Theses and Dissertations

Graduate Research Projects in American Art 2003-2004

The following list includes masters theses and doctoral dissertations on American art that have been recently completed or are currently in process. Institutions wishing to be included are encouraged to send pertinent information to the Journal.

MASTERS THESES

American University

Susan Allan, Revealing and Rewriting America: African American Male Identity in the Work of Romare Bearden and Robert Colescott, 2003.
Bryna Campbell, Images that "Burn on a Longer Slower Fuse": A Feminist Analysis of Sue Coe's Print Series Porkopolis, 2003.
Jaime DeSimone, Crawling to a Street Near You: William Pope.L Sets the Pace to Fight Racism.
Sarah Gilmore, Controversy in Museums: A Sensational Chorus of Evil, 2003.
Julianna Hills, Seeing Beyond the Surface: Robert Mapplethorpe's Images of Children and the Black Male Body.
Cynthia Jaworski, Death and Violence: A Study of Lynching Photography and Warhol's Death and Disaster Series.
Olivia Kohler, Differing Opportunities: Rodin's Pupils Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Malvina Hoffman.
Amanda Lampert, Telling Their Own Stories: Self-Portraits by Native American Women, 2003.
Asma Naeem, East Is not East: The Works of Diasporic Artists Shirin Neshat and Shahzia Sikander, 2003.
Yuko Teshima, Development? Deterioration?: Tracing the Writings about the Works of Miné Okubo, Ruth Asawa, Yoko Ono, and Mariko Mori, 2003.

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

Gabriella Allen, A Study of the Emergence of Fashion in Women's Eyeglasses in Mid-Twentieth Century America, 2004. Sarah Archer, A Case Study of the Museum of the Confederacy.
Katherine Reed Basham, The Modern Priscilla: Colonial Revival in an American Women's Magazine, from 1887 through 1930, 2003.
Carolyn Bedrosian, Collecting Eighteenth-Century French Furniture in the Gilded Age: Eleanor Elkins Widerer Rice.
Marissa Belvedere, Fancy Dress in Gilded Age New York.
Anna Blok, Collecting the American Illustrated Book: The Early Years of the Limited Editions Club, 2003.
Amy Brabender, A Self-Made World: Place, Memory, and Magic in the House and Garden of Mary Nohl at Fox Point, Wisconsin.
Sarah Brierley, Longfellow's Wayside Inn: Henry Ford's Vision of the American Colonial Past.
Kristine Comito, To Adorn and Improve: American Art Needlework and Taste, 1876-1900, 2003.
Brandy Culp, Artisan, Entrepreneur, and Gentleman: Alexander Petrie and the Colonial Charleston Silver Trade, 2004.
Marybeth DeFilippis, The Way We Lived: Household Inventories in the Collection of the New-York Historical Society.
Mary Dohne, Masculinity at Home: Bachelor Pads and the Seduction of the American Dad, 2003.
Kayla Dorsey, Modular and Metamorphic American China Trade Furniture.
Susan Emery, Eighteenth-Century New York Japanned Furniture, 2003.
Elizabeth Essner, Frank Stanton's Eye: The CBS Vision of Design, 1946-1973.
Rosanna Eubank, Making the Wilderness a Destination: The Material Culture of Camping.
Barbara Hanson Forsyth, An Investment in the Domestic Ideal: The History and Significance of the Bridal Registry in America, 2003.
John Gordon, Selling Splendor: The House of Jewels and the American Luxury Market, 1937-1940, 2003.
Jill Gustafson, Freda Diamond: An American Industrial Designer, 2003.
Kate Haley, From Target to Targé: A Postmodern Approach to Advertising Material Culture.
Eileen Hughes, Heart Brooches in Scotland and North America from the Fifteenth through Ninteenth Centuries, 2004.
Stacy Hunter, Native American Culture in Euro-American Life: A Transcultural Object History for the Northeast and the Impact of the Early Contact Period, 2004.
Kathryn Johnson, A Place of Her Own: Jane Loudon's Gardening for Ladies and the Flower Garden as the Women's Sphere in America, 1842-1900.
Jacquelann Killian, The Decorative Commissions of Jay Gould, American Financier, 1865-1892.
Leslie Klingner, Fully Fashioned: A Cultural History of Nylon Stockings, 1935-1955.
Emily Klug, Allure of the Silent Beauties: Mannequins and Display in France and America, 1890-1970.
Jessica Lanier, The Post-Revolutionary Ceramics Trade in Salem, Massachusetts, 1783-1812, 2004.
Jennifer Larson, Hillbilly Couture: The "Rhinestone Cowboy" Aesthetic of Nudie Cohen, 1948-1966, 2004.
Randi Mates, Shredded: The History of Popular Paper Clothing, 2004.
Monica Obniski, The Proliferation of Multiple Modern Styles at a Century of Progress: A Reassessment of 1930s American Modern Design.
Andrea Quintero, Making a Home to Sell a House: An Investigation of Staging in Real Estate.
Jamie Reddington, Environments and Artifacts: The Cultural Construction of Childbirth in Contemporary America.
Adrienne Sharpe, Morris and Co. in the United States of America, 1871-1896: Furnishing Ecclesiastical and Domestic Interiors of American Patrons.
Adrienne Spinozzi, The Rediscovery of a Newcomb Designer. Remi Spriggs, The Domestic Glassware of James Hogan (1883-1948), 2003.
Bonnie Stacy, The Effect of Ancient Egypt on American Culture, 1845-1922.
Genevieve Ward Swenson, Women and the Colonial Revival in America: 1860-1960.
Katherine Wahlberg, Cornelius Kierstede: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Silversmith of New York and Connecticut, 2004.
Jennifer Walton, The Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864: Marketing Historicism and Promoting Benevolence in Civil War America, 2004.
Tricia Wimmer, The Californian, 1945-1955: Fashioning a New American Life Style.

Bowling Green State University

Julia M. Chytil, Michael Graves's Impact on Post-Modern Architecture, 2004.
Christopher F. Johnston, "Lissen Up!": Re-hearing the Postcolonial in the Artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2004.

