Dissertations

Modern and Contemporary

Tatiane Schilaro Santa Rosa

The Undoing of Celebrations: Art and the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil

Adviser: Julie González
  • In progress
  • UC Santa Cruz

Julia Detchon

Working Around: Lea Lublin, Marie Orensanz, Mirtha Dermisache, and Margarita Paksa, 1968–1983

Adviser: George Flaherty
  • In progress
  • University of Texas

Elisabeth DeRose

Defying Graphic Tradition: Printmaking Strategies of Latin American Conceptualists (1963-1984)Defying Graphic Tradition: Printmaking Strategies of Latin American Conceptualists (1963-1984)Defying Graphic Tradition: Printmaking Strategies of Latin American Conceptualists (1963-1984)

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

Modern and Contemporary

#Works on Paper

Giovanna M. Bassi Cendra

Tectonics of Development: Mineral Extraction and the Architecture of the University-City in South America, 1945-1975

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

Deanna Ledezma

The Fecundity of Family Photography

Adviser: Jonathan Mekinda
  • In progress
  • University of Illinois at Chicago

Jez Flores García

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

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

Sonja Elena Gandert

La resolana: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985

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

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

Annemarie Iker

Secrecy in the Art of Santiago Rusiñol and the Catalan Modernistes

Adviser: Bridget Alsdorf
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

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

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

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

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

Isabela Muci Barradas

The Polyphonic Forest: Photographing the Amazon, 1970-1989

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

Elvis Fuentes

Bowling for Moscow: The Relationship between Soviet Visual Culture and Cuban Art, 1972-1994

Adviser: Jane Ashton Sharp
  • In progress
  • Rutgers University

María Paula Varela

Goddesses and Monsters: Maria Martins’ Paradoxical Modernism

Adviser: Kaira Cabañas
  • In progress
  • University of Florida

Horacio Ramos

Performances of Race: The Making of an Experimental Arte Popular in Peru, 1979-1990

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

Megan Flattley

Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Perspective and Spatiality in the Work of Diego Rivera, 1913–1933

Adviser: Adrian Anagnost
  • In progress
  • Tulane University

Whitney Dennis

Very Old and Very Modern: The collecting practices of Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th duke of Alba

Advisers: Antonio Urquízar, José Antonio Vigara Zafra and José Miguel Hernández Barral
  • In progress
  • UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Court Studies

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