Dissertations
18th / 19th Centuries
Emily Sessions
Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century
Adviser: Edward CookeNenette Arroyo
Loca Sancta in the New World: The Creation of Sacred Space in the Spanish California Missions, 1769–1823
Advisers: R. G. Wilson and L. NelsonLauren Kaplan
Crossing the Atlantic: Italians in Argentina, 1880-1930
Adviser: Megan HolmesLeslie E. Todd
Reconciling Colonial Contradictions: The Multiple Roles of Sculpture in Eighteenth-Century Quito
Adviser: Maya Stanfield-MazziFrancisco Chapparo
Victimhood in Goya. Rhetorics and Anti-Rhetorics on the Threshold of Photography
Advisers: Edward Sullivan and Jonathan BrownBernard Cesarone
A Mother of Light in the Age of Enlightenment: Heterodoxy, Interiority, and Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century New Spain
Adviser: Oscar VazquezCarlos Rivas
Decolonizing Aeriality in the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, 1768–1770
Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor BlackAgnieszka Ficek
From Allegory to Revolution: The Inca Empire in the Eighteenth-Century French Imagination
Adviser: Judy SundEmily Thames
Enlightenment, Reform, and Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico: The Art of José Campeche (1751-1809)
Adviser: Paul NiellSuzanne McLeod
Not So Different: Sensory & Cross Cultural Recognitions between Eighteenth Century Northwest Coast Peoples and Spanish Colonial Expeditions
Adviser: Joyce SzaboHugo Plazas
The Image of Racialized Groups in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Costumbrista Painting
Adviser: M. Elizabeth BooneLouisa M. Raitt
The Frontiers of Femininity: Self-Fashioning in Female Portraiture in Viceregal New Spain, 1665-1821
Adviser: Edward Sullivan