MA Theses and Qualifying Papers
The University of South 爱豆传媒's Tampa Library hosts the collection of published research online. by graduates of the School of Art & Art History.
2025
Laura Barros, "Re-imagining the Sacred: The devotional key to Remedios Varo's Icono"
Caity Campbell, " Finding Frankenthaler: Artistic process and distance in Mountains and Sea"
Maria Rodicio, "Idolatry and Moral Anxiety in the Dutch Republic"
Marisol Rodriguez Berdasco, "A Modern Brazil for Every Gaze: The Junction of International Diplomacy and Cultural Representation in Candido Portinari鈥檚 1939 New York World鈥檚 Fair Murals"
2024
Desiree Anderson, "The Archetypal Image: The Greek Vase in Art, Scholarship, and Museum Display"
Lauren Whitaker, "Connecting the Threads of Scholarship: On Two Embroidered Hangings from Kloster Heiningen, 1516-17"
Callan Donahoe, 鈥淭he Invisibility of Blackness: David Hammons鈥� Concerto in Black and Blue鈥�
Delaney Foy, 鈥淭he Curation and Proliferation of a Sultanic Image: A Deccan Dagger with Zoomorphic Ornament鈥�
Hanna Weber, 鈥淎n Intertextual Analysis of a Mughal-Indian Painting from the Library of Emperor Akbar鈥�
Meredith Vigan-Wilburg, 鈥淧rivate Devotion, Public Display: Situating the Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen within the Context of Women鈥檚 Miniaturist Traditions鈥�
2023
Stephanie Haas, 鈥淔ragmented Hours: The Biography of a Devotional Book Printed by Thielman Kerver鈥�
Hannah Patrick, "Deliberative Agency and Curating the Image: Appalachian Photography"
Vera Reutova, 鈥淣egotiating Boundaries: Ivan Aivazovsky between the Russian and Ottoman Empires鈥�
Susan Rimensnyder, 鈥淔ashioned for Here and There: The Divan Club Reveals Varieties of Cultural Cross-Dressing Portraiture鈥�
Arianna Weber, 鈥淥rnamenting Time: The BMFA 弄d and Calligraphic Abstraction in Islamic Ornament鈥�
2022
Madeline Axlund, "Partnership between Museums and Donors: Preserving or Defiling Cultural Heritage?"
John Fraunfelter, 鈥淒ecolonizing the Kunstkammer: A Study of Material Narratives鈥�
Vanessa Gillette, 鈥淭he Limits of Consumption: Sawasa Ware In and Out of the Dutch East Indies鈥�
Iris Gonzalez, 鈥淎nti-Authorial Calligraphy: Proverbs Out of Context in Hassan Massoudy鈥檚 Work鈥�
Mia Reich, 鈥淔raming Kandinsky鈥檚 Painting with Red Spot (1914): Abstraction, Artistic Intent and Meaning Making in The Museum Space鈥�
2021
Abigail Jensen, 鈥淭he Ringling Psalter: Dating, Localizing, and Reconstructing a Mystery Manuscript鈥�
Angela Finkbeiner, 鈥淎 Critical Reevaluation of Mughal Portraiture: Empress Nur Jahan and Female Empowerment鈥�
Azra Korajcevic, 鈥淐onsumption of War through Art: The Meaning of Afghan War Rugs for their Producers and Consumers鈥�
Claire Anderson, 鈥淭he Geographical and Devotional Origins of the Life of the Virgin Triptych at the Cleveland Museum of Art鈥�
Gina Lane, 鈥淭he 鈥楧ancing Duo鈥� Composition in Mughal Painting and a Reevaluation of the History of the Kathak Dance Form鈥�
Grace Baker, 鈥淢arginal Message, Monumental Meaning: The Hours of the Virgin in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves鈥�
Tessa Artis, 鈥淯nutterable and Raging Desire: The Bride of Christ and the Canticum Canticorum鈥�
2020
Gabriella Albritton, 鈥淩econstructing the 鈥楰nyvett鈥� Manuscript: A Book of Hours Reminiscent of an English Past鈥�
Emily Campbell, 鈥淎 Blossoming Visual Language: The Hybridity of Indian Botanical Illustrations in the Works of William Roxburgh鈥�
Will Russell, 鈥淧rotectors of the Empire: The Talismanic Charms of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus and the Ottoman Navy"
2019
Karla Aguayo, "Santa Monica and Her Augustinian Devotees: A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of the Rule and Constitutions of Saint Augustine"
Richard Ellis, "Seeing King Solomon through the Verses of Hafez: A Critical Study of Two Safavid Manuscript Fragments"
Victoria Mann, "The Artist Births the Viewer: The Visual Experience of Kandinsky's 1913 Abstraction"
Zdislava Ungrova, "A Quiet Valley at Roztoky: Testimony of Singularity in the Landscape Imagery of Zdenka Braunerov谩"
Sara-Kay West, "Olafur Eliasson's Institution: Power, Reflection, and Gaze in his 2016 Versailles Project"
2018
Jeanie Ambrosio: Thesis 鈥淢irror Images: Penelope Umbrico鈥檚 Mirrors (from Home D茅cor
Catalogs and Websites)"
Ashley Muraszewski, "Constructing the Identity of the Busts at the Umayyad Palace
of Khirbat al-Mafjar."
