Attended by students, faculty, staff, family, and friends, the 2015 Qualifying Paper Symposium took place on May 1.
The event provided an opportunity for graduating MA students to give short talks on their capstone projects.
The 2015 Clive Wainwright Award went to Sarah Pickman, while the CINOA prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation was awarded to Debra Schmidt Bach. The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award for an outstanding qualifying paper on an American subject was shared by Robert Gordon-Fogelson and Claire McRee.
At this year’s commencement, which will take place on May 23 at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, the following degrees will be awarded:
Doctor of Philosophy
Debra Schmidt Bach, Brooklyn, New York
Makers, Masters, and Manufacturers: Early Industrialization of the Silver Trade in Antebellum New York
Master of Philosophy
William Michael DeGregorio, Danbury, Connecticut
Objectifying Dress: Collecting Historic Costume in the United States, 1920–1960
Joyce A. Denney, New York, New York
The Story of Troy Finds a Home in Macau: A Set of Intercultural Embroidered Hangings of the 17th Century
Mei Mei Rado, Fuzhou, China
Xiyang Textiles in the 18th-Century Qing Imperial Court: Fabrication, Display, and Representation of the West
Master of Arts
Lisa M. Adang, New York, New York
At the Nexus of a Nebula: Where Phenomenology and Material History Meet in Virtual Reality
Jaeun Cabelle Ahn, Richmond, Canada
Skinned Sculptures: Paper, Plaster, and Pose in Jean-Galbert Salvage’s Anatomie du Gladiateur combattant (1812)
Emily Anne Banas, Brunswick, Maine
Art or Culture? Interpretation and Display of Islamic Objects in the Museum
Virginia Fister, St. Louis, Missouri
From the Studio to the Salon: Artists, Craftsmen, and Collaborative Environments in Eighteenth-Century France
Andrew Edward Gardner, Diablo, California
From Suburban Kitchen to Pop Art Canvas: Women and American Domesticity in Tom Wesselmann’s Still Life #30, 1950–1963
Robert Jacob Gordon-Fogelson, Providence, Rhode Island
Sunar, Graves, and the Heyday of the Furniture Showroom, 1979–1983: Building a Link between Producers and Purchasers of Corporate Design
Linden J. Hill, Highland Park, Illinois
“Mod”-ifying the Medieval: Yves Saint Laurent and Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris
Linnea Perrin Johnson, Kansas City, Missouri
Easy Care for Durable Beauty: The Formica Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair
Annabel Frassinelli Keenan, Easton, Connecticut
Swid Powell: A Case Study in Celebrity Product Design with Special Reference to Richard Meier
Jane Therese Killmar, Memphis, Tennessee
Avant-Garde Feminism: The Fashion Images and Shows of Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons, 1975–1990
Erica Lome, South Egremont, Massachusetts
“A Place of Demonstration”: Israel Sack’s “King” Hooper Mansion and the Business of American Antiques in the 1920s Colonial Revival
Jaimie Nicole Luria, Miami, Florida
Diné ‘Iikááh: Mediating Materiality and Meaning of Navajo Medicinal Practice
Claire Elizabeth McRee, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The Debutante Slouch: Fashion and the Female Body in the United States, 1912–1925
Julia Pastor, Kenosha,Wisconsin
From E-tail to Retail: Warby Parker’s Visionary Quest for Cool
Sarah Mendoza Pickman, White Plains, New York
“Not a Trouser Button Must Be Missing”: Dress, Image, and Cultural Encounter in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration
Kirstin Purtich, Santa Monica, California
The Gentleman and the Bachelor: Fashioning the Male Consumer in 1920s Paris and Berlin
Ariel Rosenblum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Tekhelet: The Biblical Colorant and Its Contemporary Revival
Minda Bond Stockdale, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Companionate Marriage: Tracing an Iconographic Theme on English Embroidered Furnishings under the Restoration
Beatrice Victoria Thornton, San Francisco, California
An Abstract Documentarian: Photography as Design Process in Jan Yoors Tapestries, 1956–1977
Lanzhen Wang, Shenyang, China
Extravagance Refurnished: Interior Display in the Jin Ping Mei Illustrations of the Early Qing Era, 1650–1750
