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GRADUATE PROGRAM

M.A. THESES and PH.D. DISSERTATIONS

2004:
BURNS, KARA (M.A.): "The Greek World of the Dead: Its Topography in the Art and Literature of the Archaic and Classical Periods." Advisor: J.Hurwit
CHANG, SU-CHEN (M.A.): "Empress Yang as a Calligrapher." Advisor: C. Lachman.
ELLISON, NISSIE (M.A.): "Masculine, Feminine and Radical Manifestations of the Woman’s Building at the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
GAUGER, CRYSTAL (M.A): "Ludwig I of Bavaria as a 19th Century German "Medici" in Munich: Romanticism and Nationalism in the Architecture and Frescoes of the Ludwigskirche." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
GOUDY, GAYLE (M.A.): "Computer-Aided Design’s Affect on Contemporary Architecture with a Case Study of Frank Gehry’s Career." Advisor: L. Roth.
HEREFORD, KIMBERLY (M.A.): "Whistler and Fashion: Early Depictions of Aesthetic Dress." Advisor: S.Simmons.
HEVEL, DEREK (M.A.): "Grounded Originality: Sigmar Polke's Use of Fabric as a Foil for Modernism’s Origins." Advisor: S. Simmons.
PARR, ELIZABETH (M.A.): "Wayward Women: Printing and the Role of Women in Reformation Culture." Advisor: J.Harper.
RUSSELL, HEATHER (M.A.): "Points of Intersection: Swallows and Ewers on Bronze Age Thera." Advisor: J. Hurwit.

2003:
BURNHAM, MARY HELEN (M.A.): "Modernist Utopias: Female Subjectivity and Three Nude Self-Portraits of Paula Modersohn-Becker." Advisor: S. Simmons.
COOPER, TIFFANY STITH (M.A.): "Minor White in Oregon, 1937-42." Advisor: Knicholson.
DILLON, HANNAH (M.A.): "Robert Colescott: Valley of the Queens, 1964-1969." Advisor: S. Simmons.

2002:
MEE LEE, OH (M.A.): "The Diamond Mountain Paintings of the University of Oregon Museum of Art: The Development of Diverging Styles of Depicting a Sacred Korean Site." Advisor: C. Lachman.
ROOS, BONNIE (M.A.): "Entanglements of Gender and Nation in Anselm Kiefer's Art." Advisor: S. Simmons.
ROWAN, JENNIFER (M.A.): "Danger and Devotion: The Mother of Demons in the Stories and Stones of Gandhara, A Historiography and Catalogue of Images of Early
Buddhist Deity of Abundance." Advisor: E. Jacobson.
RYAN, MARY KATE (M.A.): "Coming Home: A Cultural Case Study of Better Homes and Gardens Five Star Plans, 1946." Advisor: L. Roth.
WEST, PRISCILLA (PH.D.): "Text into Art: The Chronica Dominicana and Tomaso da Modena's Chapter House Frescoes at San Nicolo in Treviso." Advisor: R. Sundt.
WRIGHT, AMANDA (M.A.): "A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Gertrude Bass Warner, General Normann Munthe, and the Enigma of the UOMA Buddha." Advisor: C. Lachman.

2001:
MELTON, LISA (M.A.): "Herman Preusse: Spokane, Washington's Pioneer Architect." Advisor: L. Roth.
PREIS, MARY (M.A.): " The Ivory Triad from Mycenae." Advisor: J. Hurwit.

2000:
FORRLER, CARA (M.A.): "The Japanese Kesa: A Patchwork of Meanings." Advisor: S. Thompson.
LEMON, KIMBERLY(M.A.): "A Woman's Place in the Ranks: Elizabeth Thompson Butler's 'Roll Call' and the Gendered Mediation of Late Vi.torian Nationalistic Ideology." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
TOTTEN, ANDREA (M.A.): "A Study of Norwegian Stave Church Portal Figural Decoration: An Analysis of the Placement of Mythological Saga Imagery on Christian Church Entrances." Advisor: M.-L. Dolezal.

