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Alumnae/i

This list is in the process of being compiled; for now, it provides some indication of the range of our graduates.

2012

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Benjamin William Anderson

 

 World image after world empire: the Ptolemaic cosmos in the early middle ages, ca. 700-900.
Emily Ambre Bereskin   Staging the Post-conflict city: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Marie Elizabeth Gasper-Hulvat   Malevich's Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
Jennifer Susan Griffiths   Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
Andrea Guzzetti   A Walk through the Past: Toward a Study of Archaeological Museums in Italy, Greece and Israel
Mey-Yen Moriuchi   Notions of Universality and Difference: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Costumbrismo
Catherine W. Person   Household Shrines and Cults in Roman Achaia: A New Approach to Examining Cultural Change under the Roman Empire
Irina Stotland   Paul Gauguin's Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Authenticity
Laura Elizabeth Surtees   On the Surface of a Thessalian City: the urban survey of Kastro Kallithea

2011

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Nicholas G. Blackwell

W. F. Albright Institute
of Archaeological Research

 Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolia: Implications for Cultural/Regional Interaction and Craftsmanship
Rebecca Lynn Dubay Kansas City Art Institute Painting Matters: Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
Lesley Ellen Shipley   Specific Objects: Lee Bontecou's Steel and Canvas Reliefs, 1959-1964
Angela Ziskowski The American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period

2010

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Lisa Renee Mallen The Women's Classical Caucus Early Greek and Homeric Conceptions of Domestic Space
Marissa B. Vigneault University of Nebraska-Lincoln Expanding Spaces and Porous Borders in the Artworking of Bracha L. Ettinger

2009

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Crystal D. Fritz A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age Southeastern Arabia
Eric J. Hutchinson Hillsdale College Quid facit cum evangeliis Maro?: The Cultural Background of Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in Paschale carmen
Lori Kata Deceased Art, Trade, and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Lima: Francisco de Zurbáran’s Commission for the Convent of la Encarnación
Idil Karababa Istanbul Bilgi University Function and Architecture of the Principal Residences of the Tetrarchy: An Assessment of Their Capitalness
Linda Leeuwrik Idaho State University Blue Riders of the Apocalypse: Kandinsky and Marc in the German Apocalyptic Tradition
Sarah Lepinski The American School of Classical Studies Roman Wall Painting from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece:  A Contextual Study

Maya M.

Mangawang

   Sophie Calle: Her(e) but not her(e)
Deborah E. Brown Stewart Dumbarton Oaks hoi peri to hieron: A Study of Sacerdotal Housing at Ancient Greek Sanctuaries
Evrydiki Tasopoulou Boğaziçi University

The Judgment of Animals in Classical Greece: Animal Sculpture and the Concept of Lifelikeness

2008

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Jennifer Bird Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Art
Rima Marija Girnius Figge Art Museum Rembrandt's Spaces
Zlatan S. Gruborovic Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Bronzino and the Style(s) of Mannerism
Jeanne-Marie Musto Fordham University Byzantium in Bavaria: Art, Architecture and History between Empricism and Invention in the Post-Napoleonic Era
Evangelia Sikla Aegeus-Society for Aegean Philosophy Configurations of the Symbolism of the Bull in Early Late Bronze Age Crete. A Case Study in the Interpretation of Minoan Religion

2007

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Andrea U.
Di Giorgi		 Case Western Reserve University Socio-Economic Studies in the Territory of Antioch in the High Roman Empire
Valeriya Kozlovskaya The Russian Center for Languages and Arts Ancient Harbors of the Northwestern Black Sea Area
Sandra K. Lucore Independent scholar The Balaneion in Magna Graecia:Tradition and Innovation in Western Greek Baths
Deirdre Ann
O'Halloran		   The [il]legibility of character: Gesture, costume, and identity in Goya

2006

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Kathryn M. Casey Color and Alienation: Matisse's Theory of Art
Elif Denel American Research Institute in Turkey Development of Elite Cultures and Sociopolitical Complexity in Early Iron Age Kingdoms of Northern Syria and Southeastern Anatolia
Michael Jay McClure  University of Wisconsin-Madison Medium’s Collapse: Andy Warhol, Robert
Gober, Matthew Barney, and the Contemporary Object of Art
Eleanor Moseman Colorado State University Expressing Cubism: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's 'Berlin Style' and Its Affinities with the Painting of Bohumil Kubista
Sara Morasch Taylor Dumbarton Oaks Art and evangelization at the sixteenth-century convento of Santiago Apostol at Cuilapan, Mexico
Jennifer D. Webb University of Minnesota-Duluth The making of the Montefeltro: Patronage of the arts and architecture during the reign of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
Max Weintraub Hunter College Suite Substitute:  The Nature of Representation in the Art of Bruce Nauman

