Below is a list of submitted qualifying projects from the past four years. For a complete list of MA theses and qualifying projects, visit our library website.
Allenbrand, Karlyn
“Are You French, Greek, Ottoman, Hellene, Or Roman?”: “Amalia” Dress in the New Greek Nation, 1832–1865
Anagnostopoulos, Antonia
Recovering the Design of Noémi Pernessin Raymond
Berthezène, Irène
On Reflection: Mirrors at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Camarra, Elliot
How to Fix a Broken Pot: Conceptual Normativity in the Archaeology of Craft
Cohen, Katherin
“From out the filmy piña draperies around her white and shapely neck”: Philippine Piña Textiles and Discourses of Distinction
Crenshaw, Angela
“A bead, a thimble or some other pauble”: Thimbles and Self-Identity in Early New York
Donoghue, Allison
“A Winter Temperature in the Summer Time”: Preserving Nineteenth-Century Lagerkellers and German-American Heritage
Dunsmore, William
A Seat at the Table: The Dining Table in Black Art and Design, 1850–2022
Griffin, Mackensie
Drinks and Desire: Coffee Culture in Early Modern Europe
Hewis, Robert
Finding Flanders: (Sub)national Identities in the Work of Maarten van Severen
Machiels, Raphaël
The Business of Art: The Union Porcelain Works
Madsen, Patricia
“Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast
Maresca, Sydney
Gender, Technology, and Fashion: Knit Stockings in Seventeenth-Century England
Caroline Montague
Ruff Work: Laundresses and their Labor in Early Modern England and the Netherlands
Salem-Wiseman, Rachel
Picture Perfect Hula Girls: A Story of Hula in New York City
Santana, Samantha
Nostalgic Bulldozers and Glass Boxes: Nineteenth-Century Spectacle at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970s
Taylor, Mabel
Beyond the China Trade—A Biography of a Qing Dressing Case in Kingscote, Newport
Zou, Luli
Ballowe, Heath
Comprehensive Stewardship: Responsibly Reconciling the Past
Chamberlin, Daniel
Seeing Women: The Rise in Popularity of Women’s Vision Aids in Nineteenth-Century America
Harvey, Emily
Spiral Ornament in Shang Dynasty China
Law, Jeffrey
The Splendor of Silk in Clay: Mongol Luxury Textiles and Yuan Dynasty Blue-and-White Porcelain
Lui, Louise
“A Poppet-Queen, Drest up by me”: Dolls, Propriety, and Girlhood in Early Modern Europe
Margi, Isabella
“To choose and be surrounded with the finest creations”: Assembling Value in the Ben-Zion House
Massey, Joshua
Rooftop Fancy and Folly: Tudor Chimney Stack as Device and Discourse
Perry, Talia
The New Promethean: Modernism and the Occult in Claude Fayette Bragdon’s Projective Ornament
Porsella, Madeline
Crafting Stories of Value: Commodity Paths for Herati Glass
Riley, Anna
“Facing Determinedly Toward the Future”: Maxwell Shieff’s Involvement and Innovation within the Entertainment Industries of Canada and California, 1946–1959
Tangum, Maura
Imagining the French “Self” and Its “Others” Through the Display of Dress in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
Volpa, Zoe
adeogun, mary
(Mis)fitting Taliesin: The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship
Bartal, Bridget
Fashioning Equality, Independence & Freedom for Women in the Nineteenth Century: Madame Demorest’s Business Empire
Billingslea, Grace
Loud Jewelry, Loose Women: Sex, Power, and Adornment in Storyville, New Orleans, 1880-1920
Bishop, Ariana
“What a motley Creature I was become”: Hester Piozzi’s “Demi-Naturalization” Materialized
Carabatsos, Julia
Totem and Anti-Totem: Dual Signification and the Contentious History of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument
