Past PhDs

Brianne Cohen
Advisor: Terry Smith
Placement:

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art, Amherst College

Francis Connelly
Dissertation:

The Origins and Development of Primitivism in Nineteenth-Century French Art and Aesthetics

Placement:

Professor, Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Ivy Cooper
Advisor: Kirk Savage
Dissertation:

Minimalism for the Masses: Public Sculpture under the Federal Art in Architecture Program, 1972-1989

Placement:

Professor of Art History, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Patrizia Costa Frezza
Placement:

Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX; Part-time instructor University of Pittsburgh HAA Department; Local Childcare Consultant, Cultural Care Au Pair, Greater Pittsburgh Area

Laura Crary
Advisor: David Wilkins
Dissertation:

Constructing a National Identity: The Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo

Placement:

Professor of Art History, Presbyterian College

Jennifer Craven
Advisor: David Wilkins
Dissertation:

A New Historical View of the Independent Female Portrait in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting

Roger Crum
Advisor: David Wilkins
Dissertation:

Retrospection and Response: The Medici Palace in the Service of the Medici, c.1420-1469

Placement:

Professor and College of Arts and Sciences Liaison for Global and International Initiatives Dept of Visual Arts, University of Dayton

Mrea Csorba
Dissertation:

The Identification of Non-Dymastic Burial Practice Involving a Northern Tool Tradition on China’s Dynastic Frontier

Placement:

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Duquesne University; Adjunct Professor of Asian Art, University of Pittsburgh, HAA

Amy Cymbala
Dissertation:

‘Dearest Wife, Most Famous Woman:’ Gender, Commemoration, and Women’s Funerary Monuments in Rome, 1550-1750, April 2016

Maria D'Anniballe
Placement:

Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department; Visiting Professor, Ohio University, Art History Department

Kate Dimitrova
Placement:

Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Diego; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Wells College; Assistant Professor of Art History, Alfred University

Lauretta Dimmick
Advisor: David Wilkins
Dissertation:

Thomas Crawford, American Sculptor in Rome: Portrait Busts and Ideal Works

Placement:

Owner/founder of All About Flowers, Seattle, WA; Visiting Professor at Regis University

Marion Dolan
Placement:

Semester at Sea instructor; Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, HAA department; Docent, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art

Britta C. Dwyer
Advisor: David Wilkins
Dissertation:

Nineteenth-Century Regional Women Artists:  The Pittsburgh School of Design for Women, 1865-1904

Placement:

Independent art historian, Cambridge, England