Department of History of Art PhD Dissertations
- 2024 Michelle Al-Ferzly: ''A Receptacle for Every Good Thing'': The Art of Medieval Islamic Dining, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries (Directed by Christiane Gruber)
- 2023 Brenna Larson: The Prestige of the Foreign: Devotional painting in Genoa, 1450-1530 (Directed by Megan Holmes)
- 2023 Rheagan Martin: Printed, Painted, and Illuminated: Venetian Visual Culture at the Dawn of Print (1469-1517), (Directed by Megan Holmes)
- 2023: Haely Chang: Painting a Different Picture: Reimagining Painting through Photography in Early Twentieth Century Korea (Directed by Joan Kee)
- 2023 James Denison: Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism (Directed by Rebecca Zurier)
- 2023 Isabelle Gillet: Figures of Conformity, Gestures of Distinction: Civility and Portraits of Women in France (1815-1848), (Directed by Joan Kee and Michele Hannoosh)
- 2023 Robert Morrissey: Chigo Icons: Representations of Sacred and Sexualized Male Youths in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Directed by Kevin Carr)
- 2022 Katharine Campbell: Creating the Composite: Combinatory Artistry and the Notion of Style in Antwerp, c. 1510-1585 (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Megan Holmes)
- 2022 Sean Kramer: Military Manhood: Visualizing the Common Soldier in French and British Art and Culture, 1871-1914 (Directed by Susan Siegfried and Elizabeth Sears)
- 2022 Jun Nakamura: Prints and Printedness: Mark Making, Meaning, and Perceptions of Print in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Megan Holmes)
- 2022 Gerui Wang: Landscape and the Representation of Public Spaces: Chinese Visual Culture from 10th-14th Centuries (Directed by Kevin Carr and Martin Powers)
- 2021 Courtney Wilder: Novel Impressions: Prints, Textiles, and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815-1851 (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
- 2021 Susan Dine: Seeing Speech, Reading Bodies: Manifestations of Language in Japanese Buddhist Visual Cultures of the Thirteenth Century (Directed by Kevin Carr)
- 2021 Vishal Khandelwal: Crafting Expertise: Art and Design Pedagogy and Professional Values at the National Institute of Design in India, 1955-1985 (Directed by Claire Zimmerman)
- 2020 Chanon Praepipatmongkol: Postwar Abstraction and Practices of Knowledge: Fernando Zobel and Chang Saetang (Directed by Joan Kee)
- 2020 Elizabeth Rauh: An Islamic Cosmos: Artistic Engagements with Islamic Heritage in Iran and the Arab East, 1958-2018 (Directed by Christiane J. Gruber)
- 2020 Stephanie Triplett: The Rise of Narrative Animal Painting in France and Germany, 1790- 1880 (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
- 2019 Ashley Dimmig: Making Modernity in Fabric Architecture: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period (Directed by Christiane J. Gruber)
- 2019 Ximena Gomez: Nuestra Senora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima (Directed by Megan Holmes and Stella Nair)
- 2018 Chun Wa Chan: Framing a Foreign God: The Tamamushi Shrine and the Opportunities of Buddhism in Early Japan (Directed by Kevin G. Carr)
- 2018 Alexanda Fraser: Art, Decoration, and the Texture of Modern Experience: The Interior Before 1900 (Directed by Alex D. Potts)
- 2018 Jennifer Gear: Visualizing the 1630-31 Plague Epidemic in Early Modern Venice and the Veneto (Directed by Megan Holmes)
- 2018 Tina Le: Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968 – 1986 (Directed by Joan Kee)
- 2018 Grant Mandarino: Seeing Class: Graphic Satire and the Cultivation of Radicalism in the Weimar Republic (Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2018 Allison Martino: Stamping History: Stories of Social Change in Ghana's Adinkra Cloth (Directed by Raymond Silverman)
- 2018 Wendy Sepponen: Milanese Bronze, Spanish Stone, and Imperial Materials: Sculptural Interchange and the Leoni Workshops 1549-1608 (Directed by Megan Holmes and Alex D. Potts)
- 2017 Ashley Miller: Locating ‘Heritage’ in Morocco: Colonial Notions of Cultural Heritage and the Promotion of Morocco’s Decorative Arts under the French Protectorate (1912-1931) (Directed by Raymond A. Silverman)
- 2017 Kristin Schroeder: How to Look Sachlich: Fashion and Objectivity in Weimar Germany (Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2017 Alice Sullivan: The Painted Fortified Monastic Churches of Moldavia: Bastions of Orthodoxy in a Post-Byzantine World (Directed by Achim Timmermann)
- 2017 Emily Talbot: The Photographic Effect: Making Pictures After Photography, 1860-1895 (Directed by Susan L. Siegfried)
- 2016 Nicholas Hartigan: The Purpose of Public Sculpture: Artistic, Institutional, and Cultural Motivations since 1965 (Directed by Alex D. Potts)
- 2016 Lehti Keelmann: Bachelors Bridging the Baltic: The Artistic Ambitions of the Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads, c. 1400-1524 (Directed by Achim Timmermann)
- 2016 Kristine Ronan: Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image (Directed by David Doris)
- 2016 Anna Wieck: Painting, Popular Culture, Putrefaction: Depicting Tradition on the Eve of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (Directed by Alex Potts)
- 2015 Antje K Gamble: National and International Modernism in Italian Sculpture from 1935-1959. (Directed by Alex Potts)
- 2015 Vivian Li: Art's Public Lives: Sculpture in China after 1949. (Directed by Joan Kee)
- 2015 Megan C McNamee: Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
- 2015 Pamela AV Stewart: Devotion to the Passion in Milanese Confraternities, 1500-1630: Image, Ritual, Performance. (Directed by Megan Holmes)
- 2014 Katherine Brion: Decorative Painting and Politics in France, 1890-1914. (Directed by Howard Lay)
- 2014 Monique Johnson: An Insistent Subject: The Countess de Castiglione Facing the Lens.(Directed by Susan Seigfried)
- 2014 Melanie Sympson: Experiment and Visual Transformation in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose, c. 1338 - c. 1405. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
- 2014 Kathy Yusuf Zarur: Self-Portraiture and the Rise of "Arab" Art: Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Hassan Musa and Walid Raad. (Directed by Matthew Biro and Nadine Naber)
- 2013 Rebecca Bieberly: "Seeing" the "Ordinary" at Lingyan Temple in Eleventh-Century China.(Directed by Kevin Carr and Martin Powers)
- 2013 Bridget Gilman: Re-envisioning Everyday Spaces: Photorealism in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2013 Elissa Park: Negotiating the Discourse of the Modern in Art: Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and the Transnational Modern. (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 2013 Silvia Tita: Political Art of the Papacy: Visual Representations of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period. (Directed by Megan Holmes and Thomas Willette)
- 2013 Heather Vinson: Repetitions: Memory and Making Degas's Ballet Classroom Series.(Directed by Howard Lay)
- 2012 Nadia Baadj: "Monstrous creatures and diverse strange things": The Curious Art of Jan van Kessel I, 1626-1679. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 2012 Jessica Fripp: Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Eighteenth- Century France. (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
- 2012 Lauren Graber: Gruppe SPUR and Gruppe GEFLECHT: Art and Dissent in West Germany, 1957-1968. (Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2012 Philip Guilbeau: El Paular: Anatomy of a Charterhouse. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Achim Timmermann)
- 2012 Marin Sullivan: Material Dispersions: Sculpture, Photography, and International Interventions in Italy, 1962-72. (Directed by Alex Potts)
- 2011 Heather Badamo: Image and Community: Representations of Military Saints in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma Thomas)
- 2011 Christopher Coltrin: Apocalyptic Progress: The Politics of Catastrophe in the Art of John Martin, Francis Danby, and David Roberts. (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
- 2011 Ksenya A Gurshtein: TransStates: Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe and the Limits of Utopia. (Directed by Alex Potts)
- 2011 Katharine Raff: Painted Decoration in the Apartments of Roman Ostia: Standardization, Social Status, and Visual Experience. (Directed by Elaine Gazda)
- 2010 Monica Huerta: Encountering Mimetic Realism: Sculptures by Duane Hanson Robert Gober and Ron Mueck. (Directed by Pat Simons and Rebecca Zurier)
- 2010 Christina Chang: The End of Painting. (Directed by Alex Potts)
- 2010 Kathie Hornstein: Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in France (1804-1856). (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
- 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)
- 2009 Kirsten Olds: Networked Collectivities: North American Artists' Groups, 1968-1978.(Directed by Alexander Potts)
- 2009 Bo Liu: Political Expression in Song Dynasty Fan Painting. (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 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)
- 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 Min Yong Cho: How Land Came into the Picture: Rendering History in Fourteenth-Century Iran. (Directed by Martin Powers and Sussan Babaie)
- 2008 Diana Bullen-Prescuitti: The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600. (Directed by Megan Holmes)
- 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)
- 2007 Angela Ho: Rethinking Repetition: Constructing Value in Dutch Genre Painting, 1650s to 1670s. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 2007 Joan Downs: The Topography and Iconography of Death in Christian North Africa. (Directed by Thelma Thomas)
- 2007 Jeffrey Lieber: Pervasive Beauty: Modern Architecture and Mass Democracy at Mid-Century. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
- 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)
- 2006 Sean Roberts: Cartography Between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri’s ‘Geographica’ of 1482. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
- 2006 Timothy McCall: Networks of Power: The Art of Patronage of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma.(Directed by Patricia Simons)
- 2005 Leela Wood: The Buddha and the Shape of Belief: Indic Visual Jatakamalas. (Directed by Luis Gomez and Martin Powers)
