Dissertations

Early Modern

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

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

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

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

Savannah Esquivel

Encountering Ornament in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Monasteries

Adviser: Claudia Brittenham
  • In progress
  • University of Chicago

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Jacques

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

Adviser: Andrew Beresford
  • In progress
  • Durham University

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

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

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

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