1999:
GREENWOOD, KEVIN R. (M.A.): "The Qianlong Emperor as the Bodhisattva Manjushri: Religion, Politics and Self-Conception in the Qianlong Period." Advisor: C. Lachman.
LACKAFF, DALENE G. (M.A.): "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscript Books of Hours in the Collection of the Mount Angel Abbey Library with an Historiographical Essay on the Study of Books of Hours." Advisor: A. Acres.
PONTON, CLAUDIA (M.A.): "Between Death and Life: Trauma in the Art of Yayoi Kusama."Advisor: S.Simmons.
TROUSDALE, DEBORAH K. (M.A.): "The Virgin with a Book in Anglo-Saxon England: Athematic Essay and Working Catalogue of Northern European Examples, ca. 800-ca. 1450." Advisor: M.-L. Dolezal.
MARKLE, GREER (PH.D.): "Diego Rivera’s ‘Portrait of America’: Marxism and Montage." Advisor: S. Simmons.
ROSENZWEIG, RACHEL (PH.D.): "Aphrodite in Athens: A Study of Art and Cult in the Classical and Late Classical Periods." Advisor: J.Hurwit.

1998:
ANTON, MIRIAM R. (M.A.): "Seven Minutes in New York City: A Modernist Perspective on Charles Sheeler's and Paul Strand's Manhatta." Advisor: S. Simmons.
BUDD, MARTA LYNN (M.A.): "Fashion in Profile: The Body in Georges Seurat’s ‘La Grande Jatte’ and ‘Les Poseuses.’" Advisor: S. Simmons.
HAAS CYNTHIA L. (M.A.): "The Architectural Response to Changing Spiritual Needs at Notre-Dame of Paris in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries."Advisor: R. Sundt.
HURLEY, MARIANNE RAPALUS (M.A.): "The California Churches of Ernest A. Coxhead." Advisor: L. Roth.
JONES, LYNN F. (PH.D): "The Multi-Unit Housing of Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra."Advisor: L. Roth.
LAMB, JANET M. (M.A.): "Harley S. McDonald: An Early Oregon Architect-Builder. Advisor: L. Roth.
METZGER, KATHLEEN L. (M.A.): "The Women’s Flounced-Skirt Costume as it Appears in the Bronze Age Frescoes of Thera." Advisor: J. Hurwit.
NATTINGER, JEAN KATHERINE (M.A.): "Rogier Van Der Weyden and the Mystery of the Fragmented Altarpiece: As Study in the Typology of Fifteenth-Century Devotional Composition." Advisor: A. Acres.

1997:
DOPSON, DIANA (M.A): "Carlos Vierra and the Origins of the Spanish Pueblo Revival Style." Advisor: L. Roth.
EMERSON, FAITH (M.A.): "Modern Art Hits Stumptown: Sally H. Lewis and Vanguard Exhibitions at the Portland Art." Advisor: S. Simmons.
MILLER, WENDY P. (M.A.): "Recollection and Reformation: Paul Klee’s Exploration of Children’s Creative Impulse, 1905-1912." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1996:
COLLINS, KRISTIN B. (M.A.): "Manet and Chardin: Artistic Affiliation and the Problem of "Frenchness" in Painting, 1858-1870." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
KERRIGAN, MARLENE B. (PH.D): "The Kalkar Retable: An Analysis and Reconstruction of its Iconographic Program." Advisor: A. Acres.
PHILIPS-MEADOW, SORIA (M.A.): "Fresh Seeing: Carr's Engagement with Contemporary Thought and Expression in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Landscape Painting." Advisor: S. Simmons.
WILLIS, SUSANNE EVA (M.A.): "The Sacred Architecture of Didyma Seen through the Religious Development of Apollo's Oracular Cult." Advisor: R. Sundt.

