Honors Theses
Name | Date | Advisor |
Title |
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Nikita Costantini | Apr. 2016 | McCloskey |
“Upside-Down in London: Georg Baselitz and His Entrance into the International Art Scene” |
Meghan Hipple | Apr. 2016 | Och |
"Showing and Exposing: Re/encountering the Environment through American Painting, Photography, and Television." |
Brianna Humbert | Apr. 2016 | Bender |
“The Feminist Secretary: Activism, Typewriting, and the Gendering of Labor in the Work of Sheryl Oring” |
Emily Mirales | Apr. 2016 | Weis |
“Building a ‘City of Reference: The United States Botanic Garden and Washington, D.C.’ ” |
Melissa Quarto | Apr. 2016 | Josten |
“Performing Incanismo: Cultural Tourism at Machu Picchu, Peru” |
Grace Strong | Apr. 2016 | Nygren |
“Carlo Crivelli Matters: A View of the Renaissance from the ‘Periphery’ ” |
Shengyu Wang | Apr. 2016 | Smith |
“Should Art Labor Be Free?” |
O'Brien, Abbey | Apr. 2015 | Josten |
"Radical Muralism in Three Dimensions: A Reexamination of Siqueiros' New York Workshop" |
Kelly, Grace | Apr. 2015 | Josten |
"The University Studio: Oiticica, Rhodislandia, and Peripheral Strategies in Art Making" |
Sova, Matthew | Apr. 2015 | Fozi |
"Women and Empore: The Issue of Gendered Space in Ottonian Architecture" |
Armstrong, Kirsten | Apr. 2015 | Fozi |
"Sprituality of Non-Sacred Space: Sanctifying a More Socialist Agenda" |
Mosco, Allison | Apr. 2015 | McCloskey |
"Religion Transformed: The Christian Roots of a Secular Russian Craft" |
Kilpatrick, Kaley | Apr. 2015 | Savage |
"Flight 93 National Memorial, the African Burial Ground National Monument, and the Pursuit of Child-Appropriate Memorial Designs" |
Gallagher, Alice | Apr. 2015 | Savage |
"Creation and Contemplation: The Flight 93 Memorial and the National September 11th Museum" |
Chen, Liyi | Apr. 2015 | Linduff |
"Reinforcing Femininity: Exhibiting Empress Dowager and Marie Antoinette in the 21st Century" |
Weber, Jonathon T. | Apr. 2015 | Savage |
"Faces of Empire: Social Discourse of Field Marshal, 1st Baron, Sir Jeffrey Amherst's Portraits Create in Life" |
Horton, Sarah | Apr. 2015 | Gao |
"Methodological Suffering: Chinese Buddhism as a Tool in Zhang Huan's Early Performance Art" |
Lue, Karen | Apr. 2015 | Savage |
"The Politics of Display: Transnational Convergence in the Chinese Nationality Room" |
Burgess, Lauren | Apr. 2014 | Bender |
“Embodiment and Decoration: Henri Matisse’s Rosary Chapel in Vence, France” |
DiBitetto, James | Apr. 2014 | Bender & Savage |
“Curating Minimalism at the Carnegie Museum of Art” |
Hazel, Chris | Apr. 2014 | Armstrong |
“Re-Thinking Architecture: A Call for a New Social Space” |
Kemp, Joanna | Apr. 2014 | Bender |
“The Encounters Project: Teaching Art History Outside of the University” |
Kresse, Kelsey | Apr. 2014 | Bender |
“Tracey Emin’s My Bed: Creative Space and Mythic Consequences” |
Marriott, Elizabeth | Apr. 2014 | Eppihimer |
“The Display of Cylinder Seals” |
Meloy, Grace | Apr. 2014 | Bender |
“Circulation, Access, and Tourist Experience: Berlin’s Center and Periphery as Cast Study” |
Selya, Stephanie | Apr. 2014 | Ellenbogen |
“Painting with Light: The Composite World War I Photography of Frank Hurley” |
Warren, Julia | Apr. 2014 | Rajagopalan |
“The Nature of the High Line: A Jacobsian Perspective on New Yorks ‘Park in the Sky’” |
Williams, Elana | Apr. 2014 | Ellenbogen |
“Representing Genetic Disease in Modernity: Rick Guidotti as the Contemporary Medical Photographer” |
Lu, Siqiao | Dec. 2013 | Savage |
“Antagonistic Therapy – Krzysztof Wodickzko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection” |
Castro, Maria | Apr. 2013 | McCloskey |
“‘A Semana de Arte Moderna’ and the Creation of a Brazilian National Identity for Art in 1922” |
Harris, Kristina | Apr. 2013 | Bender and Langmead |
“Food for Thought: Rethinking the Process of Processing with Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules” |
Henke, Kelsey | Apr. 2013 | Bailey |
