History of Art

Anne Wagner is engaged in a study of “Bodily Reproduction in British Sculpture and Its Wider Culture, 1900-1935.”

In her dissertation, The Last Class Enemy: Early Representations of the GULag, Aglaya K. Glebova (History of Art) focuses on photographs of forced labor camps and their settings during the First Five-Year Plan (1928-1933).

Michelle Wang’s dissertation in History of Art, entitled Characters of Design: Writing and Materiality in Early China, examines the interplay of design and material technology in the construction of characters found on bronzes, textiles, and eaves tiles dating from the Warring States period (472-221BCE) to the Eastern Han Dynasty (9-189 CE) in China.

In her dissertation, "Tintoretto's San Marco Cycle," Letha Chien (History of Art) examines the complex interrelation of civic identity, pictorial imaging, and the nature of the miraculous in sixteenth-century Venetian painting.

Jessica Maxwell earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University in 2013. Her monographic dissertation, "Heterogeneous Objects: The Sculptures of Martin Puryear," explores the central analogy between subject-making and object-making in Puryear's studio work.