Dissertations

Modern and Contemporary

Elizabeth Frasco

American Women Artists of the New Deal and Mexico, 1934–1943

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2020
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Maria Dorofeeva

Making men: Spanish art and the politics of masculinity, 1898-1936

Adviser: Not specified
  • 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modern and Contemporary

#Works on Paper#Gender Studies#Queer Studies

Brian Bentley

Pop Artists of Underdevelopment: 1960s Brazilian New Objectivity

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2020
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Sonia de Laforcade

Audio-Visual: The Slide as Medium in Brazilian Art

Adviser: Irene Small
  • 2020
  • Princeton University

Raphaelle Occhietti

Révéler par l’art les enjeux politiques et matériels de l’économie: La monnaie, la dette, le profit et la valeur vus à travers les matières premières dans trois performances de Marta Minujín (1985, 1996, 2017)

Advisers: Olivier Asselin and Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
  • 2020
  • Université de Montréal

Elizabeth Cerejido

Where Is Cuban American Art? Artistic Production, Identity Formation and Cultural Politics from the 1980s to the Present

Advisers: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Kaira Cabañas
  • 2020
  • University of Florida

Susana Rodriguez

Performing Exile: Cuban-American Women’s Performance Art, 1972–2014

Adviser: Oscar Vazquez
  • 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lorraine Affoutit

Visualizing Decolonial Democracy in the Oaxaca Commune

Adviser: Martin Berger
  • 2020
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#Central American

Margarita Aguilar

Traditions and Transformations in the Work of ADAL: Surrealism, El Sainete, and Spanglish

Adviser: Margarita Aguilar
  • 2020
  • City University of New York

Elizabeth Donato

A Series of Acts that Disappear: The Valparaiso School’s Ephemeral Architectures, 1952-1982

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Abigail Lapin Dardashti

The Production of Modern Afro-Brazilian Art: African Decolonization, U.S. Black Power, and Transnational Religious Networks, 1966-88

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Nadia Rivera-Fellah

Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands 1978-1992

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Rosalia Romero

Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950

Adviser: Esther Gabara
  • 2019
  • Duke University

Gillian Sneed

Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1974-1982

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Modern and Contemporary

#Gender Studies

Danielle Stewart

Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paolo (1930-1955)

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Eleanor Stoltzfus

New Womanhood and the Bauhaus: The Avant-Garde Photography of Lucia Moholy

Adviser: Steven Mansbach
  • 2019
  • University of Maryland

Modern and Contemporary

#Gender Studies#Photography

Leah Pires

Finesse: Louise Lawler’s Pictures

Advisers: Alexander Alberro
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrman

Populist Counter-Spectacles and the Inception of Mass Media Art in Argentina: Marta Minujín’s Happenings, Performances, and Environments of the 1960s

Advisers: Alexander Alberro
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Sabrina Carletti

Xul Solar and the Argentinian Avant-Garde: Body, Language, Technology, Sociability

Advisers: Brigid Doherty and Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles
  • 2019
  • Princeton University

Aubrey Hobart

Treasures and Splendors: Exhibiting Colonial Latin American Art in U.S. Museums, 1920-2020

Adviser: Carolyn Dean
  • 2018
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Colonial and Viceregal