Department of History of Art
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertations
1940 Florence Day: Mesopotamian Pottery: Parthian, Sassanian and Early Islamic
(Begun under M. Aga-Oglu & finished with R. Ettinghausen)
1940 Paul McPharlin: Puppets in American Life (Directed by J. G. Winter) Deceased
1940 Aloysius G. Weimer: The Munich Period in American Art (Directed by Bruce Donaldson
& J. G. Winter)
1946 Harry A. Broad: Contemporary American Lithography (Begun under Bruce Donaldson &
finished with J. G. Winter)
1953 Robert Enggass: The Religious Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Directed by Retired
H. E. Wethey) U of Georgia
1956 Emma Mellencamp: Renaissance Costume in Italian Painting 1450-1500 (Directed by Deceased
H. E. Wethey and completed under M. Eisenberg)
1957 Sister Mary Angelina Filipiak: The Plans of the Convents of the Poor Clares in Madonna College
Central Italy in the 13th & 14th Centuries (Directed by H. E. Wethey) Livonia, MI
1957 Marilyn Stokstad: The Romanesque Sculpture of the Portico de la Gloria at Santiago U of Kansas
de Compostela (Directed by H. E. Wethey) Lawrence, KS
1958 James Cahill: Wu Chen, His Life Paintings and Ideas (Directed by Max Loehr) U of CA, Berkeley
1958 Glenn N. Patton: Antonio Guerro y Torres and Mexican Architecture of the 18th Retired Trinity C,
Century (Directed by H. E. Wethey) San Antonio,TX
1959 Bernard Goldman: The Oriental Background of Etruscan Culture (Directed by Clark Wayne State
Hopkins) Univ. Press
1959 Victor Miesel: The Classical Elements in the Paintings of Rubens (Directed by U of M
H. E. Wethey)
1960 Mojmir Frinta: The Master of the Beautiful Madonnas (Late Gothic Sculpture in SUNY/Albany
Bohemia) (Directed by J. E. Snyder)
1960 H. Phillip Stern: Ukiyoe Paintings (Directed by J. M. Plumer) Deceased
1961 Rosemary A. Marzolf: The Life and Works of Juan Carreno de Miranda Deceased
(1614-1685) (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
1961 Antanas Melnikas: The Early Works of Gentile de Fabriano (Directed by Ohio State U
Marvin J. Eisenberg)
1963 John Williams: The Bible of Leon of 960 (Directed by J. E. Snyder) U of Pitts.
1964 Suzanne Edwards Lewis: Early Christian Architecture in Milan (Directed by Stanford U
G. H. Forsyth)
1965 Gunar Inal: The Fourteenth-Century Miniatures of the Jami Al-Tayarika in Returned to
the Topkapi Museum in Instanbul (Directed by O. Grabar & R. Edwards) Turkey
1966 R. Ward Bissell: Orazio Gentileschi (Directed by H. E. Wethey) Retired, U of M
1966 Margaret Damm Rolland: The Mythological Paintings of Van Dyck (Directed U of Vermont
by H. E. Wethey)
1966 Theodore Turak: William Le Baron Jenney (Directed by Leonard Eaton) American U, Wash., DC
1967 Ellen Johnston Laing: The Theme of the Scholars Meeting in Chinese Painting Ann Arbor
(Directed by R. Edwards)
1967 Charles Meyer: The Staircase of the Residenz at Wurzburg (Directed by N. T. Whitman) Deceased
1967 William Trousdale: Sword-Scabbard Slides (Directed by O. Grabar) Smithsonian Inst.
1968 Stanislaw Czuma: The Brahmanical Rashtrakuta Monuments at Ellora (Directed Cleveland Mus. of Art
by Walter M. Spink)
1968 Lisa Beth Golombeck: Timurid Shrine at Gazur Gah: An Iconographical Interpretation West Asia Dept.
of Timurid Architecture 1360-1506 (Directed by O. Grabar) Ont. Mus.-U of Toronto
1969 Esin Atil: The illustration of the Sur-Nameh of Ahmet, the Third (Directed by Freer Gallery
O. Grabar)
1969 Diane Kirkpatrick: Edoardo Paolozzi (Directed by V. H. Miesel) Retired, U of M
1969 David Wilkins: Maso di Banco (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg) U of Pitts.
1970 Mohamed Abd El Wahab: Decorated Woodwork from Egyptian-American Collections Detroit
(Directed by O. Grabar)
