Art & Art History ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Going Beyond The Margins: Photographs by Ming Smith, Isis A. Serna
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Constantino Escalante's Lithographs in La Orquesta and the National Legacy of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, Steven V. Cary
Living Between the Lines: How Japanese Crafts Taught Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Eileen Gray to See Modern Domestic Space, Regina Nabil Emmer
GRAPHIC SCOTLAND: VISUALITY AND EMPIRE, 1810 – 1913, Laura Michelle Golobish
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
William Blake's Satan as a Hermaphrodite, Genevieve E. Hartsock
From Stasis to Ecstasy: Tracing Bernard of Clairvaux's "Queer" Influence on French Gothic Art, Jackson O. Larson
Stripped and Exploited Blackness: Black Nude Men in the Art of F. Holland Day and John Singer Sargent, David P. Saiz
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
PILGRIMAGE TO THE VIRGIN OF JUQUILA: THE NEGOTIATION OF CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL POWER IN COLONIAL OAXACA, Paloma Barraza
The Origins and Development of Textile Writing in Peru, William M. Cheek
Socioeconomic Status and Recognized Talent in Scholastic Art Awards, Steven Heil
Contemporary Alaska Native Identities: Creation and Curation by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tess McCoy
"Maa-multh-nii" People Who Came Floating In: Analogues between Nuu-chah-nulth and Tlingit with Spanish Colonial Expeditions in the Eighteenth Century, Suzanne R. McLeod
Healing Through the Photographic Murals of James "Chip" "Jetsonorama" Thomas, Mandolen Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Shawn Hunt's Transformation Mask: The Intersection of Contemporary and Traditional Heiltsuk Art, Terese R. Lukey
The Tsin Bee Hooghan: Cross-Cultural Discourse and the Emergence of a New Icon of Diné Cultural Identity, Lillian Makeda
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Arts of Resistance: Ecologic History and Contemporary Interventions in the Valley of Mexico, Chloë L. Courtney
COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF BLUE AND BLUE-GREEN POST-FIRE COLORANTS ON TOLITA-TUMACO CERAMICS, Breanna F. Reiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Indigenous Sovereign Body: Gender, Sexuality and Performance., Michelle S. McGeough and Michelle Susan McGeough
TESTIMONIES OF VIOLENCE: IMAGES OF FRANCISCAN MARTYRS IN THE PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN, Emmanuel Ortega
Porous Time and Space in Contemporary Photography: How Social Constructions of Space and Reenactment Produce Alternative Histories, Emma Brooke Lehrer Stein
Yinka Shonibare MBE's Critiques of Empire and His Reception in Four Transnational Case Studies, Johanna Wild
Folk, the Naïve and Indigeneity: Defining Strategies in Violeta Parra's Visual Art, Serda Yalkin
Cultural imPRINT: a History of Northwest Coast Native and First Nations Prints, India Rael Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Rauschenberg, ROCI, and Cuba's Young Lions, Brett Beatty
Refocusing the Frontier: Recalling the Photography of Robert Adams and Mark Klett, Christian W. Olsson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
DESIGNING FOR IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGY: INTEGRATING ART AND STEM LEARNING, Jane Crayton
The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture, Shana Klein
Discursive Capabilities of Contemporary Artistic Practices in Honduras, Gustavo Larach
"The Four Horseman of the Late Capitalist Apocalypse": U.S. Comic Books, Ideology, and Trauma in Post-9/11 Society, Kathryn Manis
The Ideal Citoyenne: Women, Class, & The French Revolution in Philibert Louis Debucourt's Fine-Art Prints, Kelsey Martin
Neal Ambrose-Smith: The Artistic Modernity of Indianness, Erik Parker
Festivals of Art, Carnivals of Representation: On Contemporary Art and Neoliberalism, Tijen Tunali
Posh and Tawdry: Rethinking E.J. Bellocqs' Storyville Portraits, Christian Waguespack
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Transformative Skin: The Ongoing Legacy of Inuit and Yupik Women's Tattoos, Mariah Carrillo
Touching Nether-Regionalisms: Paul Cadmus as Exemplary Foil to a Homegrown American Art, Maxine Marks
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Chronicles of Revolution and Nation: El Taller de Gráfica Populars 'Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana' (1947), Mary Theresa Avila
The Other's Other: Negotiating "Normativity" in Contemporary Photography from the United States, Corey Dzenko
Inhabited Landscapes: Nudes, Spirituality, and Coevality in the Landscape Paintings of Armando Morales, Regina Emmer
A Way of Seeing: The Transformation of American Soldiers' Snapshot Photography During the Vietnam War, Sara Hagerty
Defying Binaries: A Critical Examination of 'Old' Versus 'New' in the Art of Pablita Velarde and Helen Hardin, Jenna Kloeppel
The Delaware Indians and the Development of Prairie-Style Beadwork, Denise Neil-Binion
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Subversion through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph of Mischief", Monique Belitz
