Here is a list of the department's recent dissertations:
2025
| "Pythagorean Visions: Figuring Harmony in England's Age of Projects" | Dominic Jeffrey Clavell Bate |
| “Setting China: Mounted Porcelains and Practices of Making in Early Modern China and Europe” | Fosca Maddaloni-Yu
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2024
| "Imagining the Modern Nation: Architect Nicolae Ghika-Budești and the Neo-Romanian Style" | Ciprian Buzilă |
| "Blind Sticks and Dead Stones: Iconoclasm and Religious Art and Architecture in England, c.1382-1500" | Oliver Coulson |
| "Fascism’s Adriatic Empire: Modern Architecture and Cultural Production in the Interwar Western Balkans" | Peter Levins |
| “'Considered Only in Its Ultimate Nature': Photography Between Object and Idea" | Allison Pappas |
2023
| "The Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, 1609-40" | Koen Bulckens |
| "Designing Seclusion: Staging Carthusian and Ducal Access to the Divine in Late Medieval Burgandy" | Laura Chilson-Parks |
| “Blind Sticks and Dead Stones: Iconoclasm and Religious Art and Architecture in England, c.1382-1500” | Oliver Coulson |
2021
| "The Antwerp Saint Luke's Guild: Its Impact on Artistic Production and Identity, 1556-1663" | Suzanne Duff |
| "All Eyes on Russia: Margaret Bourke-White's Early Soviet Photographs" | Josie Johnson |
| "Building an Order: Architecture, Space, and Gender in Isabelle of France’s Rule of Sorores Minores" | Erica Kinias |
| “Printmaking in the Rome of Philip II, 1556-1598" | Emily Monty |
2020
| "Interwar Explorations of Empire and British Identity: Modernism in Mandate Palestine" | Michal Goldschmidt |
| "The Afterlife of the Plantation? Mass Housing and Town Planning in Barbados, 1930-1970" | Bill Skinner |
2019
| "Exhibiting the Medieval: The Use of Historicist Architecture in Modern Iberian Expositions, 1929-1940" | Lia Dykstra |
| "Theories of Space in Early Postwar Germany: 1946-1952" | Sara Hayat |
| "New Topographics and the Reinvention of American Landscape Photography, 1975" | Emilia Mickevicius |
2018
| "Reframing Art Photography: Strategies of Display and Design in British Pictorialism, 1893-1909" | Julia Barber |
| "Jinling Remembered: Nanjing as Topos in the Seventeenth Century" | Amy Huang |
| "Feeding Rome: Food, Architecture, and Urbanism, 1907-1943" | Ruth Lo |
| "Angelic Devotion: Embodying Belief with Bernini's Angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo" | Kelly Anne Whitford |
2016
| "Picturing Greater America: U.S. Modernist Photography and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance, 1920-1945" | Monica Bravo |
| "Qiao Zhongchang’s Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff: Text and Image, Poetry and Painting, and Narrative and Lyrical" | Wei Jiang |
| "Modernization and Architecture Under the Rural Electrication Administration, 1935-1945." | Sarah Rovang |
2015
| "Moving Beyond Vision: Eadweard Muybridge in Philadelphia" | Emily Handlin |
| "Thuscorum et Ligurum Securitati: Cosimo I de'Medici and the Visual Program for the Order of Saint Stephen in Pisa and Florence" | Joseph Silva |
2014
| "Inventors and Manipulators: Photography as Intellectual Property in Nineteenth-Century New York" | Mazie Harris |
| "Becoming Walker Evans: Photography, Literature, and Transnational Modernism, 1926-1938" | Kristen Oehlrich |
| "Negotiating Military Identity in Early Modern State Portraiture" | Lisa Tom |
| "Architecture and Urban Visions in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Literature" | Nathaniel Robert Walker |
2013
| "A Bohemian Monastery: The Last Bishop of Prague (1301-1343) and the Monastery of Augustinian Canons at Roudnice (Raudnitz) on the Elbe" | Alice Klima |
2012
| "Imaging and Imagining the Black Madonna of Le Puy: Ritual, Sacred Images and Race in Late Medieval and Early Modern France" | Elisa Foster |
| "Examining the German Ledigenheim: Development of a Housing Type, Position in the Urban Fabric and Impact on Central European Housing Reform" | Erin Eckhold Sassin |
| "Authorities of Presence: Robert Gill, the Photographic Survey of India, and the Colonial Sublime" | Nathaniel Stein |
2011
| "Unchecked Ideas: Humor and the French Revolution in British Political Graphic Satire, 1789-1805" | Amanda Lahikainen |
2010
| "Home Behind the Wall: The Living Spaces of Late Medieval German Convents" | Caitlin Bass |
| "Vision in Motion: Architectural Space Time Notation and the Dynamic Perception of Space" | Divya Heffley |
| "Interior Motives: The Vierge ouvrante/Triptych Virgin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" | Melissa Katz |
| "Gender, Modernism, and Regional Identity: The Promotion and Reception of Künstlerinnen in Düsseldorf and the Rhineland, 1890-1920" | Anne Mitzen |
| "Unconventual Women: Politics, Religion, and Image in the Court Beguinages, c. 1585-c.1713" | Sarah Joan Moran |
| "African Art at the Portuguese Court, c. 1450-1521" | Mario Pereira |
| "The Narrative Document: Lewis Hine and ‘Social Photography" | Kathy Quick |
| "Doorways to the Demonic and Divine: Visions of Santa Francesca Romana and the Frescoes of Tor de’Specchi" | Suzanne Marie Scanlan |
| "'Drama Sustains the Spirit': Art, Ritual, and Theater in Jin and Yuan Period Pingyang, 1150-1350" | Fan Zhang |
2009
| "Towards a Genealogy of Visual Culture at The Rhode Island School of Design, 1875-1900" | Nancy Austin |
| "Images of Charles I of England, 1642-1649" | Anna Rodriquez Farrar |
| "Scientizing Vision in China: Photography, Outdoor Sketching, and the Reinvention of Landscape Perception, 1912-1949" | Yi Gu |
| "Staging the Page : Graphic Caricature in Eighteenth-Century England" | Hope Saska |
2008
| "Artistic Collaboration in Fascist Italy: Ardengo Soffici and Giorgio Morandi" | Marianna Aguirre |
| "Embodiments of Empire: Figuring Race in Late Victorian Painting" | Catherine Anderson |
| "Egypts in England: The Representation of Ancient Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace" | Alexis Goodin |
| "Against Photography: The Idea of Music in Pre-Raphaelite Visual Reform” | Laura Hendrickson |
| "The Sacred Public Sculptures in Antwerp: From Their Medieval Origins to the French Revolution" | Nancy Kay |
| "Arts of the Franciscan Colegio de San Andre’s in Quito: A Process of Cultural Reformation" | Andrea Lepage |
| "The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria" | Pascale Rihouet |