MA Theses and Qualifying Papers
The 51勛圖厙's Tampa Library hosts the collection of published research online. by graduates of the School of Art & Art History.
2024
Callan Donahoe, The Invisibility of Blackness: David Hammons Concerto in Black and Blue
Delaney Foy, The Curation and Proliferation of a Sultanic Image: A Deccan Dagger with Zoomorphic Ornament
Hanna Weber, An Intertextual Analysis of a Mughal-Indian Painting from the Library of Emperor Akbar
Meredith Vigan-Wilburg, Private Devotion, Public Display: Situating the Enclosed Gardens of Mechelen within the Context of Womens Miniaturist Traditions
2023
Stephanie Haas, Fragmented Hours: The Biography of a Devotional Book Printed by Thielman Kerver
Hannah Patrick, "Deliberative Agency and Curating the Image: Appalachian Photography"
Vera Reutova, Negotiating Boundaries: Ivan Aivazovsky between the Russian and Ottoman Empires
Susan Rimensnyder, Fashioned for Here and There: The Divan Club Reveals Varieties of Cultural Cross-Dressing Portraiture
Arianna Weber, Ornamenting Time: The BMFA 讀d and Calligraphic Abstraction in Islamic Ornament
2022
Madeline Axlund, "Partnership between Museums and Donors: Preserving or Defiling Cultural Heritage?"
John Fraunfelter, Decolonizing the Kunstkammer: A Study of Material Narratives
Vanessa Gillette, The Limits of Consumption: Sawasa Ware In and Out of the Dutch East Indies
Iris Gonzalez, Anti-Authorial Calligraphy: Proverbs Out of Context in Hassan Massoudys Work
Mia Reich, Framing Kandinskys Painting with Red Spot (1914): Abstraction, Artistic Intent and Meaning Making in The Museum Space
2021
Abigail Jensen, The Ringling Psalter: Dating, Localizing, and Reconstructing a Mystery Manuscript
Angela Finkbeiner, A Critical Reevaluation of Mughal Portraiture: Empress Nur Jahan and Female Empowerment
Azra Korajcevic, Consumption of War through Art: The Meaning of Afghan War Rugs for their Producers and Consumers
Claire Anderson, The Geographical and Devotional Origins of the Life of the Virgin Triptych at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Gina Lane, The Dancing Duo Composition in Mughal Painting and a Reevaluation of the History of the Kathak Dance Form
Grace Baker, Marginal Message, Monumental Meaning: The Hours of the Virgin in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tessa Artis, Unutterable and Raging Desire: The Bride of Christ and the Canticum Canticorum
2020
Gabriella Albritton, Reconstructing the Knyvett Manuscript: A Book of Hours Reminiscent of an English Past
Emily Campbell, A Blossoming Visual Language: The Hybridity of Indian Botanical Illustrations in the Works of William Roxburgh
Will Russell, Protectors 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獺"
Sara-Kay West, "Olafur Eliasson's Institution: Power, Reflection, and Gaze in his 2016 Versailles Project"
2018
Jeanie Ambrosio: Thesis Mirror Images: Penelope Umbricos Mirrors (from Home D矇cor
Catalogs and Websites)"
Ashley Muraszewski, "Constructing the Identity of the Busts at the Umayyad Palace
of Khirbat al-Mafjar."