1970 Janet Anderson: Pedro de Mena: Spanish Sculptor (1628-1688) (Directed by WI St.,Whitewater, WI
H. E. Wethey)
1970 Ulku Bates: The Anatolian Mausoleum of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries Hunter College
(Directed by O. Grabar) NY,NY
1970 James Caswell: Early Cave Sculptures in Yun-Kang (Directed by O. Grabar) U of British Columbia
1970 Geraldine Fowle: The Biblical Paintings of Sebastian Bourdon (1611-1671) U of MO,
(Directed by N. T. Whitman) Kansas City
1970 Beverly Heisner: Aspects of Ecclesiastical Architecture of Viscardi (Directed U of S. Carolina,
by N. T. Whitman) COlumbia
1970 Edward Keall: Significance of Parthian Nippur (Directed by D. White) Royal Ont. Mus.,
Toronto
1970 Robert Mode: Famous Men and Women Illustration in 15th Century Italian Manuscripts Vanderbilt U
(Directed by M. Eisenberg) Nashville, TN
1970 Margret Pond Rothman: A Sculpture Record of the Age of the Tetrarchies Wm. Paterson Coll.
(Directed by I. H. Forsyth) Wayne, NJ
1970 John Varriano: The Roman Church Commissions of Martino Longhi the Younger Mt. Holyoke,
(Directed by N. T. Whitman) S. Hadley, MA
1971 Fay Frick: A Typology of Fustat Ceramics (Directed by O. Grabar) San Diego St. U
1971 Donald Kuspit: Durer and the Northern Critics (1502-72) (Directed by C. Olds) SUNY/Stonybrook
1971 Mary Cazort (Taylor): The Drawings and Paintings of Ubaldo Gandolfi (Directed by National Gallery
H. E. Wethey) of Can., Ottawa
1971 Jeannie Chenault (Porter): Bradley Walker Tomlin Abstract Expressionist (Directed Penn. St. U
by V. Miesel)
1971 Lois Drewer: The Carved Wooden Beams of the Church of Justinian, Monastery of The Index of Christian
St. Catherine at Mount Sinai (Directed by I. H. Forsyth) Art, Princeton U
1972 Peter Bermingham: Importation and Influence on the School in America (Directed U Arizona,
by D. Huntington) Mus. of Art
1973 Laurel Blank Andrew: 19th Century Mormon Architecture (Directed by
D. Huntington)
1973 Annemarie Weyl Carr: The Rockefeller-McCormick New Testament (Gregory 2400) Southern
(Directed by I. H. Forsyth) Methodist, TX
1973 Richard Janke: Janin Lomme and Late Gothic Sculpture in Navarre (Directed SUNY/Buffalo
by H . E. Wethey)
1973 Betty Monroe: Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820): Transitional Bunjinga Artist Retired
(Directed by R. Edwards) Iowa City, Iowa
1973 Barbara Carlisle (Rutledge): The Theatrical Art of the Italian Renaissance: MI State U
Interchangeable Conventions in Painting and Theatre in the Late 15th
& Early 16th Centuries (Directed by N. Whitman)
1973 Michael Stoughton: The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (Directed by U of MN
H. E. Wethey)
1973 Victoria Thorson: The Drawings of Rodin in America (Directed by V. Miesel) San Fran. Mus.
1974 Leila Avrin: The Illumination of the Moshe Ben-Asher Codex of 895 C.E. Hebrew U,
(Directed by C. Olds) Jerusalem
1974 Richard Axsom: Parade: Cubism as Theatre (Directed by J. Isaacson) U/M Dearborn
1974 Sister Johanna Becker: The Karatsu Ceramics of Japan: Origins Fabrications C of St. Benedict,
and Types (Directed by C. French) St. Joseph, MN
1974 Bernard Bonario: Marco Basaiti: A Study of the Venetian Painter and a Catalogue Texas
of his Works (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
1974 Deborah C. Brown (Levine): The Victoria and Albert Museum Akbar-Nama: Deceased 1990
A Study in History, Myth and Image (Directed by W. Spink)
1974 Milan Mihal: Sakai Hoitsu: A Catalogue Raisonne of Selected Works Vanderbilt U,
(Directed by C. French) Nashville, TN
1974 Charles Rosenberg: Art in Ferrara During the Reign of Borso d'Este, 1450-1471 Notre Dame
(Directed by E. Verheyen)
1974 John Steyaert: The Sculpture of St. Martin's in Halle and Related Netherlandish U of MN
Works (Directed by C. Olds)
1974 Joanne Winjum: The Canterbury Roundels (Directed by C. Olds) West Sussex, England
1975 James Collier: Linear Perspective in Flemish Painting and the Art of Petrus Ind. Painter & Art
Christus and Dirk Bouts (Directed by C. Olds) Hist., Amsterdam The Netherlands
1975 Sharon Rich Harrison: A Catalogue of the Etchings of Odilon Redon (Directed by Deceased
J. Isaacson)
1975 Ryan Howard: Pedro Duque de Cornejo, Andalusian Sculpture 1678-1757 (Directed Morehead St. U,
by H. E. Wethey) Morehead, KY
1975 Kathleen Raben Castiello: The Italian Sculptors of the United States Capitol: Bethesda, MD
1806-1834 (Directed by D. Huntington)
1976 Katherine R. Bateman: St. Albans, Its Ivory and Manuscripts Workshops: A Solution Art Inst.,
to the St. Albans Bury, St. Edmunds Dilemma (Directed by C. Olds) Chicago
1976 Gerald Carr: The Commissioners' Churches of London, 1818-1837: A Study of Southern
Religious Art, Architecture & Patronage in Britain from the Formation of the Methodist U
Commission to the Accession of Victoria (Directed by D. Huntington)
