Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Native American/First Nations
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2018

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Green, Christopher T., “Masked Moderns: Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival” (Graduate Center, CUNY, D. Joselit)

Johnson, Annika, “Agency at the Confluence of Dakhóta and Euro-American Art, 1835-1912” (University of Pittsburgh, K. Savage)

McLeod, Suzanne, “Not So Different: Sensory & Cross Cultural Recognitions between Eighteenth Century Northwest Coast Peoples and Spanish Colonial Expeditions” (University of New Mexico, J. Szabo)

Migwans, Crystal, “Selvage and Salvage: Natural Fiber Weaving in Anishinaabe-aki, 1860-1960” (Columbia University, E. Hutchinson)

Orzulak, Jessica, “Gaming the Systems of Coloniality: Reverse Anthropology in the Artistic Practices of La Pocha Nostra and Postcommodity” (Duke University, K. Stiles)

Stolte, Sarah, “Becoming Yeffe Kimball: Modernism, Gender, and the Construction of a ‘Native’ Identity 1935-1978” (University of Wisconsin-Madison, A. Andrzejewski)

Vickery, Jo, “Ethnographic Re-Telling: The Art of Lothar Baumgarten” (Princeton, H. Foster)