Student: Adwoa Adusei
Project: The Arts and Cultures of Consumption: Examining the Cultural Capital of Ablade Glover and David Hammons
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Lowell Clare
Project: The Brilliant Locus: An Exploration of Physical and Philosophical Enlightenment in Sir John Soane's Museum
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Sara Frier
Project: Metropolis Mori: Sex and Death in Otto Dix's Großstadt Triptychon
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Alyssa Giangregorio
Project: The Iconography of Michelangelo's St. Matthew
Advisor: Diana Depardo-Minsky

Student: Kathryn Gile
Project: Refiguring Desire: Kehinde Wiley's Subersion of the Decorative Form
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Paris Ionescu
Project:Relational Aesthetics: A Survey and Critique of Bourriaud's Model of Art Since the Early 1990s
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Quinby McLellan
Project: Chinese Bodies in Spectacle: The Performing Masses in Beijing's Opening Ceremony of the 29th Olympiad
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Eliza Mullen
Project: Artistic Supremacy and the Pursuit of Power: The Mutually Beneficial Relationship of King Henry VIII and his Court Artist, Hans Holbein the Younger
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Sara Paden
Project: "Paper Bullets:" World War I Posters and America's Visual
Language of War
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Chris McCloskey
Project: The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Defeat: An Analysis
of Michelangelo's Victory Group
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Rebeka Radna
Project: Down Through the Sediment and Upward Towards Helaing: Anself Kiefer and the Rebirth of History Painting
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Emma Richter
Project: Expanding the Concept of a Museum: Three Moments of Change, Controversy, and Reception in the Trajectory of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Elizabeth Rosenfield
Project: Visual Innuendos: A Feminist Exploration of Paintings by Lisa Yuskavage
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Abigail Schwartz
Project: From the Street to the Studio: Graffiti in New York City During the 1970s and 80s
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Jonathan Sutak
Project: Play Grounded
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Rosemary Winter
Project: Nineteenth-Century Native American Souvenir Art: Cultural Exchange at Niagra Falls
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Serda Yalkin
Project: Performing Politics: Collective Initiatives and Public Spectacles in Contemporary Argentina
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Camilla Aikin
Project: Sniffing Glue vs. No Future: The Visual Culture of Punk in the
US and UK
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Erin Bagley
Project: Museum Poetics of Jurasic Technology
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Julia Carrozzini
Project: Valentino a Roma: The Mythology of Rome and The Shaping
of Italy's National Identity
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Jennifer Caster
Project: Gluttonous, Scorched, and Riotous Flocks: Navigating American Identity through the Bird Art of Walton Ford and John James Audubon
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Olivia Cohen
Project: Silent Sitters: The Female Portrait Genre in Renaissance Florence and the Representations of Giovanna degli Albizzi Ronabuoni
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Colleen Harriss
Project: Ernesto Pujol, Odd Man Out: Investigating the Interstices of Otherness
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Sarah Kogan
Project: 'All the mutilated blocks of art': The Rhetoric of the Elgin Marbles
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Sara Lurie
Project: The Gender Veil: The Creation and Myth of the Feminine Identity in American Culture Illustrated by the Photographs of Cindy Sherman
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Mathew Mauricio
Project: Illusions of Submersion: Nature and Artifice in the Public
Aquarium
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Chris McCloskey
Project: National Identity, Shinto Aesthetics, and the Architecture of
Kenzo Tange
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Student: Daniel Mullin
Project: Systems in Crisis: An Encyclopedia of Fashionable Thought
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Jacleen Simons
Project: Sculpture and Idolatry in Michelangelo's Brazen Serpent
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Jessica Strongin
Project: Wealth and Piety: A Contextual Analysis of Jan van Eyck's
Rolin Madonna
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Jean-Luc Unger
Project: "Recoding, Remapping, 'Total Melt': Active Spaces of Queer Desires and Transgender Embodiments"
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Leah Whitman-Salkin
Project: Praxis Makes Product: Contemporary Collectivist Praxis,
Dialogical Spaces, and Alternative Economies
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Max Yeston
Project: Vistas of Modernity: Depictions of New York City in Depression-era Murals
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Mark Day
Project: Putting a Lid on Congress; the Dome Architecture of the United States Capitol
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Alessandra Duarte
Project: Tunga's Experiential Transformation of Worlds
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Ljiljana Dukanovic
Project: Witnesses of Existence: Art in Conflict
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Elizabeth Eames
Project: Rivalry and Respect: The Relationship between Michelangelo and Raphael through their Acknowledgment of Influences
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Rebecca Giusti
Project: Infectious Art: Toward an Etiology of Reception
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Mikaela Gross
Project: Folded, Unfolded and Refolded: The Legacy of the Baroque in the Work of Two Contemporary Brazilian Artists
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Hannah Gruy
Project: The Movement of Marble: The Imagery of Mystical Love in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila" and "The Beata Ludovic Albertoni"
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Aurora Halal
Project: Rendering the Bigger Picture from a Mile Away: Quantum Mechanics, Conceptual Art, and the Ontological Crisis
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Sarah Heslip
Project: And Everywhere That Mary Went, The Lamb Was Sure to Go: An Investigation of Bayside, a Contemporary Marian Cult
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Rebecca Matalon
Project: Performing the Archive: Reading Chris Burden through Chris Burden
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Tracy Pollock
Project: Joan Semmel: Painting the Female Gaze
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Lillian Slezak
Project: On the Matter of Living Spirit: Kandinsky, the Blue Rider, and the Unification of the Arts
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Alice Whiteside
Project: The Ara Pacis: Repackaging History
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Alexandra Abella
Project: Inside and Out: The Romanticized Images of Women from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
Advisor: Particia Karetzky

