Dissertations

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Susana Temkin

Un arte social y revolucionario (A Social and Revolutionary Art): Marcelo Pogolotti and the International Avant-Garde

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2016
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Sean Nesselrode

The Harvest of Modernity: Art, Oil, and Industry in the Venezuelan Twentieth Century.

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2017
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solorzano

Between Limit and Possibility: Art in Cuba During the Special Period

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2017
  • 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

Jennifer Saracino

Shifting Landscape: Depictions of Cultural Disruption and Continuity in the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2018
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Works on Paper#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Juanita Solano Roa

Theater of the Self. Photography, Race, and Progress: Fotografia Rodriguez and Benjamin de la Calle, Medellin (Colombia), 1891-1938

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2018
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Modern and Contemporary

#Photography#Race Studies

Jessica Stair

Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain

Advisers: Todd Olson and Lisa Trever
  • 2018
  • UC Berkeley

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal#Ancient Americas

Bernard Cesarone

A Mother of Light in the Age of Enlightenment: Heterodoxy, Interiority, and Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century New Spain

Adviser: Oscar Vazquez
  • 2018
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

18th / 19th Centuries

#Colonial and Viceregal

Lesley Wolff

¡Guerra al metate!: The Visuality of Foodways in Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920-1960)

Adviser: Michael Carrasco
  • 2018
  • Florida State University

Aliza M. Benjamin

Gold, Stonework and Feathers: Mexica Material Culture and the Making of Hapsburg Europe

Advisers: Ashley West and Tracy Cooper
  • 2018
  • Temple University

Early Modern

#Material Culture

Andrea McKenzie

Andean Concepts and Scripted Pictures: Ukhu, Sight, and Sound in the Drawings of Guaman Poma de Ayala

Adviser: Rebecca Stone
  • 2018
  • Emory University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Caroline "Olivia" M. Wolf

Migrant Constructions and Mahjar Monuments: Transnational Art and Architecture in Modern Argentina, 1910-1955

Adviser: Fabiola López-Durán
  • 2018
  • Rice University

Jorge Rivas Pérez

Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and his Circle, 1948-1963

Adviser: Pat Kirkham
  • 2018
  • Bard Graduate Center

William Gassaway

Extraordinary Bodies: The Art of Deformation in Postclassic Mexico

Adviser: Esther Pasztory
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Lucia Abramovich

Precious Materiality in Colonial Andean Art: Gold, Silver, and Jewels in Paintings of the Virgin

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2019
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal

Sabrina Carletti

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

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