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

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Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2023

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Caskey, Lauren, "Communities of Color: The Life and Painting of Alma W. Thomas" (1891–1978) (Ohio State University, L. Florman, J. Patterson)

Denison, James, "Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism" (University of Michigan, R. Zurier)

Defossez, Julie, "Take Care: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism in the Maintenance Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles" (Ohio State University, K. Paulsen)

Fein, Katherine, "The Garb of Nature: Art, Nudity, and Ecology in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Columbia University, E. Hutchinson)

Flattley, Megan, "Out of the Fragments, New Worlds: Spatial and Social Construction in the Work of Diego Rivera, 1913–1933" (Tulane University, A.Anagnost, L. Klich)

Gray, Jonah, "Troubling Settler-Colonial Imaginaries in Contemporary Art" (University of California, San Diego J.C.Welchman, G. Kester)

Halajian, Shoghig, "Coalitional Experiments: Queer-of-Color Collective Life and Anti-Assimilationist Politics in Performance since the 1980s" (University of California, San Diego, A. Williams)

Hartman, Michael, "Art, Technology, and Aesthetics within Landscapes of Enslavement in Maryland and Virginia, 1730–1826" (University of Delaware, J. Van Horn)

Korroch, Kate, "THE INTIMACIES OF QUEER SUBJECTS:TT TAKEMOTO’S "LOOKING FOR JIRO" (2011), "SEMIOTICS OF SAB" (2016), AND "EVER WANTING (FOR MARGARET CHUNG)" (2021) (University of California, Santa Cruz, J.A. González)

Stepp, Sara, "Time, Place, and Identity in the Art of Hung Liu" (University of Kansas, D. Cateforis)

Superfine, Molly, "Ruins and Remains: Performative Sculpture and the Politics of Touch in the 1970s" (Columbia University, K. Jones)

Thrailkill, Molly, "The Axe and the Lens, Photography and the Big Trees of the American West 1860–1920" (University of California, Irvine, C. Whiting, J. Nisbet)