Myat Thinzar Aung, Ph.D., 2024
Elizabeth A. Spear, Ph.D., 2022
Anna Luella Isbell, Ph.D., 2020
Cory Gundlach, Ph.D., 2019
Spirited Objects: Lobi Art in West Africa and Beyond
Sandra Gómez Todo, Ph.D., 2019
Alissa Adams, Ph.D., 2018
French Depictions of Napoleon I's Resurrection 1821 - 1848
Jill Holaday, Ph.D., 2018
Gruppe Zero: Working Through War Trauma
Rebecca Avery Smith, Ph.D., 2018
Measuring the Past: The Geometry of Reims Cathedral
Heather D Thorpe, Ph.D., 2018
Modernity's Caravaggio: Reinventing a Seicento Artist for the Twentieth Century
Lauren Freese, Ph.D., 2017
Taste in the City: Depictions of Food Consumption in Urban America, 1880-1920
Michael Traver Ridlen, Ph.D., 2017
Prud’hon’s Evolving Classicism
Mary R. Springer, Ph.D., 2017
American Collegiate Gothic Architecture: The Birth of a Style and its Architects, Patrons, and Educational Associations, 1806-1906
Joshua D. Hainy, Ph.D., 2016
John Flaxman: Beyond the Line
Alycia F. Lentz (Reed), Ph.D., 2016
Ready to Blow Your Mind: Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Amanda K. Strasik, Ph.D., 2016
Reconceiving Childhood: Women and Children in French Art, 1750-1814
Nathan Popp, Ph.D., 2015
Expressions of Power: Queen Christina of Sweden and Patronage in Baroque Europe
Nathan J. Peterson, Ph.D. 2015
Re-Imaging China: Ai Weiwei and Contemporary Chinese Art
Ranelle M. Lueth, Ph.D., 2015
Conflicting Lines: The Ambush on America’s World War I Combat Art
Erin A. Peters, Ph.D., 2015
Egypt in Empire: Augustan Temple Art and Architecture at Karnak, Philae, Kalabsha, Dendur, and Alexandria
Recipient of the University of Iowa D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize
Lynne A. E. Larsen, Ph.D., 2014
The Royal Palace of Dahomey: Symbol of a Transforming Nation
Tyler E. Ostergaard, Ph.D., 2014
The Beast Within: The Contested Image of the Railroad in French Visual Culture, 1837-1877
Summer Trentin, Ph.D., 2014
Pompeian Peristyles: Form, Function, and Meaning
Kimberly Glenn, Ph.D., 2013
Chicago and the Visual Art of the “New Negro Movement,” 1925-1940
Abigail Yoder, Ph.D., 2013
Decoration and Symbolism in the Late Works of Odilon Redon
Karissa Bushman, Ph.D., 2013
Anticlericalism in Goya's Works
Steven J. Kerrigan, Ph.D., 2013
Normandy's Role in the Development of the Flamboyant Style: Decoration, Meaning, and Exchange in Late Gothic Architecture
Lindsay Shannon, Ph.D., 2013
Monuments to the "New Woman": Public Art and Female Image-building in America, 1876-1940
Allison M. Phillips, Ph.D., 2012
The Invisible Labor: Nineteenth-Century Art, the Unconscious, and the Origins of Surrealism
Gwynne Dilbeck, Ph.D., 2011
Opening the Gates of Paradise: Function and the Iconographical Program of Ghiberti’s Bronze Door
David Riep, Ph.D., 2011
House of the Crocodile: South Sotho Art and History in Southern Africa
Recipient of the University of Iowa D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize
Doyle Buhler, Ph.D., 2011
Capturing the Game: The Artist-Sportsman and Early Animal Conservation in American Hunting Imagery, 1830s-1890s
Rachel E. Stephens, Ph.D., 2010
America’s Portraitist: Ralph E. W. Earl and the Imaging of the Jacksonian Era
Heidi Kraus, Ph.D., 2010
David, Architecture and the Dichotomy of Art
Claire Kovacs, Ph.D., 2010
Edgar Degas and the Ottocento
Anna Heineman, Ph.D., 2010
Nurturing Neighborhoods: Buster Simpson's Eco-Art
Danya A. Crites, Ph.D., 2010
From Mosque to Cathedral: The Social and Political Significations of Mudejar Architecture in Late Medieval Seville
Joshua F. Fisher, Ph.D., 2009
The Spiral Jetty in the Landscape of Time and Space
