Twentieth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Adomanis, Asia, "On the Borders of Abstraction: Chinese American Artists and the Politics of Style in American Art, 1940s–1960s" (Ohio State University, J. Patterson, J.F. Andrews)

Angelos, Meghan, "Picturing Modern Movement: American Dance Photography, 1900–1960" (University of Delaware, J. Hill)

Armstrong, Toni, "Taking Care: The Queer Making of American Modernism, 1914-–1935" (Boston University, R. Barrett W. Moore)

Asplund, Ingrid, "Tracing a Genealogy of Light as Art: Sacred Traditions in Twentieth-Century American Visual Culture" (University of California, San Diego, A. Williams, W. Tronzo)

Bhattacharya, Agnik, "Political Narratives and Archaeological Investigations-—A Global History of Archaeology in Afghanistan, 1833–1979" (University of California, Irvine, M.P. Canepa)

Braum, Jessica, "Print and Sculpture in the Global Field: Transnational Feminism and the Recuperation of Kim Lim’s Artistic Practice" (Temple University, A. Patel, A. West)

Bewley, Shannon, "Earth Artists, Indigenous Earthworks, and Land Reclamation Sculpture from 1965 to 1985" (Boston University, G. Williams, R. Barrett)

Brown, Renee, "Eye to Eye: Paul Vanderbilt and the Ordering of Photographic Knowledge, 1940-1970" (Boston University, K. Sichel, W. Moore)

Casimir, Zane, "Play by Play: Ludic Spaces, Interventions, and Medias within 20th-Century Japanese Visual Cultures" (University of California, Irvine, B. Winther-Tamaki)

Choi , Suhyun, "Transnational Socialism, Decolonial Worldmaking, and the Development of Modern Art in North Korea" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Cluck, Alyson, "Forms of Encounter: Zilia Sánchez's Erotic Topologies in 1960s" New York (University of Maryland, College Park, A. McEwen)

D'Aurizio, Michele, "Tecnica Povera: Art, Design, and the Invention of Made in Italy" (University of California, Berkeley, A. Glebova, A. Lenssen)

Flaksman, Catarina, "Concrete Affirmations: Architecture Exhibitions and Cultural Politics in Brazil and Abroad, 1930s–1960s" (Harvard University, P. del Real) 

Florey, Audrey, "Women Artist-Educators' Construction of the Modern American Art World: The Case of Elsa Ulbricht, Otellie Loloma, and Samella S. Lewis" (University of Missouri-Columbia, K. Schwain)

Graham, Anthony, "Infrastructures of Embodiment: Postminimalism and the Art of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi" (University of California, Irvine, B. Cooks)

Hamer-Light, Julia, "Part of the Continuum: Arthur Amiotte’s Fiber Wall Hangings and Lakȟóta Ecological Pedagogy, 1960–1978" (University of Delaware, J. Horton)

Hussein, Dareen, "Remapping Third World Women's Cinema and Anti-Colonial Film Cultures, 1960s–1980s" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

JANG, JIHAN, "WORLD and BLACKHOLE—KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART after GLOBALIZATION" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough, K. Hatch)

Juarez, Cruz, "Routes and Networks of Mexican abstraction across the Americas" (1958–1970) (University of Maryland, College Park, P. Marco, A. McEwen)

Kylindreas, Miltiadis, "Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat, E. Varner)

Lally, Michael, "To Wear, to Eat, to Ride, to See: Object Biographies, Collections, and the History of Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century Horn of Africa and Southern Arabia" (Temple University, E. Neumeier)

Leifer, Emily, "Los Angeles Light and Space: Installation Art and the Environment of the 1970s" (Bryn Mawr College, H. King)

Mapstone, Molly, "Mediating Vision and Negotiating Narratives: Contemporary U.S. Installation Art and Its Expanding Publics, 1966–2019" (Temple University, E. Pauwels, A.Patel)

Mientkiewicz, Jason, C.L. Schopp, "Abstraction and Collectivity among the Suprematists" (Johns Hopkins University, L. Caroline)

Mongelluzzo, Keri, "Bauhaus/Dream House: The Uncharted Surrealism of New Vision Photography" (Penn State University, N. Locke)

Oh, Sehyun, "The Immigrant's Ecology: Japanese American Art and Environment, 1923–1943" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Onabanjo, Oluremi, "Seeing Bahia: On the Limits of Photographic Representation in Black Brazil, 1835–1977" (Columbia University, Z. Strother, K. Jones)

Park, Sun Yang, "TRANSLATING UTOPIA: SINSASILPA (KOREAN NEW REALISM GROUP), 1947–1953" (State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Pivo, Hannah, "Charting the Future: Graphic Methods and Planning in the United States, c. 1910–40" (Columbia University, Z. Çelik Alexander)

Robles Sepulveda, Constanza., "Visualizing Latin-, Hispano-, Ibero-, and Pan- American Alliances at International Expositions, 1901–1929" (Boston University, R. Ana María, A. Tseng)

Sánchez González, Julián, "Lucerna Extincta: Spiritual Promiscuities in Performance and Installation Art, 1970s-80s" (Columbia University, K.E. Jones)

Scaturro, Sarah, "The Professionalization of Costume Conservation in North America and the United Kingdom, 1964–1986" (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen, M. Majer)

Sever, Hande, Pedestals of Absence: The Ephemeral Practice of Public Art in Türkiye, 1931–1989" (University of California, San Diego, J. Welchman)

Smyth, Peter, "Cartoon Theory" (Ohio State University, L.Florman)

Spratley, Sinclair, "We Remember Attica": Carceral Politics and Art in the "Long" 1970s" (Columbia University, K. Jones)

Stemberger, Claudia, M., "Black South African Women Artists in Apartheid South Africa" (University of Delaware, I. S. Okoye, N. Makhubu)

Toktomusheva, Kasiet, "Interhelpo: The Role of the Czechoslovakian Cooperative in the Architectural and Industrial Development of Frunze, 1925–1943" (Columbia University, B. Bergdoll, Z. Çelik Alexander)

Tu, Anran, "Painting as Research: Jin Cheng (1878–1926) and the Knowledge of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California, San Diego, K. Shen)

Unger, Gwen A. "Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the 'Special Period in Time of Peace,' 1990–1999" (Columbia University, A. Alberro)

Wang, Y. L. Lucy, "Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949" (Columbia University, B. Bergdoll)

Wichmann, Cecilia, "Sanctuary: Craft, Performance, and Memorial Sculpture Converge in the Work of Joyce J. Scott" (University of Maryland, College Park, J. Shannon, R. Ater)