Mariana G籀mez Fosado, "The Patent of Nobility in Favor of Gutierre Fern獺ndez de Ag羹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
Ashley Williams, "The Mosque Lamp of the Mamluk Ruler Karim al-Din within the Cross-Cultural Contexts of Abrahamic Traditions"
2016
Marlena Antonucci, Cultural Soilscapes: Land Art in the Expanded Field
Mary Gilpin, "Findings in the Friezes: Anila Quayyum Aghas Intersections as an Experiential Hajj
Andrea Johnson, Incongruous Conceptions: Owen Joness Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of The Alhambra and British views of Spain
Erin Wilson, An Alternative Ancien Regime? Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun in Russia
2015
Tracey Cole, "Empowering the Subject: A Re-interpretation of Marie Benoists Portrait of a Negress"
Laura Colkitt, "From Local to Global: Kama Wangdi Paints Bhutan's Changing Geopolitics"
Shanna Goodwin, "The Habits of the Grand Signors 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' Albrecht D羹rers Construction of Identities in the Self-portrait of 1498"
2014
Amanda Preuss, "Sarah Szes Triple Point: Modeling a Phenomenological Experience of Contemporary Life
Alison Terndrup, "A Fez of the State: Late Ottoman Headgear in Official Portraiture"
2013
Erin Carter, Holy Break, Holy Child: The Pseudo-Sacramental Performances of Margaretha Ebner
Maureen Elizabeth Cox, The Choir Books of Santa Maria in Aracoeli and Patronage Strategies of Pope Alexander VI
Heather Linton, Illumination and Victimization: Mental Illness in Paris and Abidjan
Christy Paris, Homage or Critique? How Grace Hartigan, Pat Steir, and Sherrie Levine use the Old Masters
Kelly Simmons, Maximilian Is Pomegranates: A Solomonic Connection
Elizabeth White, Bold and Dangerous: Evaluating Marie-Antoinettes Self-Fashioning
2012
Jeffrey L. Boe, Painting Puertorrique簽idad: The J穩baro as a Symbol of Creole Nationalism in Puerto Rican Art before and after 1898
Jean Carey, Franz Marc as an Ethologist
Jennifer Danielle McCall, Renegotiating Identities, Cultures and Histories: Oppositional Looking in Shelly Niros This Land is Mime Land
Eileen Parotino, Caravaggio's Mislabeled John the Baptist
Megan Voeller, Narrating Ryan Trecartin
2011
Lauren Branzei Costumed Generalizations: Depictions of Women in Delacroixs 1832 Moroccan Notebooks
Terri N. Johnson Cesare Vecellios Fantesche: Images of Servants and Working-Class Women in Early Modern Venice
Maureen McGuire, Bessarion's gift to Venice: a plea on behalf of Byzantium
Valerie Palazzolo, An Iconography of the Macabre: Andreas Vesalius Animated Skeletons and the Memento Mori
Teresa Whitney, Baron Talyors Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France and the Problematics of the Picturesque
2010
Sabrina Hughes, Empty Streets in the Capital of Modernity: Formation of Lieux de M矇moire in Parisian Street Photography from Daguerre to Atget Winner of the 2010 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School
2009
Melissa Diaz, The Role of Materiality in Michelangelo Pistolettos Minus Objects (1965-1966)
Susan King Klinkenberg, An Intervention in Painting by Marlene Dumas with Titles of Engagement: Ryman's Brides , Reinhardts Daughter and Stern
Elizabeth Tanski, Who Are the Danaides? Contextualizing the Use of the Individual in Rodin's Oeuvre
Catherine Elizabeth Turner, Self-fashioning, Consumption, and Japonisme: The Power of Collecting in Tissot's Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais , 1869
2008
Shannon Annis, A Further Removed Dissonance: Transformations of a Musical Model in Kandinskys Move Towards Abstraction
Xiaoli Ma, Double Resistance: Cai Guo-Qiangs Cultural Melting Bath, Projects of the 20th Century (1997)"
Ryan Morgan, Masculinity, subjectivity, and sexuality in Gustave Caillebotte's Young Man at His Window (1875)
2007
Carrie Baker, Re-Thinking the Myth of Perugino and the Umbrian School: A Closer Look at the Master of the Greenvilles Jonas Nativity Panel