- 2005 Tatiana Senkevitch: Printmaking's Perspectives Abraham Bosse and the Pedagogic Debates at the French Academy 1648 - 1661. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 2005 Sandra Seekins: Stelarc: Peformance Art, Technology & Gender. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
- 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 Carmenita Higgenbotham: Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blacknes and Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh. (Directed by Rebecca Zurier)
- 2005 Chris Defay: Art, Enterprise, Collaboration: Richard Serra and the Art of Technology Program, 1966 – 1979. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
- 2004 Yao-Fen You: Import / Export: A Case Study of Brabantine Alterpieces in the Rhineland, 1500 – 1530. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 2004 Alexandra Schwartz: Designing Ed Ruscha: The Invention of the Los Angeles Artist, 1960 – 1980. (Directed by Alexander Potts and Maria Gough)
- 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 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 Allison MacDuffee: Camille Pissaro: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Representation of ‘The People’ 1888 – 1903. (Directed by Howard Lay)
- 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 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 Mariana D. Giovino: Interpretations of the ‘Assyrian Sacred Tree,’ 1849-2004. (Directed by Margaret Root)
- 2004 Lisa Bessette: Early Medieval Visualization of the Contents of the Psalms. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
- 2003 Elizabeth Otto: Figuring Gender: Photomontage and Cultural Critique in Germany’s Weimar Republic. (Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2003 Susan Jung Lee: The Sooji Screens and Teinai Yurakuzu. (Directed by Martin Powers and Jonathan Reynolds)
- 2003 Wen-Chien Chang: Images of Happy Farmers in Song China (960-1279): Drunks, Politics and Social Identity. (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 2003 Laura Bassett: The Paintings and Carreer of Cornelius De Man: Art and Mercantile Culture in Seventeenth-Century Delft. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 2002 Mary Louise Totton: Weaving Flesh and Blood into Sacred Architecture: Ornamental Stories of Candi Loro Jonggrang. (Directed by Walter Spink)
- 2002 George Kuwayama: Chinese Ceramics in colonial Latin America. (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 2002 Roslyn Lee Hammers: The Production of Good Government: Images of Agrarian Labor in Southern Song (1272 / 79 – 1368). (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 2002 Jane H. Carpenter: Conjure Woman: Betye Saar and Rituals of Transformation, 1960-1990 (Directed by Jacqueline Francis and Richard Candida Smith)
- 2002 Nancy Anderson: Observing Techniques: Images from Microscopial Life Sciences, 1850-1895. (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Martin Pernick)
- 2001 Irene Leung: The Frontier Imaginary in the Song Dynasty (960-1279): Revisiting Cai Yan’s “Barbarian Captivity” and Return. (Directed by Martin Powers)
- 2000 Christina Waugh: Style-Consciousness in Fourteenth-Century Society and Visual Communication in the Moralized Bible of John the Good. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
- 2000 Maureen Shanahan: Forging Men and Manufacturing Women: Fernan Leger’s Mechanical Arts.
(Directed by Matthew Biro)
- 2000 Kathryn Selig-Brown: Handprints and Footprints in Tibetan Painting. (Directed by Walter Spink)
- 2000 Jonathan Perkins: Klee and Eros. (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 2000 Jonathan Binstock: Sam Gilliam: The Making of a Career, 1962-1973. (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick and S. Patton)
- 1999 Melanie Holcomb: The Function and Status of Carved Ivory in Carolingian Culture Metropolitan Museum. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Ilene Forsyth)
- 1999 Andrew Campbell: Negotiating the Archive: Photography, Authority and Cultural Memory, 1861-1876. (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1999 Kirsten Buick: The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis: Identity, Culture and Ideal Works. (Directed by S. Patton and 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 Jasmine Alinder: Out of Site: Photographic Representations of Japanese American Internment. (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1999 Kirk Ambrose: Romanesque Vezeley: The Art of Monastic Contemplation. (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Elizabeth Sears)
- 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)
- 1997 Monika Schmitter: The Display of Distinction: Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Sixteen Century Venice. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
- 1997 Rebecca Price-Wilkin: The Late Gothic Abbey Church of Saint-Riquier: An Investigation of Historical Consciousness. (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Neagley)
- 1997 Marcelle Hourt Pour: Charles Blanc and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts: 1859-1870.