Cox, Marion
Adorned in Gold: Religion, Personal Display, and Women’s Agency in Ancient Macedonia
Enderle, Ellen
Timeless Dispositions: Devotional Objects as Non-Mimetic Portraits
Lanza, Katherine
Challenging the Status Quo: Unsettling Dominant Narratives in MoMA’s Gallery 412
McCool, Kristin
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
Mogulescu, Laura
“May I be deaf at the Opera”: Dress and Voice of Macaroni and Castrati
Snodgrass, Samuel
“One Sheds One’s Sickness in Books”: Illness, Uncertainty, and the Book as Creative Intervention
Supavarasuwat, Pim
Clyburn, Madison
“A Little World of Themselves”: Women and the Cultivation of Fern Cases in the Nineteenth Century
DeQuarto, Natalie
Comfort & Convalescence: Fauteuils de Malade in Eighteenth-Century France
Dubay, Noah
Seafaring Treasures: Latin America and the Transpacific Trade
Fagua-Arias, Juliana
Imitating the Flower: Nineteenth-Century Artificial Plants and Gendered Botanical Education
Isakson, Emily
Tonsorial Transformations: Women’s Sokuhatsu in Nineteenth-Century Meiji Japan, 1868-1912
Murphy, Daria
The Afterlife of Lacquer Panels: Transforming Chinese Luxuries into French Furniture
Qu, Weixun
The Lives of Berenike: A Port City and Its People
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine
Dehua Porcelain Figures of Budai: Models of Adaptivity in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China and “Europe”
Volk, Cynthia
Science in the Study and Authentication of Catholic Relics
Williams, Madison
On Anne Wilson and Winding the Warp: Embodied and Tacit Knowledge in Contemporary Textile Art
Young, Jessica
Allen, Laura
The Head and the Hand: Hospitality and Collaborative Craftsmanship
Birkett, Jordane
Playing Tourist: The Grand Tour and Cartographic Board Games of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
De Cola, Christina
“Shoulders down; arms back; chest open; and waistband properly HIGH up”: Dandyism, Fashion, and the Perception of Masculinity in Late-Georgian Britain
Dee Collins, Nicole
The Crafting of Skins and Laws: Legislative Rhetoric, Handicraft Production, and Indigenous Alaskan Identity
Hayflick, Emily
Designing Destruction: Archizoom Associati’s “Superonda” Sofa as Radical Critique
Koehn, Elizabeth
Make It Real: Fantasy and Development of Interwar Japanese Girls’ Culture
Lin, Chi-Lynn
Understanding Tao and Ci: The 1908 Ceramics Exhibition in Late Qing Shanghai and the Emergence of Modern Chinese Cultural Nationalism
Liu, Jinyi
A Taste for Death: Love, Humor, and Suicide in an Eighteenth-Century English Recipe Book
Mazzone, Jacqueline
Logic, Nervousness, and Architecture in Vienna: Two Studies in the Unhomely
Neibergall, Will
Fashion Playground: The Relation between Fashion and the Body in the Spaces for Comme des Garçons
Rong, Yi
Ghostly Traces and Haunted Labor: The Sincere Craft of Janine Antoni
Schwabe, Rachael
Space Sells: The Life and Times of a “Tin” Toy Mars Gun Made in Japan
Warner, Madeline
I Have Seen Her in the Mirror: Elsa Schiaparelli, Surrealist Fashion, and Female Agency
Weindling, Danielle
Photography and the Roycroft Press: Photogravures, Halftones, and Mythmaking in East Aurora
Weintraub-Weissman, Caleb
“A Few Diamonds, Judiciously Worn”: Jewelry, Etiquette, and Feminine Virtue in the Gilded Age
Winkler, Alice
Ecology by Design: Biosphere 2 and Closed-System Design in the Space Age
Zhou, Coco
Class of 2024
“Powered by the Sun”: The Commodification of Solar Energy during the Cold War, 1954–1960Allenbrand, Karlyn