1976 Billie Thompson Fischer: The Sculpture of Valerio Cioli 1529-1599 (Directed by Kalamazoo Coll.
Graham Smith)
1976 Diane Upright (Headley): Morris Louis: The Mature Paintings 1954-1962 Christie's
(Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick) New York, NY
1976 Duncan Kinkead: Juan de Valdes Leal (1622-1690): His Life and Work (Directed
by H. E. Wethey)
1976 Grace Vlam: Western-Style Secular Painting in Momoyama Japan (Directed by Salt Lake
C. French) City, UT
1976 Law Watkins: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes: Meaning and Use (Directed by Am. U., Wash. DC
R. Ward Bissell)
1976 Gail Weigl: Foundations of a Momoyama Theme: Birds & Flowers of the Four Seasons
in a Landscape (Directed by Cal French)
1977 Stephen Addiss: Uragami Gyokudo: The Complete Literati Artist (Directed by U of KS, Lawrence
Cal French)
1977 Susan Barnes: Giacomo Balla: His Life and Work 1871 to 1912 (Directed by V. Miesel) California
1977 Roger Berkowitz: Benjamin Smith, Sr., Regency Silversmith (Directed by M. Eisenberg) Toledo Mus. of Art
1977 Martha Agnew (Fader): Sculpture in the Piazza della Signoria as Emblem of the Ann Arbor
Florentine Republic (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
1977 Forest McGill: The Art and Architecture of the Reign of King Prasatthong of Mary Wash Coll. Ayutthaya (1629-1656) Directed by W. Spink & H. Woodward) Fredericksburg, VA
1977 Dorothy Habel (Metzger): Piazza S. Ignazio, Rome in the 17th and 18th Centuries U of Tenn.
(Directed by N. T. Whitman) Knoxville
1977 Margaret Rajam: Fresco Cycle by Spinello Arentino in the Sala Di Balia. Siena: Retired
Imagery of Pope and Emperor (Directed by M. Eisenberg) U of W Virginia
1977 Edwin L. Rifkin: Antonioni's Mise-En-Scene: Elements of a Visual Language Director High
(Directed by D. Kirkpatrick) Mus., Atlanta, GA
1977 Richard Swain: Le Jardin de Plaisir in Tudor and Stuart England (Directed by Rider College
D. Huntington) Lawrenceville, NJ
1977 Walter Thompson: The Domed Entry Pavilion in French Classical Architecture: Painter, Writer
its Origin, Evolution and Interpretation (Directed by N. T. Whitman) New York City
1977 Charles Walters: Hiram Powers and William Rimmer: A Study in the Concept of Bloomsburg U,
Expression (Directed by D. Huntington) Bloomsburg, PA
1977 Jean Weir: Timberline Lodge: A WPA Experiment in Architecture and Crafts Nova Scotia C
(Directed by D. Huntington) of Art & Design
1978 Julie Badiee: An Islamic Cosmography: The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwini Western
(Directed by P. Soucek) Maryland College
1978 Doris Birmingham: Andre Masson in America: The Artist's Achievement in Exile, New England C,
1941-1945 (Directed by V. Miesel) Henniker, NH
1978 Penelope Brownell: The Venetian Painter, Francesco Maffei (1620-1660) (Directed College of Wooster
by H. E. Wethey) Wooster, OH
1978 Wichit Charernbhak: Architectural Criticism as Reflected in Publication on Thailand
Chicago Commercial Architecture in the 1880s and 1890s (Directed by David Huntington)
1978 Robert Del Bonta: The Hoysala Style: Architectural Development & Artists, California
12th & 13th Centuries (Directed by W. Spink)
1978 Dan Ewing: The Paintings & Drawings of Jan de Beer (Directed by C. Olds) Hobard & Wm. Smith C
1978 Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard: Bernardo Martorell: 15th-Century Catalan Artist Chevy Chase, MD
(Directed by C. Olds) Albuquerque
1978 Mona Kathryn Horste: The Capitals of the Second Workshop from the Romanesque Law School
Cloister of La Daurade, Toulouse (Directed by I. H. Forsyth) U of M
1978 William Jensen: The Sculptures of the Tomb of the Haterii (Directed by C. Olds) Baylor U, Waco, TX
1978 Robert Neuman: Robert De Cotte, Architect of the Late Baroque (Directed by Florida St. U
N. T. Whitman)
1979 Ali El Ballush: A History of Libyan Mosque Architecture During the Ottoman and Libya
Karmanli Period (1551-1911) Evolution, Development and Typology
(Directed by PricillaSoucek)
1979 Ghazi Bisheh: The Mosque of the Prophet at Madinah Throughout the First Century U of Jordan
A. H. with Special Emphasis on the Umayyad Mosque (Directed by P. Soucek)
1979 Vicky Clark: The Illustrated "Abridged Astrological Treatises of Albumasar" Carnegie Inst.,
(Directed by C. Olds and C. Bornstein) Pitts., PA
1979 Michael Davis: The Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand (Directed by C. Olds) Mt. Holyoke Coll.
1979 Susan Feinberg: Sir John Soane's "Museum": An Analysis of the Architect's Chicago, IL
House-Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (Directed by David Huntington)
1979 Melinda Takeuchi: Visions of a Wanderer: The True View Paintings of Ike Taiga Stanford U
(1723-1776) (Directed by C. French) Stanford, CA
1979 I. Job Thomas: Painting in Tamil Nadu A.D. 1350-1650 (Directed by W. Spink) Davidson C, NC
1979 Warren Tresidder: The Classicism of the Early Works of Titian: Its Sources and McMaster U
Character (Directed by R. Ward Bissell) Hamilton, Ont.
1979 Louise Yuhas: The Landscape Painting of Lu Chih (1496-1576) An Analysis of the Style Occidental C,
of a Sixteenth-Century Soochow Painter (Directed by R. Edwards) Los Angeles, CA
1979 Michael Browne: Kawahara Keiga: The Painter of Deshima (Directed by C. French) San Francisco, CA
1980 Sara Schastok: 6th-Century Indian Sculptures from Samalaji: Style & Iconography Northwestern U,
(Directed by W. Spink) Evanston, IL
1980 Jane Block: Les II and Belgiam Avant-gardism, 1868-1894 (Directed by V. Miesel) U of IL Library
1980 Sewall Oertling: Ting Yun-p'eng: A Chinese Artist of the Late Ming Dynasty SUNY/Oswego, NY
(Directed by R. Edwards)
1980 Chi-sheng Kuo: The Paintings of Hung-Jen (Directed by R. Edwards) U of MD, College Pk
1980 Ann T. Brown: Non-Narrative Elements in Tuscan Gothic Frescoes (Directed by Zantman Art Galleries
M. Eisenberg) Carmel, CA
1980 Janice Schimmelman: The Spirit of Gothic: The Gothic Revival House in Nineteenth- Oakland U
Century America (Directed by D. Huntington)
1980 Carole Drachler: The Gallery and Art Collection of Henry Clay Lewis (Directed by Phoenix, AZ
D. Huntington
1981 Kathe B. Geist: The Cinema of Wim Wenders 1967 to 1977 (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick) Jersey City, NJ
1981 Steve J. Goldberg: Court Calligraphy in the Early T'ang Dynasty (Directed by U of Hawaii at Monoa
R. Edwards and C. French)
1981 Toh Sugimura: The Chinese Impact on Certain 15th-Century Persian Miniature Paintings Natural Mus.
from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi of Ethnology,
Sarayi Museum, Instanbul (Directed by R. Edwards and C. French) Osaka, Japan
1981 Dennis Costanzo: Cityscape and the Transformation of Paris During the Second Empire SUNY/
(Directed by Joel Isaacson) Plattsburgh
1981 Jeremy Adamson: Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara": The Sublime as Transcendence Renwick Gallery,
( Directed by D. Huntington) Smithsonian Inst.
1981 Stephanie Spencer: O. G. Rijlander--Art Photographer (Directed by D. C. Huntington) NC St., Raleigh
1981 David M. Kowal: The Life and Art of Francisco Ribalta (Directed by R. W. Bissell) C of Charleston., SC
1981 Alice R. Merrill (Hyland): Wen Chia (1501-1583 Derivation and Innovation (Directed San Antonio, TX
by R. Edwards)
1982 Jacquelynn Baas: Auguste Lepere and the Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, Director,
1875-1895 (Directed by J. Isaacson) Berkeley Art Mus
1982 Kenneth A. Breisch: Small Public Libraries in America 1850-1890: The Invention Los Angeles, CA
and Evolution of a Building Type (Directed by Leonard K. Eaton)
1983 Harry Murutes: Lorenzo Lotto's Major Altarpieces of the "Enthroned" Madonna U of Akron,
with Saints": Doctoral Meaning, Sources, and Expression (Directed by Akron, OH
H. E. Wethey and R. Ward Bissell)
1983 Leonard B. Darling, Jr.: The Transformation of Pure Land Thought and the Development Tufts U
of Shinto Shrine Mandala Paintings: Kasuga and Kumano (Directed by Cal French) Medford, MA
1983 Daniel E. O'Leary: Harmony and Ritualistic Allusion in the Tornabuoni Chapel Asst. Dir., Minn. Mus/
in Santa Maria Novella (Directed by Graham Smith) Art-Minn., MN
1983 Elizabeth M. B. Gosling: The History of Sukhothai as a Ceremonial Center: A Study Marietta, GA
of Early Siamese Architecture and Society (Directed by Co-Chairmen,
H. W. Woodward, Jr. and Walter M. Spink)
1983 John B. Hunter III: The Life and Work of Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (Directed Cleveland St. U
by Co-Chairmen, G. Smith & R. Ward Bissell)
1983 William R. Levin: Studies in the Imagery of Mercy in Late Medieval Italian Art Centre C of KY,
(Directed by Co-Chairmen, Christine Bornstein & M. Eisenberg) Danville, KY
1983 Barbara J. Haeger: The Religious Significance of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodical Ohio St. U
Son": An Examination of the Picture in the Context of the Visual and Iconographic
Tradition (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
1983 Maribeth Graybill: Kasen-e An Investigation into the Origins of the Tradition of Dept. of Art,
Poet Pictures in Japan (Directed by Cal French) Swarthmore C., PA
1983 Marilyn E. Leese: The Traikutaka Dynasty and Kanheri's Second Phase of Buddhist Adj. Grad. Theological
Cave Excavation (Directed by Richard Edwards) Union, Berkeley, CA
