Students
This is a list of senior theses; earlier years are unfortunately incomplete. If you find an inconsistency or would like to add an entry, please contact us.
2008-2009 Senior Theses:
Catherine Bloxsom: "Re-Reading Lee Krasner Through Biography"
Jenny Castle: "Understanding the Self in Video Art"
Bree Effron: "Black Photography During Apartheid South Africa from Photograph to Photographer"
Lauren Eisenbrey: "Coming Apart: Cindy Sherman's Photographic Account of the Effect of the Male Gaze on Women"
Pinky Lark Farnum: " Voyeurism Exposed: Helmut Newton's Manipulation of the Female Viewer Through His Fashion Photography"
Lavanya Jayakar: " Crusading Citizen Joan of Arc and Female Citizenship in Edwardian England and Vichy France"
Eurie Kim: " Poof: The Reality of American Beauty"
Gabriela Kogut: "Trap for a Communion: The Double Consecration of the Artist and the Body in Michel Journiac's Messe Pour Un Corps (1969)"
Francesca Marangell: " Representations of Medieval Childbirth: Portrayal of a Gendered Space"
Sarah Meller: "Unearthing the Soil and Herself: Re-Uniting EcoFeminism and the Silvetas of Ana Mendieta"
Kate Michelson: "The Crinoline in Nineteenth Century Satirical Cartoons: Its Meanings and Connotations"
Sarah Placke: "Seeing is Believing: The Function of Medieval Head Reliquaries and the Power of Sight"
Aheli Purkayastha: "Replacing Memories: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images"
Rachel Townsend: "Gender Confounded: Cross-Dressing in Film Adaptations of Sheakespeare's Twelth Night"
Arianae Tsavaris: "Courtesans Dressing in the Costume of Nympha"
Virginia Jane Tseng: "Hello, My Name is Mr."
2007-2008 Senior Theses:
Hadass Blank: " In the Lapidus of Luxury: Morris Lapidus and the Architecture of Leisure"
Claire Brandon: "Sophie Calle's Prenez Soin de Vous"
Jennifer Brindisi: "John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and the Aesthetics of Silence"
Bianca Bromberger: "The Experiential Subline: Perception , Conception, and Emotion in Mark Rothko's Classic Colorfield Paintings"
Jia Jia Fei: "Jeff Koons: Death of the Artist"
Brittany Golden: "An Examination of Late Pre-Reformation Devotion Through a Pair of Miniatures in a Book of Hours at the Free Library"
Tania Greenwald: "Without Location, Carsten Höller's Test Site"
Luba Nisenbaum: "David Goldblatt: Censorship and the Photograph in Apartheid South Africa"
Moriah Scott: "A New View of a New World: How Frans Post Brought Reality to Tropical America:
Lucie Steinberg: "Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum"
* See our Class of 2007 Seniors! *
2006-2007 Senior Theses:
Tania Apicella: "Rudimentary Tools: How Silhouettes and Shadows Combine to Depict Race and Sexuality in Kara Walker's Projector Works"
William Coleman: "An Independent, Self-Sufficient Man: Edward Redfield and the Monhegan Island Art Colony"
Emily Katharine Donati: "Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses As Influenced by Japanese Zen Gardens"
Alexis Gorby: "Symbols of the Afterlife in the Jewish Catacombs of Beth She'arim and Rome: A Defense of Erwin Goodenough"
Nadine Exie Huntington: "Home Front Heroines: The Parallel Emancipation of Women and Slaves in Twentieth Century Films of the American Civil War"
Hayley Patricia Kucich: "Redefining and Revitalizing Public Spaces through Temporary Public Art"
Amy Malleck: "Constantine's Marble Colossus: Historiography of Style"
Denise Kalolaina Marica: "Private Images, Public Statements: Madame de Pompadour and the Court of Versailles"
Amy Elaine Martin: "Towards A Feminist Gaze: Interpreting the Male Nudes of Sylvia Sleigh"
Indira Neill: "Now I Know You: Surveillance, Identity and Motive in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Tom Kalin's Swoon"
Mark Ram: "Reflections on LastNightsParty: A Hope? for the Future"
Claire H Reyner: "Gloire as Translated Through Spectacle: the Axe Historique from Absolutism to Empire"
Sonya Safro: "Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov: Men with Movie Cameras and the Battle Between the Old and the New"
Victoria Salinger: "The Pont Neuf Wrapped: Framing the Bridge, Bridging the Frame"
Rosalyn Dolores Schorr: "A Study of the Birth of the American Collegiate Gothic Style"
Amanda Young: "(Re)Constructing the Artist: Modes of Self-Insertion in the Art of Steen and Vermeer"
2005-2006 Senior Theses:
Chloe Barnett: "Encountering the Fool and Death in Northern Renaissance Artwork"
Karl-Rainer Blumenthal: "Of Gods and Grizzlies: The Non-Aesthetic of Nature and the New Kinship of Werner Herzog and Caspar David Friedrich"
Elizabeth Carter: "A Re-Evaluation of the Post-Resurrection Imagery of the Saint Albans Psalter: The Absence of the Noli me tangere"
Elizabeth Catanese: "Undressing and Redressing Cindy Once Again, Once Again: An Analysis of the Productive Instability of Cindy Sherman's Artistic Work"
Nadia Christidi: "Lovers in a Cemetery? The Architecture of Bernard Khoury"