Mariana G贸mez Fosado, "The Patent of Nobility in Favor of Gutierre Fern谩ndez de Ag眉ero:
An Illuminated Manuscript Produced in the Reign of Philip III"
Erin Hughes, "The Creative Compilation of Langston Hughes: The Sweet Flypaper of Life"
2017
James Cartwright, "Crossing Boundaries. The Negotiation of Religious Space in Armenian New Julfa under the Safavid Empire (1603-1717)"
Alexandria Salmieri, "Revealing Criminal Justice in South Africa: The Photographic Works of David Goldblatt and Mikhael Subotzky鈥�
Ashley Williams, "The Mosque Lamp of the Mamluk Ruler Karim al-Din within the Cross-Cultural Contexts of Abrahamic Traditions"
2016
Marlena Antonucci, 鈥淐ultural Soilscapes: Land Art in the Expanded Field鈥�
Mary Gilpin, "Findings in the Friezes: Anila Quayyum Agha鈥檚 Intersections as an Experiential Hajj鈥�
Andrea Johnson, 鈥淚ncongruous Conceptions: Owen Jones鈥檚 Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of The Alhambra and British views of Spain鈥�
Erin Wilson, 鈥淎n Alternative Ancien Regime? Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun in Russia鈥�
2015
Tracey Cole, "Empowering the Subject: A Re-interpretation of Marie Benoist鈥檚 Portrait of a Negress"
Laura Colkitt, "From Local to Global: Kama Wangdi Paints Bhutan's Changing Geopolitics"
Shanna Goodwin, "The Habits of the Grand Signor鈥檚 Court: Cross-Cultural Conversations and Aesthetic Exchanges in an Early Seventeenth Century Ottoman Costume Album"
Dave Loisel, "Searching for the Beloved: Rediscovering Homoerotic Representations in Ottoman Art"
Christopher Long, "'Here, I am a gentleman' 鈥� Albrecht D眉rer鈥檚 Construction of Identities in the Self-portrait of 1498"
2014
Amanda Preuss, "Sarah Sze鈥檚 Triple Point: Modeling a Phenomenological Experience of Contemporary Life鈥�
Alison Terndrup, "A Fez of the State: Late Ottoman Headgear in Official Portraiture"
2013
Erin Carter, 鈥淗oly Break, Holy Child: The Pseudo-Sacramental Performances of Margaretha Ebner鈥�
Maureen Elizabeth Cox, 鈥淭he Choir Books of Santa Maria in Aracoeli and Patronage Strategies of Pope Alexander VI鈥�
Heather Linton, 鈥淚llumination and Victimization: Mental Illness in Paris and Abidjan鈥�
Christy Paris, 鈥淗omage or Critique? How Grace Hartigan, Pat Steir, and Sherrie Levine use the Old Masters鈥�
Kelly Simmons, 鈥淢aximilian I鈥檚 Pomegranates: A Solomonic Connection鈥�
Elizabeth White, 鈥淏old and Dangerous: Evaluating Marie-Antoinette鈥檚 Self-Fashioning鈥�
2012
Jeffrey L. Boe, 鈥淧ainting Puertorrique帽idad: The J铆baro as a Symbol of Creole Nationalism in Puerto Rican Art before and after 1898鈥�
Jean Carey, 鈥淔ranz Marc as an Ethologist鈥�
Jennifer Danielle McCall, 鈥淩enegotiating Identities, Cultures and Histories: Oppositional Looking in Shelly Niro鈥檚 This Land is Mime Land 鈥�
Eileen Parotino, 鈥淐aravaggio's Mislabeled John the Baptist 鈥�
Megan Voeller, 鈥淣arrating Ryan Trecartin鈥�
2011
Lauren Branzei 鈥淐ostumed Generalizations: Depictions of Women in Delacroix鈥檚 1832 Moroccan Notebooks鈥�
