Dissertations

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Sabrina Carletti

Xul Solar and the Argentinian Avant-Garde: Body, Language, Technology, Sociability

Advisers: Brigid Doherty and Maria Gabriela Nouzeilles
  • 2019
  • Princeton University

Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrman

Populist Counter-Spectacles and the Inception of Mass Media Art in Argentina: Marta Minujín’s Happenings, Performances, and Environments of the 1960s

Advisers: Alexander Alberro
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Elizabeth Donato

A Series of Acts that Disappear: The Valparaiso School’s Ephemeral Architectures, 1952-1982

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Ximena Gomez

Nuestra Señora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima

Adviser: Megan Holmes
  • 2019
  • University of Michigan

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Lauren Kaplan

Crossing the Atlantic: Italians in Argentina, 1880-1930

Adviser: Megan Holmes
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Abigail Lapin Dardashti

The Production of Modern Afro-Brazilian Art: African Decolonization, U.S. Black Power, and Transnational Religious Networks, 1966-88

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Nadia Rivera-Fellah

Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands 1978-1992

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Rosalia Romero

Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950

Adviser: Esther Gabara
  • 2019
  • Duke University

Gillian Sneed

Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1974-1982

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Modern and Contemporary

#Gender Studies

Danielle Stewart

Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paolo (1930-1955)

Adviser: Anna Indych-Lopez
  • 2019
  • City University of New York

Leslie E. Todd

Reconciling Colonial Contradictions: The Multiple Roles of Sculpture in Eighteenth-Century Quito

Adviser: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
  • 2019
  • University of Florida

18th / 19th Centuries

#Colonial and Viceregal

Eleanor Stoltzfus

New Womanhood and the Bauhaus: The Avant-Garde Photography of Lucia Moholy

Adviser: Steven Mansbach
  • 2019
  • University of Maryland

Modern and Contemporary

#Gender Studies#Photography

Leah Pires

Finesse: Louise Lawler’s Pictures

Advisers: Alexander Alberro
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Allison Caplan

Their Flickering Creations: Value, Appearance, Animacy, and Surface in Nahua Precious Art

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2019
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Material Culture#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Francisco Chapparo

Victimhood in Goya. Rhetorics and Anti-Rhetorics on the Threshold of Photography

Advisers: Edward Sullivan and Jonathan Brown
  • 2019
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Stephanie Strauss

Sculpting the Narrative: The Material Practice of Epi-Olmec Art and Writing

Advisers: Julia Guernsey and David Stuart
  • 2018
  • University of Texas

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Mark Castro

Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando’s Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis

Adviser: Gridley McKim-Smith
  • 2018
  • Bryn Mawr College

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Emily Floyd

Matrices of Devotion: Lima’s Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Devotional Prints and Local Religion in the Viceroyalty of Peru

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2018
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Aubrey Hobart

Treasures and Splendors: Exhibiting Colonial Latin American Art in U.S. Museums, 1920-2020

Adviser: Carolyn Dean
  • 2018
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Colonial and Viceregal

Isabel Oleas-Mogollón

Art and Jesuit Patronage in Colonial Quito: The Prophet Paintings at the Church of La Compañía

Adviser: Monica Domínguez Torres
  • 2018
  • University of Delaware

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal