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Dissertations Completed: Post-1945

• BACIGALUPI, DONALD, "Pretty Vacant: New Expressionist Painting, Situationist Theory, and Punk Rock" (1993, J. Clarke)
• CARO, JULIE LEVIN, “The Early Career of Allan Rohan Crite (1930-1950)” (2008, L. Henderson and C. Smith)
• CAVAGNARO, LORETTA, "Eva Hesse in Exhibition: Contexts and Categories" (2000, A. Reynolds)
• CRAFT, CATHERINE A., "Constellations of the Past and Present: (Neo-) Dada, the Avant-Garde and the New York Art World, 1951-1963" (1996, R. Shiff)
• DA SILVA, RENATO RODRIGUES, "The Institutional Debate: A Comparative Study Between Neoconcretism and Minimalism" (2001, J. Barnitz)
• DOSSIN, CATHERINE JULIE MARIE, “Stories of the Western Art World, 1936-1986: From the ‘Fall of Paris’ to the ‘Invasion of New York’" (2008, R. Shiff, K. Arens)
• DUMBADZE, ALEXANDER BLAIR, "How Images Became Texts in Contemporary American Art" (2005, R. Shiff)
• EDWARDS, KATIE ROBINSON, "Jackson Pollock In The Cultural Context Of America, 1943-1956: Class, 'Mess', And Unamerican Activities" (2005, R. Shiff)
• FRANKS, PAMELA MICHELLE, "Mythic Is as Mythic Does: The Making of Adrian Piper, 1967-1975" (2000, A. Reynolds)
• GIESKES, METTE, "The Politics of System in the Art of Carl Andre, Sol Lewitt, and Vito Acconci, 1959-1975" (2006, R. Shiff)
• GOLDMAN, SAUNDRA, "Too Good Lookin' to be Smart: Beauty, Performance and the Art of Hannah Wilke" (1999, A. Reynolds and R. Shiff)
• GOODYEAR, ANNE COLLINS, "The Relationship of Art to Science and Technology in the United States 1957-1971: Five Case Studies" (2002, R. Shiff)
• HANOR, STEPHANIE JENNINGS, "Jean Tinguely: Useless Machines and Mechanical Performers, 1955-1970" (2003, L. Henderson)
• KOHN, ADRIAN MICHAEL, “Heightened Perception: Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and Larry Bell, 1960-1975” (2009, R. Shiff)
• KRUKOWSKI, SAMATHA H., "Performing History: Walking Along Olay and Abramovic's The Lovers" (1999, R. Shiff)
• LAWRENCE, JAMES ALEXANDER, "Abdication in an Artistic Democracy: Meaning in the Work of Barnett Newman and Donald Judd, 1950-1970 (and thereafter)" (2006, R. Shiff)
• LIAPI, KATHERINE ANASTASSIOS, "Art Museums, an Experience in Light: The Role of Light in the Experience of the Art Museum" (1994, T. Grieder)
• LIPINSKI, LISA KIM, "The Real Magritte: Simulation And Effects Beyond His Wildest Dreams" (2000, R. Shiff)
• MALINE, SARAH RADLEY, "Art Holography 1968-1993: A Theatre of the Absurd" (1995, J. Clarke)
• MARIE, ANNIKA, "The Most Radical Act: Working Toward a Materialist Aesthetic in Theodor Adorno, Harold Rosenberg, Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt" (2006, R. Shiff and A. Reynolds)
• MATHEWS, HEATHER, "Making Histories: The Exhibition of Postwar Art and the Interpretation of the Past in Divided Germany, 1950-1959" (2006, A. Reynolds)
• MCCOMBIE, MARY ELEANOR, "Art and Policy: The National Endowment of the Art's Art in Public Places Program, 1967-1980" (1992, J. Clarke)
• MCFADDEN, JANE PORTER, "Practices of Site: Walter de Maria and Robert Morris, 1960-1977" (2004, R. Shiff)
• PETERSEN, STEPHEN BRUCE, "Space and the Space Age in Postwar European Art: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and their Contemporaries" (2001, R. Shiff)
• PISSARRO, JOACHIM S. I., " Individualism And Inter-Subjectivity In Modernism: Two Case Studies Of Artistic Interchanges-Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) and Paul Cezanne (1839-1906); Robert Rauschenbert (1925- ) and Jasper Johns (1930- )" (2001, R. Shiff )
• PRICE, JUSTINE DANA, “Critical Distinctions: Attitudes Towards American Abstraction, 1936-1952” (2007, R. Shiff)
• RASKIN, DAVID BARRY, "Donald Judd's Skepticism" (1999, R. Shiff)
• RELYEA, LANE BRAD, "Model Citizens and Perfect Strangers: American Painting and Its Different Modes of Address, 1958-1965" (2004, R. Shiff)
• RICHMOND, SUSAN ERIN, "Put-Ons and Take-Offs: Lynda Benglis, Feminism and Representations of the Body, 1967-1977" (2002, A. Reynolds)
• SIEGEL, ELEANOR KATHRYN, "Breakthrough: The Sense of Time in American Art and Culture, 1945-1968" (1995, R. Shiff)
• SMITH, MARK, "Image and Word in the Prints of Robert Rauschenberg, 1951-1981" (1992, L. Henderson)
• THOMAS, JOE ALAN, "Eroticism in American Pop Art, 1958-1968" (1992, J. Clarke)
• TOMII, REIKO, "Between Two Continents: George Rickey, Kinetic Art and Constructivism, 1949-1969" (1988, J. Clarke)
• WAY, JENNIFER, "Painting Signs in the Fifties: Material Surface in the Art and Culture of the United States and Great Britain" (1997, R. Shiff)