1995:
CREDGINGTON, KRISTEN ELIZABETH (M.A.): "Nurses, Fisherman, and Shepherds: A Re-examination of the Portrayal of Old Age in Hellenistic Sculpture." Advisor: J. Hurwit.
GRYTE, JAMES BRIAN (M.A.): "Eighteenth Century Organ Design: Two Case Studies in Holland and South Germany." Advisor: L. Roth.
HOWLAND, DAVID MATTHEW (M.A.): "The Landscape as Pictorial Frame: Andy Goldsworthy’s Permanent Sculptures at Grizedale Forest Park." Advisor: S. Simmons.
KALY, JOHN PERRY (M.A.): "Deconstructing the Ancien Regime: Iconoclasm and the French Revolution." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
KUCERA, KARIL J. (M.A.): "Lessons in Stone: Baodingshan and its Hell Imagery." Advisor: C. Lachman.
PANTER, MARILYN (M.A.): "The Female Performer in the Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec: The Carnivalesque in Fin-de-Siecle Paris." Advisor: K. Nicholson
SHANKS-ROCHESTER, SUSAN (M.A.): "Saint-Etienne at Caen and the Beginnings of the Clerestory Passage in Normandy." Advisor: R. Sundt.
SWANBORN, SARA M. HEIL (M.A.): "Durer, Cranach, and the Development of Lutheran Compositional Principles in the Early Reformation." Advisor: A. Acres.
TAN, CHRISTINE C.Y. (M.A.): "'The Jieziyuan Huazhuan,' or 'The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting and Calligraphy,' and the Late Ming Culture." Advisor: C. Lachman.
UTTER, HEATHER MARIE (M.A):"'Personages': Louise Bourgeois and Gendered Existentialism." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1994:
CARMIN, JAMES (M.A.): "Those 'Damned Portraits': The Development and Critical Reception of J.A.D. Ingres's Portraits." Advisor: K. Nicholson
CLAYPOOL, LISA (M.A.): "The Social Body: 'Beautiful Women' Imagery in Late Imperial China." Advisor: C. Lachman.
DOUD, JAYNE L.(M.A.): "Chloethiel Woodward Smith, FAIA, Washington's Urban Gem." Advisor: L. Roth.
FARR, LIBBY DAWSON (PH.D.): "Art Museum as Bridges Across Time: Four American Collegiate Art Museum of the 1980s." Advisor: L. Roth.
LAMUNIERE, MICHELLE C. (M.A.): "Roll, Jordon, Roll: The Gullah Photographs of Doris Ulmann." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
ROEHR, SUSAN N. (M.A.): "Sezincote: The 'Hindoo' Aesthetic in British Architecture, 1795-1820." Advisor: L. Roth.
SAILOR, RACHEL M. (M.A.): "Tradition and Innovation: A Reconsideration of the Hagia Sophia Apsidal Icon." Advisor: M.-L.Dolezal.
VORDERSTRASSE, LIESL KATHRIN (M.A.): "Mother Earth Laid Bare: Agriculture and the Environment in Art of American Scene Regionalism, 1932-1946." Advisor: L. Roth.
WITTWER, KATHY (M.A.): "Gaze of Stone: The Gorgon Medusa on the Acropolis of Athens." Advisor: J. Hurwit.
YANKOSKY, THOMAS JOSEPH (M.A.): "Rogier Van Der Weyden’s St. Ivo (?): Questions of Portraiture and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Painting." Advisor: A. Acres.

1993:
BUCKLEY, ALEXANDRA M.(M.A.): "Glendale, Ohio: A Study of Early Suburban Development in America." Advisor: L. Roth.
DOMBROWSKI, DANIELA (M.A.): "Hubert Robert’s Paintings of the Louvre- Studies of Gender and Artistic Institutions in Revolutionary France."Advisor: S. Simmons.