Barbaranne E. Liakos, Ph.D., 2009
The Civil War and Collective Memory: Reconstructing the National Conflict in Paintings and Prints, 1869-1894
Katherine Elliott, Ph.D., 2009
Contact, Conquest and Commemoration: First Contact Imagery in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century American Art
Elizabeth Sutton, Ph.D., 2009
Economics, Ethnography, and Empire: The Illustrated Travel Series of Cornelis Claesz, 1598-1603
Brett M. Van Hoesen, Ph.D., 2009
Weimar Re-visions of Germany's Colonial Past: Max Pechstein, Hannah Höch, László Moholy-Nagy
Abayomi Ola, Ph.D., 2009
Critical Lines: The Parodies of Power in Yoruba Art
Kurt Rahmlow, Ph.D., 2008
Anterior Decoratiors: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Avante-Garde Enviroments at Arles and Le Pouldu
Bridget K. Sandhoff, Ph.D., 2007
Androgyny in Etruscan Art and Culture
Rachel M. Sailor, Ph.D., 2007
Meaningful Places: Nineteenth-century Photography and the Local Landscapes of the American West
Kimberly L. Cleveland, Ph.D., 2007
New Center, Old Periphery: Identity, and Regional Thematic Influences in Afro-Brazilian Art
Sarah Anita Clunis, Ph.D., 2006
A ready-made diaspora
Kathryn M. Floyd, Ph.D., 2006
Between Change and Continuity: Documenta 1955-2005
Elizabeth Jane VanArragon, Ph.D., 2006
The photo league: views of urban experience in the 1930s and 1940s
Gitti Salami, Ph.D., 2005
Ordinarily extraordinary: Yakurr priest-chiefs' ritual performances and the Leboku festival
Kristin King Gilbert, Ph.D., 2005
Pedagogical innovation and reform at the Academie de France a Rome during the directorate of Charles-Joseph Natoire (1752-1775)
Recipient of the University of Iowa D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize
Anne Jennifer Cushwa, Ph.D., 2005
Untitled: (a dissertation for Felix Gonzalez-Torres)
Melissa Susan Gaido Allen, Ph.D., 2005
Donald Judd and the Marfa objective
Jennifer Claire Vigil, Ph.D., 2004
Drawing past, present and future: the legacy of the Plains Indian graphic tradition in the works of Arthur Amiotte
Beata Niedzialkowska, Ph.D., 2004
Ars Nova in Poland: artistic and cultural relations between Poland and Belgium in the late middle ages
Nancy Bishop, Ph.D., 2004
The Barberini gospels
Susan Elizabeth Cooksey, Ph.D., 2004
Iron staffs in the crossroads: art and divination in Toussiana, a southwestern Burkina Faso community
Karen Milbourne, Ph.D., 2003
Diplomacy in motion: art, pageantry and the politics of creativity in Barotseland
Stephen Perkins, Ph.D., 2003
Artists' periodicals and alternative artists' networks, 1963-1977 / by Stephen Edward Perkins
Hee-Young Kim, Ph.D., 2003
Harold Rosenberg's critique of the modernist aesthetic
Cynthia Kay Bland, Cynthia Kay, Ph.D., 2002
Inspiration, innovation, and emotion: the early religious paintings of Eugene Delacroix
Andrea Grace Justus Kann, Ph.D., 2002
Picturing the world: the illustrated manuscripts of The Book of John Mandeville
Robert Randolph Hopson, Ph.D., 2002
The symbolist portraiture of Berthe Morisot
Ann Bronwyn Paulk, Ph.D., 2002
Thomas Eakins and antiheroic modernism
Aida Audeh, Ph.D., 2002
Rodin's Gates of hell and Dante's Divine comedy: an iconographic study
Curt Germundson, Ph.D., 2001
Kurt Schwitters in Hanover: investigation of a cultural environment
Artur Zbigniew Golczewski, Ph.D., 2001
The project of evaluation of values: from Foucault to Dada
Jessica Ann Locheed, Ph.D., 2000
Degas, Mallarme and symbolist aesthetics
Valerie Anne Kidrick, Ph.D., 2000
'Many goodly and pleasant bookes': the library of Henry VII
Wendy LeeRobertson, Ph.D., 2000
The discovery of a new measure: creative institutions and visionary arts from Black Mountain College to MOMA