Katherine Kearney Bzura, I'm Not Who I Was Then, Now: Performing Identity in Girl Cams and Blogs"
Michelle Rowland, The European Utopian Socialists and the Capitalist Utopias of Walt Disney World
Andrea Satterfield, The Assimilation of the Indigenous American: A Broader Reading of Christoph Weiditzs Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School
2006
Devon Larsen, Rethinking the Monumental: The Museum as Feminist Space in the Sexual Politics Exhibition, 1996
Elizabeth Oliver, Vision and Disease in the Napoleonic Description de lEgypte (1809-1828): The Constraints of French Intellectual Imperialism and the Roots of Egyptian Self-Definition Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School
2005
Izabel Galliera, Negotiating Artistic Identity through Satire: subREAL, 1989-1999
Lesley Treace Stone, From Chapel to Chamber: Liturgy and Devotion in Lucantonio Giunta's Missale romanum , 1508
H. Kellim Brown, The Articulate Remedies of Dolores Lolita Rodriguez
2004
Catherine Cottle, The Myth of Narcissus and Abstract Expressionism, 1949-1959, and their Impact on Contemporary American Culture
Laura Herrmann, A Vocabulary of African Costume for Artists: The Woodcuts of Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo
2003
Marta Penabad, Daughters in the Mi(d)st: Family Portraiture in 16th-Century Veneto
2001
Anne Jeffrey, (Dis)Embodying the Viewer in the Art of Mona Hatoum
Peter Tush, Salvador Dal穫s Identity Construction: Psychoanalysis, Ambiguity, Parody, and the Double Winner of the 2001 Outstanding Thesis Award, USF Graduate School
2000
Robert Lovejoy, The Working Class and Other Races: A Study in Culture and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century English Comic Strips
Michelle McQuillan, A Reinterpretation of Sandro Botticelli's Villa Lemmi Frescoes
1999
Chika Okeke, Critical Interventions: Obiora Udechukwu and Modern Uli Art
1998
Patty Buster-Rhodes, The Age of Totalitarianism: Women Printmakers of the Depression Era Respond
Kathleen Swann Short, The Collection: Giulio Clovio and the Stuart de Rothesay Hours
1996
Karen Fraser, A Delicate Difference: The Critical Reception of Japanese Abstract Expressionism
Editha Millington, Manipulating Power, Adapting to Change: Kwifon Masquerade in the Cameroon Grasslands
Kristen Parker, Writing is not an Act of Love. Love is an Act of Writing: Guillaume de Machauts Le Livre Du Voir Dit in Paris, Biblioth矇que Nationale, Fonds Fran癟ais 1584, Les Oeuvres Compl癡tes de Guillaume de Machaut
Traci Timmons, Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto Il Mondo as an Indicator of the Late Sixteenth Century Venetian Social Order
Maria Perricone, Narrative in the Illuminations of the British Museums Histoire Ancienne Jusqu Ceasar Royal 200.1
1995
Catherine Abrams, The Marriage Portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Walter Stewart: The Visualization of Separate Spheres
Kelly Bousman, A Poetry of Place: An Intertextual Study of Three Installations By Ann Hamilton
Noel Smith, Beyond Nostalgia: Photographs from the Burgert Brothers Collection 1920-1960
Eileen Reilly, The University of Florida Pigouchet and Vostre Horae: A Book Printed in Paris for Exports to London
Helen Wheldon, A Critical Evaluation of the Term Villa in Eighteenth Century England: a Case study of Chiswick
1994
Sherri Hill, Amazons, Matriarchs, and Space Babes: Images of Women in Science Fiction Films of the Fifties
Hope Buchholtz, The Political and Social Implications of Elizabeth Thompsons Battle Paintings and Images of Ireland
1993
Adrienne Golub, Towards A Newer Critique: T.S. Eliot's Conservative Cultural Content and Bertolt Brecht's Aesthetics on Clement Greenberg's Early Rhetoric and Themes
Jane Backstrom, Linda Nochlin: Feminist Interventions in the History of Art
1992
Eman Haram, Family Photographs: The Aesthetics of Time
1991
Xenofon Xeradakis, The Riddle of Derived Motifs
1988
Ann H. Albritton, Sonia Delaunays Poster-Poems 1913-1916