(Directed by J. Isaacson and 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)
- 1996 Lisa J. De Boer: Martial Arts: Military Themes and Images in Dutch Art of the Golden Age.(Directed by Celeste Brusati)
- 1996 Mayra V. Rodriguez: Austere Late Gothic: The Architecture of the Collegiate Church
of the Notre-Dame at Clery-Saint-Andre. (Directed by Ward Bissell and Linda E. Neagley)
- 1996 Molly M. M. Lindner: The Vestal Virgins and Their Imperial Patrons: Sculptures and
Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae in the Roman Forum. (Directed by Elaine Gazda)
- 1996 Rita S. Goodman: Theodore Gericault's Portraits of the Insane: Art, Psychiatry and the
Politics of Philanthropy. (Directed by Thomas Crow and Joel Isaacson)
- 1995 Katharine Persis Burnett: The Landscapes of Wu Bin (C. 1543-C. 1626) and a
Seventeenth-Century Discourse of Originality. (Directed by Richard Edwards & Martin Powers)
- 1995 Charlene Marianna Villasenor Black: Saints and Social Welfare in Golden Age Spain:
The Imagery of the Cult of Saint Joseph (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
- 1995 Carmen Belen Lord: Point and Counterpoint: Ramon Casas in Paris and Barcelona, 1866-1908 (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
- 1995 S. Richard Rand: Representing the Picturesque Garden: The Landscapes of Fragonard(Directed Hood Museum of Art by T. Crow and J. Isaacson)
- 1995 David J. O'Brien: The Art of War: Antoine-Jean Gros and French Military Painting, 1795-1804 (Directed by J. Isaacson and T. Crow)
- 1995 John Andrew Listopad: The Art and Architecture of the Reign of Somdet Phra Narai(Directed by Walter Spink)
- 1995 Natalija Natasha Kuzmanovic: John Paul Cooper (1869-1933), Designer and Craftsman(Directed by William Hennessey and Marvin Eisenberg)
- 1994 Derrick Randall Cartwright: Reading Rooms: Interpreting the American Public Library
1890-1930 (Directed by J. Isaacson)
- 1994 Todd Philip Olson: Nicolas Poussin, His French Clientele and the Social Construction of Style (Directed by T. Crow and P. Simons)
- 1994 Masuyo Tokita Darling : The Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture of Perrecy-Les-Forges (Directed by Ilene H. Forsyth)
- 1994 Elizabeth Horton Sharf: Abaku Zen Portrait Painting: A Revisionist Analysis
(Directed by Karen L. Brock and Walter Spink)
- 1994 John Tadao Teramoto: The Yamai No Soshi: A Critical Reevaluation of Its Importance to Japanese Secular Painting of the Twelfth Century (Directed by Paul Berry and Jonathan Reynolds)
- 1994 Masumi Iriye: Le Vau's Menagerie and the Rise of the Animalier: Enclosing, Dissecting, and Representing Animal in Early ModernFrance (Directed by Nathan T. Whitman and Graham Smith)
- 1994 John Siewert: Whisler's Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject (Directed by J. Isaacson)
- 1994 David Acton: Hendrik Goltzius and Rudolfine Mannerism in the Graphic Arts
(Directed by Graham Smith)
- 1993 Timothy A. Motz: The Roman Freestanding Portrait Bust: Origins, Context, and
Early History (Directed by E. Gazda)
- 1993 Giovanna D Costantini: Maesta: Humanism and the Art of Francisco Zuniga
(Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1993 Bille Wickre: Collaboration in the Work of Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and J. Herbert MacNair (Directed by J. Isaacson and D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1993 Nathan P. Griffith: Richard Serra and Robert Irwin: Phenomenology in the Age of Art and Objecthood (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1993 Barbara Lee Tannenbaum: The Paintings of Seymour Rosofsky (Directed by D.Kirkpatrick)
- 1993 Robert E. Haywood: Revolution of the Ordinary: Allan Kaprow Invention of Happenings(Directed by Joel Isaacson and Thomas Crow)
- 1992 Susan Elizabeth Ryan: Figures of Speech: The Art of Robert Indiana, 1958-73 (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1992 Eun-wha Park: The World of Idealized Reclusion: Landscape Painting of Hsiang Sheng-Mo (1597-1658) (Directed by Richard Edwards and Walter Spink)
- 1992 Gabrielle Langdon: Decorum in Portraits of Medici Women at the Court of Cosimo, 1537-1574 (Directed by R. W. Bissell and G. Smith)
- 1992 Jean Ann Dabb: The Church of St. Nicolas at Civrey: The Facade and its Sculptural Mary
Decoration (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
- 1991 Martha J. McClintock: Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913): The Life and Arts of a Period Literati Artist (Directed by Paul Berry)
- 1991 Victoria L. Weston: Modernization in Japanese-Style Painting: Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) and the Morotai Style (Directed by Paul Berry)
- 1991 Jasmin W. Cyril: The Imagery of San Bernardino Da Siena, 1440-1500: An Iconographic
Study (Directed by M. Eisenberg & R. W. Bissell)
- 1991 Chuhui Judy Lai: The Han Representation of exemplary Women: Context and Interpretation (Directed by Martin J. Powers)
- 1991 Carolyn Marie Carty: Dreams in Early Medieval Art (Directed by Ilene Forsyth)
- 1990 Janice Simon: The Crayon, 1855-1861: The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, and the Fine Arts (Directed by David Huntington)
- 1990 Woodard Openo: The Summer Colony at Little Harbor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