Barbara Thompson, Ph.D., 1999
Kiuza mpheho (return of the winds): the arts of healing among the Shambaa peoples of Tanzania
Kirsten Strom, Ph.D., 1999
Making history: Surrealism and the invention of a political culture
Annette Ingebretson Lermack, Ph.D., 1999
Fit for a queen: the psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg at the Cloisters
Boureima Tiekoroni Diamitani, Ph.D., 1999
Identities, Komo societies, and art among the Tagwa-Senufo of Burkina Faso
David Anthony Caccioli, Ph.D., 1999
Elements of romanization in Hellenistic Etruscan banquet scenes
Brenda Joanne Molife, Ph.D., 1998
Becoming Ndebele: the decorated homes of Matabeleland
Cynthia Sue Finlayson, Ph.D., 1998
Veil, turban and headpiece: funerary portraits and female status at Palmyra
Gail Parson Zlatnik, Ph.D., 1998
Myth, vision, and the harem in French painting, from Fontainebleau through the nineteenth century
Shao-Chien Tseng, Ph.D., 1998
Honore Daumier and the institution of art
Celian S. Stahr, Ph.D., 1997
The social relations of "Abstract Expressionism": an alternative history
Christina Morris McOmber, Ph.D., 1997
Recovering female agency: Roman patronage and the Dominican convent of SS. Domenico e Sisto
Dana Lynn Rush, Ph.D., 1997
Vodun vortex: accumulative arts, histories, and religious consciousnesses along coastal Benin
Ching-yeh Hsu, Ph.D., 1996
Toward a revised reception theory: Marcel Duchamp and the American spectator, 1937-1968
Susan Behrends Frank, Ph.D., 1996
Un chien andalou and L'age d'or: the collaborations of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel
Recipient of the CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award
Graziella Marchicelli, Ph.D., 1996
Futurism and fascism: the politicization of art and the aestheticization of politics, 1909-1944
Emily G. Hanna-Vergara, Ph.D., 1996
Masks of leaves and wood among the Bwa of Burkina Faso
Julia Allison Risser, Ph.D., 1996
Change and continuity in the architecture of the Kibidoue neighborhood
Manuel Alfonso Jordan, Ph.D., 1996
Tossing life in a basket: art and divination among Chokwe, Lunda, Luvale and related peoples of northwestern Zambia
John J. Ciofalo, Ph.D., 1995
Goya's self-portraits: a transposition toward "truth" and romantic paganism
Daniel Andrew Siedell, Ph.D., 1995
An excavation of Tenth Street: the failure of modernism and the politics of postwar historiography
Alexandra Ann Carpino, Ph.D., 1993
Etruscan relief mirrors: origins, functions and cultural significance
Naseem Ahmed Banerji, Ph.D., 1993
The architecture and architectural decoration of the Adina Mosque, Pandua, West Bengal, India: the problem of the conjoined Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic motifs in the Mihrab niches
Hashim Al-Tawil, Ph.D., 1993
Early Arab icons: literary and archaeological evidence for the cult of religious images in pre-Islamic Arabia
Donald Paoletta, Ph.D., 1991
Thematic patronage in fifteenth century Mantua: Ludovico Gonzaga, Alberti and Mantegna
Patricia Eckhardt, Ph.D., 1990
Proudfoot and Bird, campus architects: building facilities for professional education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1910
Jean Sizemore, Ph.D., 1989
Ozark vernacular: a study of rural houses in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1830-1930
Stephen George Smithers, Ph.D., 1988
The typology and iconography of Etruscan terracotta curotrophic votives: the heads and bambini
Jeffrey A. Hughes, Ph.D., 1988
Shah Jahan's Lal-Mahal at Bari and the tradition of Mughal hunting palaces
Melinda Clancy Hegarty, Ph.D., 1988
