during and after the Revolutionary War, and its complex relation to the traditions of British painting; particular interest in portraiture and history painting.
Thoreson, Natasha
natasha.thoreson@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: 19th and 20th Century German Art/Modern Art: with an interest in the relations between modern art and craft, decorative art and outsider arts.
Yang, Hsiao-Chi
hsiao-chi.yang@email.ucr.edu
Area of Interest: Modern/Contemporary: thesis in progress on contemporary Taiwanese fashion.