Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Allison, Rachel, Body Bound
Drabiszczak, Mary Beth, The Re-Emergence of American Pastels
Munoz, Abigail, BEYOND THEIR SMILING FACES: RECONSTRUCTING THE REMOJADAS RITUAL AND CULTURE THROUGH THE SONRIENTES FIGURINES FROM THE MPM COLLECTION
Shermock, Rachel, Fortis Femina: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Treatment of Cleopatra and Seventeenth-Century Italian Art
Symanzik-Stock, David, Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present
Vespalec, Valerie, The Unusual Prominence of the Burial Shroud in the Deponitur Christi Corpus E Curce from the Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia
Zeng, Jingwei, Open Parameters-Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century’s Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings from the Zhou Cezong Donation
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Hankins, Emily Rose, Off the Press: Exploring Reproducible War Art
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Huston, Emmaleigh Anita, Power Through Patronage: Examining Margaret of Navarre's Political Influence Through Sicily's Cathedral of Monreale
Kittell, Claire Frances, The Morgan Group of Bestiaries: An Analysis
Lahti, Michael Scott, Sara Rahbar and the Art of Loving Otherwise
Paswaters, Danielle Lynne, The Interdisciplinary Work of Senga Nengudi: How Abjection in Art Can Lead to Greater Deai in Exhibition Spaces By Danielle Lynne Paswaters
Rillie, Hannah, Investigating Provenance and Authenticity Using ICP-MS in the University of Wisconsin-milwaukee Art Collection: a Case Study of Luristan Bronzes
Russell, Katrina M., Subverting the Selfie: Analysis of Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Photos and Untitled Film Stills
Rutherford, Joshua Adam, Performance, Representation, Reception, and the Lost Cause: Re-Framing the History of Confederate Monuments Through Embodied Assemblies
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Berman, Gabrielle, Tang Elite Women and Hufu Clothing: Persian Garments and the Artistic Rendering of Power
Blum, Mary E., Coffin Soul Portals of the Female Xunren in Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng
Ellsworth, Morgan, Ethiopian Art: Christian Narratives from the Kebra Nagast
Hanlon, Heather Rose Sheets, Claim, Consume, Curate: Placing Value on Functional Art
Little Jackson, Robert Olive, The Performativity of Indigenous Protest: Vernon Bellecourt and the First Encounters Exhibition
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Attewell, Natachia Mavis, Window 43 at Chartres Cathedral: a Hagiography of Saint Eustace in Stained Glass
Kidd, Rebecca Ann, Alexandre Cabanel's St. Monica in a Landscape: A Departure from Iconographic Traditions
Kuehn, Kelsey, Architecture as as Act of Transfer: Framing Denise Scott Brown's Architectural Practice with Performance
Lonetti, Olivia Grace, Un Miroir De Mariage: an Iconological Analysis of the Bal Des Sauvages and Combat Des Hommes Sauvages et Chevaliers Tapestries
Maloney, Samantha Lyn Goral, Face. Off. Faceoff: Mapping African Representations in Western Art Institutions
Quade, Cameron Ewald, A Reexamination of El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo as a Question of Sources and Patronage
Schrupp, Jeremy Lyn, Adolf Wissel: Compliant Dissidence, a Nonbinary Reading of Work Executed from 1933 – 1941
SHIN, YOUNGCHUL, Distorted Norms: German Expressionist Prints and the Legacy of the Early German Masters
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Bina, April Lynne, An Enigmatic Bodegón: Discovering a Possible Identity of Murillo's Two Women at a Window
Erdman, Selena, Fluid Lines: Tracing Ryakuga-Shiki in Japan and France
Rozema, Kelsey, Displaying Legitimacy: Monjas Coronadas Portraits and the New Spanish Family
Soya, Kelsey Jean McCarey, Humor and Quiet Resistance: The Graphic Work of Wilhelm Höpfner
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Armstrong, Abby Rose, Jeanne of Flanders and the Patronage of the Chapel of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary in Laon Cathedral
Cecere, Marianna, Newberry Library MS 53: Unlocking the Secrets of a Late Medieval Book of Hours
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Caserta Hugdahl, Pamela, Eco Ephemeral: Works By Thomas Ferrella & Artists’ Books from Special Collections, UW-Milwaukee Libraries
Cornish, Emily, Gender Politics, Presence and Erasure: Tattoo in in Pursuit of Venus [infected] and Les Sauvages De La Mer Pacifique
Hendrickson, Kara, Meaning in Motion
Kniskern, Marin, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski: Political Struggle and Metaphor
Murphy, Jacqueline, Colorscapes: Marko Spalatin 1970-2001
Pipho, Nicholas William, Comic Cuts: The Satirical Prints of Warrington Colescott
Tousignant, Kathleen, Tara Bogart: Modern Hair Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Anderson, Cortney, Lydia at a Tapestry Frame: Recognizing Decorative Elements in Mary Cassatt's Art
Landre, Samantha, The Bel Composto in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
Rafferty, Katherine Gelshenen, American Beauty: Nineteenth-Century Landscapes
Rhyner, Stephanie Lianne, Satirical Warfare: Guerrilla Girls' Performance and Activism from 1985-1995
Rogan, Matthew, Fashion and Identity in Georgian Britain: the Grand Tour Portraits of Pompeo Batoni
Schmiesing, Stacey, Sardanapalus and Gender: Examining Gender in the Works of Byron and Delacroix
Severson, Jordan Michael, El Greco's Portrait of Giulio Clovio as Creator: an Artistic Affinity and Assertion of Creative Identity
Sims, Laura Jean Louise, Reflections on a Collection: Revisiting the UWM Icons Fifty Years Later
Wilcox, Leigh Margaret, Semi-Living: Tissue Culture & Art Project's Challenge to New Museum Theory
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Jacobs, Audrey L., The Heraldic Casket of Saint Louis in the Louvre
López, Juan José, Images of the Last Judgment in Seville: Pacheco, Herrera el Viejo, and the Phenomenological Experience of Fear and Evil
Schwartz, Geoffrey David, The Cubist's View of Montmartre: A Stylistic and Contextual Analysis of Juan Gris' Cityscape Imagery, 1911-1912
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Endres, Amy Lynne, Painting Lucretia: Fear and Desire : A Feminist Discourse on Representations by Artemisia Gentileschi and Tintoretto
King, Sean Leland, Painted Discourses: Lived Experience in the Nasca Visual System
Marmor, Lail A., Re-Presenting Rossetti: The Art of Frank Cadogan Cowper
O'Connor, Anne, An Early Christian Reliquary in the Shape of a Sarcophagus in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Collection
Sacotte, Cassie Ann, The Morals of Marc Chagall
Schulrud, Kristen Eileen, America Through the Kitchen Window: Mid-Twentieth Century American Culture Through Kitchen Advertisements, Products and Design
Seifert, Melissa DeAnn, Sedimenting Solidarity: Signs from the Madison Protest
Siercks, Elizabeth Anne, Elevating the Wood Engraved Landscape: The Work of Elbridge Kingsley
Teubner, Nina, Made You Look: Chicano Experience, Graphic Identity and Agency in Pilsen Murals