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 Whalen
  • In progress
  • Bard Graduate Center

Modern and Contemporary

#Works on Paper

Ana Cristina Perry

Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Affect as Institutional Critique from 1966-1972

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

Carlos 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 Black
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Hasbrouck Miller

State Architecture of the Argentine Interior under Juan Domingo Perón, 1946-1955

Adviser: Barry Bergdoll
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Nicholas Fitch

Non hanno capito niente’: Figuration and Narrative in the Post-1968 Work of Clorindo Testa

Advisers: Branden Joseph
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Maeve Coudrelle

The Imprint of Pan-Americanism: Chilean Graphic Biennials, 1963-1970

Adviser: Mariola Alvarez
  • In progress
  • Temple University

Benjamin Murphy

Fieldwork: Problems of Observation in Latin American Video

Adviser: Irene Small
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Gwen Unger

Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the ‘Special Period in time of Peace,’ 1989-1999

Advisers: Alexander Alberro
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Luisa Valle

The Beehive, the Favela, the Mangrove, and the Castle: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1885 to 1945

Adviser: Marta Gutman
  • In progress
  • City University of New York

Modern and Contemporary

#Race Studies#Architecture

Vivian Crockett

The Skin of All: The Racial Politics of an Anthropophagic Return in Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape

Adviser: Kellie Jones
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Gonzalo Luis Pinlla

Public Aesthetics and Collective Studio Practices in South America 1960s–1980

Adviser: Oscar Vázquez
  • In progress
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christian Larsen

Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture

Adviser: Pat Kirkham
  • In progress
  • Bard Graduate Center

Modern and Contemporary

#Material Culture

Tie Jojima

Porn Art Movement, 1980–84: Body, Technology, and Subjectivity in Brazilian Art

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

Ionit Behar

Intimate Space and the Public Sphere: Margarita Paksa in Argentina’s Military Dictatorship

Advisers: Hannah B. Higgins and Ömür Harmanşah
  • In progress
  • University of Illinois at Chicago

Laura Freitas Almeida

Resisting Memory: Anti-Imperialist Tactics of Forgetting in Latin American Contemporary Art

Adviser: Sarah K. Rich
  • In progress
  • Penn State University

Alyson Cluck

Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez’s ‘Erotic Topologies’ in 1960s New York

Adviser: Abigail McEwen
  • In progress
  • University of Maryland

Risa Puleo

Reorienting Land and Sky: Mexica and Diné Maps from the 16th through the 21st Century (Working Title)

Advisers: Rebecca Zorach and Hannah Feldman
  • In progress
  • Northwestern University

Modern and Contemporary

#Ancient Americas#Colonial and Viceregal#Works on Paper

Madeline Turner

From the Kitchen to the Theater: Women’s Collaborative Artist’s Books, Exhibitions, and Performance in Mexico City, c. 1980-89

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

Francisco 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 Belchí
  • In progress
  • Universidad de Murcia

María-Laura Steverlynck

The School of the South Experiment: The Pedagogy and Legacy of a New World Modernism

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