Doctoral Dissertations in Progress

  • Gothic Art and Studium: The Studium, Mendicants, and the Arts in Medieval Bologna
    Assis, Michael

  • “Crossing the Alps with Their Treasures”: The Politics of Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Arts in France and Italy, 1861-1916
    D’Amato, Martina

  • The Story of Troy Finds a Home in Macau: A Set of Multicultural Embroidered Hangings of the Seventeenth Century
    Denney, Joyce

  • Fashioning the Identities of Settler Women in Algeria during the 1930s
    Desemerie, Pierre-Jean

  • Bringing Theory to Form: Katherine and Michael McCoy, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Expanded Discourse of Design, 1971-2005
    Fanning, Colin

  • Dance’s Imprint: Choreography of the Visual Avant-Gardes
    Folkman, Marjorie

  • From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England
    Griffiths, Christine

  • Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling, 1918-1968
    Jackson-Beckett, Michelle

  • Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture
    Larsen, Christian

  • Taking Refuge in Print: Exiled Protestant Engravers from the Southern Netherlands in Cologne and the Circle of Johannes Bussemacher, 1585-1610
    Lillie, Julia

  • American Artisans: William and Elizabeth Phelps, and Phelps Associates
    Matheson, Rebecca

  • The Development of Costume Conservation in North America and Britain, 1964-1986
    Scaturro, Sarah

  • Crafting the Brilliant Cut: The Indian Diamond in England, 1650-1750
    Stewart, Courtney

  • A “Beautiful Household” for Czechoslovakia: Krásná jizba and Notions of Modern Living, 1927-1938
    St. George, Elizabeth

  • Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Patchwork and the Mediation of Settler Colonial Encounters, 1918-Present
    Thompson, Amanda

  • Reassembling George Catlin’s Indian Gallery: Material Culture and the Performance of Ethnographic Realism
    Treier, Leonie

  • Nightwear in Hollywood Film and Television and the US Nightwear Industry, 1945-1977
    Tuite, Rebecca

  • From Obscurity to Celebrity: Zhangzhou Ceramics for Japan
    Yang, Xiaoyi