College of William and Mary

Laura Pass Barry, Optical Instruments Used with Prints in the Eighteenth Century, 2004.

Florida State University

Sara Klein, Putting Katherine Dreier into Perspective: Modern Art Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century America.

George Washington University

Heather Barrett, Baltimore Society and the Fashionable Squares of Mount Vernon Place and Eutaw Place, 2004.
Paul Hillier, Men and Horses in Motion: Thomas Eakins and Motion Photography, 2003.
Patricia Kuhn, The Motor Hotel: A Cross-Breeding of the Luxury Hotel and the Roadside Motel, 1955-1965, 2004. Joan Lord, Kay Sekimachi: Weaver, 2004.
Anne Mercer, The Clustered Houses of Reston, Virginia, and Their Legacy, 2004.
Kristen O'Connell, Urban Revitalization in Baltimore City, 1945-1980: Postwar Planning, Charles Center, and the Inner Harbor, 2003.
Sandra Uskokovic, Hugh Newell Jacobsen and Boris Podrecca: Promoters of Contextually Sensitive Design, 2004.

Goucher College

Kimberly R. Abe, Mapping a Paradox: The African American Cultural Landscape in Antebellum Baltimore County, Maryland, 2004.
Matthew Scott Bivens, The Historic Private Places of St. Louis, Missouri: Enduring Urban Forms, 2003.
Imogen B. Cooper, A Preliminary Identification of Historic Postwar Residential Subdivisions in San Antonio, 1945-1964, 2004.
Christopher R. Ellis, Encouraging the Use of Accurate or Appropriate Colors for the Interiors of Historic Residential Properties, 2003.
Mark P. Grisi, The Automatic Gas Machine Era, 1853-1923: Analysis of Improvements in Patented Illuminating Devices and Processes, 2003.
Josephine Antoinette Hillard, Should Plazas be Preserved?, 2003.
Connie Marie Huddleston, Preserving and Interpreting Historic Archaeological and Architectural Ruins within Private Developments, 2003.
Cynthia Anne Liccese-Torres, Discovering Mail-Order Dreams: How to Identify Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalog Houses, 2003.
Amy Trexler Mantay, An Evaluation of the Preservation of World War I-Era Planned Communities, 2003.
Margaret Scantlebury, The Preservation of Napa Valley's Nineteenth-Century Agri-Industrial Landscape, 2003.
Ira C. Selkowitz, How Tourism Has Shaped the Preservation of Three Historic Mining Towns: Virginia City, Nevada; Black Hawk, Colorado; and Breckenridge, Colorado, 2003.
Fred Rhodes Smith, Restoration Reconsidered: Historical Accuracy of the Kitchen at Adena, a Federal Period House Museum, 2004.
Edith B. Wallace, Reclaiming Forgotten History: Preserving Rural African American Cultural Resources in Washington County, Maryland, 2003.

Louisiana State University

Maja Jalenak, Helen M. Turner, American Impressionist, 2003.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Danny C. Chan, Nostalgia and the Idea of an Urban Ruin.
Justin F. Crane, An Indoor Public Space for a Winter City.
Leonardo Diaz-Borioli, Tilting the Mirror: Packaging Spanish Architecture in Late-Nineteenth-Century California, 2003.
Meredith S. Elbaum, BridgeGreen: Bridging the Disconnect Between Design Professionals and Resources for Environmentally, Socially, and Economically Responsive Architecture, 2003.
Renata Filipovic, Perceptions of the Natural.
Jeremy M. Gates, Revealing Burlington: Vermont Architecture on the Edge.
Karim Hanna, Demystifying MIT: The MIT Center for Culture and the Arts.
Andrew Todd Marcus, Seeking God in the Urban Landscape: A Temple for Gnosis in Upper Manhattan, 2004.
Karl Prescott Munkelwitz, A Mosque for Brooklyn, 2004.
Christopher J. Muskopf, The Generative Powers of Demolition. Virginia G. Nolan, Re-curating the City: Accessories for a New Tourism of New York.
Jason Phillips, The Convergence of Sustainable Technologies and Architectural Design Expression, 2003.
Matthew W. Pierce, Constructing the Aesthetic Sense: Traversing Scales of Habitation in the Bingham Canyon Mine, 2004.
Christianna Irene Raber, The Story of the HOUSE|lite System "Less Calories, More Taste, Your Site, Your Vision," 2004.
Sabrina Caroline Schmidt-Wetekam, Identity, Culture, and Landscpe: Redefining Borders, 2004.
Carl A. Solander, Reflecting the Instant: Information, Image, Architecture.
Jane Chen-Chen Wu, Assimilating Hybridized Architecture.

Ohio State University

Portia Edwards, Mixing Media: Cubist Painterly Practice in Paul Strand's Photography, 1915-1918.
Valerie Moring Schubert, Drawing Suffrage for The Masses: A Radical Approach to the Woman Question, 1911-1917.

Parsons School of Design

Alice Farlowe, Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild: Industrial Designs for Living.
Pamela Licht, Selling Old Europe: Historical Revival Furniture by Berkey and Gay of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1900-1919.
Anne Stewart O'Donnell, The Arts and Crafts Greeting Card, 1908-1925: A First Look, 2003.
Lindsy Riepma Parrott, The Making and Marketing of Louis C. Tiffany's Favrile Pottery, 2004.
Rebecca Trussell, Dorothy Wright Liebes: Weaving for Art, Craft, and Industry, 1920-1970, 2004.

Pennsylvania State University

Carrie Ehrfurth, The Lustron Home: An Analysis of a Remarkable yet Flawed Design, 2003.
Margaret M. Monrad, Marketing Magnolias in Flagler's Florida: Martin Johnson Heade and the Performance of Natural History, 2004.
Adam H. Veil, Romancing the South: The Author-Artist Persona of T. Addison Richards, 2004.
Sarah B. Wheeler, Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death, 2003.

Princeton University

Heather Hole, America as Landscape: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918-1924.
Suzanne P. Hudson, Robert Ryman: Painting Pragmatism.
William McManus, When We Made Movies Just to Make Them: Warhol Unlimited.