1992:
LECHNER, ANDREE PURDOM (M.A.): "Hodler and Vienna: Adaptation and Transformation." Advisor: S. Simmons.
POOLE, KETRINA (M.A.): "Satirical Humor and the American Domestic Scene: Lily Martin Spencer (1822-1902) and Shake Hands (1854)." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
POOLE, SABINA (M.A.): "The Emergence and Development of a Pacific Northwest Regional Style of Architecture." Advisor: L. Roth.
RUSH, KAREN A. (M.A.): "The Adaption of Historical Meaning: John Constable's Waterloo Bridge, from Whitewall Stairs, June 18th 1817." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
TSURUYA, MAYU (M.A.): "Isamu Noguchi’s Cronos: Myth in the Atomic Age." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1991:
BALLANTYNE, MARGO S. (M.A.): "The Effect of Advertising on the Early Works of Stuart Davis." Advisor: S. Simmons.
DE QUIROZ, DONNA (M.A.): "The Virgin of the Don Icon as the Pivotal Work of Theophanes the Greek." Advisor: A.D. McKenzie
ENNIS, WILLIAM D. (M.A.): "'A Fair and Just Moment': A Narrative Reading of Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
FISCHER, CLAUDIA (M.A.): "Van Gogh's Translations: The Copies After Millet." Advisor: S. Nicholson.
JIANG, WEI QIANG (M.A.): "The Formation of the Classic Rothko: A Pictorial and Philosophical Study of Mark Rothko’s Art." Advisor: S. Simmons.
MCCUMSEY, ELLEN K. (M.A.): "David Smith’s Landscapes in Post-War America: Modernism’s Revision of the Pastoral." Advisor: S. Simmons.
MOHR, MARILYN E. (M.A.): "The Muranua Landscapes of Wassily Kandisky, Gabriele Munter:, and Alexej Jawlensky." Advisor: S. Simmons.
MULLER, KEVIN R. (M.A.): "Innovation and Transformation: Jean Baptiste Greuze and Genre Painting of the Ancien Regime." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
OLESON, CORI MARIE (M.A.): "The Offering-Table from Thera and the Problem of the "Marine Style" in the Bronze Age Agean." Advisor: J. Hurwit.

1990:
ASTON, VALERIE (M.A.): The Representation of India by British Landscape Artists between 1780-1880." Advisor: E. Jacobson.
EARNSHAW, CONSTANCE (M.A.): "Guitar Song: Ming and Ch'ing Illustrations fo the Po Chu-I's Tang Poem." Advisor: E.J. Laing.
HARKOVITCH, VICTORIA ANN (M.A.): "Das Ding an Sich in Stimmung" : The Still Life’s of Paula Modersohn-Becker." Advisor: S. Simmons.
PIERCE, CHRISTINA L. (M.A.): "Devotion by Design: An Analysis of Ms.67: A Fifteenth-Century Flemish Book of Hours from Mt. Angel Abbey, Oregon." Advisor: R. Mann.
WHALEN, KARIN S. (M.A.): "An Analysis of Nicolas Poussin's 'Holy Family on the Steps' of 1648." Advisor: R. Mann.

1989:
BOUGHN-MEYER, DEBORAH (M.A.), "Baudelaire's Salon of 1846: The Role of Delacroix." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
FESHBACH, RIVA (M.A.): "Rudolf Schindler's Concept of Space Architecture: Theory and Practice." Advisor: L. Roth.
JOHNSON, CATHERINE (M.A.): "The Early Career of Thomas Moran, Painter and Illustrator of the American Landscape." Advisor: K. Nicholson.
TALLACKSON, KAREN LEE (M.A.): "Pop Art and the Comic." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1988:
BROWN, RANDI L. (M.A) :"The Church Interiors of Harriet Backer." Advisor: M. Donnelly.
CRAWFORD, BRYAN (M.A.), "The Residential Architecture of Ellis Fuller Lawrence." Advisor: L. Roth.
GRIFFITH, NATHAN PAUL (M.A.): "Performance as Sculpture: Chris Burden 1971-1978." Advisor: S. Simmons.
POSTON, VIRGINIA SCHUSTER (M.A.): "Cultural Implications of the Golden Treasure of Tillya-Tepe." Advisor: E. Jacobson.
SCHNEIDER, GREG (M.A.): David Hockney’s Parade: An Evening of French Music Theatre Picasso Redux." Advisor: S.Simmons.
SHURTLEFF, CHERYL K. (M.A.): "La Peinture au Defi: Aragon, Surrealism, and Collage."Advisor: S. Simmons.
STALEY, LISA ANN (M.A.): "Fra Filippo Lippi’s Barbadori Altarpiece: Artistic Innovation in the Culture of Early Quattrocento Florence." Advisor: F. Pitts.
SWIM, ROGER (M.A.): "Le Corbusier's Modulor: One Man's Search for Proportion, Form and Harmony." Advisor: L. Roth.

