Dissertations

Modern and Contemporary

Deanna Ledezma

The Fecundity of Family Photography

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

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

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

Julia Detchon

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

Adviser: George Flaherty
  • In progress
  • University of Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

María Paula Varela

Goddesses and Monsters: Maria Martins’ Paradoxical Modernism

Adviser: Kaira Cabañas
  • In progress
  • University of Florida

Elvis Fuentes

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

Adviser: Jane Ashton Sharp
  • In progress
  • Rutgers University

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

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

Alyson Cluck

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

Adviser: Abigail McEwen
  • In progress
  • University of Maryland

Laura Freitas Almeida

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

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

Hasbrouck Miller

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

Adviser: Barry Bergdoll
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

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

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