9 MAs + 2 PhDs

Eleven graduate students in the Art History Division completed their degrees in the last year. Nine of those finished in Spring Quarter 2011, an unprecedented number. Below is the list of projects, theses, and dissertations for these new alumni.

Shayla Alarie, MA, Autumn Quarter 2010, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Love Locked Out: Allegory and Aestheticism in the Early Works of Anna Lea Merritt”

Morgan Bell, MA (non-thesis), Autumn Quarter 2010, adviser: Robin Wright
project: “The Indigenous Photographers Project”

Gayle Clemans, PhD, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Patricia Failing
dissertation: “Parental Points of View: Photographic and Filmic Acts in Contemporary Art”

Trevor Doak, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Imaging the Invisible: An Examination of Belief, Authorship and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Spirit Photography”

Elissa Favero, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
thesis: “Navigating the Palimpsest: Reyner Banham Reads and Writes Los Angeles”

Garen Glazier, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: The Promise and the Threat of Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia: An Analysis of the Heroine in Selected Illustrations, 1894-1927″

Eleanor Gross, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Susan Casteras
thesis: “Containing the Indian Threat: Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America”

Anna Hoover, MA (non-thesis), Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Robin Wright
project: “Statement in Fashion: Native Artists Against Pebble Mine”

Cindy Huang, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Cynthea Bogel
thesis: “Gauguin of Taiwan: Reconsidering the Artistic Works of Shiotsuki Toho”

Agata Morka, PhD, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
dissertation: “Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions: Place and Placelessness in Postwar French Railroad Architecture”

Dionea Nadir, MA, Spring Quarter 2011, adviser: Meredith Clausen
thesis: “La Grande Mosquée de Paris: A Hybrid Arabisance in the Age Of Imperialism”