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

Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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

Chitwood, Gabriela, "Toulouse Cathedral: Understanding Life in and Around a Cathedral under Construction" (University of Oregon, M. Hutterer)

Feldman, Amalya, "Small Space Networks: Jewish/Converso Urban Identities in the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1700" (University of Toronto, C. Anderson)

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

Hagen, Emily, "Pietro da Cortona’s Santi Luca e Martina: Rediscovered Relics and the Spectacle of Reform in Seventeenth-Century Rome" (Penn State University, R. Thomas, D. Zolli)

Kite, Whitney, "The Lay of the Land: Armenian Monasteries in their Local Landscapes" (Columbia University, H. Klein, A. Shalem)

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

Lee, Meng-Hsuan, "Shop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

nalbant, emine esra, "DEMYSTIFICATION OF UNCHARTED WATERS: THE JOURNEY OF LATE OTTOMAN LIGHTHOUSES" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Kirkwood)

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)

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