Dissertations

Early Modern

Felipe Álvarez de Toledo López Herrera

Pinturas Infinitas para América. A Data-Driven History of the Market for Paintings in Seville (1500-1700)

Adviser: Hans J. Van Miegroet
  • In progress
  • Duke University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

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

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

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

Caitlin DiMartino

Sovereign Bodies: The Overdetermination of Blackness in the Madonnas of France and Spain, 1450–1700 (Working Title)

Advisers: Christina Nomore and Rebecca Zorach
  • In progress
  • Northwestern University

Deborah Feller

Traces of Trauma in the Drawings of Lo Spagnoletto / El Españoleto, Joan Josep Ribera Cucó, José / Giuseppe / Jusepe de Ribera

Adviser: Catherine Puglisi
  • In progress
  • Rutgers University

Early Modern

#Works on Paper

Savannah Esquivel

Encountering Ornament in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Monasteries

Adviser: Claudia Brittenham
  • In progress
  • University of Chicago

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Catalina Ospina

Knowledge Encounters: Mopa Mopa Practice in the Colonial Northern Andes

Advisers: Claudia Brittenham and Cécile Fromont
  • In progress
  • University of Chicago
    Yale University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

JoAnna Reyes Walton

Piety, Plata, and Place: Civic Development and Devotion in Colonial Zacatecas

Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Richard Jacques

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

Adviser: Andrew Beresford
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Emily Wood

Art, Politics, and Diplomacy at the Courts of Philip II in Madrid and the Medici in Florence

Adviser: Jesús Escobar
  • In progress
  • Northwestern University

Shelly Alice Burian

Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Period Aymara Ceremonial Garments of Bolivia and Peru: Structure and Significance

Adviser: Rebecca Stone
  • In progress
  • Emory University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Kristen Dueck

The Art of War: Battle Paintings of New Spain, 1665-1714

Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Rebecca Ben

The Arrival of the Leonardeschi in Valencia

Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Louisa M. Raitt

The Frontiers of Femininity: Self-Fashioning in Female Portraiture in Viceregal New Spain, 1665-1821

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • In progress
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Early Modern 18th / 19th Centuries

#Race Studies#Gender Studies#Colonial and Viceregal#Portraiture

Jacqueline Edwards

Painting Saints and Men: Art and Dress in El Greco’s Toledo, 1577-1614

Advisers: Amanda Wunder
  • In progress
  • City University of New York

Early Modern

#Material Culture#Painting#Portraiture

Shannah Rose

The Codex Ríos and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy

Advisers: Alexander Nagel
  • In progress
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Early Modern

#Artistic Practice#Colonial and Viceregal#Works on Paper

Drew Erin Becker Lash

Painting Spanish Faith: Intertextuality in Old Testament Images in Seventeenth-Century Spain and New Spain

Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Early Modern

#Religion#Painting

Patricia Manzano Rodríguez

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

Adviser: Not specified
  • In progress
  • Durham University

Miranda Saylor

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

Adviser: Not specified
  • In progress
  • UCLA