The decorative ensemble of the Sala dei Gigli in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
Brian David Steele, Ph.D., 1988
The reclining female nude in Venetian painting ca. 1500: ideal beauty, designed for interpretation
Su-o Chuang, Ph.D., 1987
The art of Li Fang-ying--a painter of himself: one of the eight eccentrics of Yang-chou
Claire C. Kelly, Ph.D., 1986
The representation of the Trinity according to the filioque doctrine
Timothy O. Benson, Ph.D., 1985
Raoul Hausmann--the Dada years
Gwen Finkel Chanzit, Ph.D., 1985
Herbert Bayer: early purveyor of modernist design in America
Walter Thomas Smith, Ph.D., 1984
The Muktesvara Temple at Bhubaneswar: a contextual study of its architecture and sculptural program
Kristi Ann Wormhoudt, Ph.D., 1984
Manuscript illuminations by Giovanni di Paolo
Arthur Pontynen, Ph.D., 1983
The early development of Taoist art
Jean M. James, Ph.D., 1983
An iconographic study of two late Han funerary monuments: the offering shrines of the Wu family and the multichamber tomb at Holingor
William John Hoar, Ph.D., 1983
Wang Mien and the Confucian factor in Chinese plum painting (Published)
Brcak, Nancy J., Ph.D., 1983
The evolution of the Greek revival style in the domestic architecture of Ohio's Western Reserve, 1820-1860
Goddard, Stephen H., Ph.D., 1983
The Master of Frankfurt and his shop
Wilma Komala, Ph.D., 1982
The Windsor Castle Badshah Nama and its place in the development of historical painting during the reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658
Elvy Setterqvist O'Brien, Ph.D., 1982
Johan Tobias Sergell (1740-1814) and Neoclassicism: sculpture of Sergell's years abroad, 1767-1779
Thomas Fletcher Worthen, Ph.D., 1981
The harrowing of hell in the art of the Italian Renaissance
Jerrie Pike Brooklyn, Ph.D., 1981
Attic black-figure funerary plaques
Charles Dillard Collins, Ph.D., 1980
Iconographic sources for the sculptural program at Elephanta
Dianne Claire Strickland, Ph.D., 1980
Maximilian as patron: the Prayerbook
Mark Lawrence Rosenthal, Ph.D., 1979
Paul Klee and the arrow
Philippe Oszuscik, Ph.D., 1979
A history of the architecture and urbanization of nineteenth century Davenport, Iowa
Harvey E. Hamburgh, Ph.D., 1978
Aspects of the descent from the cross from Lippi to Cigoli
David M. Quick, Ph.D., 1978
Meaning in the art of Barnett Newman and three of his contemporaries: a study of content in abstract expressionism
Louis Frank Mustari, Ph.D., 1975
The sculptor in the fourteenth century Florentine Opera del Duomo
John Montgomery Wilson, Ph.D., 1975
The painting of the passions in theory, practice and criticism in later eighteenth century France
Judith Elaine Appel Gorder, Ph.D., 1973
James McNeill Whistler: a study of the oil paintings, 1855-1869
Ann Lee Morgan, Ph.D., 1973
Toward the definition of early modernism in America: a study of Arthur Dove
Burton L. Dunbar, Ph.D., 1972
The landscape art of Cornelis Massys
Thomas Schlotterback, Ph.D., 1972
The basis for Chinese influence in American art, 1784-1850
Judy Kay Collischan Van Wagner, Ph.D., 1972
Walter Murch
William Hilton Sterling, Ph.D., 1971
The wedding at Cana in western art of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries
John M. Alexander, Ph.D., 1971
Analogies among the arts in eighteenth-century British criticism
Harry E. Buckley, Ph.D., 1969
Guillaume Apollinaire as an art critic
Glenn Franklin Benge, Ph.D., 1969
The sculpture of Antoine-Louis Barye in American collections, with a catalogue raisonne
John Henry Edmond Flak, Ph.D., 1966
The iconographical and stylistic sources of the prints of Martin Schongauer
