6 MAs + 5 PhDs

Like last academic year, eleven graduate students in the Art History Division completed their degrees between Summer Quarter 2011 and Spring Quarter 2012. Below is a list of their theses and dissertations.

Holly Rubalcava, MA, Summer Quarter 2011, adviser: Cynthea Bogel
thesis: Dual Identities and Changing Contexts: The Past and Present of the Gohozenshin Statue at Miidera

Rajesh Bhat, MA, Autumn Quarter 2011, adviser: Marek Wieczorek
thesis: Gustave Caillebotte’s Investment in Modernism: A Catalogue of Avant-Garde Strategies

Erin Giffin, MA, Winter Quarter 2012, adviser: Stuart Lingo
thesis: Nicolas Cordier’s Il Moro: The African as “Christian Antiquity” in Early Modern Rome

Nadia Jackinsky-Horrell, PhD, Winter Quarter 2012, adviser: Robin Wright
dissertation: Masks as a Means to Cultural Remembrance: Kodiak Archipelago Alutiiq Mask Making

Jayme Yahr, PhD, Winter Quarter 2012, adviser: Susan Casteras
dissertation: The Art of The Century: Richard Watson Gilder, the Gilder Circle, and the Rise of American Modernism

Velma Yamashita, PhD, Winter Quarter 2012, adviser: Rene Bravmann
dissertation: The Storyboards of Palau: Cultural Expressions from Micronesia

Yve Chavez, MA, Spring Quarter 2012, adviser: Robin Wright
thesis: California “Mission” Indian Basket Weaving: Re-inventing and Revitalizing Tradition

Susan Dine, MA, Spring Quarter 2012, adviser: Cynthea Bogel
thesis: Sanskrit Beyond Text: The Use of Bonji (Siddham) in Mandara and Other Imagery in Ancient and Medieval Japan

Melanie Enderle, PhD, Spring Quarter 2012, adviser: Susan Casteras
dissertation: The Canvas as Stage: The Spectacle of the American Theater ca. 1895 – ca. 1940

John Impert, PhD, Spring Quarter 2012, adviser: Susan Casteras
dissertation: Hidden in Plain Sight: Northwest Impressionism, 1910-1935

Victoria Wilmes, MA, Spring Quarter 2012, adviser: Estelle Lingo
thesis: The Chapel of the Madonna della Strada: A Case Study of Post-Tridentine Painting in Rome