Doctoral Dissertations Completed

Westernwear and the Postwar American Lifestyle, 1945-1965. 2016.
Abrego, Sonya

Wearing Propaganda: Civilian Textiles on the Japanese Home Front 1931-1945 with Reference to Britain and The United States. 2006.
Atkins, Jacqueline

Makers, Masters, and Manufacturers: Early Industrialization of the Silver Trade in Antebellum New York. 2014.
Bach, Debra Schmidt

The Culture of Dress History in France: The Past in Fashion, 1814-1900. 2016.
Bass-Krueger, Maude
Craftsmanship as a Mode of Thought: Ethel Mairet and Ananda Coomaraswamy in Ceylon, India, and Britain, 1902–1952. 2020.
Behan, Antonia
“A New Creation of This Dynasty”: Enamels, Glass, and the Deployment of Color in Qing China, 1700–1735. 2020.
Bellemare, Julie

The Chymical Cleric: John Allin, Puritan Alchemist in England and America (1623-1683). 2013.
Bilak, Donna A.
Good Goods and Sublte Rogues: The Royal African Company and the Culture of the Textile Trade on the Gold Coast, 1660-1730. 2020.
Bogansky, Amy Elizabeth
The Brummer Gallery and the Market for Medieval Art in Paris and New York, 1906–1949. 2019.
Brennan, Christine

Everyday Montreal, 1972 : Museum and Film Dialogues on Urban Redevelopment. 2016.
Chan, Yenna
“Dressed in the costumes of their time and surrounded by the furniture they knew”: Marrying Fashion, Period Rooms, and Manners at the Museum of the City of New York, 1923-1958. 2021.
DeGregorio, William
Lenygon & Morant (c.1904-1943): “Period Style” Interior Design and the Transatlantic Market for English Antiques. 2014.
Dew, Eleanor Sarah

Fashioning Early Cinema: Dress and Representation in American Film, 1905-1930. 2010.
Finamore, Michelle Tolini

The Life and Work of Mary McFadden: With Special Emphasis on the Ancient and Ethnic Sources of Her Designs. 2013.
Fisher, Ellen (posthumous)
Henry Varnum Poor: Crow House, Craft, and Design. 2017.
Hannah, Caroline Margaret
The Legal Lives of Things: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Boundary Between Public and Private. 2021.
Hilker, Anne
Circles, Pins, and Threads: Craft Knowledge Exchange in the Digital Sphere. 2019.
Israel, Mei-Ling Israel
Shaped by the Camera: Navajo Weavers and the Photography of Making in the American Southwest, 1880-1945. 2019.
Jensen, Hadley
Uniformly Speaking: Military Dress in an Age of Reform, 1763-1789. 2020.
Keagle, Matthew

Bonnie Cashin: Fashion and Costume Design ca. 1923-1985. 2009.
Lake, Stephanie

“Teenagers Have Taken over the House”: Print Marketing, Teenage Girls, and the Representation, Decoration, and Design of the Postwar Home, c. 1945-1965. 2013.
Lichtman, Sarah A.

In Pursuit of Art Manufacture: The Business and Design History of Gillow and Company, 1862-1897,British Cabinet Maker and House Furnisher. 2015.
Microulis, Laura
Adorning Venus: Roman Gold Body Chains, the Corpus, and their Context. 2019.
Nelson, Meredith
Inside the Ideal Home: The Changing Values of Apartment Living and the Promotion of Consumption in Sweden, 1950–1970. 2020.
Perers, Maria
Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and His Circle, 1948-63. 2018.
Pérez, Jorge Francisco Rivas
“The Difficult In-between Age”: Fashioning Pre-Adolescent Girls in the United States, C. 1930-1960. 2020.
Perry, Rebecca Anne
The Empire’s New Cloth: Western Textiles and Imperial Identity at the 18th-Century Qing Court. 2018.
Rado, Mei Mei
Diógenes A. Reyes’s Silhouette Biography: Print Culture and the Politics of Technology, Distance, Mediation, and Things Left Unsaid in the Transregional and Transnational History of the Colombian Caribbean (1898-1920). 2021.
Sánchez Gómez, Antonio
Kenneth Snelson and the Science of Sculpture in 1960s America. 2012.
Sande-Friedman, Amy
Postwar American Jewish Religious Identity, Ritual Objects, and Modern Design: Ludwig Y. Wolpert, the Tobe Pascher Workshop, and the Joint Committee on Ceremonies of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations/Central Conference of American Rabbis. 2019.
Sandler Perten, Rebecca

Studies on Costume Histories from the Age of German Kulturgeschichte. 2015.
Scholz, Frederun

John Cotton Dana and the Business of Enlightening Newark: Applied Art at the Newark Public Library and Museum, 1902-29. 2006.
Shales, Ezra
Case Studies in Critical Regionalism: Takashi Sugimoto, Kuma Kengo, and Hiroshi Sambuichi. 2017.
Shinn, Masako H.

Hotel Design in Zionist Palestine: Modernism, Tourism, and Nationalism, 1917-1948. 2006.
Smith, Daniella Ohad

Samuel Luke Pratt and the Arms and Armor Trade in Victorian Britain. 2013.
Tavares, Jonathan
A. A. Vantine and Company: Japanese Handcrafts for the American Consumer, 1895-1920. 2010.
Yamamori, Yumiko