1987:
BELOVIC, MARINA (M.A.): "Late Byzantine Painting in Siberia: Kalenic and the Kariye Djami." Advisor: A.D. McKenzie.
CHEREMETEFF, MARIA (PH.D.): "The Transformation of the Russian Sanctuary Barrier and the Role of the Theophanes the Greek." Advisor: A.D. McKenzie.
HANSON, VIRGINIA (M.A.): "A Study of American Collectors of Early Modern French Art, Claribel and Etta Cone and John Quinn." Advisor: S. Simmons.
HEINY, HENRIETTE A. GRAM (PH.D.): "Boxing in British Sporting Art 1730-1824. Advisor: S. Simmons.
TAGORE, SUNDRAM (M.A.): "Louis I. Kahn’s "City of the Tiger"in Bangladesh: A Social Political and Artistic Analysis of City Planning."Advisor: L. Roth.
TANAKA, KUMIKO (M.A.): "The Influence of Italy and Jean Pucelle on French Manuscript Painting of the Fourteenth Century." Advisor: A.D. McKenzie.
ULLMAN, ADELE A. (M.A.): "The Aegean Nilotic Landscape: Interconnections Between Egypt and the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age."Advisor: J. Hurwit.

1986:
MORRISETTE, LISA O. (M.A.): "The Mystic Art of Morris Graves and its Relationship with Asian Art and Philosophy."Advisor: S. Simmons.
SHI, ICHIN (M.A.): "The Development of Still Life Depictions in China." Advisor: E.J. Laing.

1985:
TRIONE, DEBRA (M.A.): "Las Meninas again in 1957: Picasso's Variations on a Theme." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1984:
COCHRAN, ROBIN M. (M.A): "The Griffins of Thera: A Study of Style and Influence in the Bronze Agean." Advisor: J. Hurwit.
SKILLMAN, DENISE (M.A.): "Altichiero DaZevio's Chapel of S. Giacomo at the Santo in Padua: An Examination of His Narrative Style and Its Social Background." Advisor: F. Pitts.
WETHERELL, ANN E. (M.A.): "Paintings and Poems of Birds by Shen Chou (1427-1509)." Advisor: E. Jacobson.

1983:
KASNER, MICHAEL (M.A.): "A Proposed Reconstruction of the Weaponry of the 'Battle Relief' of the Alexander Sarcophagus." Advisor: J. Hurwit.
McGUIRE, GALINA K.(M.A.): "Elena Guro, Cubo-Futurist Painter-Poet: A Life in Art." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1982:
CYRIL, JASMIN W. (M.A.):"Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ: A Stylistic and Iconographic Examination." Advisor: F. Pitts.
LAKIN, KIMBERLY L. (M.A.): "The Life and Work of John Hunzicker, Architect 1867-1945. Advisor: L. Roth.
MCCORMICK EMBICK, LUCY (M.A.): "The Expressionist Current in New York's Avant-Garde: The Paintings of the Ten." Advisor: S. Simmons.
SABATINI, BARBARA (M.A.): "Pope Nicholas V's Chapel of Saints Stephen and Lawrence by Fra Angelico: An Historical Interpretation." Advisor: F. Pitts

1981:
MILLER, MICHAEL A. (M.A.): "Robert Rauschenberg: Image as Metaphor." Advisor: S. Simmons.
TUNG, YUAN-FANG (M.A.): "The Seventeenth Century Suchou Painter Li Shih-ta." Advisor: E. J. Laing.