Temple University

Catherine Hitchens, Art of the Animal Form: Millenial Perspectives, 2004.
Lauren Hoerst Patterson, Sex and the Studio: Self Portraiture in the Paintings of Lisa Yuskavage.

Tufts University

Jason E. Hill, Exhibition as Wedge: The Information Show at The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
Stefanie L. Snider, Subversive Identities: Performance(s) of Lesbianism(s) in the Work of Carmelita Tropicana and Holly Hughes, 2003.

University of California, Berkeley

Jessica May, Photography in the Archive, the Archive in Photography: The Case of Dorothea Lange, 2003.

University of Colorado, Boulder

Katie Eischeid, Native American as Nature's Nobleman: Identity, Race, and Representation at the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Kay Frost, Guy Maccoy: The WPA Mural Program and the Aesthetics of Female Labor.
David Reden, John James Audubon: Golden Eagle.

University of Delaware

Merissa Courtright, Ritual, Performance Art, and the Redefinition of Spectacle at Studio 54, 2003.
Roxanna Cummings, Tent City: "Roughing it" in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 2004.
Amy Donahue-Friend, The Female Artists of the 1827 Boston Athenaeum Exhibition and Their Place in the Nineteenth-Century Boston Art Community, 2004.
Savannah Garman, Camille Billops: Behind the Minstral Mask, 2003.
Nikki Greene, Romare Bearden and All That Jazz: Improvising Within "The Veil" of Double Consciousness, 2003.
Julie Henderson, Real Time and Subversive Watching: Bill Viola's Reverse Television: Portraits of Viewers, 2004.
Andrea Keppers, Mountain of the Holy Cross and Tourist Guides to the Rocky Mountains, 2003.
Tanya Pohrt, Making Portraits Pictures: Thomas Eakins and the Centennial Exposition of 1876, 2003.

University of Denver

Meredith McKee Evans, A Pioneering Spirit: E. Richardson Cherry and the Development of the Arts in Denver, Colorado, 1889-1896, 2004.
Blake L. Milteer, Mount of the Holy Cross in Art: 1873 through the Late 1990s, 2004.
Anne C. Odell, Celebration: A Painting by Paul Sample, 2003.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Julia Sienkewicz, "Do you know that I am something of an architect?": Locating the Union of Pictorial and Architectural Vision in the Work of Thomas Cole, 2003.
Mary Beth Zundo, Mapping the Frontier and Buffalo Migration: The De-Racing of the American West, 2003.

University of Iowa

Anna M. Heineman, Suzanne Lacy: A New Genre Public Artist, 2004.

University of Kansas

Becca Ramspott, Juliana Force: Framed and Forgotten Figure in American Art, 2004.

University of Maryland

Vivien T. Y. Chen, Kimono and Barbed Wire: Style and Subjectivity in Hiro's Art, 2005.
Jason LaFountain, Reflections on the Funerary Monuments and Burying Grounds of Early New England, 2004.
Jonathan Frederick Walz, The Riddle of the Sphinx or "It Must Be Said": Charles Demuth's My Egypt Reconsidered, 2004.

University of Missouri, Kansas City

Carrie McDade, The Discourse of Identity: John La Farge's Stained Glass Windows for Congregational B'Nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Missouri, 2004.

University of North Texas

Anne Adcock, Feminist Design Methodology: Considering the Case of Maria Kipp, 2003.
Julie Arens Bagley, Dallas as Region: Mark Lemmon's Gothic Revival Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 2004.
Victoria Estrada-Berg, Art Criticism and the Gendering of Lee Bontecou's Art, ca. 1960-1975.

University of Oregon

Hannah Dillon, Robert Colescott: Valley of the Queens (1964-1969), 2003.
Nissie Ellison, Masculine, Feminine, and Radical Manifestations of the Woman's Building at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, 2004.
Gayle Goudy, Computer-Aided Design's Effect on Contemporary Architecture, with a Case Study of Frank Gehry's Career, 2004.
Kimberly Hereford, Whistler and Fashion: Early Depictions of Aesthetic Dress, 2004.
Tiffany Stith-Cooper, Minor White in Oregon, 1937-1942, 2003.

University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer L. Richart, Looking Beyond Visuals: Fraktur Examples in Notenbüchlein Bookplates Made by and for the Schwenkfelder Community in Early Pennsylvania.

University of South Carolina

Carolina Peyton Ford, Judy Chicago: Women Artist and Legend, 2004.
Paul Barrett Niell, The Town and Market Hall: A Building Type in South Carolina, 2003.
Mark Vaughn Roper, The Independent Group and the Machine Aesthetic, 2003.
Erica Somerwitz, Pollock's Early Work, 1930-1939.

University of Texas, San Antonio

Julie Curry, The Role of the Body in the Performance Art Work of Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, and Hannah Wilke, 2003.
Kristina Elizondo, Marginalization in the Construction of Contemporary American Visual Identities, 2004.
Lisa Jean Garcia, Consume(d), 2004.
Francisco Tamayo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Performing the Border, 2003.

University of Victoria

Geoffrey Carr, Rupture, Loss, and the Performance of Masculinity at the World Trade Centre: A Post 9/11 Reconsideration, 2004.

University of Virginia

Caroline Cobb, The Irascible Hedda Sterne: Reassessing Her Relationship to the New York School, 2004. Claire d'Albas, Mass-Produced Art and Its Function in the Twentieth Century.
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Generational Dynamics and the Lesbian Presence: Feminist Art in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, 2003. Aura Lee Durham, Lilly Martin Spencer and the Cult of Domesticity, 2003.

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jane C. Bianco, Mary Nohl's Art: Her Best Beloved Home, Happy within Her Own Construction, 2004.
Alexis R. Dyszel, A Century of Progress? The Interiors of the Model Homes at the 1933 Chicago International Exposition, 2003.
Daryl L. Haessig, Armory Show Cartoons: Illustrators Wrestling with Expressions of Modernity, 2003.
Jung-Gu Ryu, From Cranbrook to the Heart of America: Eero Saarinen's Evolution, 1950-1961, 2004.
Elizabeth A. Tucker, Within the Quota: Gerald Murphy's Dadaist Vision of America, 2004.