and Its Relation to the Colonial Revival Movement (Directed by David Huntington)
- 1990 Elizabeth Higashi: Conical Glass Vessels from Karanis: Function and Meaning in a
Pagan/Christian Context in Rural Egypt (Directed by Margaret Root)
- 1989 Joan O'Mara: The Haiga Genre and the Art of Yosa Buson (1716-84) (Directed by
W. Spink)
- 1989 Elizabeth Pilliod: Studies on the Early Career of Alessandro Allori (Directed by Graham Smith)
- 1989 Stephen A. Markel: The Origin and Early Development of the Nine Planetary Deities Mus\Art (Navagraha) (Directed by Walter Spink)
- 1989 Marshall Wu: Chin Nung: An Artist with a Wintry Heart (Directed by Richard Edwards
and Paul Berry)
- 1989 M. Carol Morland: Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841: Tradition and Innovation in Japanese
Painting (Directed by Paul Berry)
- 1989 Karen Kleinfelder: The Theme of the Artist and Model in Picasso's Late Graphics (Directed by R. Arnheim & Victor Miesel)
- 1989 Diane Tepfer: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery Downtown: 1926-1940;
A Study in American Art Patronage (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1988 Laurie Taylor-Kelley (Mitchell): The Horizontal Tuscan Panel, 1200-1365: Frame Format and Pictorial Composition (Directed by R. Arnheim & Marvin Eisenberg)
- 1988 Kathleen A. Pyne: Immanence, Transcendence, and Impressionism in Late Nineteenth-
Century American Painting (Directed by David C. Huntington)
- 1987 Beverly Orlove Held: "To Instruct and Improve...To Entertain and Please" American
Civic Protests and Pageants 1765-1784 (Directed by David C. Huntington)
- 1987 Linda J. Wolk: Studies in Perino Del Vaga's Early Career (Directed by Graham Smith)
- 1987 Erica Susanna Trimpi: Matteo Di Giovanni: Documents and a Critical Catalogue of
His Panel Paintings (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg)
- 1987 Barbara K. Schnitzer: The 16th Century French Ceramic Ware called Saint-Porchaire
(Directed by Nathan Whitman)
- 1987 Robert Alan Benson: Douglas Putnam Haskell (1899-1979) The Early Critical Writings
(Directed by Leonard Eaton)
- 1986 Christine M. Nelson Ruby: Art for the People: Art in Michigan Sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1934-1943 (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1986 Catherine Elna Fruhan: Trends in Roman Sculpture Circa 1600 (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
- 1986 Pearson M. Macek: The Westminster Retable: A Study in English Gothic Panel
Painting (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg & Christine Verzar Bornstein)
- 1985 Paul A. Berry: Tanomura Chikuden 1777-1835: Man Amidst the Mountains Japan F'97
(Directed by Cal French)
- 1985 Marjorie L. Harth: Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969) Patron and Collector
(Directed by M. Eisenberg & Charles Sawyer)
- 1985 Marion E. Jackson: Baker Lake Inuit Drawings: A Study in the Evolution of Artistic Self-Consciousness (Directed by Evan M. Maurer)
- 1985 Michael A. Marlais: Anti-Naturalism, Idealism and Symbolism in French Art Criticism, 1880-1895 (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
- 1985 Frank I. Heckes: Supernatural Themes in the Art of Francisco De Goya (Directed by Joel Isaacson & H. E. Wethey)
- 1985 Eleanor Mannikka: Angkor Wat: Meaning Through Measurement (Directed by W. Spink
& H. Woodward, Jr.)
- 1985 Sung-woo Kim: History and Design of the Early Buddhist Architecture in Korea (Directed by Leonard Eaton & Richard Edwards)
- 1984 Sadako Ohki: Ike Taiga's "Karayo Calligraphy (Directed by Cal French)
- 1984 Matthew L. Rohn: Visual Dynamics in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions (Directed by Rudolf Arnheim & Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1984 Marjorie J. Panadero (Hall): The Labors of the Months and the Signs of the Zodiac
in 12th-Century French Facades (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
- 1984 Vishakha N. Desai: Connoisseur's Delights: Early "Rasikapriya" Paintings in India(Directed by Walter M. Spink)
- 1984 Shelley K. Perlove: Gianlorenzo Bernini's Blessed Lodovica Albertoni and Baroque Devotion (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
- 1984 Beth E. Genne: The Film Musicals of Vincente Minnelli and the Team of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen: 1944-1958 (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1984 James J. Robinson: The Vitality of Style: Aspects of Flower and Bird Painting
During the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) (Directed by Richard Edwards)
- 1983 Phylis A. Floyd: Japonisme in Context: Documentation, Criticism, Aesthetic Reactions(Directed by Joel Isaacson)
- 1983 Ellen A. Plummer: The Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome(Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1983 Marilyn E. Leese: The Traikutaka Dynasty and Kanheri's Second Phase of Buddhist Cave Excavation (Directed by Richard Edwards)
- 1983 Maribeth Graybill: Kasen-e An Investigation into the Origins of the Tradition of Poet Pictures in Japan (Directed by Cal French)
- 1983 Barbara J. Haeger: The Religious Significance of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal
Son": An Examination of the Picture in the Context of the Visual and Iconographic
Tradition (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1983 William R. Levin: Studies in the Imagery of Mercy in Late Medieval Italian Art
(Directed by Christine Bornstein & M. Eisenberg)
- 1983 John B. Hunter III: The Life and Work of Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (Directed
by G. Smith & R. Ward Bissell)
- 1983 Elizabeth M. B. Gosling: The History of Sukhothai as a Ceremonial Center: A Study
of Early Siamese Architecture and Society (Directed by H. W. Woodward, Jr. and Walter M. Spink)
- 1983 Daniel E. O'Leary: Harmony and Ritualistic Allusion in the Tornabuoni Chapel
in Santa Maria Novella (Directed by Graham Smith)
- 1983 Leonard B. Darling, Jr.: The Transformation of Pure Land Thought and the Development of Shinto Shrine Mandala Paintings: Kasuga and Kumano (Directed by Cal French)
- 1983 Harry Murutes: Lorenzo Lotto's Major Altarpieces of the "Enthroned" Madonna with Saints": Doctoral Meaning, Sources, and Expression (Directed by H. E. Wethey and R. Ward Bissell)
- 1982 Kenneth A. Breisch: Small Public Libraries in America 1850-1890: The Invention and Evolution of a Building Type (Directed by Leonard K. Eaton)
- 1982 Jacquelynn Baas: Auguste Lepere and the Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1875-1895 (Directed by J. Isaacson)
- 1981 Alice R. Merrill (Hyland): Wen Chia (1501-1583), Derivation and Innovation (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1981 David M. Kowal: The Life and Art of Francisco Ribalta (Directed by R. W. Bissell)
- 1981 Stephanie Spencer: O. G. Rijlander--Art Photographer (Directed by D. C. Huntington)
- 1981 Jeremy Adamson: Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara": The Sublime as Transcendence(Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1981 Dennis Costanzo: Cityscape and the Transformation of Paris During the Second Empire
(Directed by Joel Isaacson)
- 1981 Toh Sugimura: The Chinese Impact on Certain 15th-Century Persian Miniature Paintings
from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi of Ethnology,
Sarayi Museum, Instanbul (Directed by R. Edwards and C. French)
- 1981 Steve J. Goldberg: Court Calligraphy in the Early T'ang Dynasty (Directed by R. Edwards and C. French)
- 1981 Kathe B. Geist: The Cinema of Wim Wenders 1967 to 1977 (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1980 Carole Drachler: The Gallery and Art Collection of Henry Clay Lewis (Directed by
D. Huntington)
- 1980 Janice Schimmelman: The Spirit of Gothic: The Gothic Revival House in Nineteenth-
Century America (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1980 Ann T. Brown: Non-Narrative Elements in Tuscan Gothic Frescoes (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
- 1980 Chi-sheng Kuo: The Paintings of Hung-Jen (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1980 Sewall Oertling: Ting Yun-p'eng: A Chinese Artist of the Late Ming Dynasty (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1980 Jane Block: Les II and Belgiam Avant-gardism, 1868-1894 (Directed by V. Miesel)
- 1980 Sara Schastok: 6th-Century Indian Sculptures from Samalaji: Style & Iconography
(Directed by W. Spink)
- 1979 Michael Browne: Kawahara Keiga: The Painter of Deshima (Directed by C. French)
- 1979 Louise Yuhas: The Landscape Painting of Lu Chih (1496-1576) An Analysis of the Style
of a Sixteenth-Century Soochow Painter (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1979 Warren Tresidder: The Classicism of the Early Works of Titian: Its Sources and
Character (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
- 1979 I. Job Thomas: Painting in Tamil Nadu A.D. 1350-1650 (Directed by W. Spink)
- 1979 Melinda Takeuchi: Visions of a Wanderer: The True View Paintings of Ike Taiga (1723-1776) (Directed by C. French)
- 1979 Susan Feinberg: Sir John Soane's "Museum": An Analysis of the Architect's House-Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (Directed by David Huntington)
- 1979 Michael Davis: The Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1979 Vicky Clark: The Illustrated "Abridged Astrological Treatises of Albumasar"
(Directed by C. Olds and C. Bornstein)
- 1979 Ghazi Bisheh: The Mosque of the Prophet at Madinah Throughout the First Century A. H., with Special Emphasis on the Umayyad Mosque (Directed by P. Soucek)
- 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 Pricilla Soucek)
- 1978 Robert Neuman: Robert De Cotte, Architect of the Late Baroque (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1978 William Jensen: The Sculptures of the Tomb of the Haterii (Directed by C. Olds)
- 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)
- 1978 Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard: Bernardo Martorell: 15th-Century Catalan Artist (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1978 Dan Ewing: The Paintings & Drawings of Jan de Beer (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1978 Robert Del Bonta: The Hoysala Style: Architectural Development & Artists, 12th & 13th Centuries A.D. (Directed by W. Spink)
- 1978 Wichit Charernbhak: Architectural Criticism as Reflected in Publication on Chicago Commercial Architecture in the 1880s and 1890s (Directed by David Huntington)