2005

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Deborah Barkun Ursinus College Art, AIDS, and collective identity: Configuring General Idea's collaborative body, 1969--2000
Margarita Gleba University College London Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy: Archaeological Evidence
Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen Carleton University Ethnicity and empire: Vergilian imitation in Silius Italicus' 'Punica'
Ketti Neil Scarborough LaSalle University Modern Primitive Body Art: The Cutting Edge of Queer Performance
Victoria Tsoukala Hellenic National Documentation Centre The social context of food preparation and consumption in Greek households of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Amanda T. Zehnder Carnegie University of Art Conversations with the other: Episodes and intersections in the careers of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas

2004

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Maya Balakirsky Touro College Visual Representation of Emile Zola, 1866–1902: A Case Study in Public Image and Media Spin in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Suzanne Bringier Faris Southern Illinois University-Carbondale How Much Is Too Much? Eruditio, Identity, and the Bonus Vir Dicendi Peritus
Jennifer Rachel Hirsh Maryland Institute College of Art Self-Portraiture and Self-. Representation: The Painting and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico
Kim F. Nastick Villanova University Like a Fire That Consumes: Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam
William Keyse Rudolph Milwaukee Art Museum Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1864) in France and Louisiana

2003

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Dimitra Andrianou

KEPA

 Επιπλα: Reconstructing Furnished Interiors in Hellenistic Greece
Robert Leo Costello Rice University The Center Cannot Hold: The History Painting of J.M.W. Turner in the Age of Revolution
Kelly Ann McCullough German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) Inner Necessity: The Interior Scenes of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel, and Their Relationship to the Artists' Group, die Bruecke
W. Marshall Johnston, Jr. Fresno Pacific University Cornelius Nepos: The Historian and His Tradition
Robert Angus Smith III Brock University The Tombs of Mochlos and Myrsini:  Pottery and Cultural Regionalism in Late Minoan III Crete
Karen A. Wolf   Studies in the Rhetoric of Dominican Imagery in Fifteenth-century Italy

2002

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Andrew C. Cohen Cultural Heritage Center Death Rituals and the Development of Kingship in Early Dynastic III Period of Southern Mesopotamian
Michelle A. Lang   Adam Elsheimer's Artistic Development in Relation to the Mannerist and Early Baroque Styles
Thomas L. Milbank   A Commercial and Industrial Building in the Athenian Agora, 480 BC to AD 125
David M. Pollio Christopher Newport University How Vergil Does Things with Word: A Speech Act Approach to Persuasive Speech in the Aeneid
Robert Schon University of Arizona Seeding the Landscape: Experimental Contributions to Regional Survey Methodology
Susanna T. Saunders National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) Anne Truitt: Placement and a Sense of Place
Amanda A. Schedler   The Nation, the Nude, and Desire: An Account of William Etty and His Work in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2001

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Gretchen Holtzapple Bender University of Pittsburgh Interior/Landscape: Placelessness and the Gendered Gaze in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich
Dylan Michael Bloy Tulane University Roman Cultural Diplomacy at Panhellenic Sanctuaries During the Conquest of Greece
Ann Deborah Goldstein   The Hippocratic Treatise
Melissa A. Johnson Illinois State University On the Strength of My Imagination: Visions of Weimar Culture in the Scrapbook of Hannah Höch
Libby Michelle Karlinger Aurora University Illuminating Kingship: Politics, Patronage, and the Education of Edward III
David Jesse Kuyat, Jr.   Doctus lector: Propertius Book Three and Horace's Odes

2000

Alumna/us Current Institution Thesis Topic
Carolyn Chabot Aslan Koç University The Architectural Expression of Social Categories at Five Early Bronze Age West Anatolian Communities
Thomas M. Brogan INSTAP Study Center for East Crete Hellenistic Nike: Monuments Commemorating Military Victories of the Attalid and Antigonid Kingdoms, the Aitolian League and the Rhodian Polis ca. 307 to 133 B.C.
Niki H. Kantzios University of South Florida The Palm Tree-Palmette Motifs and Goddess Imagery in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Celia Ernestina Schultz University of Michigan Women in Roman Republican Religion
Gregor A. Kalas University of Tennessee Sacred Image/Urban Space: Images, Installations, and Rituals in the Early Medieval Roman Forum
Allison Mary Levy   Early Modern Mourning: Widow Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Despina M. Stratigakos State University of New York-Buffalo Skirts and scaffolding: Women architects, gender and design in Wilhelmine Germany