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Nicole Derenne, Women at Work: Contemporary Art and Feminist Theory, 2003.
Larry Mack Taylor, Robert Morris and Spirituality in Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, 2003.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Melissa Bender, The Great American Ambivalence: A Study of Georgia O'Keeffe's Representations of New York Sky-scrapers, 2004.
James Bodman, The Building Career of George Winston (1759-1826), 2003.
Jennifer Bridges, From Typologies to Portraits: Catherine Opie's Photographic Manipulations of Physiognomic Imagery.
Kathryn Campbell, Acrylics and Color Field Painting, 2004.
Keshia Case, Alexander Parris in Richmond: 1810-1812, 2004.
Ginger Coffield, Video Art: Expanding Interpretations of the Medium in the Contemporary Museum Exhibition, 2004.
Kimberly Conrad, The Whitney Biennials of 2002 and 2004: Issues of Selection and Presentation.
Abby Dotson, Edward Valentine's The Blind Girl: Blindness and the Gaze in American Nineteenth-Century Ideal Sculpture.
Dennis Durham, Wendell Castle's Stack Laminations, 1963-1980, 2004.
Yates Evans, Chris Burden's Shoot: A Reconsideration, 2004.
Emily Gerhold, Metonymic Self-Reduction in an American Portrait Miniature: Sarah Goodridge's Beauty Revealed (1828), 2003.
Karen Getty, Searching for Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard.
Janelle Hixon, Anne Brigman.
Adam Justice, The Unbalanced Semiotics in Twentieth-Century Pop Art, 2004.
Melissa Kennedy, Frank Gehry and Claus Sluter, Museums and Monuments, 2004.
Penne Kirkpatrick, Clothes Make the Woman: The Politics of Fashion in Sargent's Madame X.
Jacqueline Mullins, African American Photography in Richmond, Virginia, 2004.
Craig Reynolds, An American Iron Age, 1830-1900: The Architectural Ironwork of Louisville, Kentucky, 2004.
Erika Schmelzer, The American Encaustic Tiling Company (1875-1937) and Art Tiles in the West Franklin Street Historic District, Richmond, Virginia, May 2003.
Michael Shaffer, Robert Gober: Other Spaces, 2004.
Jessica Siddall, External Influences on the Murals of Fred Kabotie.
Laura Gilmore Stoner, Jack Beal: Blending the Modernist and Realist Idioms, 2004.
Tracey Watkinson, Jefferson, Latrobe, and the Architectural Drawings of John Neilson (before 1775-1827), 2003.
Keaton Wynn, Asian Influences on Grueby Art Pottery, 2003.
Shanna Zilisch, Postmortem Photographs of Children in the Nineteenth Century.

Williams College

Ellery Foutch, George Luks's The Spielers Reconsidered, 2003. Patricia Hickson, Disney Dystopia: The Subversion of Mickey Mouse in Contemporary Art, 2003.
Emy E. Kim, Between Monument and Public Sculpture: Claes Oldenburg's Batcolumn, 2004.
Shirley Jordan Kim, Dreams That Money Can Build: Robert W. Shoppell's How to Build, Furnish, and Decorate, 2003.
Catherine Malone, "Demure and Decorous Always": Robert Frederick Blum's Japanese Girl, 2003.
Catherine Meeking, Redefining the Monument: The Legacy of Robert Smithson, 2004.
Don Meyer, The Phantom Landscape: Winslow Homer's Two Guides, 2003.
Jane A. Simon, Chris Burden's B-Car: Mobility, Sex, and Los Angeles, 2003.
Pan Wendt, Letters from the World's Most Famous Unknown Artist [i.e., James Lee Byars], 2003.
Elizabeth Winborne, Winslow Homer's Fish and Butterflies: Reflections on Abstraction and Decoration, 2003.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

Ellen Fisher, Mary McFadden, Fashion Designer.
Stephanie Day Iverson, Elegant Solutions and Sybaritic Delights: The Design and Work of Bonnie Cashin, circa 1923-1985.
Heather Jane McCormick, Woodcarvers in the City of New York: A Study in Craft and Change, 1820-1880.
Ezra Shales, John Cotton Dana's Museum of Everyday Life: Pluralism, Progressivism, and Paternalism at the Newark Museum, circa 1900-1930.
Michelle Tolini, Fashioning Early Cinema: Dress and Representation in American Film, 1910-1930.

Brown University

Nancy Austin, Industrialization and the Language of Art and Design.
Amanda C. Burdan, Américaines in Paris: The Role of Women Artists in the Formation of America's Cultural Identity, 1865-1880.
Elyse Deeb, Studies in American Art: Women Sculpting in the 1960s.
Tanya Sheehan, "Doctor Photo": The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America.
Brian C. R. Zugay, The New Era in Church Building: Progressive Strategies for Ecclesiastical Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century America, 2004.

Bryn Mawr College

Deborah Barkun, Imaging AIDS: Activism and Visual Culture.
Michael Jay McClure, Media's Collapse: Andy Warhol, Robert Gober, Matthew Barney, and the Contemporary Objects of Art.
Maxim Weintraub, (Un)Covering Lack: Bruce Nauman's Aesthetic of Anxiety.

Case Western Reserve University

Ellen Bortel, George Ohr: His Life, Work, and Influence on Contemporary Ceramics.
James Ellis, The Fourteenth Street School, 2003.
Kimberly Hyde, Louis C. Tiffany and the Business of Art.
Evelyn Kiefer, The Birth and Death of the American Dining Room: An Evolution from the Colonial Hall to Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms and Beyond.
Susan Martis, Famous and Forgotten: Rodin and Three American Contemporaries, 2004.
Patricia Richmond, Gender and the Forms of Modernism: Dancers and Painters, 2003.

