Dissertations

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Nicholas Fitch

Non hanno capito niente’: Figuration and Narrative in the Post-1968 Work of Clorindo Testa

Advisers: Branden Joseph
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Hasbrouck Miller

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

Adviser: Barry Bergdoll
  • In progress
  • Columbia University

Catalina Ospina

Knowledge Encounters: Mopa Mopa Practice in the Colonial Northern Andes

Advisers: Claudia Brittenham and Cécile Fromont
  • In progress
  • University of Chicago
    Yale University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

JoAnna Reyes Walton

Piety, Plata, and Place: Civic Development and Devotion in Colonial Zacatecas

Adviser: Charlene Villaseñor Black
  • In progress
  • UCLA

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

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

Felipe Álvarez de Toledo López Herrera

Pinturas Infinitas para América. A Data-Driven History of the Market for Paintings in Seville (1500-1700)

Adviser: Hans J. Van Miegroet
  • In progress
  • Duke University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

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

Emily Wood

Art, Politics, and Diplomacy at the Courts of Philip II in Madrid and the Medici in Florence

Adviser: Jesús Escobar
  • In progress
  • Northwestern University

James Terry

Signifying Architecture: Maya Architecture of Chicanna and the Central Yucatan

Adviser: Mary Miller
  • In progress
  • Yale University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas#Architecture

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

Shelly Alice Burian

Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Period Aymara Ceremonial Garments of Bolivia and Peru: Structure and Significance

Adviser: Rebecca Stone
  • In progress
  • Emory University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Kristen Dueck

The Art of War: Battle Paintings of New Spain, 1665-1714

Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal