Dissertations

Modern and Contemporary

Juanita Solano Roa

Theater of the Self. Photography, Race, and Progress: Fotografia Rodriguez and Benjamin de la Calle, Medellin (Colombia), 1891-1938

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2018
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Modern and Contemporary

#Photography#Race Studies

Lesley Wolff

¡Guerra al metate!: The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920-1960)

Adviser: Michael Carrasco
  • 2018
  • Florida State University

Caroline "Olivia" M. Wolf

Migrant Constructions and Mahjar Monuments: Transnational Art and Architecture in Modern Argentina, 1910-1955

Adviser: Fabiola López-Durán
  • 2018
  • Rice University

Jorge Rivas Pérez

Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and his Circle, 1948-1963

Adviser: Pat Kirkham
  • 2018
  • Bard Graduate Center

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solorzano

Between Limit and Possibility: Art in Cuba During the Special Period

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2017
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Sean Nesselrode

The Harvest of Modernity: Art, Oil, and Industry in the Venezuelan Twentieth Century.

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2017
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Susana Temkin

Un arte social y revolucionario (A Social and Revolutionary Art): Marcelo Pogolotti and the International Avant-Garde

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2016
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Delia Solomons

Installing Latin American Art for Cold War Culture: U.S. Exhibitions (1959-1967)

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2015
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

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

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

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

Isabela Muci Barradas

The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970-1989

Advisers: Anne McCauley and Irene Small
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Paulina Pardo

New Media Art Strategies and Female Identity in the Artistic Practice of Letícia Parente (Brazil, 1930-1991)

Adviser: Jennifer Josten
  • In progress
  • University of Pittsburgh

Modern and Contemporary

#Gender Studies

William Schwaller

A Transnational Arte de Sistemas: The Centro de Arte y Comunicación in Argentina and Abroad, 1968-1983

Adviser: Mariola Alvarez
  • In progress
  • Temple University

Jacqueline Witkowski

Disappearing Threads: Art, Text, and Textile during Dictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

Adviser: T'ai Smith
  • In progress
  • University of British Columbia

Modern and Contemporary

#Material Culture

Elisa Germán

The Creative ‘State’: The Calcografía Nacional and its Impact on Printmaking in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1959

Adviser: Gregory Williams
  • In progress
  • Boston University

Annemarie Iker

Secrecy in the Art of Santiago Rusiñol and the Catalan Modernistes

Adviser: Bridget Alsdorf
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Adrienne Rooney

An Entire People’s Discourse: Redefining Aesthetic Standards, Tastes, and Circuits in the 20th Century Circum-Caribbean

Adviser: Fabiola López-Durán
  • In progress
  • Rice University

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

Jez Flores García

Camp as a Weapon: Chicano Identity and Asco’s Aesthetics of Resistance

Adviser: Julia Bryan-Wilson
  • In progress
  • UC Berkeley