City University of New York

Rhea Anastas, The Whole Artist: Dan Graham and Robert Smithson, Works and Writings, 1965-1969, 2004.
Kelly Baker, A Southern Sense of Place: The Vernacular Landscape in the Photography of William Christenberry, Carrie Mae Weems, and Sally Mann.
Deborah Bershad, The New York City Hall Portrait Collection: 1790-1830.
Susan Elizabeth Cahan, Inventing the Multicultural Museum: A Critical Study of "Harlem On My Mind," 2003.
Teresa Carbone, Historic American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: A Critical Collection History with Selected Entries, 2003.
Susan Nan Chevlowe, Josef Albers and the Department of Design at Yale, 2003.
Robin Clark, Artist-Proposed Museums: Polemical Projects by Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, 1965-1978, 2004.
Claire Daigle, Reading Barthes, Writing Twombly, 2004. Gina D'Angelo, Francis Davis Millet: The Early Years of a Cosmopolitan Yankee, 1846-1884, 2004.
Melody Davis, Doubling the Vision: Women and Narrative Stereography, the United States, 1870-1910, 2004.
Katherine Rangoon Doyle, John B. Flannagan (1895-1942): A Reexamination of His Life and Work, 2004.
Janna Eggebeen, The American Air Passenger Terminal and Modernity.
Stacey Beth Epstein, Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism, 1897-1916, 2003.
Rosemary Cohane Erpf, Susan Rothenberg: Recreating Significance in Late-Twentieth-Century Painting, 2003.
Giovanna Fiorino-Iannace, American Genre Painters in Venice: 1877-1893, 2004.
Sarah Katie Gillespie, Samuel F. B. Morse and the Daguerreotype: Art and Science in American Culture, 1835-1855.
Philip Glahn, Estrangement and Politicization: Bertolt Brecht and Postwar American Art.
Frederick Gross, Fairy Tales for Grown-ups: Diane Arbus's Social Gallery.
Andrea F. Husby, Birge Harrison: Artist, Teacher, and Critic, 2003.
Pamela Anne Ivinski, Mary Cassatt, The Maternal Body, and Modern Connoisseurship, 2003.
Sarah Johnson, Zen and the Artists of the Eighth Street Club. Lise Kjaer, Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quaker Practice.
Dong-Yeon Koh, Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara: Reframing Male Subjectivity.
Karen Lemmey, Henry Kirke Brown and the Development of American Public Sculpture in New York City, 1846-1876.
Cary Levine, Pay for Your Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Paul McCarthy.
Fu Chia-Wen Lien, The Body Politics of Decoration and Handicraft: Re-visioning 1970s Feminist Art, 2004.
Alicia Longwell, John Graham and the Quest for an American Art in the 1920s and 1930s.
Loretta Lorance, Building Values: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House in Context, 2004.
Carol Lowrey, The National Arts Club: Its Founding, Early History, and the Artist Life Membership Program, 2003.
Laurel Lyman, The Influence of Japonisme on the American Impressionists and their Circle, 1893-1915, 2004.
MaryJo Marks, Ordinary Pictures and Everyday Language: Photography and Text in 1960s American Art, 2003.
Arlene Katz Nichols, Merchants and Artists: The Apollo Association and the American Art-Union, 2003.
Susan Nowicki, Montclair, New Jersey: The Development of a Suburban Town and Its Architecture.
Mitsutoshi Oba, Eclectic Symbolism: The Interplay of Japonisme and Classicism in the Folding Screens by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1896-1900, 2004.
Kimberly Orcutt, Revising History: Creating a Canon of American Art at the Centennial Exhibition.
Kimberly Ann Paice, Process Art and Pictoriality: Reading the Work of Robert Morris, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson, 2003.
Lisa Shinkle Patt, That Which Stimulates and Numbs Us: The Museum in the Age of Trauma, 2003.
Ruth Anne Phillips, Pre-Columbian Appropriation: Ancient American Influence in United States Architecture, 1910-1940.
Natasha Poor, Dirty Art: Transgressing Domesticity and the Body in 1950s United States.
Deanne Pytlinski, Utopian Visions: Women in Early Video Art. Cynthia Roznoy, Henrietta Shore: American Modernist, 2003.
Cynthia Holthusen Sanford, Edward Simmons, A Painter and a Yankee in the Gilded Age, 2003.
Deborah Solon, The Life and Work of Alson Skinner Clark, 2004.
Ellen Tepfer, The Spaces of Everyday Life: Claes Oldenburg, 1959-1969, 2004.
Thayer Tolles, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, His Critics, and the New School of American Sculpture, 1875-1893, 2003.
Debra Wacks, Subversive Humor: The Performance Art of Hannah Wilke, Eleanor Antin, and Adrian Piper, 2003.
James M. Wechsler, The Art and Activism of Hugo Gellert: Embracing the Specter of Communism, 2004.
Kathleen Wentrack, A Comparative Analysis of United States and European Feminist Performance Art, 1968-1979.

College of William and Mary

Matthew Hyland, Montpelier: The History of a House, 1723-1988, 2004.
Susan Rawles, Facing Independence: American Revolutionary Portraits within the Context of British Identity.
Mark Sprinkle, Picturing Home: Domestic Painting and the Ideologies of Art, 2004.

Cornell University

Muhammad Iftikhar Dadi, Visual Modernities in a Comparative Perspective: The West, South Asian, and Asian American Art, 2003.
Navjotika Kumar, Epic Landscape: Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos, 2004.
Zhao-Kai Qin, Transnational Modernities: Artistic Interactions between China and the West, 1979-1999.

Duke University

Benedict John Fullalove, The Production of Authenticity: Wilderness, History, and Travel in Landscape Representation of the Canadian Rockies (ca. 1860-1940), 2003.

Emory University

Catherine E. Caesar, Personae and Political Action: The Feminist Conceptual Work of Martha Rosler, Eleanor Antin, and Adrian Piper, 1968-1977.
Francis Desiderio, Centering the City: John Portman and Private Plans for Public Spaces in Atlanta and Detroit, 2004.
Susannah Koerber, Signs of the Times: Context or Connection in Southern Conservative Evangelical Protestant and Midwestern Roman Catholic Grassroots Arts Environments, 2004.
Suzanne Spencer, "Housing on Trial": The Museum of Modern Art and the Campaign for Modern Housing in the United States, 1932-1952, 2004.
Emily N. Taub, Between the Markers: Barry LeVa's Early Aesthetic.
Jeffrey P. Thompson, Photography and the Post-Medium Tradition: 1966-1970.

