Student Profiles

	Rachel Barth Rachel is researching the photodynamism of the Italian Futurist photographers Anton Giulio Bragaglia and Arturo Bragaglia, particularly focusing on the influence of cultural forces outside the Futurist movement on their work. rachel.a.barth@gmail.com Thesis Poster
	Kate Beaver Kate is interested in contemporary curatorial theory and criticism and the influence of historiography on the contemporary art market. She is currently focused on the construction of the post-modern identity in Latin American cultures and its representation in current exhibition practices. katlyn@uoregon.edu
	Daniel Borengasser Daniel is interested in East Asian Buddhist art and its effects on the development of artistic practices and visual culture throughout Japanese history. In particular, his research has focused on techniques for visualizing the content and text of the Lotus Sutra in the form of painted mandalas and sutra tableaus in medieval Japan. borengas@uoregon.edu
	Lisa Calevi Venice and Byzantium, Jewish Visual Culture and Italian Renaissance lar@uoregon.edu
	Lauren Carey Lauren is interested in European art after the Renaissance, in addition to museum studies. careyla@gmail.com
	Megan Cekander Megan is interested in modern and contemporary art. Currently her interests include Pop art and public art. mcekande@uoregon.edu
	Cathy Denning Feminism and contemporary art. cdenning@uoregon.edu
	Sasha Globig Early 20th century German and Austrian painting, applied arts and architecture. aglobig@uoregon.edu
	Kelsie Greer Kelsie is exploring the development of North American architectural education through a discussion of Prickly Mountain, a 1960's design-build project in Warren, Vermont. kelsie.greer@gmail.com
	Sarah Hwang Sarah’s research interests include Modern and contemporary art, graffiti and street art. shwang2@uoregon.edu
	Lindsay Keast Lindsay's current research involves an exploration of the philosophy and politics of Abstract Expressionism in regards to the social climate of New York City in the mid-twentieth century. Particular attention is focused on the transformation of the paintings of Philip Guston in response to his participation in city's art and political scene during the '50s and '70s. keast@uoregon.edu
	Gina Kim Gina is interested in East Asian modern and contemporary art, especially the biennial exhibitions in Korean and Chinese cities. kim4@uoregon.edu
	Jordan Koel Late Antique and Early Medieval. jmkoel@gmail.com
	Faith Kreskey Faith Kreskey is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Japanese art, focusing on woodblock printed toys and games from the Edo and Meiji periods. fkreskey@uoregon.edu
	Katrena Kugler Katrena is working on a thesis entitled, "Bridging Heaven and Spain: The Development of the Virgin of Mercy in Medieval Castile and Aragon," which discuss the origins and meaning of the Virgin of Mercy type of Marian devotional painting. Her thesis will also cover the content of a selection of panels of the Virgin of Mercy from late medieval Castilla and Aragon. katrena@uoregon.edu
	Kiersten Mounce Kiersten is interested in L’Union des Artistes Modernes in France between 1929 and 1958, focusing on their interactions with ideas coming out of Germany including the Bauhaus. mounce@uoregon.edu
	Ryder Nishioka Ryder's research examines Spanish Baroque painting. rjnishioka@gmail.com
	Janet Northey Early Modern period, Women in Power, the Representation of Power. jenorthey@gmail.com
	Megan OʼConnor Megan studies the overlap between architectural and artistic practice in Europe and the United States during the 1960s and 1970. Her current research centers on the way in which the female form functions as an element of a fantastical/utopian visual language employed by a number of ʻcountercultureʼ architectural collectives during this period. mlo@uoregon.edu
	Madeline Phillips Maddy is currently interested in exploring the work of Andy Goldsworthy and other land artists. In particular she is interested in researching the relationship between the ephemerality of Goldsworthy's work and the everlasting quality of the photographs of these work. Through this scope she aims to focus on the contradictory nature of the photograph and Goldsworthy's ephemeral work, exploring how the photograph affects this quality. Madeline.R.Phillips@gmail.com
	Sarah Robison Sarah's focus is the history of photography. She is currently researching Italian postwar photography, with special emphasis on Neorealism and the work of Mario Giacomelli. She is also interested in museum studies. srobiso2@uoregon.edu
	May Schlotzhauer My thesis traces the origins and evolution of the iconic Gotô Island's Baramon kite. My research investigates the historical relationship between the Gotô Baramon and similarly shaped kites found in Nagasaki prefecture during the eighteenth century. mschlotz@uoregon.eduo Thesis poster
	Anne Taylor Anne is interested in the dialogue between modernist and postmodernist theory in post-World War II American art. Her thesis will examine the influence of the 1963 Marcel Duchamp retrospective on the conceptual art of John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Bruce Nauman. actaylor3@gmail.com
	Andrew Webster Andrew's thesis aims to explore how artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represent themselves through self-portraiture. More specifically, he hopes to trace several major conceptual developments within the genre of self- portraiture to either confirm or challenge many traditional views on striking individual examples such as Michelangelo Caravaggio. webster2@uoregon.edu

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