Sheldon Reich, Ph.D., 1966|
John Marin
Leonard Buell Kimbrell, Ph.D., 1965
The illustrations of Paradise lost in England -1688-1802
Lawrence Ferguson Mills, Ph.D., 1963
Pre-Columbian sculpture of Southeastern United States
Lillian Natalie Dochterman, Ph.D., 1963
The stylistic development of the work of Charles Sheeler
Edmund R. Eglinski, Ph.D., 1963
Sienese Dugento painting; a catalogue of painting before Duccio
William Dean Eckert, Ph.D., 1961
The Renaissance stage in Italy: a study of the evolution of the perspective scene
Dale Keith Haworth, Ph.D., 1960
Early Christian wall and ceiling mosaics from Italy - a stylistic analysis
William Louis Gannon, Ph.D., 1960
Carriage, coach, and wagon; the design and decoration of American horse-drawn vehicles
Donald Gray Humphrey, Ph.D., 1958
The sculpture of the Cathedral of Amiens; a descriptive, iconographic, and stylistic study based on three-dimensional slides in the collection of the State University of Iowa
Calvin David Gross, Ph.D., 1958
A historical catalogue of Gothic secular architecture of Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Holland in the three dimensional slide collection of the State University of Iowa
Robert Edgar Day, Ph.D., 1958
A historical catalogue of Italian sculpture, 1200-1500, in the three dimensional slide collection, the State University of Iowa
Allan Gerald Blizzard, Ph.D., 1958
A historical catalogue of modern Italian art in the State University of Iowa three dimensional slide collection
Earl George Mueller, Ph.D., 1958
Jean Le Tavernier of Audenarde
William Ashby McCloy, Ph.D., 1958
The Ofhuys chronicle and Hugo van der Goes
William Clark Kortlander, Ph.D., 1958
An historical catalogue of the religious architecture of Great Britain from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1600 in the State University of Iowa three dimensional slide collection
Robert Wardrop McMillan, Ph.D., 1958
The sculpture of Chartres Cathedral, a study based on the three dimensional color slides in the collection of the State University of Iowa
John Victor Blackwell, Ph.D., 1957
An historical catalogue of Italian, French, and German Romanesque architecture and sculpture in the State University of Iowa three dimensional slide collection
Robert Rice Harrison, Ph.D., 1957
An historical catalogue of Greek sculpture in the three dimensional slide collection of the State University of Iowa
Roy Sieber, Ph.D., 1957
African tribal sculpture
Gordon Stuart Hodge, Ph.D., 1957
A historical catalogue of French Gothic churches in the State University of Iowa three dimensional slide collection
Norval Tucker, Ph.D., 1957
A catalogue of Etruscan and Roman art and architecture in the three dimensional slide collection of the State University of Iowa
Marie Sophie Huper, Ph.D., 1956
The architectural monuments of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Chu-tsing Li, Ph.D., 1955
The five senses in art: an analysis of its development in Northern Europe
Frederick Darwin Leach, Ph.D., 1955
William Hogarth's subscription-tickets: a vehicle for eighteenth century satire on contemporary taste
Leland Wilson Gralapp, Ph.D., 1953
Images of the child cult in Mid-Victorian book illustration
Clayton Vought Fowler, Ph.D., 1951
Shakespeare's sonnet 24 in the light of sixteenth century art theory
Francis John Newton, Ph.D., 1951
Representations from Psalm 84.11,12: an iconographic study
Paul David Running, Ph.D., 1951
The flagellation of Christ: a study in iconography
Stanley Brandon Kearl, Ph.D., 1949
A series of sculptures
Edmund Daniel Kinzinger, Ph.D., 1942
A series of oil paintings