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1987 John H. Pryor. Stylistic Patterns of Northern California Indian Baskets. (Anthropology)
1989 Nancy Hamme. Images of Seamstresses in the Art of William Gropper. (Art History)
1991 Katrina Irving. The Discursive Construction of the Immigrant Woman in America, 1890-1925. (English)
1992 Paul Ivey. Tabernacle to Temple. The Christian Science Building Boom, 1895-1925: The Triumph of the Classical Style. (Art History)
1993 Melissa Hall. Modernism, Militarism and Masculinity: Modern Art Discourses and British Official War Art During the First World War. (Chair) (Art History)
1998 Young-June Lee. Mapping Contemporary Theories of Photography: A Reader in New Approaches to the History of Photography, 1964-1995 (Chair) (Art History)
1999 Charles Reeve. The Subject of Formalism: Ruskin, Fry and Greenberg. (Cornell University, Art History)
2000 Gordon Bleach. Visions of Access: Africa Bound and Staged 1880-1940. (Chair) (Art History)
2000 Stephen DeCaroli. Go Hither and Look: Aesthetics, History and the Exemplary in Late Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture)
2002 Leigh George. The Functions of Graphic Design: Sociologies, History, and the International Design Conference in Aspen (Chair) (Art History)
2003 Hong Kal. The Presence of the Past: Exhibitions, Memories and National Identities in Colonial and Postcolonial Korea and Japan. (Chair) (Art History)
2004 Jina Kim. Invitation to the Other: The Reframing of "American" Art and National Identity and the 1993 Whitney Biennial in New York and Seoul. (Chair) (Art History)
2004 Sarah Bassnett. Visible Cities: Photography, Visual Discourse and City Planning in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto and Montreal. (Chair) (Art History)
2005 Rodrigo Mier. Spectral Politics and War in Zapatista Discourse. (Chair) (Philosophy, Literature and the Theory of Criticism Program)
2006 Alexis Dengel. Just Before Getting Over the Past and Other Stories. (English)
2006 Linda Steer, Found, Borrowed and Stolen: The Use of Photographs in French Surrealist Reviews, 1924-1939. (Chair) (Art History)
2008 Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, The Graphic Sound: An Archaeology of Sound, Technology and Knowledge at 1900. (Chair) (Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture)
2008 Nikolay Karkov. The Ontology of Immanence: Spinoza and the Politics of Affect. (Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture)
2009 Jordan Baer. Look Again: The Multiples of Photographic Discernment and Production. (Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University)
2009 Victoria Scott. Silk Screens and Television Screens: Maoism and the Posters of May 1968 in Paris. (Art History)
2010 Cindy Stelmackowich. Bodies of Knowledge: Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Atlases, 1800–1860 (Chair) (Art History)
2010 Julia Friday. Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution: The Composition of Memory, Public Record and Archive (Chair) (Comparative Literature)
2010 Irmak Ertuna. The Avant-Garde and the Politics of Revolution: From Dada into Surrealism, 1919–1931 (Comparative Literature)
2010 Hilary Malatino. Sexing the Monster: Intersex and the Politics of Queer Becoming (Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture)
1988 Philip Armstrong. Gustave Caillebotte's "The Floor Scrapers": The Parameters of a Critical Perspective.
1988 Mary E. Law. English Hunting Images: Representation, Social Positionality and Class Identity.
1989 Kathleen Colman. The Construction of Greek Identity: An Analysis of Cultural Systems.
1991 Alison Ferris. Street Photography in the City of Capital: Sexual Politics, Representation and the Discourse of Space.
1991 Josette Clermont. "The Crisis": A Case-Study of the Politics of Representation in Afro-American Culture.
1991 Jamie Park. The Cultural Politics of Empowerment: The Great Wall of Los Angeles and the Min Joong Art Movement of South Korea.
1993 Christopher Jakel. Textile Strategies: Worker's Clothing Design and the Reconstruction of Everyday Life in the U.S.S.R., 1917-1934.
1993 Shawn Parker. Deviance and Photography: Images of Male Sexual Perversion in American Medical Journals and Texts, 1890-1920.
1993 Eileen Robertson. Cultural Nationalism and Cultural Otherness in the Presentation of Mexican Art in Mexico and the United States.
