2007

Peter Hobbs, M.A.

Marc Leger, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Subjectivity and Social Space in Critical Public Art
Advisor: Joan Saab

T'ai Smith, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Weaving Work at the Bauhaus: The Gender and Engendering of a Medium, 1919-1937
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Norman Vorano, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Inuit Art in the Qallnaat World: Modernism, Museums and the Popular Imaginary, 1949-1962
Advisor: Janet Berlo

Catherine Zuromskis, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Intimate Exposures: The Private and Public Lives of Snapshot Photography
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

2006

Lucy Curzon, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Replacing Modernism: Visual Culture and National Identity in Britain, 1930-1960
Advisors: Janet Wolff and Joan Saab

Linda Edwards, M.A.

Dan Humphrey, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Subjective Others/Foreign Selves: Queer American Spectatorship and Swedish "Art" Cinema
Advisor: Douglas Crimp

Daniela Sandler, PhD.
Dissertation: Counterpreservation: Decrepitude and Memory in the Architecture of Berlin since 1989
Advisor: Andres Nader

Lisa Soccio, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Nothing's Shocking: On the Persistence of Avant-Gardism in Alernative Music
Advisors: Janet Wolff and Douglas Crimp

Andrea Weinstein, M.A.

Michael Williams, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Beyond Death: Perversity, Relationality, Virtuality
Advisor: Thomas DiPiero

2005

Matthew Brower, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Animal Traces: Early North American Wildlife Photography
Advisors: Lisa Cartwright and Paul Duro

Christopher Lautenschlager, M.A

2004

Dore Bowen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, San Jose State University
Dissertation: Danger Box: Fluxphotography and Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology

Gina Dabrowski, M.A.

Lisa Finn, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Risky Subjects: Constructions and Categorizations of Women in Health Care

Amy Herzog, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Queens College
City Univesity of New York
Dissertation: Dreams of Difference and Songs of the Same: The Image of Time in Musical Film

Matthew Reynolds, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art Department, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Program Coordinator, Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
Dissertation: Soft Focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project

2003

†Reni Celeste, Ph.D.
Dissertation: The Tragic Screen: Cinema and the Limits of Philosophy

Jonathan Finn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Dissertation: Police Photography: Visual Representation, Scientific Evidence and the Construction of the Criminal

Cyril Reade, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Dissertation: Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Representations of Jewish Life in Berlin from the Enlightenment to the Weimar

Odetta Norton , M.A.

2002

C. Ondine Chavoya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History and Latina/o Studies, Williams College
Williamstown, MA
Dissertation: Orphans of Modernism: Chicano Art, Public Representation, and Spatial Practice in Southern California

Bridget Cooks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Art History & Ethnic Studies Program, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Dissertation: Seen and Not Seen: A History of Black Representation and Self Representation in Art Exhibitions in the United States, 1893-1998

Darby English, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Dissertation: Black Artist, Black Work? Regarding Difference in Three Dimensions

Natasha Goldman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Texas, El Paso,
El Paso, TX
Dissertation: "Missing Absence: Trauma and National Memorials to the Holocaust"

Karen Kosasa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program, The University of Hawaii
Manoa, Hawaii
Dissertation: Critical Sights/Sites: Settler Colonialism and Art Pedagogy in Hawaii

Kirsi Peltomäki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Art History-Oregon State University
Dissertation: A Change of Address: Strategies of Institutional Critique in Recent American Art

Tina Takemoto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
Dissertation: Traumatic Repetition: Mimicry, Melancholia, Performance

R.J. Warren Zanes , Ph.D.
Vice President of Education, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum-Cleveland, OH
Dissertation: Globalization and the Anxious State of New Regionalism

2001

Mark Denaci, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY
Dissertation: The Thick of Things: Framing, Fetishism, and the Work of Art History

Hanneke Grootenboer, Ph.D.
Research Leader, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dissertation: The Rethoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Still-life and Trompe l'oeil Painting

Laura Quinn, Ph.D.
Director, Donor Relations & Campaign Events
Smith College - Northhampton, MA
Dissertation: Telling It Slant: Historic House Museums and the Re-creation of the Past

Jeanette Roan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies
George Mason University - Fairfax, VA
Dissertation: Fictions of Faraway Places: Travel, Exoticism, and Cinema from High Imperialism to Global Culture

Amy Athey-McDonald, M.A.
Public Relations Manager, Yale Center for British Art

Dan Reyes, M.A.

2000

Philip Gentile, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Mass Communications and Journalism
University Southern Mississippi
Dissertation: Pugilistic Occasions: Cultural Constructions of Boxing in Painting, Film and Television

Bethany Odgon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Media Studies
Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
Dissertation: On the Subject of Reality Television

Anna Williams, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Nothing but Bodies: Nineteenth Century Representation of Animals in Georges Cuvier's Natural System and U.S. Industrial Meat Production

1998

Brian Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communications
University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: Media Pedagogy: Institutional Discipline, Cultural Dissidence, and Electronic Media Culture

John Consigli, M.A.

Alla Efimova, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Communist Nostalgia: On Soviet Aesthetics and Post-Soviet Memory.

Manisha Mirchandani, M.A.

Nicholas Newman, M.A.

1997

Belinder Dhanoa, M.A.

Mario Caro, M.A.

E.J. Hernandez, M.A.

Michael Maranda, M.A.

O. Funmilayo Makarah, M.A.

Allyson Polsky, M.A.
Thesis: Selling Out/Reading In: Negotiating Queer Identities in Commodity Culture

Michael Sicinski, M.A.

1996

Grant Kester, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: The Faculty of Possession: Property and the Aesthetic in English Culture 1730-1850

Laura Marks, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Film Studies, Carleton University, Canada
Dissertation: The Skin of the Film: Experimental Cinema and Intercultural Experience

Lianne McTavish, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dissertation: Complicting Categories: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century French Visual Culture

Walid Ra'ad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art, The School of Art at the Cooper Union
New York, NY
Dissertation: Beirut...a la folie: a Cultural Analysis of the Abduction of Westerners in Lebanon in the 1980s

Rochelle Steiner, Ph.D.
Chief Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Dissertation: Framing Words: Visual Language in Contemporary Art

Scott DeForest, M.A.
Thesis: The Next Generation and the "New" Patriarchy: Redemption and Resurrection for the Nuclear Family

1995

Howard Singerman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
Dissertation: The Discourse of the Artist in the University

Brandon Block, M.A.

Peter Gambos, M.A.

1994

Cynthia Smith, M.A.

1993

George Dimock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Dissertation: Constructions of Childhood

Lev Manovich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Virtual Reality

Barbara Miller, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Postmodernism: Artistic Ploy or Cultural Response?: A Visual and Textural Analysis of Fragmentation and Layering in Postmodern Art and Dominant Cinema

Matthew Simms, M.A.

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