Laufende Dissertationen:

Elena Degen

“Marianne Werefkin: Die Spätwerke,” Universität Basel.

Jessica Hanson

“Sports, Illustrated: The Making of the Global Image in Sports Photography, 1900–1974,” University of Southern California.

Joseph Henry

“Spiritualized Machines: Die Brücke, Expressionism, and Wilhelmine Modernity,” Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Weronika Malek

“Between Moscow and Paris: Łódź and the Transnational Avant-Garde Network 1921−1939,” University of Southern California.

Noemi Scherrer

“Abstraction, Autonomy, Politics. Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Work in the 1930s and 1940s,” Universität Basel.

Elissa Watters

“Process as Resistance: The Print Production of Gerd Arntz and the Cologne Progressives, 1919–1939,” University of Southern California.

Sarah Wiesendanger

“Schöne neue Plastik: Die veränderbaren Werke von Charlotte Posenenskes,” Universität Basel.

Abgeschlossene Dissertationen:

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.

Masterarbeiten (abgeschlossen/laufend)

Paul Ambros

“Immersive Effekte in zeitgenössischen Videoinstallationen am Beispiel von Marianna Simnetts The Severed Tail”

Annabelle Berghof

“Charlotte Salomon: Leben oder Theater?” (Thema)

Eva Kallenberger

“Die (Un-)Sichtbarkeit des Künstlers: Übermalte fotografische Selbstporträts von Arnulf Rainer und Gerhard Richter als Reaktion auf eine Krise des Künstlers?” (abgeschlossen 2025)

Martha Szczecinski

“Impressionistische Nachtilluminationen” (Thema)