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
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
Class of 2019
Setting
the Modern Table: American Flatware and the Domestication of Stainless Steel
Boven, Jessica
Dressing the Strange Artist: Fashion and
Fame in Georges Clairin’s “Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt
Brekka, Dylan
Buttons
to Banners: The Material Culture of Museum Marketing
Clary, Taryn
“Grandeur Now Departed”: Race,
Nationalism, and the Aesthetic of Nostalgia in the Brooklyn Museum Southern
Period Rooms”
Goldsher, Tessa
Morbid Consumption: The Commodification
of Mummies in Victorian England.
Jaffe, Bates
Sensing Sassafras: Materia Medica
Exchange in the British Atlantic
Jepson, Drew
Very Much American: The Education,
Travels, and Legacy of Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812–1884
Johnson, Sybil
Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Cookery Book: A Symphony in the Gender Politics of Nineteenth-Century Dining
Outcalt, Leela
Lacing a Nation: Renaissance Lace
Revivalism and the Scuola Merletti di Burano in Post-Unification and Fascist
Italy
Puton, Clara
Familiar Narratives and Clothing
Caricatures: The Realities of Tex Avery’s Imaginary Universe.
Smith, Skylar
Plush: Wall-to-Wall Liberation
Swanson, Sophie
Voices in Stone: An Exploration of the
Use of Pounamu in the Contemporary Jewelry of Aotearoa New Zealand
Teague, Christianne
Rose Slivka and the Crafting of Craft Horizons, 1955–1979
Terrell, Collen
Conspicuous Cataloging: An Investigation
of Collections Management in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century
Museum
Tichenor, Bailey
European Turned Ivories at the Court of
the Kangxi Emperor: A Study in Early Modern Cross-Cultural Relations
Zhou, Joyce