Theses/Dissertations from 2020
On the Fluidity of Honey and Fugitivity of Sound in Trauma, Ecstasy, and Black Radical Tradition, Evgenia Grant
Thoughts around the Psychological Attributes of Fascist Aesthetics, Carolina Mimi King
Re-thinking Risk Management of Auction House Guarantees and Third-Party Irrevocable Bids, Nathan Krasnick
For Those in Peril on the Sea : The motivations of nineteenth century European artists to create shipwreck paintings, Calvin Liepins
Radical Queer Gazes : How lesbian and nonbinary contemporary photographers are destabilizing the male gaze, Eliza McDonough
Role of Art in International Relations : Analysis of the key operational patterns on the example of French cultural cluster, Maria Meshcherskaya
How Fat-Positive Art Asserts Validity in the Face of Social Erasure, Humiliation & Objectification of the Fat Female Nude, Elizabeth Powell
Collectors Beware: A glimpse into the high-risk, high-reward world of antiquities and its dark underbelly, Claire M. Purcell
Business Interrupted : COVID-19 and its impact on auction houses, Carolina Sagardoy
The Reemergence of Celebrity Imagery in Twenty-First Century Art, Maria Olsson Skalin
Relational Accountability in the Art Business : A study of ethics, Theodore Soliman
The Old Masters Market and the Salvator Mundi: What did it do, what can be done?, Mary Sullivan
The Art of Marketing Luxury, Aiho Tan
Terrible Beauty : The many faces of Helen of Troy in painting from antiquity to the nineteenth century, Lindsay M. Taylor
“Whose Utopia?” Kimsooja & Bottari Utopia, Younghee Kim Wait
The Crown Jewel of Divinity : Examining how a coronation crown transforms the virgin into the queen, Sara Sims Wilbanks
Reappraising the Rococo : The enduring relevance of eighteenth-century French painting, Emma M. Woodberry
From Spectacle to Collectible : A reappraisal of Katherine Dreier and Juliana Force's pioneering impact to bolster the ascendancy of Modern Art in America, Caroline Holt Yarbrough
The Development of the Jewelry Industry under the Patronage of the Russian Imperial Court in the XIX-XX Centuries, Julia Zubko
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Evolving Ethics: Deaccessioning from Museum Collections in the Twenty-First Century, Julia Baker
Story of Twin Cities, Who Will be the Next Storm Center of Art Fairs?, Rui Bian
Museum Websites and Restitution: Rediscovering Holocaust-Era Objects in the Digital Age, Gabriella Bloom
Small, Yet Mighty: The Influence of a Famous Figure Provenance on Commonplace Objects in Single Owner Sales, Shannon Brown
Private Art Museum backed by Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem as an Example, Yiye Chen
The Demand for Women Who Painted: Recent Art Market Trends for Female Artists of the Premodern Era, Cristina Demiany
Digitization of Future Art Market through Blockchain Technology, Yuan Fang
The Celebrity Factor: An Evaluation of the Effect Celebrity Provenance at Auction, Danielle Gray
Land Art : True Capitalist Art, Annie Gustafsson
Contemporary Methods of Preserving Land Art: A Case Study of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Samara Johnson
Artist Frames: A Lost History Tracking the Innovations of Discarded Visions, Isabella Leokadia Kapczynski
Study of Dansaekhwa’s Identity through Analysis of its Criticisms, Ji Hyun Kim
The Role of the Curator in Curated Auctions, through the Lens of Sotheby’s Examples, Elizaveta Klimko
Development and Brand Management of Chinese Contemporary Furniture in the Twenty-first Century, Jiaying Li
teamLab Research, Chinchen Liu
What Made Vincent Van Gogh a Great Artist?, Yuanting Lu
Double-edged Experiences and Their Impact on the Twenty-First-Century Audience: The Ever-Evolving Museum, Ana Sanz Menchero
AMRITA SHER-GIL: Painting Beyond Boundaries, Rupi Sood
History and International Market for Russian Avant-Garde Art, Ekaterina Tsareva
From Micro to Marco: Jade Snuff Bottles in Qianlong Era, Jinpeng Wang
The Artistic Merit and Market Price of Bosch’s Paintings, Xiaoou Wang
Chinese Audience’ Perception and Interests in Western Modern Arts, Xuewei Wang
The Explosion Development of Chinese Contemporary Art Market from 2000 to 2015, Yaning Wang
The Role of Independent Curators in the Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Yiru Wang
Research on the Operation and Management of Foreign-funded Galleries and Local Galleries in China, Yumeng Wu
The Gallery Industry in China – A Study, Ziwei Xia
Why Visual Art Could Train Brains in Leadership, and How, Qiao Ye
UBS Corporate Art Collection Study, Chongwei Yi
Market Value Analysis of Takashi Murakami's Artwork Under Howard Becker's theory, Liu Yi-Ding
No Words: A Three-part Analysis of Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky, Zheng Yuan
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
For the Sake of Art: The Intersection Between Animal Rights and Freedom of Speech, Joelle Araujo
How Do You Depict the Life of a Soul?: Word and Text in and as Image in Soviet Nonconformist Art, Matthew Blong
Moral Rights: The Economic Ramifications of Moral Rights Under VARA in the U.S., Akilah Chandler
Comparative analysis on a corporate sponsorship for art museums in Korea and the United States, Hayoung Chung
Chuck Close: The Cost of Behaving Badly, and #Metoo, Rebecca Cohen-Homapour
The Glass Ceiling: Female Artists' Gallery Representation in the New Millennium and a History of Imbalance, Caroline Currier
Diversity and Inclusion in Art Museum Board of Governance: Does The Boardroom Reflect the Community?, Margaret Farrell
Phenomenal Encounters: Perception as Medium in Art from Minimalism to the New Millennium, Ella Froelich
Current Issues in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and its Non-traditional Materials, Sandra Hong
Modern and Contemporary Female Expressions in the Islamic Art World, Zahra R. Karimi
Old Dog, New Tricks: Incentivizing price data disclosure in private art market sales, Eliza G. King
Behind the Scenes: The Role of Visual Art in Prestige Television, Lauren Lichtenberg
Museum Provenance and its Financial Impact: The Analysis of Museum Deaccessioning and the Value of Art, Kwoung jin Maeng
Hybridity, Subversion & Anthropophagy: Revisiting Colonial History in Brazilian Contemporary Art, Maria Eduardo Dittmar Silveira Nonato
High or Low? The Value of Transitional Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, Monica Peacock
Mistreating a Cultural Symbol: How We Are Failing Museums, Wonder Woman, and Everything in Between, Brandon Reis
Marketing Artists in the Digital Age, Victoria Rutledge
The Rococo Revival in Contemporary Porcelain, Ariel Senackerib
Giuseppe Panza as Curator: New Methods of Display, Francesca Serraino
The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo: A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context, Constantine Prince Sidamon-Eristoff
French Wallpaper Decors: Papiers Peints in Homes of the American South, Christine Speare
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
We Were There, We Are Here: Queer Collections and Their Repositories and Legacies, Alexandria Deters
The Capitalist-Marxist Dichotomy within the Hudson River School: Conceptualizing American Property through the Career of Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910), Astrid Tvetenstrand