Art History

2025:

• Gottridge, Valerie, Jane in Peepland: Presenting Jane Dickson’s Times Square, 1992-93, C. Grace
• Raiskin-Wood, Sophia, Practices of Care: Reproductive Labor in Simone Leigh’s Social Sculptures, K. Kuenzli
• Petersdorf, Emily, Weaving in the “Liebes Look”: Dorothy Liebes and Her Contributions to Modern Architecture, J. Siry
• Schaeffer, Chloe, Fragments, Myths, and Transformative Artificiality: A Benjaminian Analysis of Los Angeles Architecture, J. Siry

2024:

• Andrews, Olivia, Cape Verdean Visual Cultures: Grappling with the Local and the Global in Post-Colonial Cape Verde, O. Nwafor
• Chapin, Bailey, Synaesthetic Abstractions: Joan Mitchell’s Modernism, K. Kuenzli
• Flaherty, Emma, Jan van Scorel as Artist-Pilgrim: The Anatomy of a Pilgrimage, N. Aksamija
• Tian, Sabrina, Tracing on Kawara’s Identity: Suspension of Aesthetics, Persona, and Nationality, T. Andrei & C. Grace

2023:

• Farina, Gabby, Imagining the Alhambra: Gender, Ornament, and Represented Space, P. Wagoner
• Hale, Sarah, A Comedia of Errors: The Complicated Biography of the 1481 Incunable of Dante’s Comedia and Landino’s Comento Sopra la Comedia in Wesleyan’s Special Collections, N. Aksamija
• Pomerantz, Mim, Jacques-André Boiffard and the Photographic Program of Documents (1929–1930), K. Kuenzli

2022:

• Kidwell, Annie, Encounters: Constellations of Creation and Perception in the Sculptures of Auguste Rodin, K. Kuenzli
• Malanaphy, Aiden, The Brooklyn Tower: A Contentious Conversation of History and Modernity in the Tallest Building in Brooklyn, J. Siry
• Merkin, Josh, The Museum Embodied: 1980s Performance Art as Institutional Critique, C. Grace
• Zhang, Ann, Reimagining & Reconstructing 1920s Shanghai in 2020: The Preservation of Wukang Mansion in the Former French Concession, J. Siry

2021:

• Felton, Nia, Constructing a Lineage: Kawanabe Kyōsai, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and the Hell Courtesan, T. Andrei
• Hayda, Maya, Glimpses of the Minescape: Mining and Photography in Recent American Art, C. Grace
• Richards, Riley, Earthenware as Education: Pottery as an Object Lesson at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, 1886-1910, K. Kuenzli

2020:

• Blumstein, Cara, Invisible Labor and Unseen Spaces: Feminist Activism through Art in the Italian Sessantotto The Work of Giosetta Fioroni, Marisa Merz, and Carla Accardi,  Aksamija
• Frohardt, Emma, Art as Cultural Critic: The Work of Equipo Crónica,  Grace
• Samios, Olivia, The Nordic Peasant Vision: Codifications of Nationalism in Norwegian Art in the Nineteenth Century,  Siry
• Stewart-Frizzell, Katherine, The Vessel at Hudson Yards: Thomas Heatherwick’s Ambiguous Sculpture Provokes the Public and Points to Conflict, J. Siry

2019:

• Kim, Sara, European Figures with Various Garments and Objects in Architectural Interiors: Reconsidering the Scholarly Approach to a Namban Byōbu, N. Aksamija
• Rosin, Rachel, Mary Cassatt, Impressionism, & La Jeune Fille: Defining 19th-Century “Girlhood”,  K. Kuenzli

2018:

• Boyd, Nicole, Genio Bizzarro: Guido Cagnacci & the Refashioning of Painterly Identity in Seicento Italy, N. Aksamija
• Lily, Artists as Historical Interventionists: Archival Appropriation & Re-Contextualization in the Art of Kara Walker and Shimon Attie, C. Rogan / P. Mark
• Pitts, Charlotte, Reconstructing Sites, Reclaiming Narratives: The Architecture of Weiss/Manfredi as Critical Practice, J. Siry
• Rueber, Sabrina, Beyond the World in White: Identity and Resistance in the Visual Language of Li Yuan-chia, P. Wagoner
• Shen, Juntai, Constructing Nostalgic Futurity: Architecture, Space, and Society in Chinese Villages, 1978-2018, J. Siry