- 1978 Penelope Brownell: The Venetian Painter, Francesco Maffei (1620-1660) (Directed
by H. E. Wethey)
- 1978 Doris Birmingham: Andre Masson in America: The Artist's Achievement in Exile,
1941-1945 (Directed by V. Miesel)
- 1978 Julie Badiee: An Islamic Cosmography: The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwini (Directed by P. Soucek)
- 1977 Jean Weir: Timberline Lodge: A WPA Experiment in Architecture and Crafts (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1977 Charles Walters: Hiram Powers and William Rimmer: A Study in the Concept of Expression (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1977 Walter Thompson: The Domed Entry Pavilion in French Classical Architecture: Its Origin, Evolution and Interpretation (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1977 Richard Swain: “ Le Jardin de Plaisir” in Tudor and Stuart England (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1977 Edwin L. Rifkin: Antonioni's Mise-En-Scene: Elements of a Visual Language (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
- 1977 Margaret Rajam: The Fresco Cycle by Spinello Arentino in the Sala Di Balia, Siena:
Imagery of Pope and Emperor (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
- 1977 Dorothy Habel (Metzger): Piazza S. Ignazio, Rome in the 17th and 18th Centuries(Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1977 Forest McGill: The Art and Architecture of the Reign of King Prasatthong of Ayutthaya (1629-1656) (Directed by W. Spink & H. Woodward)
- 1977 Martha Agnew (Fader): Sculpture in the Piazza della Signoria as Emblem of the Florentine Republic (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
- 1977 Roger Berkowitz: Benjamin Smith, Sr., Regency Silversmith (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
- 1977 Susan Barnes: Giacomo Balla: His Life and Work 1871 to 1912 (Directed by V. Miesel)
- 1977 Stephen Addiss: Uragami Gyokudo: The Complete Literati Artist (Directed by Cal French)
- 1976 Gail Weigl: Foundations of a Momoyama Theme: Birds & Flowers of the Four Seasons
in a Landscape (Directed by Cal French)
- 1976 Law Watkins: The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes: Meaning and Use (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
- 1976 Grace Vlam: Western-Style Secular Painting in Momoyama Japan (Directed by C. French)
- 1976 Duncan Kinkead: Juan de Valdes Leal (1622-1690): His Life and Work (Directed
by H. E. Wethey)
- 1976 Diane Upright (Headley): Morris Louis: The Mature Paintings 1954-1962 (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
- 1976 Billie Thompson Fischer: The Sculpture of Valerio Cioli 1529-1599 (Directed by Graham Smith)
- 1976 Gerald Carr: The Commissioners' Churches of London, 1818-1837: A Study of Religious Art, Architecture & Patronage in Britain from the Formation of the Commission to the Accession of Victoria (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1976 Katherine R. Bateman: St. Albans, Its Ivory and Manuscripts Workshops: A Solution
to the St. Albans Bury, St. Edmunds Dilemma (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1975 Kathleen Raben Castiello: The Italian Sculptors of the United States Capitol: 1806-1834(Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1975 Ryan Howard: Pedro Duque de Cornejo, Andalusian Sculpture 1678-1757 (Directed
by H. E. Wethey)
- 1975 Sharon Rich Harrison: A Catalogue of the Etchings of Odilon Redon (Directed by J. Isaacson)
- 1975 James Collier: Linear Perspective in Flemish Painting and the Art of Petrus Christus and Dirk Bouts (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1974 Joanne Winjum: The Canterbury Roundels (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1974 John Steyaert: The Sculpture of St. Martin's in Halle and Related Netherlandish Works(Directed by C. Olds)
- 1974 Charles Rosenberg: Art in Ferrara During the Reign of Borso d'Este, 1450-1471
(Directed by E. Verheyen)
- 1974 Milan Mihal: Sakai Hoitsu: A Catalogue Raisonne of Selected Works (Directed by C. French)
- 1974 Deborah C. Brown (Levine): The Victoria and Albert Museum Akbar-Nama: A Study in History, Myth and Image (Directed by W. Spink)
- 1974 Bernard Bonario: Marco Basaiti: A Study of the Venetian Painter and a Catalogue of his Works (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1974 Sister Johanna Becker: The Karatsu Ceramics of Japan: Origins, Fabrications, and Types(Directed by C. French)
- 1974 Richard Axsom: Parade: Cubism as Theatre (Directed by J. Isaacson)
- 1974 Leila Avrin: The Illumination of the Moshe Ben-Asher Codex of 895 C.E. (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1973 Victoria Thorson: The Drawings of Rodin in America (Directed by V. Miesel)
- 1973 Michael Stoughton: The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1973 Barbara Carlisle (Rutledge): The Theatrical Art of the Italian Renaissance: Interchangeable Conventions in Painting and Theatre in the Late 15th
& Early 16th Centuries (Directed by N. Whitman)
- 1973 Betty Monroe: Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820): Transitional Bunjinga (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1973 Richard Janke: Janin Lomme and Late Gothic Sculpture in Navarre (Directed by H . E. Wethey)