“Gender, Sexuality, and Subjectivity in Hipster Visual Culture” |
Shine, Tyler | Apr. 2013 | Ellenbogen |
“Taboo Icons: The Photography of Andres Serrano and the Visual Politics of the Body” |
Sweet, Natalie | Apr. 2013 | Bailey |
“Pinning Up Venus: Origins of the Newbrow” |
DiDonna, Gabriela | Apr. 2012 | Ellenbogen | “Reconstructing Vision: David Hockney’s Photocollage” |
Goldstein, Alexandra | Apr 2012 | Armstrong | "A.W.N. Pugin's Medieval Court in the Great Exhibition of 1851” |
Haley, Sarah | Apr. 2012 | McKim | “Past, Present and Future: A Study of Pittsburgh’s ‘Ghost’ Signage” |
Labash, Chanelle | Apr. 2012 | Harris | “’Oriental’ Carpets in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings” |
Peterson, Lucy | Apr. 2012 | Gerhart | “Flowers: Form and Function in Medieval Japanese Handscrolls” |
Ross, Allison | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “Kirchner’s Berlin Street Scenes: Embodying Modern Berlin” |
Taylor, Lauren | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “Representing Africa at the Carnegie Museum of Art” |
Trum, Stephanie | Apr. 2012 | McCloskey | “’Tragedy of the People’: Representing Human Suffering in Moscow’s Victory Park” |
Cooperstein, Shana | Apr. 2011 | Ellenbogen | “Likeness in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Photo Portraits” |
Jackson, Trudy | Apr. 2011 | Harris | “Franz Landsberger and the Myth of the ‘Jewish’ Rembrandt” |
Lue, Jennifer | Apr. 2011 | Minglu | “Woman as City: Depictions of Women and the City Urban Project in Chinese Contemporary Art" |
Murin, Carolyn | Apr. 2011 | Christian | “Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty? Venetian Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century, Titian’s La Flora and La Bella" |
Ostergaard, Liesl | Apr. 2011 | Savage | “Separation Barrier Graffiti at Bethlehem: Public Art in a Contested Area” |
Williams, Marie | Apr. 2011 | McCloskey | “Veshch'/Gegenstand/Objet: El Lissitzky and the Socialist Object in Western Europe” |
Yadloskey, Sherry | Apr. 2011 | McCloskey | “Representations of the New Woman in Weimar Art and Political Propaganda” |
Zhang, Hanlu | Apr. 2011 | Ellenbogen | “Sontag Against Sontag: Problems in Photographic Presentation" |
Lewis, Stephen | Apr. 2010 | Ellenbogen | "Seeing Sound: Hans Jenny and the Cymatic Atlas" |
Mansfield, Patrick | Apr. 2010 | Bender and McCloskey | "Progression, Stasis and Gender: The Postage Stamp in East Germany" |
McLaughlin, Lauren | Apr. 2010 | Christian | "Dante Portraiture in the Time of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici: Bronzino's Mute Poetry-Two Allegories in Context" |
Weingartner, Amy | Apr. 2010 | Ellenbogen | "Monstrous Monsters in Modern China" |
Frola, Lori | Apr. 2009 | Smith | "Contemporary Art in Chile" |
Harijanto, Ike | Apr. 2009 | Ellenbogen | "Pictorial Confrontation to Science and Universal Communication" |
Hinkle, Nicole | Apr. 2009 | Ellenbogen | "An Exploratioin of Abstraction through Titles and Authorship during the Abstract Expressionist Period" |
Hodas, Julie | Apr. 2009 | McCloskey | "Images of Motherhood in Weimar Germany" |
Hoover, Kristi | Apr. 2009 | Ellenbogen | "Violence and Psychology in Photography" |
Mowery, Tasha | Apr. 2009 | McCloskey | "Science and Art Restoration" |
Scalissi, Nicole | Apr. 2009 | Smith | "One Cold Hand: Relation Aesthetics in Pittsburgh" |
Steinbrink, Julie | Apr. 2009 | McCloskey | "Art as Therapy for WWI Artist-Veterans in Weimar Germany" |
Campbell, Michele | Aug. 2008 | Christian | "The Influence of Dante's Beatrice on Michelangelo's Female Figures" |
Hinson, Erin | Aug. 2008 | Christian | "Mantegna's visione all'antica: The St. James Frescoes, Northern Italian Antiquarianism, and the Roman Bias" |
Rice, Cory | Aug. 2008 | Ellenbogen | "Reflections of Rrose: Duchamp and Warhol on Gender" |
Colahan, Meaghan | Apr. 2008 | Weis | "Examining the Winemaking Motif on Attic Pottery and in Egyptian Tomb Paintings" |
Kauffmann, Hannah | Apr. 2008 | Ellenbogen | "The Decisive Moment: Explored through the HCB's Photography and Garry Winogrand" |
