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Alumni of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies
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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