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