Another academic year has closed and Bard Graduate Center once again celebrates the outstanding achievements of our latest graduates—twelve master’s degree students who presented their qualifying papers and two doctoral candidates who successfully completed their dissertations. We wish them success as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
Doctor of Philosophy in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
The title of the doctoral dissertation is listed for each student.
MICHELLE JACKSON-BECKETT
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / BA, Saint Joseph’s University; MA, Parsons School of Design/Cooper Hewitt
“Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling, 1918–1938”
Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize
REBECCA JUMPER MATHESON
New York, New York / BA, Rice University; MA, Fashion Institute of Technology; JD, University of Texas School of Law
“American Artisans: William and Elizabeth Phelps, and Phelps Associates”
CINOA Award for Outstanding Dissertation
Master of Arts in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
The title of the master’s qualifying paper is listed for each student.
mary adeogun
Bear, Delaware / BA, Princeton University
“a satin scarf, and its many uses”
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award
BRIDGET BARTAL
Williams Bay, Wisconsin / BA, Lawrence University
“(Mis)fitting Taliesin: The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship”
GRACE CAMILLE GAN BILLINGSLEA
Seattle, Washington / BA, New York University
“Fashioning Equality, Independence & Freedom for Women in the Nineteenth Century: Madame Demorest’s Business Empire”
ARIANA BISHOP
Andover, Massachusetts / BS, University of Delaware
“Loud Jewelry, Loose Women: Sex, Power, and Adornment in Storyville, New Orleans, 1880-1920”
JULIA MARIE CARABATSOS
North Easton, Massachusetts / BA, Yale University
“‘What a motley Creature I was become’: Hester Piozzi’s ‘Demi-Naturalization’ Materialized”
Clive Wainwright Award
MARION DEMARIS LARGUIER COX
Nashville, Tennessee / BS, Skidmore College
“Totem and Anti-Totem: Dual Signification and the Contentious History of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument”
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award
ELLEN ENDERLE
Stuart, Florida / BA, Columbia University
“Adorned in Gold: Religion, Personal Display, and Women’s Agency in Ancient Macedonia”
KATHERINE LANZA
Chatham, Massachusetts / BA, Pratt Institute
“Timeless Dispositions: Devotional Objects as Non-Mimetic Portraits”
KRISTIN SUE MCCOOL
East Lansing, Michigan / BA, Michigan State University
“Challenging the Status Quo: Unsettling Dominant Narratives in MoMA’s Gallery 412”
LAURA MOGULESCU
Brooklyn, New York / BA, Brown University; MSW, Hunter College
“The Foreign-born Mother and the Materiality of Americanization: Photography and the Creation and Documentation of Americanization by the Educational Committee for Non-English Speaking Women”
Heather Jane McCormick Prize
SAMUEL EDMOND SNODGRASS
Springfield, Missouri / BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“‘May I be deaf at the Opera’: Dress and Voice of Macaroni and Castrati”
PIM-ORN SUPAVARASUWAT
Bangkok, Thailand / BA, New York University
“‘One Sheds One’s Sickness in Books’: Illness, Uncertainty, and the Book as Creative Intervention”
Clive Wainwright Award
