Material Culture
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Galdone, Isabella, "Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists and the Intersection of Painting, Needlework and Amateur Science" (Yale University, E. Cooke, T. Barringer)

Hampton, Steven, "Dictator Kitsch and the Iraq War" (University of California, Riverside, P. Morton, J Weems)

Horwitz, Vu, “Wooden Dialogues: A Material and Visual Analysis of Inter-Referential Design in Palm Wine Vessels from the Kuba Cultural Region” (Yale University, E. Cooke)

Lally, Michael, "To Wear, to Eat, to Ride, to See: Object Biographies, Collections, and the History of Mobility in the Early Twentieth-Century Horn of Africa and Southern Arabia" (Temple University, E. Neumeier)

Stephenson, Lea, "Sensing Egypt, Shaping Empire: American Collectors, Artists, and Egyptomania, 1870–1922" (University of Delaware, W. Bellion)

Watters, Marta, "Bodies of Experimental Philosophies: Animal Objects as Embodiments of Art and Science in Early Modern Northern Europe" (University of Missouri, Columbia, A. Rudloff Stanton)

Wilson, Margaret, "Making and Breaking Enclosure: the Movement of Art Through the Late Medieval Convent" (Ohio State University, K. Whittington)