Dissertations
Early Modern
Melania Ruiz Sanz de Bremond
Reverse Painting on Glass: Production and circulation between the Old and the New World (1650-1790)
Adviser: Luisa Elena AlcaláElisabetta Maistri
Studying in Rome. Spanish young artists in the Eternal City (1830-74)
Advisers: Stefano Cracolici and Tom StammersAmy Chang
Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Seville, Manila & the Formation of Spanish National Architecture, 16th-17th centuries
Adviser: Felipe PeredaAliza M. Benjamin
Gold, Stonework and Feathers: Mexica Material Culture and the Making of Hapsburg Europe
Advisers: Ashley West and Tracy CooperMark Castro
Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando’s Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
Adviser: Gridley McKim-SmithEmily Floyd
Matrices of Devotion: Lima’s Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Devotional Prints and Local Religion in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneIsabel Oleas-Mogollón
Art and Jesuit Patronage in Colonial Quito: The Prophet Paintings at the Church of La Compañía
Adviser: Monica Domínguez TorresJennifer Saracino
Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Cultural Disruption and Continuity in the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneJessica Stair
Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain
Advisers: Todd Olson and Lisa TreverAndrea McKenzie
Andean Concepts and Scripted Pictures: Ukhu, Sight, and Sound in the Drawings of Guaman Poma de Ayala
Adviser: Rebecca StoneAllison Caplan
Their Flickering Creations: Value, Appearance, Animacy, and Surface in Nahua Precious Art
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneLucia Abramovich
Precious Materiality in Colonial Andean Art: Gold, Silver, and Jewels in Paintings of the Virgin
Adviser: Elizabeth Hill BooneXimena Gomez
Nuestra Señora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima
Adviser: Megan HolmesKristopher Driggers
The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings
Adviser: Claudia BrittenhamMaría Lumbreras
The Facture of Evidence: Portraits, Painting and Artistic Knowledge in Spain, 1590-1640
Adviser: Felipe PeredaRebecca Teresi
Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain
Adviser: Felipe PeredaAkemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink
Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
Adviser: Jean Michel MassingMartijn van Beek
Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)
Adviser: Freek SchmidtAnthony Meyer
The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds
Adviser: Stella Nair