Art History > Recent Theses & Theses in Progress

MA THESIS TOPICS

IN PROGRESS:

  • Sabrina Hughes, "Spaces of Remembrance: Memorial Resonance in Eugene Atget’s Photographs of Paris"
  • Jacqueline Longe, "Cleopatra's Needle: Perception and Reception of Obelisk and Empire in Late-nineteenth Century Great Britain."
  • Valerie Palazzolo, "Anatomizing the Living Dead: Andreas Vesalius' Animated Skeletons and the 'Dance of Death'"
  • Libby Turner, "Collecting, the Interior, and the Construction of Bourgeois Masculinity in Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais"

THESES COMPLETED:

2009

  • Susan King Klinkenberg, “An Intervention in Painting by Marlene Dumas with Titles of Engagement: Ryman's Brides, Reinhardt's Daughter and Stern.”

2008

  • Shannon Annis, “A Further Removed Dissonance: Transformations of a Musical Model in Kandinsky's Move Towards Abstraction”

2007

  • Carrie Baker, "Re-Thinking the Myth of Perugino and the Umbrian School: A Closer Look at the Master of the Greenville's 'Jonas Nativity' Panel"
  • Katherine Kearney Bzura, “I'm Not Who I Was Then, Now: Performing Identity in Girl Cams and Blogs"
  • Michelle Rowland, "The European Utopian Socialists and the Capitalist Utopias of Walt Disney World"
  • Andrea Satterfield, “The Assimilation of the Indigenous American: A Broader Reading of Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document”
    Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School

2006

  • Devon Larsen, “Rethinking the Monumental: The Museum as Feminist Space in the Sexual Politics Exhibition, 1996”
  • Elizabeth Oliver, "Vision and Disease in the Napoleonic Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828): The Constraints of French Intellectual Imperialism and the Roots of Egyptian Self-Definition."
    Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School

2005

  • Izabel Galliera, "Negotiating Artistic Identity through Satire: subREAL, 1989-1999."
  • Lesley Treace Stone, “From Chapel to Chamber: Liturgy and Devotion in Lucantonio Giunta’s Missale romanum, 1508”
  • H. Kellim Brown, “The Articulate Remedies of Dolores Lolita Rodriguez”

2004

  • Catherine Cottle, "The Myth of Narcissus and Abstract Expressionism, 1949-1959, and Their Impact on Contemporary American Culture"
  • Laura Herrmann, "A Vocabulary of African Costume for Artists: The Woodcuts of Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo"

2003

  • Marta Penabad - "Daughters in the Mi(d)st: Family Portraiture in 16th-Century Veneto"

2001

  • Anne Jeffrey - "(Dis)Embodying the Viewer in the Art of Mona Hatoum
  • Peter Tush - "Salvador Dali's Identity Construction: Psychoanalysis, Ambiguity, Parody, and the Double"
    Winner of the 2001 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School

2000

  • Robert Lovejoy - "The Working Class and Other 'Races': A Study in Culture and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century English Comic Strips"
  • Michelle McQuillan - "A Reinterpretation of Sandro Botticelli's Villa Lemmi Frescoes"

1999

  • Chika Okeke - "Critical Interventions: Obiora Udechukwu and Modern Uli Art"

1998

  • Patty Buster-Rhodes: "The Age of Totalitarianism: Women Printmakers of the Depression Era Respond"

1996

  • Karen Fraser: "A “Delicate” Difference; The Critical Reception of Japanese Abstract Expressionism"
  • Editha Millington: "Manipulating Power, Adapting to Change: Kwifon Masquerade in the Cameroon Grasslands"
  • Kristen Parker: "Writing Is Not an Act of Love. Love is an Act of Writing: Guillaume De Machauts Le Livre Du Voir - Dit. In Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds Francais 1584, Les Oeuvres Completes De Guillaume De Machaut"
  • Traci Timmons: "Habiti Antichi Et Moderni Di Tutto Il Mondo As an Indicator of The Late Sixteenth Century Venetian Social Order"
  • Maria Perricone: "Narrative in the Illuminations of the British Museum’s Histoire Ancienne Jusqu’a Ceasar Royal 200.1"

1995

  • Catherine Abrams: "The Marriage Portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Walter Stewart: The Visualization of Separate Spheres"
  • Kelly Bousman: "A Poetry of Place: An Intertextual Study of Three Installations By Ann Hamilton"
  • Noel Smith: "Beyond Nostalgia: Photographs from the Burgert Brothers Collection 1920-1960"
  • Eileen Reilly: "The University of Florida Pigouchet and Vostre Horae: A Book Printed in Paris for Exports to London"

1994

  • Sherri Hill: "Amazons, Matriarchs, and Space Babes: Images of Women in Science Fiction Films of the Fifties"
  • Hope Buchholtz: "The Political and Social Implications of Elizabeth Thompson’s Battle Paintings and Images of Ireland"

1993

  • Adrien Golub: "Towards A Newer Critique: T.S. Eliot’s Conservative Cultural Content and Bertolt Brecht’s Aesthetics on Clement Greenberg’s Early Rhetoric and Themes"
  • Jane Backstrom: "Linda Nochlin: Feminist Interventions in the History of Art"

1992

  • Eman Haram: "Family Photographs: The Aesthetics of Time"