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 SullivanLesley Wolff
¡Guerra al metate!: The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920-1960)
Adviser: Michael CarrascoCaroline "Olivia" M. Wolf
Migrant Constructions and Mahjar Monuments: Transnational Art and Architecture in Modern Argentina, 1910-1955
Adviser: Fabiola López-DuránJorge Rivas Pérez
Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and his Circle, 1948-1963
Adviser: Pat KirkhamBlanca Serrano Ortiz de Solorzano
Between Limit and Possibility: Art in Cuba During the Special Period
Adviser: Edward SullivanSean Nesselrode
The Harvest of Modernity: Art, Oil, and Industry in the Venezuelan Twentieth Century.
Adviser: Edward SullivanSusana Temkin
Un arte social y revolucionario (A Social and Revolutionary Art): Marcelo Pogolotti and the International Avant-Garde
Adviser: Edward SullivanDelia Solomons
Installing Latin American Art for Cold War Culture: U.S. Exhibitions (1959-1967)
Adviser: Edward SullivanCarlos 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 BlackAna Cristina Perry
Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Affect as Institutional Critique from 1966-1972
Adviser: Anna Indych-LopezVivian Crockett
The Skin of All: The Racial Politics of an Anthropophagic Return in Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape
Adviser: Kellie JonesIsabela Muci Barradas
The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970-1989
Advisers: Anne McCauley and Irene SmallPaulina Pardo
New Media Art Strategies and Female Identity in the Artistic Practice of Letícia Parente (Brazil, 1930-1991)
Adviser: Jennifer JostenWilliam Schwaller
A Transnational Arte de Sistemas: The Centro de Arte y Comunicación in Argentina and Abroad, 1968-1983
Adviser: Mariola AlvarezJacqueline Witkowski
Disappearing Threads: Art, Text, and Textile during Dictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
Adviser: T'ai SmithElisa Germán
The Creative ‘State’: The Calcografía Nacional and its Impact on Printmaking in Madrid after the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1959
Adviser: Gregory WilliamsAnnemarie Iker
Secrecy in the Art of Santiago Rusiñol and the Catalan Modernistes
Adviser: Bridget AlsdorfAdrienne Rooney
An Entire People’s Discourse: Redefining Aesthetic Standards, Tastes, and Circuits in the 20th Century Circum-Caribbean
Adviser: Fabiola López-DuránMadeline Turner
From the Kitchen to the Theater: Women’s Collaborative Artist’s Books, Exhibitions, and Performance in Mexico City, c. 1980-89
Adviser: Edward SullivanJez Flores García
Camp as a Weapon: Chicano Identity and Asco’s Aesthetics of Resistance
Adviser: Julia Bryan-Wilson