Degrees Conferred

2021

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Antonia Behan, Toronto, Canada “Craftsmanship as a Mode of Thought: Ethel Mairet and Ananda Coomaraswamy in Ceylon, India, and Britain, 1902–1952” Julie Bellemare, Quebec City, Canada “’A New Creation of This Dynasty’: Enamels, Glass, and the Deployment of Color in Qing China, 1700–1735” The Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize

William M. Degregorio, Danbury, CT “Materializing Manners: Fashion, Period Rooms, and Gentility at the Museum of the City of New York, 1923–1958”

Anne Hilker, Los Angeles, CA “The Legal Lives of Things: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Boundary between Public and Private”

Maria Perers, Stockholm, Sweden “Inside the Ideal Home: The Changing Values of Apartment Living and the Promotion of Consumption in Sweden, 1950–1970” Antonio Sánchez Gómez, Bogotá, Colombia “Diógenes A. Reyes’s Silhouette Biography: Print Culture and the Politics of Technology, Distance, Mediation, and Things Left Unsaid in the Transregional and Transnational History of the Colombian Caribbean, 1898–1920” American Members of CINOA (International Confederation of Art and Antique Dealers’ Association) Award

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY

Pierre-Jean Desemerie, Bordeaux, France “Fashioning the Identities of Settler Women in Algeria during the 1930s”

Leonie Sophie Treier, Berlin, Germany “Reassembling George Catlin’s Indian Gallery: Material Culture and the Performance of Ethnographic Realism”

MASTER OF ARTS

Madison Layne Clyburn, Orlando, FL “Perfumed Air and Scented Bodies: Materializing the Philosophy of Scent in Sixteenth-Century Padua” Natalie Elizabeth Dequarto, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY “’A Little World of Themselves’: Women and the Cultivation of Fern Cases in the Nineteenth Century” Noah Joseph Dubay, Fort Kent, ME “Comfort and Convalescence: Fauteuils de Malade in Eighteenth-Century France” Clive Wainwright Award

Juliana Fagua Arias, Bogotá, Colombia “Seafaring Treasures: Latin America and the Transpacific Trade” Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award

Emily A. Isakson, Worcester, MA “Imitating the Flower: NineteenthCentury Artificial Plants and Gendered Botanical Education”

Daria Rachel Murphy, Corner Brook, Canada “Tonsorial Transformations: Women’s Sokuhatsu in NineteenthCentury Meiji Japan, 1868–1912” Weixun Qu, Langfang, China “The Afterlife of Lacquer Panels: Transforming Chinese Luxuries into French Furniture”

Constantine Prince SidamonEristoff, Washington, D.C. “The Lives of Berenike: A Port City and Its People” Cynthia Ash Volk, New York, NY “Dehua Porcelain Figures of Budai: Models of Adaptivity in Seventeenth- and EighteenthCentury China and ’Europe’” Madison Jane Williams, Berkeley, CA “Science in the Study and Authentication of Catholic Relics”

Jessica Mordine Young, San Francisco, CA “On Anne Wilson and Winding the Warp: Embodied and Tacit Knowledge in Contemporary Textile Art”

2022

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Michelle Jackson-Beckett, Philadelphia, PA “Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling, 1918–1938” The Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize

Rebecca Jumper Matheson, New York, NY “American Artisans: William and Elizabeth Phelps, and Phelps Associates” American Members of CINOA Award

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY

Adam Boyd Brandow, Millbrook, NY “From Rhine to Hudson and Mohawk: Material Culture and Palatine Identity in New York, 1710–1840”

Nicholas Piedra de Godoy Lopes, Charlotte, NC “A Tournament of Ornament: The Stakes of Space and Surface in Nineteenth-Century Ornament Folios”

Elizabeth F. Koehn, Brooklyn, NY “Utopian Shores: Visionary Design and its Limits in the 1960s”

Boxi Liu, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China “From Kherlen River to Yanjing: Crafts and Cultural Diversity in the Kitan-Liao Empire”

Geoffrey Henri Christophe Ripert, Paris, France “The Past as Model for the Present: The Taste for Marble and Hardstone Objects in France during the Long Eighteenth Century, ca. 1690–1815”

MASTER OF ARTS

mary adeogun, Bear, DE “a satin scarf, and its many uses” Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award

Bridget Bartal, Williams Bay, WI “(Mis)fitting Taliesin: The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship” Grace Camille Gan Billingslea, Seattle, WA “Fashioning Equality, Independence, and Freedom for Women in the Nineteenth Century: Madame Demorest’s Business Empire” Ariana Bishop, Andover, MA “Loud Jewelry, Loose Women: Sex, Power, and Adornment in Storyville, New Orleans, 1880–1920” Julia Marie Carabatsos, North Easton, MA “’What a Motley Creature I Was Become’: Hester Piozzi’s ’Demi-Naturalization’ Materialized” Clive Wainwright Award Marion Demaris Larguier Cox, Nashville, TN “Totem and Anti-Totem: Dual Signification and the Contentious History of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument” Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award

Ellen Enderle, Stuart, FL “Adorned in Gold: Religion, Personal Display, and Women’s Agency in Ancient Macedonia”

Katherine Lanza, Chatham, MA “Timeless Dispositions: Devotional Objects as Non-Mimetic Portraits” Kristin Sue McCool, East Lansing, MI “Challenging the Status Quo: Unsettling Dominant Narratives in MoMA’s Gallery 412” Laura Mogulescu, Brooklyn, NY “The Foreign-Born Mother and the Materiality of Americanization: Photography and the Creation and Documentation of Americanization by the Educational Committee for Non-English Speaking Women” Heather Jane McCormick Prize

Samuel Edmond Snodgrass, Springfield, MO “’May I Be Deaf at the Opera’: Dress and Voice of the Macaroni and Castrati”

Pim-Orn Supavarasuwat, Bangkok, Thailand “’One Sheds One’s Sickness in Books’: Illness, Uncertainty, and the Book as Creative Intervention” Clive Wainwright Award