Dissertations in progress by subject

ROSENBLATT, LEAH, "Hide and Seek: Edouard Manet's Portraits of Women" (IFA/NYU, L. Nochlin)

SHEEHAN, TANYA, "The Art of Operating: Portrait Photography as Surgery in Late Nineteenth-Century American Culture" (Brown, K. Kriz, K. S. Champa)

SMITH, SHARON C., "Planned Grandeur: A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Early Modern Italy and Mamluk Egypt" (SUNY Binghamton, C. Burroughs)

TAYLOR, JILLIAN, "Encyclopedic Desire: Panoramic Guides to Paris, 1830-1850" (Columbia, J. Crary)

TOWLE, DIANE, "Japonisme: Representations of Nature and Woman in the Art of Bracquemond, Degas, Cassatt, and Van Gogh, 1866-1891" (Washington University, E. C. Childs)

UNRUH, ALLISON, "Aspiring to La Vie Galante: Reincarnations of Rococo in Second Empire France" (IFA/NYU, L. Nochlin)

VINSON, HEATHER, "Dance and Disjuncture: Reading (Spatial) Practices in Degas's Images of the Ballet, 1870-1885" (Michigan, H. Lay)

WEEKS, EMILY, "The Reality Effect: The Art of John Frederick Lewis" (Yale, T. Barringer)

YORK, KAREN, "American Portrait Cameo Cutting: An Alternate Apprenticeship in Relief Sculpture, 1830-1870" (Indiana, M. Facos)

YOSHIDA, ATSUSHI. "Modern Eremites: Art and the Vocation of Withdrawal in Gilded-Age America" (Washington University, A. Miller)

ZALEWSKI, LEANNE, "The Rise and Fall of Academic Art: Bouguereau, Cabanel, Gerome, and Meissonier in Paris and New York" (CUNY, P. Mainardi)

ZEHNDER, A., "Conversations with the Other: Episodes and Intersection in the Careers of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas" (Bryn Mawr. S. Levine)

Oceanic/Australian Art

YAMASHITA, VELMA JEAN, "The Commercialization of Belauan Storyboards" (Washington. R. Bravmann)

Pre-Columbian Art

AHLFELDT, JENNIFER, "Reconstructing the World: Royal Performance in Eighth-Century Maya Architecture, Temple 22, Copan, Honduras" (Columbia, E. Pasztory)

MAGALONI-KERPEL, DIANA, "Images of the Beginning: The Painted History of the Conquest of Mexico in Book XII of the Florentine Codex" (Yale, M. Miller)

MORAN, ELIZABETH, "The Sacred as Everyday: Aztec Sacrifice and Eating Rituals" (CUNY, E. Quinones-Keber)

OLTON, ELIZABETH, "To Animate the Dead: The Iconography and Cosmology of Classic Maya Elite Burials" (New Mexico, H. Barnet-Sanchez)

O'NEIL, MEGAN, "Making Visible History: Ancient Maya Sculpture from the Lacanja Region of Chiapas, Mexico" (Yale, M. Miller)

TERRY, JAMES, "Signifying Architecture: An Analysis of the Architecture of Chicanna, Campache, Mexico" (Yale, M. Miller)

ZAMUDIO, RAUL, "In Quetzalli in Tlacuilloli: Aztec Featherwork before and after the Conquest" (CUNY, E. Quinones-Keber)

Renaissance/Baroque Art

ANDERSON, ELISSA, "Re-forming Mary in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints" (Kansas, L. Stone-Ferrier)

ARIOLI, KRISTIN, "Cardinal Raffaele Riario (1477-1521) and the Dynamics of Renaissance Patronage" (USC, E. Howe)