1983 Ellen A. Plummer: The Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Asst. Dir. Programs
Rome (Directed by N. T. Whitman) U of M Mus of Art
1983 Phylis A. Floyd: Japonisme in Context: Documentation, Criticism, Aesthetic MI State U
Reactions (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
1984 James J. Robinson: The Vitality of Style: Aspects of Flower and Bird Painting Indianapolis
During the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) (Directed by Richard Edwards) Museum
1984 Beth E. Genne: The Film Musicals of Vincente Minnelli and the Team of Gene Kelly RC, U of M
and Stanley Donen: 1944-1958 (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
1984 Shelley K. Perlove: Gianlorenzo Bernini's Blessed Lodovica Albertoni and Baroque U of M,
Devotion (Directed by R. Ward Bissell) Dearborn
1984 Vishakha N. Desai: Connoisseur's Delights: Early "Rasikapriya" Paintings in India Pres. Asia Society,
(Directed by Walter M. Spink) New York, NY
1984 Marjorie J. Panadero (Hall): The Labors of the Months and the Signs of the Zodiac Somerville, MA
in 12th-Century French Facades (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
1984 Matthew L. Rohn: Visual Dynamics in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions Wittenberg U
(Directed by Rudolf Arnheim & Diane Kirkpatrick) Springfield, OH
1984 Sadako Ohki: Ike Taiga's "Karayo Calligraphy (Directed by Cal French)
1985 Sung-woo Kim: History and Design of the Early Buddhist Architecture in Korea Korea
(Directed by Co-Chairmen Leonard Eaton & Richard Edwards)
1985 Eleanor Mannikka: Angkor Wat: Meaning Through Measurement (Directed by W. Spink Lecturer, H.A.
& H. Woodward, Jr.) U of M
1985 Frank I. Heckes: Supernatural Themes in the Art of Francisco De Goya (Directed LaTrobe U,
by Co-Chairmen Joel Isaacson & H. E. Wethey) Bundoora, Victoria
Australia
1985 Michael A. Marlais: Anti-Naturalism, Idealism and Symbolism in French Art Colby C,
Criticism, 1880-1895 (Directed by Joel Isaacson) Waterville, ME
1985 Marion E. Jackson: Baker Lake Inuit Drawings: A Study in the Evolution of Artistic Wayne St. Univ.
Self-Consciousness (Directed by Evan M. Maurer)
1985 Marjorie L. Harth: Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969) Patron and Collector Dir.\Galleries
(Directed by M. Eisenberg & Charles Sawyer) Claremont, CA
1985 Paul A. Berry: Tanomura Chikuden 1777-1835: Man Amidst the Mountains Japan F'97
(Directed by Cal French)
1986 Pearson M. Macek: The Westminster Retable: A Study in English Gothic Panel
Painting (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg & Christine Verzar Bornstein)
1986 Catherine Elna Fruhan: Trends in Roman Sculpture Circa 1600 (Directed by DePauw University,
R. Ward Bissell) Greencastle, IN
1986 Christine M. Nelson Ruby: Art for the People: Art in Michigan Sponsored by the Art Dept.
Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1934-1943 (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick) Henry Ford Com. Coll.
1987 Robert Alan Benson: Douglas Putnam Haskell (1899-1979) The Early Critical Writings Miami Univ.
(Directed by Leonard Eaton) Oxford, OH
1987 Barbara K. Schnitzer: The 16th Century French Ceramic Ware called Saint-Porchaire Fine Arts Appraiser,
(Directed by Nathan Whitman) Chicago, IL
1987 Erica Susanna Trimpi: Matteo Di Giovanni: Documents and a Critical Catalogue of Oakland, CA
His Panel Paintings (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg)
1987 Linda J. Wolk: Studies in Perino Del Vaga's Early Career (Directed by Graham Smith) NY Met. Mus.
1987 Beverly Orlove Held: "To Instruct and Improve...To Entertain and Please" American San Francisco, CA
Civic Protests and Pageants 1765-1784 (Directed by David C. Huntington)
1988 Kathleen A. Pyne: Immanence, Transcendence, and Impressionism in Late Nineteenth- Univ. of Notre Dame
Century American Painting (Directed by David C. Huntington)
1988 Laurie Taylor-Kelley (Mitchell): The Horizontal Tuscan Panel, 1200-1365: Frame Incarnate Word C
Format and Pictorial Composition (Directed by R. Arnheim & Marvin Eisenberg) San Antonio, TX
1989 Diane Tepfer: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery Downtown: 1926-1940; Curator Art Embassies
A Study in American Art Patronage (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick) Program, Wash., DC
