Honors Theses

Name Date Advisor

Title

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"