Student: Michelle Antonisse
Project: Spatial Memoirs - Iconoclasm and the Church Interiors of Emmanuel De Witte
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Angelo Aponte
Project: Santeria Reclaimed: Cuban Identity
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Jessica Blau
Project: Semana Santa: Identifying Sevillians
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Alexandra Church
Project: The Urban Villa: Origins of Suburbanism in 19th Century Newburgh
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Matthew Cummings
Project: God Created All Things in Measure and Number and Weight: Austerity and Ornament in Centralized Church Construction in 15th and 16th Century Italy
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Shlomit Dror
Project: Re-encountering Jewish identity in Latin America: The Art of José Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Eric Erdle
Project: Going MoMA: The Commodification of the Modernist Utopian Dream
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Matthew Evans
Project: History Matters: Testimony, Tradition, and Invention in Jean Fautrier's Otages
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Michael Gumener
Project: Thomas Struth's and Olafur Eliasson's Arcadias: For a New Ethos of Natural Beauty
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Peter Haffner
Project: The Politics of Haitian Art and the Visual Language of Vodou
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Alexandra Irving
Project: Filling in the Blankness
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Sarah Kathyrn Keezing
Project: Beautiful Scoundrels: The Fox as Cultural and Personal Icon in Edo, Japan, 1603-1867
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Student: Kristen Keys
Project: Marys of the Sea: the Cult of the Black Madonna in France
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Shirin Khosravi
Project: Yasumasa Morimura: Gender and Race Peformance in Photography
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Marie Kropp
Project: Sacred and Secular Narratives in Hans Memling's Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Jennifer Lewis
Project: The Method and the Madness of Albert C. Barnes: Vying for Eduction, Resisting a Tourist Attraction
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Alessandra Merrill
Project: You Press the Button, We Do the Rest: How Kodak Advertisements Shaped the Postwar American Family.
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Amy Monaco
Project: Rene Magritte and the American Audience
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Amy Nightingale
Project: Social Documentary Photography in America: Transitions in Intent, Methodology, and Function from 1890 to 2005
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Eiren Shea
Project: The Poetic Sculptor: Rodin and His Literary Contemporaries
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Benjamin Thornborough
Project: L'Exposition Universelle de 1900: Visions of Empire and National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century France
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: David Valdini
Project: The Importance of Family: The Applied Heraldry of Popes Sixtus IV, Julius II, and Alexander VII
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Caitlin Adkins
Project: Devotion to the Natural: The Dress of Henry van de Velde
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Heather Carroll
Project: Scallop, Staff, and Scrip: Accoutrements of the Camino de Santiago Pilgrim in Romanesque Sculpture and the Formation of a "Pilgrim Identity"
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Julie Feldman
Project: Dia: Conduit to Immortality, A Critical Analysis of the Dia Art Foundation
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Ariella Feller
Project: The Perception of a King: An Investigation into Foreign Symbols, Conventions, and Presence in Mughal Empire Painting under Emperor Jahangir
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Student: Natalie Franz
Project: The Farm Beautiful: Agricultural Architecture on Mid-Hudson Valley Estates, 1890-1920
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Martha Hart
Project: VROOM - VROOM - BEEP - BEEP: The Social and Spatial Implications of Ford in the Motor City
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Nicholas Himmel
Project: The Mythic Pennsylvania Station Civic: Space in a Material World
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Chiara Noelle Issa
Project: Hip-Hop Blackwards: Representations Through Depictions of Black Masculinity on Hip-Hop Album Covers, circa 1978-Present
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Lesley Kanner
Project: Collection and Perception: A Mule-back Ride Through Nothern Spain and the Hispanic Society of America
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Alexander Klebanoff
Project: Clyfford Still: A Rebel With a Cause
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Elizabeth Prairie Belle Murphy
Project: Re-visioning Enchantment: Cultural Hybridity and Appropriation in the Arts of Luis Tapia, Ray Martin Abeyta, and Diego Romero
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Lacy Marie Simkowitz
Project: Just Another Canvas: Fernand Leger's Works Outside of Painting from the Post-War Period 1918-1924
Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum

Student: Olivia Tamzarian
Project: Visions of Mexico: A Bilingual Curriculim in Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Susan Aberth
Division: Multidisciplinary Studies, Program: Art History, Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Studies

