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Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism
(2023)
This dissertation offers a new interpretation of the second Stieglitz Circle (the loose group of artists whose key members – Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Paul Strand, and Georgia O’Keeffe – assembled around ...
Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Contemporary Visual Arts and Caribbean Diaspora in Miami, Florida.
(2013)
Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Contemporary Visual Arts and Caribbean Diaspora in Miami, Florida, is an ethnographic study about Miami-based visual artists, and the relationship between Miami and the Caribbean as it ...
Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image.
(2016)
This dissertation is the first book-length study to bridge American and Native American art histories and Native studies. To do so, it develops methods of image biography, or following a particular image through space and ...
The Culture of Ekphrasis in America's Age of Print, 1830-1880.
(2012)
The Culture of Ekphrasis in America's Age of Print, 1830-1880, examines the verbal representation of the visual arts in poetry, prose and nonfiction works throughout the expansion of nineteenth-century print publishing. ...
Speaking, Gesturing, Drawing, Building: Relational Techniques of a Kreyol Architecture
(2021)
The vernaculars and creoles—architectural and linguistic—used to produce most of the global built environment continue to be delegitimized as ways of knowing, building, and inhabiting. This dissertation recuperates these ...
The Roman Middle Republic at Sant'Omobono
(2017)
This dissertation presents the results of an analysis of the middle Republican (ca. 4th–3rd c. BCE) architectural remains of the Roman temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta at the Sant’Omobono site in Rome’s Forum Boarium. ...
Visualizing the 1630-31 Plague Epidemic in Early Modern Venice and the Veneto
(2018)
In the summer of 1630 a catastrophic plague epidemic struck Venice and its subject cities in the Veneto region, killing around 100,000 inhabitants, disrupting travel and trade, and affecting all aspects of life over the ...
An Islamic Cosmos: Artistic Engagements with Islamic Heritage in Iran and the Arab East, 1958-2018
(2020)
This dissertation offers a study of contemporary artistic experiments with popular religious images and folk traditions in the Islamic world. I explore how artists active in Iran and the Arab world dealt with global art ...
The Art of Power: Ambiguity, Adornment, and the Performance of Social Position in the Pompeian House.
(2015)
In the tumultuous period between 80 BCE and 79 CE, social actors in the Italian Peninsula struggled to effectively articulate their positions in connection to the new political landscape of Rome. For these individuals, ...
Curating a Nation in Skopje: A Tale of One City's Architecture and Politics
(2020)
Recent scholarship has put Yugoslavia at the heart of the debate over the architectural production and urbanism of the Cold War era. To contribute to the inquiry into the architecture of former Yugoslav federation, I examine ...