George Washington University

Peter J. Brownlee, The Economy of the Eyes: Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution, 1800-1860, 2004.
Dale Woolston Dowling, For God, for Family, for Country: Colonial Revival Church Buildings in the Cold War Era, 2004.
Elizabeth Wiley, Consuming Yankees: The Yankee in Early Twentieth-Century National Discourse.

Harvard University

Rachel Leah Baum, Andy Warhol, 1962-1965: The Crisis of Modernist Subjectivity in Abstraction, 2005.
Katie Mullis Kresser, John La Farge: His Theory of Representation, His Relationship to Modern Critical Discourse, and His American Influences.

Indiana University, Bloomington

Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf, All in the Family: Masters Imagining Slaves in the Antebellum South.
Lauren Keach Lessing, Captives in the Parlor: Recovering the Domestic Context for Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture.
Nanette Estelle Thrush, Tilting at History: Gothic Revival Tournaments in Early Victorian Great Britain and Antebellum America.

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Emily Bills, Communications Systems and the Shaping of Urban Form in the Twentieth Century: The L.A. Example.
Julia Blaut, Gender and War in American Pop Art.
Gregory Galligan, Toward a New Realism: The Reinterpretation of Cubism by American Abstract Painters, 1928-1942.
Pamela J. Huckins, Furnishing the Northern Frontier: The Sacred Decoration of the California Mission Churches.
Anna Indych, Mexican Muralism without Walls: The Critical Reception of Portable Work by Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940, 2004.
Paul Jackson, Audience, Communication, and Public Values in Abstract Expressionism.
Kenji Kajiya, Unfolding Modernism: Reconsidering Clement Greenberg's Art Criticism and the Paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, and Kenneth Noland, 1948-1961.
Alexandra Lange, Tower, Typewriter, and Trademark: Architects, Designers, and the Corporate Utopia, from the Rouge River to Black Rock.
Nancy T. Minty, Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Art in America, 1800-1940: Collections, Connoisseurship, and Perceptions, 2003.
Xiomara Murray, Before the Mellon Gallery: Toward an American National Gallery of Art, 1816-1937.
Tricia Paik, Ellsworth Kelly: The New York Years, 1954-1969. Jonathan Ritter, Progressive Ideal: A Study of the Civic Center Movement in United States Cities, 1900-1920.
Malka Schwartz, The Space of Production: Brooklyn and the Creation of an Urban Industrial Landscape.
Kelly Sidley, Andy Warhol's Self-Portraits in the Visual and Written Records.
Katherine Smith, Sign Language: Pop Art, Vernacular Architecture, and the American Landscape, 2003.
Anne Sullivan, George Grey Barnard (1863-1938): A Study in Collecting, Cultural Property, Museography, and Interest in the Romanesque in Early Twentieth-Century America.
Cristin Tierney, Domesticating Modern Art: Aspects of the Promotion of Modern Art in the United States, ca. 1905-1936.

Johns Hopkins University

Shannon Egan, An American Art: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, 1907-1930.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Xavier Christ, Painting a Theoretical World: Stuart Davis and the Politics of Common Experience in the 1930s, 2004.
Altino João Rocha, Architecture Theory, 1960-1980: Emergence of a Computational Perspective, 2004.
B. D. Wortham, Mythologies of an Everyday Landscape: Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn Farm, 1923-1945.

Ohio State University

Nora C. Kilbane, A Tug from the Jug: Images of Drinking in American Painting, 1800-1860.
M. Melissa Wolfe, Proving Up in Custer County, Nebraska: Identity, Power, and History in the Solomon D. Butcher Photographic Archive, 1886-1892, 2004.

Pennsylvania State University

Janet G. Abbott, The Barnett Aden Gallery of Washington, D.C.: 1943-1969.
Denoise R. Costanzo, The Lessons of Rome: Architects at the American Academy, 1947-1966.
Melissa S. Geiger, A Socio-Historical Critique of Robert Rauschenberg's Electronic Works of the Sixties.
Daniel Haxall, Politics, Form, and Identity in Abstract Expressionist Collage.
Darlene Marshall, The Character of the Home: The Domestic Interior in American Painting, 1860-1900.
Jennifer Noonan, Romancing the Stone: Desire in Conceptual Prints of the 1960s and 1970s.
Jennifer Streb, Minna Citron: A Socio-Historical Study of an Artist's Feminist Social Realism in the 1930s, 2004.

Princeton University

Lisa Hostetler, Photography and Everyday Life: The Case of Louis Faurer, 1937-1955, 2003.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Julia Louise Alderson, Nancy Holt and the Sculptural Lens, 2004.
Ashley Atkins, Winslow Homer and Aestheticism in the United States.
Sharon Matt Atkins, Art Appropriation and Identity since 1980, 2004.
Stacy Schultz Burger, The Female Body in Performance: Themes of Beauty, Body Image, Identity, and Violence, 2004.
Justin Carlino, Native American Art as Sources for American Sculpture after 1940.
Brian Clancy, An Architectural History of Grand Opera Houses: Constructing Cultural Identity in Urban America from 1850 to the Depression, 2004.
Kimberly Curtiss, Making Red Skins White: The Construction of Racial and Cultural Identity through Paintings and Photographs of the Native American, 1800-1900.
Caitlin S. Davis, Lee Miller: A Critical Analysis of Her War Photography.
Aliza Edelman, Abstract Expressionism and Women Artists: A Gendered Reading of the 1950s.
Mary-Kate O'Hare, Fashioning Manhood: John Singer Sargent and the Construction of Masculinity at the Turn of the Century, 2004.
Traci Parnell, Gilding the Black Box: Showmanship and Revivalism in 1920s American Movie Palace Architecture.
Margaret Patrick-Sternin, The Female Figure in the Art of the 1980s.
Denise Rompilla, From Hiroshima to the Hydrogen Bomb: American Artists Witness the Birth of the Atomic Age.
Sascha Scott, Constructing the American Southwest: Paintings of New Mexico and Popular Culture, 1898-1942.
Mary Tinti, Dimensions of Flight: A Study of Contemporary Sculpture in Airports of the United States and Canada.
Jennifer Zarro, Images of the American City: Maps, Prints, and Magazine Views, 1780-1800.