1989 Karen Kleinfelder: The Theme of the Artist and Model in Picasso's Late Graphics CA State Univ.
(Directed by R. Arnheim & Victor Miesel) at Long Beach
1989 M. Carol Morland: Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841: Tradition and Innovation in Japanese
Painting (Directed by Paul Berry)
1989 Marshall Wu: Chin Nung: An Artist with a Wintry Heart (Directed by Richard Edwards U of M Mus of Art
and Paul Berry)
1989 Stephen A. Markel: The Origin and Early Development of the Nine Planetary Deities LA County Mus\Art
(Navagraha) (Directed by Walter Spink) Los Angeles, CA
1989 Elizabeth Pilliod: Studies on the Early Career of Alessandro Allori (Directed Rutgers Univ.
by Graham Smith)
1989 Joan O'Mara: The Haiga Genre and the Art of Yosa Buson (1716-84) (Directed by Wash. & Lee U, VA
W. Spink)
1990 Elizabeth Higashi: Conical Glass Vessels from Karanis: Function and Meaning in a Paris, France
Pagan/Christian Context in Rural Egypt (Directed by Margaret Root)
1990 Woodard Openo: The Summer Colony at Little Harbor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Somersworth, NH
and Its Relation to the Colonial Revival Movement (Directed by David Huntington)
1990 Janice Simon: The Crayon, 1855-1861: The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, U of GA,
and the Fine Arts (Directed by David Huntington) Athens, Georgia
1991 Carolyn Marie Carty: Dreams in Early Medieval Art (Directed by Ilene Forsyth) Oakland Comm. College
1991 Chuhui Judy Lai: The Han Representation of exemplary Women: Context and California
Interpretation (Directed by Martin J. Powers)
1991 Jasmin W. Cyril: The Imagery of San Bernardino Da Siena, 1440-1500: An Iconographic Univ. of Minnesota,
Study (Directed by M. Eisenberg & R. W. Bissell) Morris
1991 Victoria L. Weston: Modernization in Japanese-Style Painting: Yokoyama Taikan Brookline, MA
(1868-1958) and the Morotai Style (Directed by Paul Berry)
1991 Martha J. McClintock: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913): The Life and Arts of a Meiji Japan
Period Literati Artist (Directed by Paul Berry)
1992 Jean Ann Dabb: The Church of St. Nicolas at Civrey: The Facade and its Sculptural Mary Washington C
Decoration (Directed by I. H. Forsyth) Fredericksburg, VA
1992 Gabrielle Langdon: Decorum in Portraits of Medici Women at the Court of Cosimo I, Univ. of Western Ont.
1537-1574 (Directed by R. W. Bissell and G. Smith)
1992 Eun-wha Park: The World of Idealized Reclusion: Landscape Painting of Hsiang Seoul, Korea
Sheng-Mo(1597-1658) Directed by Richard Edwards and Walter Spink)
1992 Susan Elizabeth Ryan: Figures of Speech: The Art of Robert Indiana, 1958-73 LA State Univ.
(Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick) at Baton Rouge
1993 Robert E. Haywood: Revolution of the Ordinary: Allan Kaprow Univ of Notre Dame
Invention of Happenings (Directed by Joel Isaacson and Thomas Crow) Notre Dame, IN
1993 Barbara Lee Tannenbaum: The Paintings of Seymour Rosofsky (Directed by D.Kirkpatrick) Akron Art Museum
1993 Nathan P. Griffith: Richard Serra and Robert Irwin: Phenomenology in the Age of Philadelphia, PA
Art and Objecthood (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
1993 Bille Wickre: Collaboration in the Work of Margaret Macdonald, Frances Albion College
Macdonald, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and J. Herbert MacNair (Directed by
J. Isaacson and D. Kirkpatrick)
1993 Giovanna D Costantini: Maesta: Humanism and the Art of Francisco Zuniga Wayne St. Univ.
(Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
1993 Timothy A. Motz: The Roman Freestanding Portrait Bust: Origins, Context, and Toledo Mus. of Art
Early History (Directed by E. Gazda)
1994 David Acton: Hendrik Goltzius and Rudolfine Mannerism in the Graphic Arts Worcester Art Mus.
(Directed by Graham Smith) Worcester, MA
1994 John Siewert: Whisler's Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject (Directed by Univ. of the South
J. Isaacson) Sewanee, TN
1994 Masumi Iriye: Le Vau's Menagerie and the Rise of the Animalier: Urbana, IL
Enclosing, Dissecting, and Representing Animal in Early Modern
France (Directed by Nathan T. Whitman and Graham Smith)
1994 John Tadao Teramoto: The Yamai No Soshi: A Critical Reevaluation of Univ. of Kansas
Its Importance to Japanese Secular Painting of the Twelfth Century
(Directed by Paul Berry and Jonathan Reynolds)
1994 Elizabeth Horton Sharf: Abaku Zen Portrait Painting: A Revisionist Analysis Univ. of MI/AA
(Directed by Karen L. Brock and Walter Spink)
1994 Masuyo Tokita Darling : The Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture of Perrecy-Les-Forges
(Directed by Ilene H. Forsyth)
1994 Todd Philip Olson: Nicolas Poussin, His French Clientele and the Social Construction of Style Albany, CA
(Directed by T. Crow and P. Simons)
1994 Derrick Randall Cartwright: Reading Rooms: Interpreting the American Public Library Mural, Dept. Fine Arts
1890-1930 (Directed by J. Isaacson) U. of San Diego
1995 Natalija Natasha Kuzmanovic: John Paul Cooper (1869-1933), Designer and Craftsman (Directed Northport, New York
by William Hennessey and Marvin Eisenberg)
1995 John Andrew Listopad: The Art and Architecture of the Reign of Somdet Phra Narai (Directed by Los Angeles County Mus.