- 1973 Annemarie Weyl Carr: The Rockefeller-McCormick New Testament (Gregory 2400)
(Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
- 1973 Laurel Blank Andrew: 19th Century Mormon Architecture (Directed by
D. Huntington)
- 1972 Peter Bermingham: Importation and Influence on the School in America (Directed by D. Huntington)
- 1971 Lois Drewer: The Carved Wooden Beams of the Church of Justinian, Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
- 1971 Jeannie Chenault (Porter): Bradley Walker Tomlin Abstract Expressionist (Directed by V. Miesel)
- 1971 Mary Cazort (Taylor): The Drawings and Paintings of Ubaldo Gandolfi (Directed by
H. E. Wethey)
- 1971 Donald Kuspit: Durer and the Northern Critics (1502-72) (Directed by C. Olds)
- 1971 Fay Frick: A Typology of Fustat Ceramics (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1970 John Varriano: The Roman Church Commissions of Martino Longhi the Younger (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1970 Margret Pond Rothman: A Sculpture Record of the Age of the Tetrarchies (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
- 1970 Robert Mode: Famous Men and Women Illustration in 15th Century Italian Manuscripts
(Directed by M. Eisenberg)
- 1970 Edward Keall: Significance of Parthian Nippur (Directed by D. White)
- 1970 Beverly Heisner: Aspects of Ecclesiastical Architecture of Viscardi (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1970 Geraldine Fowle: The Biblical Paintings of Sebastian Bourdon (1611-1671) (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1970 James Caswell: Early Cave Sculptures in Yun-Kang (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1970 Ulku Bates: The Anatolian Mausoleum of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1970 Janet Anderson: Pedro de Mena: Spanish Sculptor (1628-1688) (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1970 Mohamed Abd El Wahab: Decorated Woodwork from Egyptian-American Collections
(Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1969 David Wilkins: Maso di Banco (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg)
- 1969 Diane Kirkpatrick: Edoardo Paolozzi (Directed by V. H. Miesel)
- 1969 Esin Atil: The illustration of the Sur-Nameh of Ahmet, the Third (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1968 Lisa Beth Golombeck: Timurid Shrine at Gazur Gah: An Iconographical Interpretation
of Timurid Architecture 1360-1506 (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1968 Stanislaw Czuma: The Brahmanical Rashtrakuta Monuments at Ellora (Directed
by Walter M. Spink)
- 1967 William Trousdale: Sword-Scabbard Slides (Directed by O. Grabar)
- 1967 Charles Meyer: The Staircase of the Residenz at Wurzburg (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
- 1967 Ellen Johnston Laing: The Theme of the Scholars Meeting in Chinese Painting (Directed by R. Edwards)
- 1966 Theodore Turak: William Le Baron Jenney (Directed by Leonard Eaton)
- 1966 Margaret Damm Rolland: The Mythological Paintings of Van Dyck (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1966 R. Ward Bissell: Orazio Gentileschi (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 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)
- 1964 Suzanne Edwards Lewis: Early Christian Architecture in Milan (Directed by G. H. Forsyth)
- 1963 John Williams: The Bible of Leon of 960 (Directed by J. E. Snyder)
- 1961 Antanas Melnikas: The Early Works of Gentile de Fabriano (Directed by Marvin J. Eisenberg)
- 1961 Rosemary A. Marzolf: The Life and Works of Juan Carreno de Miranda (1614-1685)(Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1960 H. Phillip Stern: Ukiyoe Paintings (Directed by J. M. Plumer)
- 1960 Mojmir Frinta: The Master of the Beautiful Madonnas (Late Gothic Sculpture in
Bohemia) (Directed by J. E. Snyder)
- 1959 Victor Miesel: The Classical Elements in the Paintings of Rubens (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1959 Bernard Goldman: The Oriental Background of Etruscan Culture (Directed by Clark Hopkins)
- 1958 Glenn N. Patton: Antonio Guerro y Torres and Mexican Architecture of the 18th Century(Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1958 James Cahill: Wu Chen, His Life Paintings and Ideas (Directed by Max Loehr)
- 1957 Marilyn Stokstad: The Romanesque Sculpture of the Portico de la Gloria at Santiago de Compostela (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1957 Sister Mary Angelina Filipiak: The Plans of the Convents of the Poor Clares in Central Italy in the 13th & 14th Centuries (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1956 Emma Mellencamp: Renaissance Costume in Italian Painting 1450-1500 (Directed by
H. E. Wethey and completed under M. Eisenberg)
- 1953 Robert Enggass: The Religious Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
- 1946 Harry A. Broad: Contemporary American Lithography (Begun under Bruce Donaldson &
finished with J. G. Winter)
- 1940 Aloysius G. Weimer: The Munich Period in American Art (Directed by Bruce Donaldson
& J. G. Winter)
- 1940 Paul McPharlin: Puppets in American Life (Directed by J. G. Winter)
- 1940 Florence Day: Mesopotamian Pottery: Parthian, Sassanian and Early Islamic
(Begun under M. Aga-Oglu & finished with R. Ettinghausen)
