IN PROGRESS DISSERTATIONS

Marvin Anderson
Adviser: Meredith Clausen 
“The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects and Academic Ideals in Early Twentieth-Century American Architecture” 

Lucienne Dorrance Auz
Adviser: Patricia Failing, Estelle Lingo
“Tracking Anachronic Nomads: The Second Phase of Arte Povera, 1980-Present”

Daniele di Lodovico
Advisers: Stuart Lingo, Estelle Lingo, Ivan Drpic
“Wooden Sculptures and the Making of Devotion in Central Italy of the XII-XV Centuries”

Dana Garvey
Adviser: Susan Casteras 
“Edwin Lord Weeks:  An American Artist in British India”

Kimberly E. Hereford
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“Altered States: Sleep, Sickness, Spirituality and Victorian Visions of Femininity”

Barbara Johns
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“Place and Identity in the Work of Three Japanese American Artists: Kenjiro Nomura, Kamekichi Tokita, and Takuichi Fujii”

Darlene Martin
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“An Alternate Aestheticism: Japonisme and Popular Imagery in Britain, America and France, 1860-1910”

Catherine Roche
Adviser: Marek Wieczorek
“Indexing the Icon: Japanese Buddhist Photography, 1888-1995” (proposal)

Sarah Titus
Advisers: Peg Laird, Ili Nagy
“Genetrix et mater superstitionum: The bulla as apotropaic device in Etruscan votives”

RECENTLY COMPLETED PhDs

Winter 2012

Nadia Jankinsky-Horrell, PhD
Adviser: Robin Wright
“Alaska Native Artistic Revitalization”

Jayme Yahr, PhD
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“The Art of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, the Gilder Circle, and the Rise of American Modernism”

Velma Yamashita, PhD
Adviser: Rene Bravmann
“The Storyboards of Palau: Cultural Expressions from Micronesia”

Spring 2012

Melanie Enderle, PhD
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“The True, New, Newer, Not-So-New, and Blue Woman Onstage in American Painting, 1880-1940”

John Impert, PhD
Adviser: Susan Casteras
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Northwest Impressionism, 1910-1935”