Walter Spink)
1995 David J. O'Brien: The Art of War: Antoine-Jean Gros and French Military Painting, 1795-1804 Univ. of Illinois/Urbana
(Directed by J. Isaacson and T. Crow)
1995 S. Richard Rand: Representing the Picturesque Garden: The Landscapes of Fragonard (Directed Hood Museum of Art
by T. Crow and J. Isaacson) Dartmouth College
1995 Carmen Belen Lord: Point and Counterpoint: Ramon Casas in Paris and Barcelona, 1866-1908 Penn. State University
(Directed by Joel Isaacson)
1995 Charlene Marianna Villasenor Black: Saints and Social Welfare in Golden Age Spain: Michigan State Univ.
The Imagery of the Cult of Saint Joseph (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
1995 Katharine Persis Burnett: The Landscapes of Wu Bin (C. 1543-C. 1626) and a Ohio St. Univ.
Seventeenth-Century Discourse of Originality (Directed by Richard Edwards & Martin Powers)
1996 Rita S. Goodman: Theodore Gericault's Portraits of the Insane: Art, Psychiatry and the Cleveland Mus. of Art
Politics of Philanthropy (Directed by Thomas Crow and Joel Isaacson)
1996 Molly M. M. Lindner: The Vestal Virgins and Their Imperial Patrons: Sculptures and Ann Arbor
Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae in the Roman Forum (Directed by Elaine Gazda)
1996 Mayra V. Rodriguez: Austere Late Gothic: The Architecture of the Collegiate Church Macalester College
of the Notre-Dame at Clery-Saint-Andre (Directed by Ward Bissell and Linda E. Neagley) St. Paul, MN
1996 Lisa J. De Boer: Martial Arts: Military Themes and Images in Dutch Art of the Golden Age Valparaiso Univ.
(Directed by Celeste Brusati)
1997 Leslie Cavall: Social and Symbolic Functions of the Romanesque Façade: The Example of
Maeacon’s Last Judgement Gailee (Directed by Ilene Forsythe)
1997 Marcelle Hourt Pour: Charles Blanc and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts: 1859-1870.
(Directed by J. Isaacson and Celeste Brusati)
1997 Rebecca Price-Wilkin: The Late Gothic Abbey Church of Saint-Riquier: An Investigation of Enrolled in School
Historical Consciousness. (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Neagley) of Information
1997 Monika Schmitter: The Display of Distinction: Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Assistant Professor
Sixteen Century Venice. (Directed by Patricia Simons) U. of Massachussetts
1998 Jane Chung-Apley: The Illustrated Vie et Miracles de Saint Louis of Guillame de Saint-Pathus (Paris, B.N., ms. fr. 5716) (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
1999 Kirk Ambrose: Romanesque Vezeley: The Art of Monastic Contemplation. (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Elizabeth Sears)
1999 Jasmine Alinder: Out of Site: Photographic Representations of Japanese American Internment
(Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
1999 Tamara Bentley: Authenticity in a New Key: Chen Hongshou’s Figurative Oevre, “Authentic Emotion,” and the Late Ming Market (Directed by Martin Powers)
1999 Kirsten Buick: The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis: Identity, Culture and Ideal Works. (Directed by S. Patton (Oberlin College) and Diane Kirkpatrick)
1999 Andrew Campbell: Negotiating the Archive: Photography, Authority and Cultural Memory, 1861-1876 (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
1999 Melanie Holcomb: The Function and Status of Carved Ivory in Carolingian Culture Metropolitan Museum
(Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Ilene Forsyth) “The Cloisters” NYC
2000 Jonathan Binstock: Sam Gilliam: The Making of a Career, 1962-1973. (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick and S. Patton (Oberlin))
2000 Jonathan Perkins: Klee and Eros (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
2000 Kathryn Selig-Brown: Handprints and Footprints in Tibetan Painting (Directed by Walter Spink)
2000 Maureen Shanahan: Forging Men and Manufacturing Women: Fernan Leger’s Mechanical Arts
(Directed by Matthew Biro ?)
