My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
Roudnice monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia has fascinated scholars due to two facts regarding its cultural context; first, the Prague bishop Jan IV of …
This study concentrates on the court practices of circulation and exchange of objects between Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as between Portugal and other …
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …
In 1667, Gian Lorenzo Bernini—the most celebrated Italian artist of his day—received a papal commission to design ten marble angels carrying the relics of the …
Architectural authenticity is a theoretical concept with tangible consequences. Differing definitions of authenticity yield multiple methods of historic preservation, which in turn alter how users …
It has long been acknowledged that one of the most influential urban planners of the twentieth century, Ebenezer Howard, began his career as a social …
This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
This study is about topographical photography of nineteenth-century British India, and the critical interpretation of that imagery. From the mid-eighteenth century, British makers of topographical …
This project foregrounds the connections between American, European, and Latin American influences in American art history as signaled by the use of “transnational” in my …
From 1382, when the ideas of theologian John Wycliffe (c.1328-1384) were deemed heretical by the Church, England was gripped by a debate about the role …
This study examines the history and architecture of female Franciscan monasteries following the Order of Sorores minores inclusae (Enclosed sisters minor) whose rule was co-written …
Between 1382 and 1400, Margaret of Flanders (1350-1405), the duchess of Burgundy, worked with an architect and an army of artisans to create the château …
This thesis is concerned with color’s presentness and ubiquity in digital technology and with the implications of these aspects as reflected in artistic practices engaging …
The noblewomen-turned-oblates who commissioned the impressive body of imagery at Tor de'Specchi were at once pious servants of God and savvy consumers of art, reflecting …
This examination of a little known German building type of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Ledigenheim, or home for single individuals, is an …
In the early twentieth-century, Spain and Portugal hosted three international expositions under the fascist dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera and António Salazar. The primary …
The history of the charitable food space is one fraught with hardship, class conflict, and socio-economic struggle. Despite these problems, urban agriculture has become a …
This dissertation investigates how modern architecture—particularly maritime infrastructure and technologies of mobility—was deployed under fascism to articulate the modern Italian state’s sovereign claims to its …
