Dissertations

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Amy Chang

Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Seville, Manila & the Formation of Spanish National Architecture, 16th-17th centuries

Adviser: Felipe Pereda
  • In progress
  • Harvard University

Early Modern

#Works on Paper#Architecture#Material Culture#Archaeology

Elisabetta Maistri

Studying in Rome. Spanish young artists in the Eternal City (1830-74)

Advisers: Stefano Cracolici and Tom Stammers
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Early Modern

#Architecture#Archaeology#History of Collecting

Hannah Maryan Thomson

A Gallery of Stones: The Castilian Frontier City of Ávila, 11th-14th centuries

Adviser: Meredith Cohen
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Medieval

#Architecture

Irini Picolou

Gender and Corporeality in Bartolomé Bermejo’s Paintings

Adviser: Andrew M. Beresford
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Medieval

#Architecture#Material Culture#Gender Studies#Religion#Race Studies

Melania Ruiz Sanz de Bremond

Reverse Painting on Glass: Production and circulation between the Old and the New World (1650-1790)

Adviser: Luisa Elena Alcalá
  • In progress
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Early Modern

#Material Culture

Miranda Saylor

Sor María de Ágreda and Sacred Art in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

Adviser: Not specified
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Patricia Manzano Rodríguez

What’s in a name? Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo in context

Adviser: Not specified
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Richard Jacques

Sensory Perception and Religious Experience in the Devotional Works of Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)

Adviser: Andrew Beresford
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Whitney Dennis

Very Old and Very Modern: The collecting practices of Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th duke of Alba

Advisers: Antonio Urquízar, José Antonio Vigara Zafra and José Miguel Hernández Barral
  • In progress
  • UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Court Studies

Elizabeth Caris

Cultural Convergence: Moche-Wari Style Textiles and Ceramics as Tinku

Advisers: Rebecca Stone and Megan O'Neil
  • In progress
  • Emory University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Louise Deglin

Repetition, Recreation, Reinvention: Wari Artists and the Empire

Adviser: Stella Nair
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Gaby Greenlee

Threshold Objects: Inka Textiles as Mediators of Time, Space, and Conquest from the 16th to 18th centuries

Adviser: Carolyn Dean
  • In progress
  • UC Santa Cruz

Early Modern

#Ancient Americas#Material Culture

Anabelle Rodriguez

Curating Xunantunich: Conserving Ancient Maya Art and Architecture & Preserving Natural Heritage in an Urban Cultural Landscape of Western Central Belize

Adviser: Sarah Brett-Smith
  • In progress
  • Rutgers University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#History of Collecting

Elena Pasionaria Rodríguez Pazmiño

Iconographie et iconicité dans les sceaux de l’Équateur précolombien

Advisers: Louise Vigneault and Christina Halperin
  • In progress
  • Université de Montréal

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Carlos Rivas

Decolonizing Aeriality in the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, 1768–1770

Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Macarena Deij Prado

Public Performance and Display in Spanish America 1570–1630

Adviser: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
  • In progress
  • University of Florida

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Megan Flattley

Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Perspective and Spatiality in the Work of Diego Rivera, 1913–1933

Adviser: Adrian Anagnost
  • In progress
  • Tulane University

Caroline Gillaspie

Delicious Libations: Slavery and Environment in the Visual Culture of the Brazil-U.S. Coffee Trade

Adviser: Katherine Manthorne
  • In progress
  • City University of New York

Early Modern

#Race Studies#Colonial and Viceregal#Material Culture

Horacio Ramos

Performances of Race: The Making of an Experimental Arte Popular in Peru, 1979-1990

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • In progress
  • City University of New York

María Paula Varela

Goddesses and Monsters: Maria Martins’ Paradoxical Modernism

Adviser: Kaira Cabañas
  • In progress
  • University of Florida