Tulane University

Thomasine Bartlett, Vintage Drag: Female Impersonators Performing Resistance in Cold War New Orleans, 2004.

University of California, Berkeley

Isabel Breskin, Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century American City: Lithographic Views of San Francisco, 1849-1905, 2003.
Jessica May, Walker Evans's Workers: Labor, Politics, and American Photography, 1935-1945.
Kevin Muller, Cultural Costuming: Native Americans, Inversion, and the Power of an Exceptional White Masculinity, 2004.
Melissa Trafton, Refined in Sentiment: The Paintings of John Frederick Kensett, 1850-1872, 2004.

University of California, Los Angeles

John A. Emerling, The Gesture of Collecting: Walter Benjamin and Contemporary Aesthetics.
Beth Lauritis, Reconsidering the Convergence of Conceptual and Feminist Art: 1965-1980.
Jennifer Marshall, The Stuff of Modern Life: Materiality and Thingness in the Museum of Modern Art's "Machine Art" (1934).
Laura D. Meyer, Primary Process: Louise Bourgeois and American Art Since World War II, 2003.
Katie Mondloch, Thinking Through the Screen: Screen-reliant Media Installation Art from the mid-1960s to the Present.
Amy Pederson, Superman, Wer Er in die Welt Kam: Superheroes and Modernism in Mid-Century America.
Damon Willick, Conceptualizing Kienholz: Reconsidering Ed Kienholz in Contemporary Art, 2003.

University of Colorado, Boulder

Anita Howard, The National Cemetery: Its Rise, Role, and Meaning in the American Landscape.

University of Delaware

Jennifer Barrett, The Power of the Ordinary: Contextualism, Regionalism, and "The Everyday" in the Architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson.
Heather Campbell Coyle, Having Fun with Art: Pranks, Performances, and Parody in American Art Schools, 1890-1915.
Diane Deming, Wasteland Poetics on the Western Frontier: Visualizing the Environment of the Great Basin.
Julie Dunn-Morton, Art Patronage in St. Louis, 1840-1920: From Private Homes to a Public Museum, 2004.
Cheryl Ferguson, Upscale Suburban Architecture and Development in Dallas and Houston, Texas, 1890-1930, 2004.
Deborah Gaston, Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Early Drawings of Joseph Stella, 1896-1924.
Erik Gollannek, Colonial Exchange and Visions of Empire in Britain and its Colonies.
Martha Hagood, Representing the Truth: Realism, Sensationalism, and the Progressive Era Picture Press, 1902-1913.
Amy Henderson, Furnishing the Republican Court: The Building and Decorating of Philadelphia Homes, 1790-1800.
Nancy Holst, A Wise Woman Buildeth Her Home.
Kathleen Jameson, Society Matrons, Working Girls, Fair Maidens, and New Women: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 2004.
Amy Johnson, Model Housing for the Poor: Turn-of-the-Century Tenement House Reform and the Boston Cooperative Building Company, 2004.
William Keller, Urban Architecture for Community and Spectacle: The Roofed Arena in the United States, 1890-1969.
Christina Bishop Klee, The Happy Family and the Politics of Domesticity, 1840-1870, 2003.
Jeffrey Klee, The Five Orders of Beacon Hill.
Maureen McKenna, Anne Brigman, California Pictorialist Photographer.
Ellen Menefee, The Rhetoric of the Furnished Model Home in Late-Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century America.
David Meschutt, The Portraiture of James Monroe (1758-1831).
Mark Parker Miller, Claiming and Denying Sophistication: Grant Wood's Art and Responses to It in the Midwest.
Jessica Murphy, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Katharine Rhodes, and Marion Beckett: Artists and Patrons in the Stieglitz Circle.
Tracy Myers, Yankee Modern: Designs for Education by The Architects Collaborative (TAC), 1949-1960.
Nancy Noble, Artistic Identify and Gender in New York and Boston, 1825-1860.
Pamela Sachant, The Art and Life of Eddie Arning, 2003.
Anne Samuel, Rethinking Vision in the American Renaissance Murals of Edwin Howland Blashfield.
Karen Sherry, Exposing the "Natural" Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785-1830.
Jeroen van den Hurk, Early Dutch Neo-Gothic Architecture 1772-1849.
Rebecca Weller, The Los Angeles Look: Light, Space, and Phenomenology, 1962-1974.
Dorothy Moss Williams, Recasting the Copy: Original Paintings and Reproduction at the Dawn of American Mass Culture, ca. 1900.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eun Young Jung, The Legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin in Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Light Installations.
Rachel Leibowitz, Seeing Through Window Rock: The Landscape Legacy of the New Deal in the Capital of the Navajo Nation.
Phoebe Wolfskill, Constituting 1930s America: The Elusive Realisms of Archibald Motley, Jr., and Reginald Marsh.

University of Iowa

Melissa Susan Gaido Allen, Donald Judd and the Marfa Objective.
Sarah A. Clunis, Readymade Diaspora: Cultural Icons Rectified and Assisted.
Anne J. Cushwa, Félix González-Torres (1957-1996).
Michael C. Dooley, Citizen Bird: Progressive Era Ornithological Art and the Founding of the Bird Conservation Movement.
Hee-young Kim, Harold Rosenberg's Critique of the Modernist Aesthetic, 2003.
Stephen E. Perkins, Artists' Periodicals and Alternative Artists' Networks: 1963-1977, 2003.
Elizabeth J. Van Arragon, The Photo League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s.
Jennifer Vigil, Drawing Past, Present, and Future: The Legacy of the Plains Indian Graphic Tradition in the Works of Arthur Amiotte, 2004.