O'Hara, Rachel | Apr. 2008 | Bender | "Commonalities between the Landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the Early Chinese Landscapes" |
Rosato, Nicole | Apr. 2008 | Ellenbogen | "Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore: How Painters See Photographically" |
Waterloo, Emma | Apr. 2008 | Toker | "The Rise of the Architectural Drawing: A Journey in Development" |
Wharton, Lindsay | Apr. 2008 | Stones | "Bibles of Kings: Images of David in the Bibles Moralisées and the Morgan Picture Bible" |
Stewart, Sarah | Dec. 2007 | Ellenbogen | "Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development in Tana Hoban's Picture Books" |
Sorensen, Kim | Dec. 2007 | Harris | "Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and the French Revolution" |
Sarno, Ariane | Aug. 2007 | Christian | "Homosocial Networks of Patronage Within the Papal Court as Seen through Portraits by Raphael" |
Amrhein, Adam | Apr. 2007 | Armstrong | "Throwing Stones: The Social and Architectural Implications of the Phipps Conservatory" |
Frymoyer, Allison | Apr. 2007 | Harris | "Unmasking Sofonisba: Discovering her True Self-portraits" |
Leonardi, Jamie | Apr. 2007 | McCloskey | "Sex, Serial Murders and Sensationalism: A Study of Otto Dix, George Grosz and Lustmord" |
Logan, Maureen | Apr. 2007 | Gerhart and Linduff |
"The Japanese Oil Painting of Takahashi Yuichi and Koyama Shotaro: A New Way of Seeing Capitalism?" |
Sheldahl, Dallas | Apr. 2007 | Harris | "The Role of the Spanish Inquisition in the Work of Velazquez and Goya" |
Simpson, Donald | Apr. 2007 | Savage | "The City Useful: The Planning of Schenley Plaza, 1911-1918" |
Vogel, Sara | Apr. 2007 | Stones | "The Annunciation: An Exploration of Aesthetic in Sacred Art with Byzantine and Fifteenth-Century Italian Renaissance Examples" |
Zimmermann, Felicite | Apr. 2007 | Sheon | "Vincent van Gogh's Admiration and Emulation of Adolphe Monticelli" |
Manthey, Gretchen | Dec. 2006 | Churchill | "The Altarpiece of the Nativity: Its Place in Early Netherlandish Painting" |
Stine, Darin | Dec. 2006 | Christian | "Representations of Raphael's Muse" |
Linka, Przemyslaw | Aug. 2006 | Bender | "The Coast of Rügen and the Artistic Development of Caspar David Friedrich" |
Janoski, Holly | Apr. 2006 | Harris | "Mary Magadalen: 1st-Century Penitent or 17th-Century Aristocrat" |
Riegelnegg, Curt | Apr. 2006 | McCloskey | "Unraveling Paul Klee's Eastern Mystique" |
Schantz, Emily | Apr. 2006 | Toker | "Schenley High School: A Textbook Example of Form Following Function" |
Kirkpatrick, Emily | Aug. 2005 | Stones | "The Gotha Missal: Patronage and an Analysis of Illumination" |
Bailey, Robert | Apr. 2005 | Smith | "Creating the Contemporary: The 2004 Carnegie International and the Biennale Explosion" |
D'Acunto, Rebecca | Apr. 2005 | Savage | "A Homely Woman's Opinion of a Pretty One: Jane Grey Swisshelm, Vinnie Ream, and the Image of Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century America" |
Furgason-Clem, Kevi Lee | Apr. 2005 | Churchill | "Death of the Miser and the Ship of Fools in Hieronymous Bosch" |
Gondek, Renee | Apr. 2005 | Weis | "The Sundial of Augustus" |
Schoening, Christian | Apr. 2005 | Piller | Clement Greenberg |
Drury, Brenna | Apr. 2004 | Bender | "Methodological Concerns in the Research of Installation Art, Using the Use of Shadows and Light in the Work of Christian Boltanski as Case Study" |
Guignon, Chirstopher | Apr. 2004 | Hearn | "A Comparison of Heidegger's Philosophies of Dwellingand the Origin of Art and 16th and 17th c. Japanese Architecture" |
Krakosky, Norah | Apr. 2004 | Linduff | "The Effects of the Three Rivers Dam Project on the Cultural Artifacts of the Yangtze River Region" |
Lukens, Sarah | Apr. 2004 | Toker | "Reception and Promotion of Modern Architecture in American Periodicals of 1930s, Particularly Fortune" |
Secola, Adam | Apr. 2004 | Neal | Antoni Gaudi |
Semrau, Emily | Apr. 2004 | Sheon | "Popular Imagery and the French Revolution" |