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Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Barbarini, Flavia, "Searching for Drawings in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Provenances and Networking in the Eye of the Collector" (Temple University, M. Hall)

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)

Cohen, Sarah F., "The Icons of San Marco in Venice: Images, Relics, and the History of their Veneration in the Doge's Chapel, ca. 1100–1500" (Columbia University, H.A., Klein)

D'Aurizio Michele Glebova Aglaya Lenssen Anneka Tecnica Povera: Art, Design, and the Invention of Made in Italy University of California, Berkeley

Dillon, Claire, "Narratives of Entanglement: The Making of Medieval Sicily through Fragmented Silks and Societies" (Columbia University, A. Shalem)

Elenowitz-Hess, Caroline, "The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris: Politics, Art, and Fashion in France's Third Republic" (Bard Graduate Center, M. Rado)

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

Gittleman, Elena, "The Show Must Go On: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture" (ca. 843–1204) (Bryn Mawr College, A. Walker, H. King)

Glama, Barthelemy, "How Colonial Archaeology Transformed the Louvre: Antiquities, Empire, and the Encyclopedic Museum in France, 1840–1870" (Columbia University, A. Higonnet, Z. Bahrani)

Gonzalez, Ella, S., "Bearing Weight: Caryatids and Women’s Labor in Ancient Greek Art" (Johns Hopkins University, F. Jennifer, M. Feldman)

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)

Hein, Erin, "Accident and Fortuna in Seventeenth-Century Italian Art and Theory" (University of Delaware, D. M. Stone)

Holter, Emma P. "Refuting the Disegno-Colore Paradigm: Underdrawing & Monochrome Painting in Renaissance Venice" (Temple University, T. Cooper)

Johnson, Gabriella, "Galatea's Realm: The Art of Coral, Shells, and Marine Fossils in Early Modern Sicily, Naples, and the Maltese Islands" (University of Delaware, D. Stone)

Kline, Rachel, "Undressing the Renaissance Woman: The Female Nude in Fifteenth-Century Italy" (Boston University, J. Cranston)

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

Neill, Liz, "Ancient Geographies, Modern Travels: Provenance(s) of Imagined Creatures on Archaic Painted Pottery" (660–480 BCE) (Boston University, S. R. Martin, A.Berlin)

Russell, Sarah, "The art of undeception in early modern Spain" (Columbia University, D. Bodart. C. Michael)

Wilson, Lauren, "The House in Meïdani Square, Kastelli: Drinking Practices in the Pediada Region on Minoan Crete" (Temple University, M. Durusu, J. DeRose Evans)