University of Kansas

Reed Anderson, An Epic of the American Farm: James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings.
Sarah Burt, Joseph Worcester and the Church of the New Jerusalem: Creating a Bay Area Aesthetic.
Martha Elton, Bertram Hartman, 1882-1960: An Early Modernist from Kansas, 2004.
B. Ted Meadows, Monuments and Memory: Three American World War I Memorials in Context.
Joni Murphy, Coyote Tales: Stereotypes, Politics, and Humor in the Art of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Shirley Reece-Hughes, The Art of David Bates.
Scott Shields, Legends of Bohemia: The Monterey Peninsula and its Early Art Colony, 1875-1907, 2004.
Donald E. Sloan, "Why Not Revolution": The John Reed Club and Visual Culture, 2004.
Jerry Smith, Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, ca. 1900-1950.
Samuel Watson, Childhood's End: Representing the American Child, 1940-1970.
Deborah Wilk, Jewish Identity in American Art: Immigration in New York City at the Turn of the Century.

University of Maryland

Tuliza Fleming, Reconstructing Thomas Satterwhite Noble: The Development and Meanings of Noble's African American Imagery.
Laura Groves, Lilly Martin Spencer and Popular Prints.
Joy P. Heyrman, Signature Drawings: Collecting Artists' Autographs in Antebellum America.
Guy Jordan, Consuming Images: The Visual Culture of Virtue and Vice in Antebellum America.
Akela Reason, Beyond Realism: History in the Art of Thomas Eakins, 2005.
Flora Vilches, The Art of Archaeology: The Archaeological Process in the Work of Robert Smithson, Mark Dion, and Fred Wilson, 2005.
Ann Prentice Wagner, Living on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Culture of Drawing and Watercolor in the Stieglitz Circle, 2005.
Margaret Wilkerson, Making God: Incarnation and Somatic Piety in the Art of Kiki Smith.
Bryan Zygmont, Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790-1825: Stuart, Trumbull, Vanderlyn, and Jarvis.

University of Michigan

Christopher Defay, Art Enterprise, Collaboration: Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Claes Oldenburg, and the Art and Technology Program at LACMA, 1967-1971.
Carmenita Higgenbotham, Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blackness and Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh.
Lisa Langlois, Exhibiting Japan: Gender and National Identity at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, 2004.
Alexandra Schwartz, Designing Ed Ruscha: The Invention of the Los Angeles Artist, 1960-1980, 2004.

University of Missouri, Kansas City

Andrea K. Lee, Visioning the Sacred: Expressions of Spirituality by Contemporary Women Artists.

University of Pittsburgh

Sylvia Rhor, Educating America: Mural Painting and Public Schools in Chicago, 1905-1941, 2004.
Paul Scolari, A Signal of Peace: Indian Warriors, Pioneer Mothers, and the Closing of the Frontier in Public Monuments, 1890-1930.

University of Virginia

Ellen K. Daugherty, Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: The Visual Culture of African American Racial Uplift, 2004.
Mary Leclere, Siting Art Criticism: 1965-1975.
Katherine C. Woltz, Framing the New Republic: History Painting and American Cultural Politics, 1786-1826.

University of Wisconsin, Madison

James E. Bryan III, Material Culture in Miniature: Historic Dolls' Houses Reconsidered, 2003.
Saadia Lawton, Representing the Representative: Visual Binaries of the Wedgwood Slave Medallion, 1787-1887.
Paul W. Mason, Ephemerality, Modernity, and Progress, Architectural Light and Color at Chicago's "A Century of Progress: International Exposition, 1933-1934," 2004.
Amy Ortiz, Tramp Art: Cultural Expression, Visual Splendor.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Mikell Brown, The Photographer's Wife: Genre Blurring in Emmet Gowin's Photographs of Edith and the Dialectics of Looking.
Lisa Clayton, Shaping Struggle, Heroic Themes in African American Art, 1929-1959.
Mark D'Amato, Photo-Realism: Re-Inventing Realism.
Nicole De Armendi, Shifting Perception: Labyrinths and the Rise of Phenomenology in American Art of the 1960s and 1970s.
Yates Evans, Doors and Windows: Eastern Philosophy and Western Aesthetics in the Art of Ray Johnson.
Christopher Gilbert, American Art and Language During the Period of the Fox (1974-1976).
Deborah Hanson, Gender, Genre, and Domesticity: Thomas Eakins's Home Scenes of the 1870s.
John Hubenthal, A Life in the Newspapers: The American Press and George Grosz.
Frances Minich, Hopewell Stone Carvers: Reinterpreting the Roles of Artist and Patron, 2004.
Paula Rau, Chance Encounters: John Cage's Late Visual Works.
Muriel Brine Rogers, John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revival in Antebellum Virginia, 2003.

Yale University

Graham Boettcher, Domestic Violence: Familial and Political Conflict in the Work of Emanuel Leutze.
Marisa Angell Brown, The Architecture of Public Housing in Postwar America (l949-l973).
Dennis Carr, Early Furnituremaking in the Narragansett Bay, 1636-1740.
Robin Cowie, Blazing Sun: Childe Hassam and the Forces of Sunlight in American Impressionism.
Elizabeth Fleming, ReDesigning the Decorative Arts: The Production and Promotion of Postmodern Objects.
Jennifer Greenhill, The Plague of Jocularity: Art, Humor, and the American Social Body, 1863-1906.
Hiroko Ikegami, 1964: Robert Rauschenberg and the Beginnings of Globalization in Modern Art.
Baird Jarman, Edwin Austin Abbey and the Quest of the Holy Grail.
Amy Kurtz, Old Worlds and New: Edward Lamson Henry (1814-1919),Conservative Genre Painter.
Rebecca Peabody, Imagining Race: Kara Walker's Silhouettes.
Andrew Perchuk, Mapping the Surface: Art and Modernism in Los Angeles, 1962-1972.
Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston's 1970 Marlborough Show.
Victoria Jane Solan, Built for Health: American Architecture and the Healthy House, 1850-1930, 2004.