2017:

• Elices, Carolina, "The Preservation of Memories, Histories, Fellowships, Fraternities": Thomas Hardy and the Victorian Restoration/Preservation Debate, J. Siry
• Lookman, Sharifa, Reconsidering the Dante Series: Botticelli's Artistic Process as a Deconstruction of Vasarian Linearity, R. Noyes
• Nelson, Page, Haunting the Canon: Landscape, Labor, and the Bible in the Art of Bessie Harvey, C. Grace

2016:

• de Verteuil, Louise, The 2015 Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Restoration: Expo Milano's Legacy and the Revival of Civic Identity, J. Siry

2015:

• Burzinski, Alexa, Postmodern Topography: A New Reading of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations and Every Building on the Sunset Strip, C. Grace
• Eng, Brandon, "Time is Now" Paul Thek in the 1960s, C. Grace
• Hirsch, Rachel, Holding Up Govardhana: The Independent Harivamsha Manuscript, P. Wagoner
• Usdan, Samuel, Anticipating Works Unknown: The Foundations of the Contemporary Art Museum, J. Siry
• Wolf, Gavriella, Conscious Collaboration: The Contemporary Dialogue Between Fashion and Architecture, J. Siry

2014:

• Dannin, Isadora, Neoclastics: Defining Architectures of Flux, J. Siry
• Kuipers, Grace, Progressive Arrangements: Citizenship and the Modernist Museum at the Barnes Foundation, K. Kuenzli

2012:

• Cheong, Yongneng Conan, In a Borrowed Garden: A Rhizomatic Theory of Transnational Tibetan Art, P. Wagoner
• deBoer, Anne, Norman Foster and Water Conservation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Sustainable Design, J. Siry
• Camhi, Natasha, The Manipulation of Sacred Places: The Role of Jerusalem's Temple Mount in the Construction of Identity, C. Maines
• Siegel, Erika, Fredrick Law Olmsted: Reimaginging the U.S. Capitol Grounds, E. Milroy
• Wolf, Katherine, The Fabric of the Bel Composto: Bernini's Draperies and the Redefinition of the Arts, N. Aksamija

2011:

• Klion, Alison, Dario Robleto’s Sampled Sculpture as Vehicle for Historical Empathy and Tentative Hope
• Krieger, William, Framing the Dilettante: The Art of Martin Kippenberger, A. Hoecker
• Sundberg, Sayre, Material Immediate: Lawrence Weiner, Anticonceptualist, L. Smythe
• Szapiro, Anna, Corporeal Identities: The Poured Works of Lynda Benglis, C. Rogan
• Aldredge, Margaret, Of Screens and Stones, C. Rogan
• Bowers, Margaret, The Iconography and Marketing of Cassat's 1891 Series, E. Milroy
• Urmy, Carlo, Private Passage: Service Planning in the Ladies' Home Journal Houses, 1895-1919, J. Siry

2010:

• Katzin, Jeffrey, Barnett Newman's "Stations of the Cross" Series, K. Kuenzli
• Tyrer, Emily, Morphosis' San Francisco Federal Building, J. Siry
• Bhardwaj, Meera, Transposing the Goddess, P. Wagoner
• Overby, Whitten, Sacrality & Modernity at Villa Giustiniani·Cambiaso, N. Aksamija
• Provo, Alexandra, Notions of Method: Text and Photograph in the Methods of Connoisseurship, N. Aksamija

2009:

• Beeson, John, Strategic Ambiguity in Avant-Garde Painting, J. Paoletti
• Genecin, Greg, Boccioni’s Ambivalent Futurism
• Leonard, Sarah, The Bower of the Pre-Raphaelites, K. Kuenzli