“Are You French, Greek, Ottoman, Hellene, Or Roman?”: “Amalia” Dress in the New Greek Nation, 1832–1865
Anagnostopoulos, Antonia
Recovering the Design of Noémi Pernessin Raymond
Berthezène, Irène
On Reflection: Mirrors at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Camarra, Elliot
How to Fix a Broken Pot: Conceptual Normativity in the Archaeology of Craft
Cohen, Katherin
“From out the filmy piña draperies around her white and shapely neck”: Philippine Piña Textiles and Discourses of Distinction
Crenshaw, Angela
“A bead, a thimble or some other pauble”: Thimbles and Self-Identity in Early New York
Donoghue, Allison
“A Winter Temperature in the Summer Time”: Preserving Nineteenth-Century Lagerkellers and German-American Heritage
Dunsmore, William
A Seat at the Table: The Dining Table in Black Art and Design, 1850–2022
Griffin, Mackensie
Drinks and Desire: Coffee Culture in Early Modern Europe
Hewis, Robert
Finding Flanders: (Sub)national Identities in the Work of Maarten van Severen
Machiels, Raphaël
The Business of Art: The Union Porcelain Works
Madsen, Patricia
“Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast
Maresca, Sydney
Gender, Technology, and Fashion: Knit Stockings in Seventeenth-Century England
Caroline Montague
Ruff Work: Laundresses and their Labor in Early Modern England and the Netherlands
Salem-Wiseman, Rachel
Picture Perfect Hula Girls: A Story of Hula in New York City
Santana, Samantha
Nostalgic Bulldozers and Glass Boxes: Nineteenth-Century Spectacle at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970s
Taylor, Mabel
Beyond the China Trade—A Biography of a Qing Dressing Case in Kingscote, Newport
Zou, Luli
Class of 2023
They Sound Different When They Break: The Scientific Struggle to Produce English Porcelain, 1672–1821Ballowe, Heath
Comprehensive Stewardship: Responsibly Reconciling the Past
Chamberlin, Daniel
Seeing Women: The Rise in Popularity of Women’s Vision Aids in Nineteenth-Century America
Harvey, Emily
Spiral Ornament in Shang Dynasty China
Law, Jeffrey
The Splendor of Silk in Clay: Mongol Luxury Textiles and Yuan Dynasty Blue-and-White Porcelain
Lui, Louise
“A Poppet-Queen, Drest up by me”: Dolls, Propriety, and Girlhood in Early Modern Europe
Margi, Isabella
“To choose and be surrounded with the finest creations”: Assembling Value in the Ben-Zion House
Massey, Joshua
Rooftop Fancy and Folly: Tudor Chimney Stack as Device and Discourse
Perry, Talia
The New Promethean: Modernism and the Occult in Claude Fayette Bragdon’s Projective Ornament
Porsella, Madeline
Crafting Stories of Value: Commodity Paths for Herati Glass
Riley, Anna
“Facing Determinedly Toward the Future”: Maxwell Shieff’s Involvement and Innovation within the Entertainment Industries of Canada and California, 1946–1959
Tangum, Maura
Imagining the French “Self” and Its “Others” Through the Display of Dress in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
Volpa, Zoe
Class of 2022
a satin scarf, and its many usesadeogun, mary
(Mis)fitting Taliesin: The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship
Bartal, Bridget
Fashioning Equality, Independence & Freedom for Women in the Nineteenth Century: Madame Demorest’s Business Empire
Billingslea, Grace
Loud Jewelry, Loose Women: Sex, Power, and Adornment in Storyville, New Orleans, 1880-1920
Bishop, Ariana
“What a motley Creature I was become”: Hester Piozzi’s “Demi-Naturalization” Materialized
Carabatsos, Julia
Totem and Anti-Totem: Dual Signification and the Contentious History of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument
Cox, Marion
Adorned in Gold: Religion, Personal Display, and Women’s Agency in Ancient Macedonia
Enderle, Ellen
Timeless Dispositions: Devotional Objects as Non-Mimetic Portraits
Lanza, Katherine
Challenging the Status Quo: Unsettling Dominant Narratives in MoMA’s Gallery 412
McCool, Kristin
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
Mogulescu, Laura
“May I be deaf at the Opera”: Dress and Voice of Macaroni and Castrati
Snodgrass, Samuel
“One Sheds One’s Sickness in Books”: Illness, Uncertainty, and the Book as Creative Intervention
Supavarasuwat, Pim
Class of 2021
Perfumed Air and Scented Bodies: Materializing the Philosophy of Scent in Sixteenth-Century PaduaClyburn, Madison
“A Little World of Themselves”: Women and the Cultivation of Fern Cases in the Nineteenth Century
DeQuarto, Natalie
Comfort & Convalescence: Fauteuils de Malade in Eighteenth-Century France
Dubay, Noah
Seafaring Treasures: Latin America and the Transpacific Trade
Fagua-Arias, Juliana
Imitating the Flower: Nineteenth-Century Artificial Plants and Gendered Botanical Education
Isakson, Emily
Tonsorial Transformations: Women’s Sokuhatsu in Nineteenth-Century Meiji Japan, 1868-1912
Murphy, Daria
The Afterlife of Lacquer Panels: Transforming Chinese Luxuries into French Furniture
Qu, Weixun
The Lives of Berenike: A Port City and Its People
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine
Dehua Porcelain Figures of Budai: Models of Adaptivity in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China and “Europe”
Volk, Cynthia
Science in the Study and Authentication of Catholic Relics
Williams, Madison
On Anne Wilson and Winding the Warp: Embodied and Tacit Knowledge in Contemporary Textile Art
Young, Jessica
Class of 2020
Fashioning the Northwest Coast: 200 Years of Indigenous DressAllen, Laura
The Head and the Hand: Hospitality and Collaborative Craftsmanship
Birkett, Jordane
Playing Tourist: The Grand Tour and Cartographic Board Games of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
De Cola, Christina
“Shoulders down; arms back; chest open; and waistband properly HIGH up”: Dandyism, Fashion, and the Perception of Masculinity in Late-Georgian Britain
Dee Collins, Nicole
The Crafting of Skins and Laws: Legislative Rhetoric, Handicraft Production, and Indigenous Alaskan Identity
Hayflick, Emily
Designing Destruction: Archizoom Associati’s “Superonda” Sofa as Radical Critique
Koehn, Elizabeth
Make It Real: Fantasy and Development of Interwar Japanese Girls’ Culture
Lin, Chi-Lynn
Understanding Tao and Ci: The 1908 Ceramics Exhibition in Late Qing Shanghai and the Emergence of Modern Chinese Cultural Nationalism
Liu, Jinyi
A Taste for Death: Love, Humor, and Suicide in an Eighteenth-Century English Recipe Book
Mazzone, Jacqueline
Logic, Nervousness, and Architecture in Vienna: Two Studies in the Unhomely
Neibergall, Will
Fashion Playground: The Relation between Fashion and the Body in the Spaces for Comme des Garçons
Rong, Yi
Ghostly Traces and Haunted Labor: The Sincere Craft of Janine Antoni
Schwabe, Rachael
Space Sells: The Life and Times of a “Tin” Toy Mars Gun Made in Japan
Warner, Madeline
I Have Seen Her in the Mirror: Elsa Schiaparelli, Surrealist Fashion, and Female Agency
Weindling, Danielle
Photography and the Roycroft Press: Photogravures, Halftones, and Mythmaking in East Aurora
Weintraub-Weissman, Caleb
“A Few Diamonds, Judiciously Worn”: Jewelry, Etiquette, and Feminine Virtue in the Gilded Age
Winkler, Alice
Ecology by Design: Biosphere 2 and Closed-System Design in the Space Age
Zhou, Coco