Student: Erica Yao
Project: The People's Square: Sociopolitical Agendas and the Transformations of Architecture and Public Space in Shanghai, 1860s-1990s
Advisor: Patricia Karetzky

Student: Jaya Sati Blakeslee
Project: " Las Meninas: A Self-Portrait Revealed," study of Diego de Velazquez's Las Meninas within the context of self-portraits
Advisor: Susan Merriam

Student: Brooke Tami Borg (Art History & Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project: Racial and Spatial Identifiers: Changing Depictions of Women and Food in Mexican Painting, 1830-1950
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Andrea Helen Dawa Cashman
Project: Mariko Moi's Cyborgs: Hybrid Identity and Hybrid Consciousness, Techno-Evolution in Response to Globalization
Advisor: Michael Lobel

Student: Matthew Benjamin Jacobs
Project: Axis in Imperial Archtiecture: A Study of Divine Sanction in Roman and Kushan Commissions
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Claire Hart Johnson
Project: R. Crumb in "What's Inside a Girl?" True Confessions of a Head Comix Artist
Advisor: Michael Lobel

Student: Rachel Laila Juris
Project: Participatory Spaces: Aspects of Performance in Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, and Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College.
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Gabrielle Lauren Kammerer
Project: Under Mexican Skies: Sixteen-Century Open-Air Churches and the Franciscan Building Program
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Amy Rebecca Levin
Project: Public/Private: Masking the Metropolis in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Advisor: Noah Chasin

Student: Alicia Marie LoBiondo
Project: Titian's Sacred and Profane Love: The Evolution of Scholarship
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Sarah Mariel Mosbacher
Project: Domestic Service and Labor Spaces at Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Samantha Erin Safer
Project: Zandra Rhodes and Her Knited Circle: Creating the Woman and Her Work, 1965-1977, project examining British textile and fashion designer Zandra Rhode's early career, and exhibition of her textile designs
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Thomas Paul Scott
Project: Flayed Cyborgs and Other Social Heroes: the Art of the Third-Generational Muralist Arnold Belkin
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Mae Hunnewell Williams (Art History & Medieval Studies)
Project: From Dragon Myth to the Gospels: The Stave Church at Uvdal
Advisor: Jean French

Student: Reuben Traite
Project: Revolutionary Art. The Life of Luis Quintanilla, A Gramscian Perspective
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Anna Bohichik
Project: Paint it Black: The Evolution of Lousie Nevelson's Public Architectural Commissions
Advisor: Tom Wolf

Student: Anne Flammang Killefer (Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project: An Unearthing of the Presence and Power of Women in the Mixtec Codices: A Feminist Reading of the Zouche-Nuttal
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Sarah Davies
Project: Lumps, Bumbs, and Holes: The Art of Hans Bellme r and Cindy Sherman
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Rio Alexander Hendrix Dubberstein
Project: Strike a Pose: Examination of the Homosocial Arena of Masculinity, the Male Nude, and the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Gender and Stereotypes.
Advisor: Laurie Dahlberg

Student: Kat Geng
Project: The Aesthetics of Suffering.
Advsior: Tom Wolf

Student: Lora Mary Majourau (Art History and African Diaspora Studies)
Project: A Necessary Femininity: An Exploration of the Gender, Function, and Meaning of the Female-Featured Masks of the Dan of Liberia.
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Suzanne Read
Project: The Derivation of the Triumph of Death Fresco in Pisa.
Advisor: Anne Bertrande

Student: Anna L. Sanchez
Project: The Lives and Times of Baroque Chiselers.
Advisor: Anne Bertrande

Student: Eleanor Marie Woods Strehl (Art History and Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project: Some Spanish Dancers: An Exploration of the Theme of the
Spanish Dancer in the Works of Manet and Sargent.
Advisor: Susan Aberth

Student: Maria Bonarska
Project: The Sexuality of Space: A Study of the Nude in 19th Century
French Painting.

Student: Miya Buxton
Project: Indonesian Vernacular Architecture: of Home, Body and Universe.

Student: Elizabeth Christine Clingerman
Project: Creating the Myth of Artemesia Gentileschi or the
Development of a Feminist Critique.

Student: Ian Gold
Project: My So-Called Art and the Interesting, Attractive, Motivating, Appealing, Exciting, Fascinating, Attention-Grabbing, Out of the Ordinary, Worthy Of Note Life of Sophie Callé .

Student: Erin Brooke Horahan
Project: Chaos of the Flesh, cultural analysis of Gunther Von Hagen’s
Körperwelten: Die Faszination des Echten.
Advisor: Carol Ockman

Student: Csongor Imre Kis
Project: Six Hundred Thousand Guldens’ Worth of Patronage: Political
Propaganda and Princely Devotion in the Archiepiscopal Palace
Of Würzburg.
Advisor: Diana Minsky

Student: Melanie Anne Meyer
Project: Pulcinella as an Agent of Change: The Use of Social
and Political Satire in Domenico Tiepolo’s Divertimento per li regazzi.

Student: Jessica Kate Pavone
Project: Site/Nonsite, Sight/Nonsight: Reworking L’informe via the work
of Robert Smithson.

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