1994 Jennifer Hirshlag. Framing Wombs: The Politics of Fetal Imagery and Technologies of Observing Pregnancy.
1995 Margaret Crocker. A Frowning Fetus: Aubrey Beardsley and the Drawing of Sexual Distinctions.
1995 Ilana David. Politics and Archaeology in Israel: Yigael Yadin's Excavations at Masada. (co-supervised)
1996 Hong Lee. Pornographic Politics: Debates on the Public Funding of "Controversial" Art and Neo-Conservative Attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts between 1989 and 1992
1996 Leigh George. Imposed Integration: Identity and Layout in 12 Million Black Voices.
1997 Krista Ivy. When Surrender Is Sweet: Bob Flanagan, Masochism and the Modalities of Resistance.
1987 Alison Ferris, Suzan Friedlander and Pamela Toma. Working Spaces: New Work from New York
1987 Paul Ivey. Yee Jan Bao: Oils 1983-1985
1988 Wendy Botting. Posing for Power/Posing for Pleasure: Photographies and the Social Construction of Femininity
1990 Darlene Miller. Access and Exclusion: A Survey of Works from the Wilkes-Barre/Binghamton Regions (co-supervised)
1990 Jamie Park. In Search of a National Identity: The Min Joong Art Movement of Korea (co-supervised)
Esra Atamer. An Altered Concept of Production: Transindividual. (Comparative Literature) [ABD: 11 November 2008]
Ozgur Cicek. Raising Voice Through Cinema: The Politics of Kurdish Film-Making in Turkey. (Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture)
Hyeok Cho. Postmodernity, Femininity, and Racial Identity in Lee Bul’s Art (Chair) (Art History)
Jeremy Culler. From Television Signal to Magnetic Strip: An Archaeology of Experimental Television and Video Knowledge, 1962-2006. (Chair) (Art History) [ABD: 29 May 2007]
Cagatay Dogan. Representations of Istanbul in Postwar Turkey: Othmar Pferschy, the State and Urban Reconstruction (Art History)
Todd Goehle, Visualizing “1968:” Media, Memory, and Social Transformation in West Germany, 1966 to 1983. (History) [ABD: 7 June 2006]
Josh Franco. Chicano/a Art. (Art History)
Jennifer Kennedy. “Charming Little Monsters:” The Spectacle of Femininity in Postwar France. (Art History)
Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi. Feminism and Photography in 1970s Britain. (Chair) (Art History)
Hye-ri Oh. Photography and Criticism in Korea: Modernity, National Identity and the Conception of Photography from the Late Chosun Dynastic Period to Japanese Colonialism. (Chair) (Art History) [ABD: 1 June 2009]
Young-Sin Park. International Expositions in Korea, 1915 to 1929. (Chair) (Art History)
Chunghoon Shin. Art As Spatial Critique: South Korean Visual Arts since the Late 1960s. (Art History) [ABD: 18 August 2009]
Ariza Torres The Development of the Photobook in Puerto Rico (Chair) (Art History)
Ya-Ling Wang. The Reception of Abstract Expressionism in China and Taiwan. (Chair) (Art History)
Dengyan Zhou. The Language of Photography in China: Key Concepts for a Critical History. (Chair) (Art History)
1988 Tracy Bashkoff. Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Art: Judy Chicago's "Birth Project" and Mary Kelly's "Post-Partum Document"
1990 Ellen Tepfer. The Cultural Politics of Surrealism
1995 Marissa Gluck. An Examination of the Politics of Meaning in the Languages of Advertising Directed at or Representing Women
