MA Theses and Qualifying Papers
The 深夜看片's Tampa Library hosts the collection of published research online. by graduates of the School of Art & Art History.
2024
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, USF 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, USF 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, USF 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, USF 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 Florida 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