Diego Rivera at the San Francisco Art Institute, Hilary Ellenshaw
Three Rivers as Transitional Zone: Considering a Collective Metanarrative in Pueblo Prehistory, Heather Kline
Quilting: An Examination of Harriet Powers and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Jennifer Moreland
FRAMES BEHIND THE THRONE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE CALOTYPE ALBUMS OF PRINCE ALBERT 1850-1859, Sherri Sorensen-Clem
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Utility of Murder: Fred Gildersleeve and the Lynching of Jesse Washington, Stephanie Morimoto
The Open Veins of Guayasamín's Paintings, Maria Otero
Indigenous Remapping in the Southern Californian Landscape, Elysia Poon
Performing Graffiti: The Use of Electronically and Digitally Modified Graffiti in Activist Art Practices, Megan Schultz
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Conquest, Consequences, Restoration: The Art of Rebecca Belmore, Kathleen DeBlassie
The Interrelationship of Identities: How Artistic Practice Informs Teaching in the Visual Arts, Karen G. Adams Edwards
Three Case Studies of National Narratives in Central American Art, Gustavo Larach
The Once and Future King: A New Approach to Ancient Maya Mortuary Monuments from Palenque, Tikal, and Copan, Elizabeth Olton
The Reception of Autos-de-Fe in 18th Century New Spain: Image, Text and Practice, Emmanuel Ortega
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Cusco School Defense of the Eucharist: A Tribute to Tink, Annick Benavides
IMAGINING THE NOBLE AND LOYAL CITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOMBO FRANZ MAYER, Madalena Consuelo Salazar
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
'Bajo su sombra': The Narration and Reception of Colonial Urban Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba, Paul Barrett Niell
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Arthur Shilling: Anishinaabemowin-Mazinibiiʼigewinini, Suzanne Rita McLeod
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Syncretic topographies: the portraits of Seydou Keïta, Sara L. Marion
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Types and Markets: Photography and Masks Among the Nuxalk in the Twentieth Century, Joanne P. Carrubba
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Slide: Image and Object, Cindy D. Abel Morris
Giving Birth To Onions, Stefanie London Feld-Galbraith
Rethinking Martín Chambi, Michele M. Penhall
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Egypt Recovered: The Photographic Surveys of Maxime Du Camp, Félix Teynard, and John Beasley Greene, and the Development of Egyptology, Kathleen Stewart Howe
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Sculptors of the Realm: Classic Maya Artists' Signatures and Sculptural Style During the Reign of the Piedras Negras Ruler 7, John Ellis Montgomery
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The Linguistic Affiliation And Phoneticism Of Teotihuacan Iconography, David Brown
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828), Sculptor, Susan Benforado
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The Fossil Records, Glenn Craig Cornwall
Stylistic And Iconographic Study Of Lower Central American Stone Sculpture, Joan Kathryn Lingen B.V.M.
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Architecture and town development in the mining camps of Southwestern New Mexico, Carol L. Clark
Edward Weston's Early Photography, 1903-1926, Amy Conger
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Restoring Soul With Art, Lawrence Michael Rutherford
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
A Curriculum Model For Teacher Art Education (P1-P3) In Nigeria, Olayinka Ajayi-Kardin
Alienation and Creativity: A Study in Twentieth Century American Art, Judi Church
DéSiré Charnay: Photographer, Keith F. Davis
Notes on Viewfinding, Anna Lynn Grimes
Progress in Preparedness, Vahe Guzelimian
The Concerns and Concepts Underlying My Photographic Work, Mark Ivan Hinderaker
My Onepoint Plan for Saving the World or Approaching the Goddess, Playfully, Jason Eric Jones
Dead Reckoning and Sufficient Means, Kendra MacKenzie
The Sequential Photographs of Eugène Atget, Photographer of Paris, Donald Lee Neal
Toward a Feminist Sensibility, Barbara J. Nugent
Food for Thought, Faye Ellen Passow
Portraiture--A Psychological Approach, Marcia Lee Perkins
Beyond Fascination, Robert C. Reck
Changes in My Images From 1977 to 1979, Sandra Rothfork
A Statement on Recent Work, Sharon Siskin
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Camera: Its Literary Context, Dana Asbury
Dream Confirmation: Present Thoughts on My Work Completed Between the Summer and Autumn of 1977, Philip J. Calabria
From Obsession to Oxymoron: Sonic Cartoons, Steven Ralph Fitch
The Cliché-Verre in the Nineteenth Century, Elizabeth J. Glassman
Response to Structure: An Explication of My Work, Dennis Paul Grady
Predicting the Unpredictable, Elizabeth A. Kay
An Historical And Practival Manual For Hand Silk Screened Textiles, Grace Danisch Kraft
I Want To Say Something About All That Noise, Stacy Louise Mann
Apologia Photographica, Joseph William Marshall