Terri N. Johnson 鈥淐esare Vecellio鈥檚 Fantesche: Images of Servants and Working-Class Women in Early Modern Venice鈥�
Maureen McGuire, 鈥淏essarion's gift to Venice: a plea on behalf of Byzantium鈥�
Valerie Palazzolo, 鈥淎n Iconography of the Macabre鈥�: Andreas Vesalius鈥� Animated Skeletons and the Memento Mori 鈥�
Teresa Whitney, 鈥淏aron Talyor鈥檚 Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France and the Problematics of the Picturesque鈥�
2010
Sabrina Hughes, 鈥淓mpty Streets in the Capital of Modernity: Formation of Lieux de M茅moire in Parisian Street Photography from Daguerre to Atget鈥� Winner of the 2010 Outstanding Thesis Award, 爱豆传媒 Graduate School
2009
Melissa Diaz, 鈥淭he Role of Materiality in Michelangelo Pistoletto鈥檚 Minus Objects (1965-1966)鈥�
Susan King Klinkenberg, 鈥淎n Intervention in Painting by Marlene Dumas with Titles of Engagement: Ryman's Brides , Reinhardt鈥檚 Daughter and Stern 鈥�
Elizabeth Tanski, 鈥淲ho Are the Danaides? Contextualizing the Use of the Individual in Rodin's Oeuvre鈥�
Catherine Elizabeth Turner, 鈥淪elf-fashioning, Consumption, and Japonisme: The Power of Collecting in Tissot's Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais , 1869鈥�
2008
Shannon Annis, 鈥淎 Further Removed Dissonance: Transformations of a Musical Model in Kandinsky鈥檚 Move Towards Abstraction鈥�
Xiaoli Ma, 鈥淒ouble Resistance: Cai Guo-Qiang鈥檚 Cultural Melting Bath, Projects of the 20th Century (1997)"
Ryan Morgan, 鈥淢asculinity, subjectivity, and sexuality in Gustave Caillebotte's Young Man at His Window (1875)鈥�
2007
Carrie Baker, 鈥淩e-Thinking the Myth of Perugino and the Umbrian School: A Closer Look at the Master of the Greenville鈥檚 Jonas Nativity Panel鈥�
Katherine Kearney Bzura, 鈥淚'm Not Who I Was Then, Now: Performing Identity in Girl Cams and Blogs"
Michelle Rowland, 鈥淭he European Utopian Socialists and the Capitalist Utopias of Walt Disney World鈥�
Andrea Satterfield, 鈥淭he Assimilation of the Indigenous American: A Broader Reading of Christoph Weiditz鈥檚 Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document鈥� Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Thesis Award, 爱豆传媒 Graduate School
2006
Devon Larsen, 鈥淩ethinking the Monumental: The Museum as Feminist Space in the Sexual Politics Exhibition, 1996鈥�
Elizabeth Oliver, 鈥淰ision and Disease in the Napoleonic Description de l鈥橢gypte (1809-1828): The Constraints of French Intellectual Imperialism and the Roots of Egyptian Self-Definition鈥� Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Thesis Award, 爱豆传媒 Graduate School
2005
Izabel Galliera, 鈥淣egotiating Artistic Identity through Satire: subREAL, 1989-1999鈥�
Lesley Treace Stone, 鈥淔rom Chapel to Chamber: Liturgy and Devotion in Lucantonio Giunta's Missale romanum , 1508鈥�
H. Kellim Brown, 鈥淭he Articulate Remedies of Dolores Lolita Rodriguez鈥�
2004
Catherine Cottle, 鈥淭he Myth of Narcissus and Abstract Expressionism, 1949-1959, and their Impact on Contemporary American Culture鈥�
