Dissertations

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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

Emily Sessions

Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century

Adviser: Edward Cooke
  • 2020
  • Yale University

Lorraine Affoutit

Visualizing Decolonial Democracy in the Oaxaca Commune

Adviser: Martin Berger
  • 2020
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#Central American

Maria Dorofeeva

Making men: Spanish art and the politics of masculinity, 1898-1936

Adviser: Not specified
  • 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modern and Contemporary

#Works on Paper#Gender Studies#Queer Studies

Kristopher Driggers

The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings

Adviser: Claudia Brittenham
  • 2020
  • University of Chicago

Early Modern

#Ancient Americas

Elizabeth Frasco

American Women Artists of the New Deal and Mexico, 1934–1943

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2020
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Margarita Aguilar

Traditions and Transformations in the Work of ADAL: Surrealism, El Sainete, and Spanglish

Adviser: Margarita Aguilar
  • 2020
  • City University of New York