2000 Christina Waugh: Style-Consciousness in Fourteenth-Century Society and Visual Communication in the Moralized Bible of John the Good. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
2001 Irene Leung: The Frontier Imaginary in the Song Dynasty (960-1279): Revisiting Cai Yan’s “Barbarian Captivity” and Return. (Directed by Martin Powers)
2002 Nancy Anderson: Observing Techniques: Images from Microscopial Life Sciences, 1850-1895. (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Martin Pernick)
2002 Jane H. Carpenter: Conjure Woman: Betye Saar and Rituals of Transformation, 1960-1990 (Directed by Jacqueline Francis and Richard Candida Smith)
2002 Roslyn Lee Hammers: The Production of Good Government: Images of Agrarian Labor in Southern Song (1272 / 79 – 1368) (Directed by Martin Powers)
2002 George Kuwayama: Chinese Ceramics in colonial Latin America. (Directed by Martin Powers)
2002 Mary Louise Totton: Weaving Flesh and Blood into Sacred Architecture: Ornamental Stories of Candi Loro Jonggrang. (Directed by Walter Spink)
2003 Laura Bassett: The Paintings and Carreer of Cornelius De Man: Art and Mercantile Culture in Seventeenth-Century Delft. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
2003 Wen-Chien Chang: Images of Happy Farmers in Song China (960-1279): Drunks, Politics and Social Identity. (Directed by Martin Powers)
2003 Susan Jung Lee: The Sooji Screens and Teinai Yurakuzu.
2003 Elizabeth Otto: Figuring Gender: Photomontage and Cultural Critique in Germany’s Weimar Republic. (Directed by Matthew Biro)
2004 Lisa Bessette: Early Medieval Visualization of the Contents of the Psalms. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
2004 Mariana D. Giovino: Interpretations of the ‘Assyrian Sacred Tree,’ 1849-2004. (Directed by Margaret Root)
2004 Douglas Hildebrecht: Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619 / 20 - 1678) and the Nature Piece: Art, Science, Religion, and the Seventeenth – Century Pursuit of Natural Knowledge. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
2004 Lisa Langlois: Exhibiting Japan: Gender and National Identity at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. (Directed by Jonathan Reynolds and Patricia Simons)
2004 Allison MacDuffee: Camille Pissaro: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Representation of ‘The People’ 1888 – 1903. (Directed by Howard Lay)
2004 Catherine McCurrach: The Veneration of St. Benedict in Medieval Rome: Parish Architecture, Monumental Imagery, and Popular Devotion. (Directed by Caroline Bruzelius and Elizabeth Sears)
2004 Julia Perlman: Taking Aim at Amore: Michelangelo, Bronzino and the Lexico of Pictorial Ambiguity in Representations of Venus and Cupid. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
2004 Alexandra Schwartz: Designing Ed Ruscha: The Invention of the Los Angeles Artist, 1960 – 1980. (Directed by Alexander Potts and Maria Gough)
2004 Yao-Fen You: Import / Export: A Case Study of Brabantine Alterpieces in the Rhineland, 1500 – 1530. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
2005 Chris Defay: Art, Enterprise, Collaboration: Richard Serra and the Art of Technology Program, 1966 – 1979. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
2005 Carmenita Higgenbotham: Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blacknes and Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh. (Directed by Rebecca Zurier)
2005 Natsu Oyobe: Materials that scream: Yoshihara Jiro and the Early Years of the Guai Art: Assoc. (1954-1970). (Directed by Martin Powers and Kevin Carr)
2005 Sandra Seekins: Stelarc: Peformance Art, Technology & Gender. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
2005 Tatiana Senkevitch: Printmaking's Perspectives Abraham Bosse and the Pedagogic Debates at the French Academy 1648 - 1661. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
2005 Leela Wood: The Buddha and the Shape of Belief: Indic Visual Jatakamalas. (Directed by Luis Gomez and Martin Powers)
2006 Timothy McCall: Networks of Power: The Art of Patronage of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
2006 Sean Roberts: Cartography Between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri’s ‘Geographica’ of 1482. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
2006 Heather Flaherty: The Place of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Rise of Affective Piety in the Later Middle Ages. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
2007 Jeffrey Lieber: Pervasive Beauty: Modern Architecture and Mass Democracy at Mid-Century. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
2007 Joan Downs: The Topography and Iconography of Death in Christian North Africa. (Directed by Thelma Thomas)
2007 Angela Ho: Rethinking Repetition: Constructing Value in Dutch Genre Painting, 1650s to 1670s. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
2007 Jong Phil Park: Ensnaring the Public Eye: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China (1550-1644) and the Negotiation of Taste. (Directed by Martin Powers)
2008 Diana Bullen-Prescuitti: The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600. (Directed by Megan Holmes)
2008 Min Yong Cho: How Land Came into the Picture: Rendering History in Fourteenth-Century Iran. (Directed by Martin Powers and Sussan Babaie)
2008 Jen Yi Lai: Cultural Identity and the Making of Modern TaiwanesePainting During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1945). (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Joel Isaacson)
2008 Christopher Bennett: Boetti and Pascali, Two Case Studies (1965-70): Revisiting Arte Povera after the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
2009 Bo Liu: Political Expression in Song Dynasty Fan Painting (Directed by Martin Powers)
2009 Kirsten Olds: Networked Collectivities: North American Artists' Groups, 1968-1978. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
2010 Heidi Gearhart: Theophilus' On Diverse Arts: the persona of the artist and the production of art in the twelfth century. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
2010 Kathie Hornstein: Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in France (1804-1856). (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
2010 Christina Chang: The End of Painting. (Directed by Alex Potts))