Emma Chubb: "'Hey, you there! Welcome to the Struggle': Adrian Piper Locates the Other Within"
Kristin Fallica: "Archival Allegories: Critical Histories in the Films of Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi"
Nicole M. Huynh: "Dinh Doc Lap: A Vietnamese Cultural Monument"
Kate Phillips: "Carleton Watkins's Yosemite Valley from the Best General View: Commodity and Universality in an Ocular Age"
D. Jacob Rabinowitz: "Fury and Formalism: Turner's Awful Sublime"
Rachel Redington: "The Presumption of Mary: Mimesis of the Dormition of the Virgin through Repentinos de Monjas, Funerary Portraiture of the Criollo Women of the Convent"
Zahra Reynolds: "Portraits Beneath the Veil: Concealing and Revealing in Shirin Neshat's Women of Allah"
Amelia Sanchez-Moran: "Philadelphia's Duchamp Effect: Duchamp, the Arensberg Collection, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art"
Diane Scarpa: "Modernism is G-dliness, or Barnett Newman's Kabbalistic Process"
Rebekah Schulz: "Red Light, Green Light: Vertigo's Influence on the Color, Mise-en-Scène, and Narrative of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love and 2046"
Jessica Taylor: "The Curatorial Influence on Internet Art: The Commissioned Works of Mark Napier in 010101: Art in Technological Times and Data Dynamics"
Nicole M. Wood: "Unifying the Republic or Restoring the Monarchy? Representations of Joan of Arc in the Third Republic"
2004-2005 Senior Theses:
Andrea Betancourt: "The New MoMA: Designing the 20th Century Museum"
Olivia Byron: "Fascist Italy's Cultural Program: Mario Sironi and the Problems of a Political Art"
Elizabeth Damore: "Fashioning Exhibitions: Commerce, Culture and the Costume Institute"
Abigail Fritz: "From the Margins to the Core: a critical examination of the place of art education in schools through the lens of Discipline-based Art Education"
Joanna Fu: "A Justification for Fashion as a Fine Art"
Zoe Irvine: "Painting the War: Picasso's Genre Works During the German Occupation of Paris"
Emily F. Jensen: "The Wives of the Artists: O'Keeffe, Kahlo, Krasner, and the Role of the Artist/Wife in Historical Modernism"
Sung Eun Jun: "Women's Power Dressing in Fashion: Synchronic View and Analysis of Presented Styles Today/Duality and Validity of Ideas: Gaze, Power, and Gender"
Raakhee Bénu Lahiry: "Generational Conflicts in South Asian Film"
Jessica Leger: "Sameness and Difference in Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle"
Cynthia Lugo: "Proof-Negative"
Josephine Mayer: "Relinquishing the Search - A Discussion of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Molly Mulflur: "Kirchner's Urban Dancers: Mass Ornament and Mass Audience"
Brynne Norton: "Locating the Artist within the Environment: An Analysis of the Gendered Imagery in Andy Goldsworthy's Work"
Phaedra Robledo: "Tamara's Gaze: A Postfeminist Critique of Lempicka's Women"
Ana Ruediger: "Cinema and the City: Film Exhibition in Philadelphia"
Veronika Trufanova: "Lautrec's Legacy: Manifestations of Deformity and Synechdochical Depictions of Legs"
Devin Wachs: "'Absolute Pleasure' in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Exhibitionism, Identification, and Authorship"
2003-2004 Senior Theses:
Elysha Carouge:
Richard Gabriele: "The Barnes Foundation"
Katherine Hoy:
Alexandra Kaufmann: "Podestà Beware"
Afshan Khan:
Jillian Neustel: "Sinfest"
Jennifer Prince:
Stephanie Riley: "A Castile in Spain: Coca Castle as a Lens for Spanish History"
Laura Rosenblum:
Ramey Williams:
2002-2003 Senior Theses:
Netta Borshansky: "Homecoming and Homemaking in Zionist Photography of 20th Century Palestine"
Mahlone Burnette: "Fellini's Clowns"
Margaret Erlich: "Greek Revival Architecture in America"
IIlyssa Fisher: "Crucifixion and Passion Images in 13th- and 14th century Illuminated Manuscripts as Feminized Images"
Nora Gully: "Prostitution, Portraiture, and Language: Godard's Representation of Women"
Hala Hassoun: "Corsets - Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier"
Jean Kim: "Temporality and Perspective in David Hockney's Photo Collages"
Meredith Montague: "Southern Photography: Sally Mann and William Christenberry"
Amy O'Connor:
Larisa Reznich:
Jessica Richter: "Three Painters on Film: Frida, Pollack, and Vincent and Theo"
Liana Sterling: "Three video installations by Shirin Neshat"
Michelle Strizever: "The Book as Colonial Body: Amoxtli, Codices, And the Codex Espangliensis"
Lumi Tan: "Hans Bellmer"
Annie Zipper: "Ad-Jamming: Advertising and the Logo"
1998-1999 Senior Theses:
Sam Callard: "Clement Greenberg and Paul Tillich on Jackson Pollock: Religious resonance in abstract painting"
Heidi Dolamore: "Preserving the Berlin Wall"
1997-1998 Senior Theses:
E. Andrea Cornejo: "The Conquest of Architecture: Spain and Two Versions of Construction"
Mallika Sager: "The Myth of the 'Indian Woman Artist': An Exploratory Journey Through the Canvases of Three Contemporary Women."
1996-1997 Senior Theses:
Corrine Oliver: "Mauerbach, the Third Reich and the Art of Conquerors"
