Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
- Behan, Antonia. “The Brain of the Machine”: Ethel Mairet’s Textile Laboratory.
- Bellemare, Julie. “A New Creation of this Dynasty”: Color Technologies and Imperial Taste in Qing China, 1700-1735.
- D’Amato, Martina. “Crossing the Alps with Their Treasures”: The Politics of Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Arts in France and Italy, 1861-1916
- DeGregorio, William. Objectifying Dress: Collecting Historic Costume in the United States, 1920-1970.
- Denney, Joyce. The Story of Troy Finds a Home in Macau: A Set of Multicultural Embroidered Hangings of the Seventeenth Century.
- Fanning, Colin. Bringing Theory to Form: Katherine and Michael McCoy, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Expanded Discourse of Design, 1971-2005.
- Folkman, Marjorie. Dance’s Imprint: Choreography of the Visual Avant-Gardes.
- Griffiths, Christine. From Garden to Toilette: Cultivating Perfume in Early Modern England.
- Hilker, Anne. The Legal Lives of Things: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Boundary between Public and Private.
- Jackson-Beckett, Michelle. Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling, 1918-1968.
- Keagle, Matthew. “An Uniform Is Granted by All to be Absolutely Necessary”: A Cultural History of Military Dress in the Revolutionary Atlantic.
- Larsen, Christian. Aquarela do Brasil: Transnational Flows of Brazilian Design and Material Culture.
- Lillie, Julia. Taking Refuge in Print: Exiled Protestant Engravers from the Southern Netherlands in Cologne and the Circle of Johannes Bussemacher, 1585-1610.
- Perry, Rebecca. Problematic Bodies: Dressing Pre-Adolescent Girls in the United States, 1930-1965.
- Sanchez Gomez, Antonio. An Exotic Object and Its Places: The Thor Washing Machine in Barranquilla and Bogota (1906-1920).
- Scaturro, Sarah. The Development of Costume Conservation in North America and Britain, 1964-1986.
- Stewart, Courtney. Crafting the Brilliant Cut: The Indian Diamond in England, 1650-1750.
- St. George, Elizabeth. A “Beautiful Household” for Czechoslovakia: Krásná jizba and Notions of Modern Living, 1927-1938.
- Thompson, Amanda. Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Patchwork and the Mediation of Settler Colonial Encounters, 1918-Present.
- Tuite, Rebecca. Nightwear in Hollywood Film and Television and the US Nightwear Industry, 1945-1977.
- Yang, Xiaoyi. From Obscurity to Celebrity: Zhangzhou Ceramics for Japan.