Laura Herrmann, 鈥淎 Vocabulary of African Costume for Artists: The Woodcuts of Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo 鈥�
2003
Marta Penabad, 鈥淒aughters in the Mi(d)st: Family Portraiture in 16th-Century Veneto鈥�
2001
Anne Jeffrey, 鈥�(Dis)Embodying the Viewer in the Art of Mona Hatoum鈥�
Peter Tush, 鈥淪alvador Dal矛鈥檚 Identity Construction: Psychoanalysis, Ambiguity, Parody, and the Double鈥� Winner of the 2001 Outstanding Thesis Award, 爱豆传媒 Graduate School
2000
Robert Lovejoy, 鈥淭he Working Class and Other 鈥楻aces鈥�: A Study in Culture and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century English Comic Strips鈥�
Michelle McQuillan, 鈥淎 Reinterpretation of Sandro Botticelli's Villa Lemmi Frescoes鈥�
1999
Chika Okeke, 鈥淐ritical Interventions: Obiora Udechukwu and Modern Uli Art鈥�
1998
Patty Buster-Rhodes, 鈥淭he Age of Totalitarianism: Women Printmakers of the Depression Era Respond鈥�
Kathleen Swann Short, 鈥淭he Collection: Giulio Clovio and the Stuart de Rothesay Hours鈥�
1996
Karen Fraser, 鈥淎 鈥楧elicate鈥� Difference: The Critical Reception of Japanese Abstract Expressionism鈥�
Editha Millington, 鈥淢anipulating Power, Adapting to Change: Kwifon Masquerade in the Cameroon Grasslands鈥�
Kristen Parker, 鈥淲riting is not an Act of Love. Love is an Act of Writing: Guillaume de Machaut鈥檚 Le Livre Du Voir 鈥� Dit in Paris, Biblioth茅que Nationale, Fonds Fran莽ais 1584, Les Oeuvres Compl猫tes de Guillaume de Machaut 鈥�
Traci Timmons, 鈥淗abiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto Il Mondo as an Indicator of the Late Sixteenth Century Venetian Social Order鈥�
Maria Perricone, 鈥淣arrative in the Illuminations of the British Museum鈥檚 Histoire Ancienne Jusqu鈥櫭� Ceasar Royal 200.1鈥�
1995
Catherine Abrams, 鈥淭he Marriage Portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Walter Stewart: The Visualization of Separate Spheres鈥�
Kelly Bousman, 鈥淎 Poetry of Place: An Intertextual Study of Three Installations By Ann Hamilton鈥�
Noel Smith, 鈥淏eyond Nostalgia: Photographs from the Burgert Brothers Collection 1920-1960鈥�
Eileen Reilly, 鈥淭he University of 爱豆传媒 Pigouchet and Vostre Horae: A Book Printed in Paris for Exports to London鈥�
Helen Wheldon, 鈥� A Critical Evaluation of the Term 鈥榁illa鈥� in Eighteenth Century England: a Case study of Chiswick鈥�
1994
Sherri Hill, 鈥淎mazons, Matriarchs, and Space Babes: Images of Women in Science Fiction Films of the Fifties鈥�
Hope Buchholtz, 鈥淭he Political and Social Implications of Elizabeth Thompson鈥檚 Battle Paintings and Images of Ireland鈥�
1993
Adrienne Golub, 鈥淭owards A Newer Critique: T.S. Eliot's Conservative Cultural Content and Bertolt Brecht's Aesthetics on Clement Greenberg's Early Rhetoric and Themes鈥�
Jane Backstrom, 鈥淟inda Nochlin: Feminist Interventions in the History of Art鈥�
1992
Eman Haram, 鈥淔amily Photographs: The Aesthetics of Time鈥�
1991
Xenofon Xeradakis, 鈥淭he Riddle of Derived Motifs鈥�
1988
Ann H. Albritton, 鈥淪onia Delaunay鈥檚 Poster-Poems 1913-1916鈥