Past Thesis Titles
| Year | Student | Title | Faculty Advisor | 2nd Reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Cecelia L. Rosenman | "Making and Taking: Colonial Histories and Decolonial Possibilities in Photography." | Adriana Zavala | Peter Probst |
| 2019 | Ella Huzenis | "Solving the City: The Urban Interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark, Ugo La Pietra, and Stephen Willats" | Jeremy Melius | Jacob Stewart-Halevy |
| 2019 | Eran Sabaner* | "Politicizing Ottoman Art: Neo-Ottoman Style in Contemporary Turkish Art" | Jacob Stewart-Halevy | Eva Hoffman |
| 2018 | Phoebe Cavise | "Celebrity and the Abstract Expressionists" | Eric M Rosenberg | |
| 2018 | Madeline Onstwedder | "The Intersection of Theory and Practice in the Museum of Fine Art’s Displays of Native American Art" | Andrew McClellan | |
| 2018 | Helen Sibila | "Kandinsky" | Jeremy Melius | Cristelle Baskins |
| 2018 | Mary Travers* | "The Hours of the Virgin [Use of Paris]" | Christina Maranci | Karen Overbey |
| 2017 | Yuhan Qin | "A Political Fantasy: Female Images in the Late Ming Dynasty Chinese Erotic Paintings" | Eric M Rosenberg | Ikumi Kaminishi |
| 2017 | Chloe Hyman* | "Cobra: Psychological, Political, and Artistic Response to the Second World War" | Eric M Rosenberg | Jeremy Melius |
| 2016 | Amanda Rhine* | Beyond the World; A Study on the Effects of the Protestant Reformation on Church Architecture in Ireland and Scotland | Karen Overbey | |
| 2016 | Erin Dimson Doyle | Queering Identity in David Wojnarowicz’s Sex Series | Adriana Zavala | Eric Rosenberg |
| 2015 | Julie Perrone | Disaster Relief and Environmental architectures: Architectural Responses to Globally Impacting Issues | Ikumi Kaminishi | Daniel Abramson |
| 2015 | Nolan Jimbo* | Trace of Presence: Pierre Soulages and the Status of Gesture inPostwar France | Jeremy Melius | Adriana Zavala |
| 2014 | Alexander Goodhouse* | White Road/Black Shirt: Giorgio Morandi and Italian Fascism | Cristelle Baskins | Silvia Bottinelli |
| 2014 | Emily Cannon | Comparative Synagogue Architecture in the Venetian Ghetto, 1500-1800 | Daniel Abramson | Christina Maranci |
| 2013 | Carly Boxer* | "A Strange Chaos": Preserving Internet art in the Wake of Walter Benjamin's Critical Legacy | Monica McTighe | Peter Probst & K. Overbey |
| 2013 | Kathryn Kroetch | "And You Will Find the Truth Here:' A Neglected Seventh-Century Description of the Holy Sepulchre | Christina Maranci | E. Hoffman & K. Overbey |
| 2013 | Kathryn Grace Myers | The Walls of WomanHouse | Ikumi Kaminishi | Silvia Bottinelli |
| 2012 | Jielin Hu | Art as Catalyst in the Politicization of Ai Weiwei | Ikumi Kaminishi | Karen Overbey |
| 2012 | Mary DeCamp | The Architecture of Play | Daniel Abramson | Adriana Zavala |
| 2012 | Daniel Richards | The Boston Triple-Decker | Daniel Abramson | Ryan Centner |
| 2012 | Adam Kulewicz | "Simon Vouet and Jacques Blanchard : Rivalité à Paris?" | Cristelle Baskins | Andrew McClellan |
| 2012 | Anna Majeski | The Printed Books of Hours of Thielman Kerver: Exploring Printer, Shop, Community, and Book. | Karen Overbey | Eva Hoffman |
| 2012 | Michelle Wilson* | Gothic Revival at Home: Nineteenth-Century British Medievalism and the Decorative Arts | Karen Overbey | Daniel Abramson |
| 2011 | Emily Anderson | "An Image Within An Image": The Representation of Cameos in Cinquecento Portraiture | Cristelle Baskins | Karen Overbey |
| 2011 | Jeffrey Gaudet | Icons of Architecture and Fashion: An Exploration of the Complex Relationship Between the Two Fields | Daniel Abramson | Judy Blotnick |
| 2011 | Katherine Rice | Vulnerable and Threatening: Edward Hopper's Female Nudes | Monica McTighe | Eric Rosenberg |
| 2011 | LuMay Wang* | The Politics of Visual Culture: 2010 Shanghai World Expo | Ikumi Kaminishi | David Art |
| 2010 | Esme Spainer | "Thuis Best": The Highly-Ordered Home in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting | Andrew McClellan | Christina Maranci |
| 2010 | Elaine Hoffman | Adaptive Reuse of Mega-stores: Transforming an Icon of Suburban Inefficiency into a Model of Sustainability | Daniel Abramson | Monica McTighe |
| 2010 | Mae-ling Lokko* | The Brazil House: An exploration of Accra's Urban Growth Through a Critical Geography of Architecture | Peter Probst | Daniel Abramson |
*Madeline Harrison Caviness Prize
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture has established the Madeline Harrison Caviness Prize in honor of our esteemed senior colleague. This prize will be awarded annually to the undergraduate major whose senior honors thesis merits recognition for its intellectual rigor, creativity, and scholarly promise.