Samuel Adams
“Studio to Stage: Theatricality in Postwar German Art, 1951–1978,” USC, PhD 2016.
Nadya Bair
“A World of Pictures: Magnum Photos and Postwar Photojournalism, 1945–1955,” USC, PhD 2016.
Priyanka Basu
“Kunstwissenschaft and the ‘Primitive’: Excursions in the History of Art History, 1879–1914,” USC, PhD 2011.
Jessica Brier
“Typophoto and the Reinvention of Photography in Weimar Germany,” USC, PhD 2020.
Joe Bucciero
“New Objectives,” Princeton University, PhD 2024.
Jonathan Dentler
“Wired Images: Visual Telecommunications, News Agencies, and the Invention of the World Picture, 1917–1955,” USC, History Department, PhD 2020.
Joanna Fiduccia
“Hollow Man: Alberto Giacometti and the Crisis of the Monument, 1930–1946,” University of California, Los Angeles, PhD 2017.
Sarah Goodrum
“The Problem of the Missing Museum: The Construction of Photographic Culture in the GDR,” USC, PhD 2015.
Grant Johnson
“Supple Materials: Sheila Hicks and the Matter of the Global,” USC, PhD 2021.
Megan Mastroianni
“An Aesthetic of Imagination: The Documentation of Land and Conceptual Art, 1968–1975,” USC, PhD 2016.
Leta Ming
“Tom Marioni and the Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco,” USC, PhD 2011.
Zach Rottman
“A Cinematic Atopia: Robert Smithson and the Filmic Afterlife of the Soviet Avant-Garde,” University of California, Los Angeles, PhD 2020.
Erin Sullivan
“Prints and Participation: The Graphic Art of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz (1918–1924),” USC, PhD 2014.
Dora Vanette
“Architecture and Design of Aging in Postwar United States (1945–1968),” USC, PhD 2024.
Isabel Wade
“Glossy Buildings, Planned Images: Architectural Photography across Contested Spaces in Los Angeles, 1940–1980,” USC, PhD 2023.