Dissertations
Modern and Contemporary
Antonio Sanchez Gomez
Diógenes A. Reyes’s Silhouette Biography: Print Culture and the Politics of Technology, Distance, Mediation, and Things Left Unsaid in the Transregional and Transnational History of the Colombian Caribbean (1898-1920)
Adviser: Catherine WhalenAna Cristina Perry
Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Affect as Institutional Critique from 1966-1972
Adviser: Anna Indych-LopezCarlos A. Rivas Maradiaga
Three Years of Surveillance: Aerial Views of El Salvador from the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala, 1768-1770
Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor BlackHasbrouck Miller
State Architecture of the Argentine Interior under Juan Domingo Perón, 1946-1955
Adviser: Barry BergdollNicholas Fitch
Non hanno capito niente’: Figuration and Narrative in the Post-1968 Work of Clorindo Testa
Advisers: Branden JosephMaeve Coudrelle
The Imprint of Pan-Americanism: Chilean Graphic Biennials, 1963-1970
Adviser: Mariola AlvarezBenjamin Murphy
Fieldwork: Problems of Observation in Latin American Video
Adviser: Irene SmallGwen Unger
Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the ‘Special Period in time of Peace,’ 1989-1999
Advisers: Alexander AlberroLuisa Valle
The Beehive, the Favela, the Mangrove, and the Castle: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1885 to 1945
Adviser: Marta GutmanVivian Crockett
The Skin of All: The Racial Politics of an Anthropophagic Return in Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape
Adviser: Kellie JonesGonzalo Luis Pinlla
Public Aesthetics and Collective Studio Practices in South America 1960s–1980
Adviser: Oscar VázquezChristian Larsen
Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture
Adviser: Pat KirkhamTie Jojima
Porn Art Movement, 1980–84: Body, Technology, and Subjectivity in Brazilian Art
Adviser: Anna Indych-LopezIonit Behar
Intimate Space and the Public Sphere: Margarita Paksa in Argentina’s Military Dictatorship
Advisers: Hannah B. Higgins and Ömür HarmanşahLaura Freitas Almeida
Resisting Memory: Anti-Imperialist Tactics of Forgetting in Latin American Contemporary Art
Adviser: Sarah K. RichAlyson Cluck
Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez’s ‘Erotic Topologies’ in 1960s New York
Adviser: Abigail McEwenRisa Puleo
Reorienting Land and Sky: Mexica and Diné Maps from the 16th through the 21st Century (Working Title)
Advisers: Rebecca Zorach and Hannah FeldmanMadeline Turner
From the Kitchen to the Theater: Women’s Collaborative Artist’s Books, Exhibitions, and Performance in Mexico City, c. 1980-89
Adviser: Edward SullivanFrancisco José Sánchez Bernal
La cultura cinematográfica del exilio republicano a través de sus publicaciones (The Cinematographic Culture of the Republican Exile through its Publications)
Advisers: Miguel Cabañas Bravo and Joaquín Cánovas BelchíMaría-Laura Steverlynck
The School of the South Experiment: The Pedagogy and Legacy of a New World Modernism
Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez