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 …
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 …
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 …
“Classrooms Abroad” examines the distinctive role of education in shaping relationships between Americans and the peoples of the (post-)Ottoman Middle East in the early part …
A woman made of clay and spaghetti slowly dissolves in a warm bath; the speaker relates to desire, proprioception, and smartphones; a squirrel eats a …
This dissertation focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Roughly spanning the first three-quarters of the 20th century, …
Dark Trees: Regional Archives of Familial Intimacy, Lynching Violence, and Racial Reproduction is an archival, visual, and affective analysis of the extension of lynching aesthetics …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
Ownership of photographic depictions was as contentious in the nineteenth century as it is today. In 1852, a photography journal queried: “Why is it that …
My dissertation, Leftovers: The Arts of Survival, Healing, and Gathering in the Afterfuture, attends to works by contemporary, primarily disabled, activist-artists in North America, including …
"Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
This dissertation examines the reciprocal influence of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies from Animal Locomotion and the researches of the artists and scientists who worked with …
MULTIPLE SELVES is a multimedia project that layers self portrait photography and video, digital painting, animation, and poetry into a short film and accompanying printed …
The 1975 George Eastman Museum exhibition New Topographics redefined the subject of landscape photography as the built environment, but its premise of a “neutral” style …
Photo-Poetics brings together the study of photography and poetry that works in and theorizes the documentary mode. It intervenes in the genre of documentary poetry, …
Artists were among the many cultural and political pilgrims who traveled or expatriated from the United States to Mexico after its Revolution (c. 1910-1920) in …
This dissertation analyses the role of photography during the Stalinist period and its subsequent evolution through to the fall of the USSR. I begin the …