1980:
BELLOWS, HEATHER E. (M.A.): "Twelfth-Century Novgorodian Painting: Byzantine Influence and Novgorodian Innovation." Advisor: M. Donnelly.
GARWOOD, ROBERT D. (M.A.): "The Rise of the American Gas Station." Advisor: L. Roth.
HEARST, STEVEN D. (M.A.): "The Works of Antonio Sant' Elia: Chronology and Context." Advisor: L. Roth.
MANCUSO, MARY C. (M.A.): "The Meeting at the Golden Gate as Key to the Hidden Dimension in Giotto's Arena Chapel Frescoes. Advisor: F. Pitts.
RODDA, NANCY (M.A.): "An Adoration of the Magi Ivory: Its Origins and Meaning." Advisor: K. Gould.
VAN AUSDALL, KRISTEN (M.A.): "Quattrocento Female Portraiture: A Case Study of Literacy, Cultural and Artistic Relationships." Advisor: F. Pitts.
VANDER SCHAAF, ELIZABETH (M.A.): "Edvard Munch's Archetypal Image of Women: The Cultural and Social Context." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1979:
BUCK, AGNETTA M. (PH.D.): "The Roman Architectural Landscapes of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg." Advisor: M. Donnelly.
CAMPBELL, NANCY (M.A.): "The Shift in Artistic Values between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism as Seen in the Work of Ralph Baker, Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Carl Andre, 1958-65." Advisor: S. Simmons.
EVANS, EMILY (M.A.): "Simone Maritni and the Master of the St. George Codex." Advisor: A.D. McKenzie.
HAMRICK, JAMES M. (M.A.): "A Survey of the Use of Architectural Terra Cotta in American Commercial Architecture: 1870-1930." Advisor: L. Roth.
MURPHY, MARK G. (PH.D.): "Scottish Gardens from the Restoration to the Act of Union, 1660-1710." Advisor: M.Donnelly.
PETERSON, ANDREA (M.A.), "The Mountain Image in Chinese Landscape Painting: Form and Content." Advisor: E. Jacobson.
TURNER, DAVID G. (M.A.): "Imogen Cunningham: A Critical Study in the History of Photography." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1978:
BURDELL, PAULA (M.A.): "Albrecht Durer's Portrait of Johannes Kleeberger." Advisor: F. Stern.
CUNO, JAMES B. (M.A.): "On the Early Paintings of Vladimir Tatlin: Their Importance in the Development of the Painterly Reliefs, 1910-1914." Advisor: S. Simmons.
HOMEYER, JANE A. (M.A.): "'Westward the Course of the Empire': A Study of the Prints. Advisor: S. Simmons.
KERRIGAN, MARLENE B. (M.A.): "The Campania Vases from the Portland Art Museum." Advisor: F. Stern.
WALTERS, JUDITH H. (M.A.): "American Modernism and the Development of Straight Photography." Advisor: S. Simmons.

1977:
GREEN, CYNTHIA E. (M.A.): "Jazz: Signs for Reality, Ideality, and the Absolute in the Paper Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse." Advisor: S. Simmons.
POLLOCK, NANCY L. (M.A.): "Landscape Representation in China in the Cultural Context of the Early Han Empire." Advisor: E. Jacobson.
SPERLING, CHRISTINE (M.A.): "Representations of Tritons and Mermaids on Sarcophagi of the Hadrianic and Antonine Periods." Advisor: F. Stern.
TATMAN, SANDRA L. (M.A.): "A Study of the Work of Mellor, Meigs, and Howe." Advisor: M.D. Ross (?).

1976:
LOFGREN, JOHN Z. (M.A.): "The Miniatures of Peter Adolf-Hall." Advisor: M. Donnelly.
SUNG, YU (M.A.): "A Study of the Murray Warner Memorial Collection of Chinese Art at the University of Oregon." Advisor: F. Stern.