1996 Kim Forsberg. The Body and Theory: Reimagining the Body in Contemporary Art Practice
1997 Rebecca Gardner. Envisioning Women: Photography, Capitalism and Gender in America, 1935-45
2001 Mary Gustaitis. Ben Shahn: The Biography of a Mural
2004 Kristina Seekamp. Unmaking the Museum: Marcel Duchamp's Readymades in Context
2005 Emily Colasacco. The Decoded Seine: The Meaning of Water in Monet's Highway Bridge and Boat Basin, 1874
2008 Timothy Leonido. Spanish Experimental Film in the "Apertura" Period, 1962-1975. (Comparative Literature)
1990 Christine Haight. The Festival of India in New York, 1985
1991 Mikhal Eskayo. Archives of Lesbian Cultural History in New York State
1993 Jack Aiello. Like A Virgin? Madonna and the Marriage of Postmodernism and Feminism
1995 Felyluz Laguio. Words and Images of Medicine
1998 Danielle Greisen. A Study of U. S. Magazine Production and Design
1998 Julia Iannello. A Chronology of the Development of Photographic Techniques and Technologies
1998 Molly McGoey. Gianni Versace: Cultural Production and the Fashion Industry
2001 Travis Pelkie, The Museum of Comics: An Interactive Web-Site
1992 Aaron Howard. Art Theory and Practice (Honors Thesis: Art into Idea as Art: The Development of Conceptual Art.)

Fall 1986 Art History and Cultural Theory: An Introduction to Recent Debates (Art-H 380K)
Fall 1986 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Spring 1987 Art History and Cultural Theory II: Narratives of History (Art-H 380L)
Spring 1987 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Fall 1987 Photographies/Power/The State (Art-H 570A)
Fall 1987 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Spring 1988 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Fall 1988 Art History and Cultural Theory: Pro-Seminar (Art-H 401/501)
Spring 1989 Junior Seminar: Theories and Methods (Art-H 496)
Fall 1989 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Spring 1990 Representation and Counter-Practice (Art-H 501B)
Spring 1990 Curatorial Practice (Art-H 560)
Spring 1992 Photographies/Power/The State (Art-H 570A)
Fall 1992 Art History and Cultural Theory: The Vision Thing (Art-H 401/501)
Spring 1993 Representation and Counter-Practice: Marxism and Representation (Art-H 501B)
Fall 1993 Seminar in Contemporary Art (ArtH 550A)
Fall 1994 Photographies/Power/The State (Art-H 570A)
Spring 1995 Art History and Cultural Theory: The Vision Thing (ARTH 401/501A)
Fall 1995 Documentary, Discipline, Democracy (ARTH 503A)
Spring 1996 Art History and Cultural Theory: Marxism and Representation(ARTH 501)
Fall 1996 Documentary, Discipline and the State (S HUM 408)
Fall 1997 Art History and Cultural Theory: After Structuralism (ARTH 501)
Fall 1998 Photography and Death (ARTH 580A; COLI 580A; ENG 593P)
Fall 1999 Documentary, Discipline and the State (ARTH 503A)
Fall 2000 Marxism and Representation (ARTH 502A; COLI 574M)
Spring 2000 Theory and Methods (ARTH 500; COLI 574J)
Fall 2002 Meaning and Melancholia (ARTH 451B/ARTH 503C; COLI 531T; ENG 450N; PIC 666B)
Fall 2002 Reading Early Foucault (PIC 597)
Fall 2003 Cultural Strategies and the State (ARTH 482D; ARTH 550E; COLI480G; COLI 535A; ENG 450F; ENG 572V; PIC 608F)
Spring 2005 Theory and Methods (ARTH 500; COLI 512A; PIC 604C)
Spring 2006 RE: Thinking Photography (ARTH 580C/480C; COLI 480W/535W; PIC 604H)
Fall 2006 Marxism and Representation (ARTH 482J/ARTH 502A; COLI 574R; PIC 604J)
Spring 2007 Theory and Methods (ARTH 500)
Spring 2007 Art History After Structuralism (ARTH 503F/COLI 574S/PIC 604L)
Fall 2008 Photo/Text (ARTH 580A/ARTH 480C/COLI 535C/PIC 604A)
Spring 2009 Theory and Methods (ARTH 500) Art History: Genealogy of a Discipline (ARTH 504A/COLI574C/PIC 604C)
Spring 2010 Picturing Crisis (ARTH 480D/ARTH 580D/COLI 574C/PIC 604D)
Fall 2010 The Politics of Documentary (ARTH 451E/ARTH 503E/COLI 480R/COLI 574A/ENG 593U/PIC 604A)
Spring 2011 Theory and Methods (ARTH 500) Art History After Structuralism (ARTH 503F/COLIT 507A/ENG 674C/PIC 604A)
Fall 1986 Photographies, Histories, Theories (Art-H 168J)
Spring 1987 Maps of Modernity or Why They Don't Do Surveys Like They Used To Do (Art-H 167Y)
Fall 1987 U.S.A.: Cultural Politics 1930-1960: American Culture and the State (Art-H 252)
Fall 1989 Photographies, Histories, Theories (ArtH-W 280)
Spring 1992 Contemporary Issues in Art (Art-H W 102)
Fall 1992 Histories of Photographies (ArtH-W 280)
Spring 1993 Contemporary Issues in Art (ArtH-W 102)
Fall 1993 American Art and Society, 1930-1960 (ArtH-W 252)
Fall 1994 Histories of Photographies (ArtH-W 280)
Spring 1995 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Fall 1995 American Art and Society, 1930-1960 (ARTH-W 252)
Spring 1996 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Spring 1998 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Spring 1999 American Art and Society, 1930-1960 (ARTH 252)
Spring 2000 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Spring 2003 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Spring 2004 American Art and Society, 1930-1960 (ARTH 252)
Spring 2005 Contemporary Issues in Art (ARTH-W 102)
Spring 2006 Histories of Photography (ARTH-W 280)
Fall 2009 Histories of Photography (ARTH 280)
Fall 2010 American Art and Society 1930–1960 (ARTH 252)