2014-2015 PhD Graduates Galia Halpern “Open Geography and the Illuminated Mandeville's Travels” (Colin Eisler)
Joseph Ackley “‘Offer him gold; that is true love’: Ottonian Gold Repoussé and the Western Medieval Church Treasury” (Jonathan Alexander)
Nina Harkrader “Building for the Poor and the Pauper: Architecture, Morality and Medical Models in Victorian England, 1850-1900” (Jean-Louis Cohen)
Birgitta Augustin “Painting Authenticity: Intersections in the Lives and Art of Zhang Yu, Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan” (Jonathan Hay)
Titia Hulst “Leo Castelli and the Market for American Contemporary Art” (Thomas Crow)
William Bracken “Rembrandt as Creative Inventor” (Mariët Westermann) Anna Brodbeck “Charting the Course of Revolution: Artur Barrio and Artistic Education and Exchange in Brazil (1967-1971)” (Edward Sullivan) Andrea Bell “French Artists in Rome: An Examination of EighteenthCentury Drawing Albums” (Thomas Crow) Carolina Carrasco “The Lives of Working Objects: Functionalism and the Institution in the Archival ‘Readymades’ of George Maciunas” (Robert Storr) Clare Davies “Figure and Ground: Producing National Subjects in Egyptian Painting and Photography, 1919-1936” (Jeffrey Weiss) Elizabeth Dospel Williams “Worldly Adornments: Women’s Precious Metal Jewelry in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (500-1100 CE)” (Thelma Thomas)
Rachel Kaplan “Mexican Modernism at Home and Abroad: The Legacy of Inés Amor and the Galería de Arte Mexicano” (Edward Sullivan) Allyson McDavid “The Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias: A Study of Monumentality and Transformation in Late Antiquity” (Thelma Thomas) Nicole Myers “Courbet’s Nudes: Realism and the Rococo Revival” (Linda Nochlin) Berit Potter “Grace McCann Morley and the Dialectical Exchange of Modern Art in the Americas, 1935-1958” (Thomas Crow and Edward Sullivan) Zhijian Qian “Modernism Re-oriented in a Chinese Context: Painting of Modernist Artiti in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945” (Jonathan Hay) David Jacob Rabinowitz “Public Construction: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence” (Jeffrey Weiss)
Patrick Salland “Palatial Paintings and Programs: The Symbolic World of the Egyptian Palace in the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1069 BCE)” (David O’Connor) Ileana Selejan “Postmodern Warfare in Images: The Aesthetics of War Photography in the Late 1970s and 1980s” (Thomas Crow) Anooradha Siddiqi “Just Add Water? Architecture and Humanitarianism, 1991-2011” (Jean-Louis Cohen) Delia Solomons “Installing Latin American Art for Cold War Culture: U.S. Exhibitions (1959–1967)” (Edward Sullivan) Anna Swinbourne “Marvelous Spectacle: The Role of Ostend’s Benediction of the Sea in Selected Paintings and Drawings by James Ensor” (Robert Lubar) Julia Valiela “Model Women: Female Portrait Busts in Renaissance Italy” (Beverly Brown) Michael Waters “Materials, Materiality, and Spolia in Italian Renaissance Architecture” (Marvin Trachtenberg) Shannon Wearing “Power and Style: The Liber Feudorum Maior and the Court of Alfonso II, King of Aragon and Court of Barcelona (r. 1162-1196)” (Jonathan Alexander) Daniel Williamson "Modern Architecture and Capitalist Patronage in Ahmedabad, India, 1947-1969" (Jean-Louis Cohen) ifa.nyu.edu
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Nora Burnett Abrams “Para-realism and the Early Sculpture of Rachel Whiteread (Linda Nochlin)