#  Congratulations to the 2025 PhD recipients 

 





May 30, 2025

 

 

The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the thirteen graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2024–2025 academic year.

- Bay Bakshi — Agitational Photography, 1930–1945: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Suzanne Malherbe, and John Heartfield
- Hollie Buttery — Studi giocosi: The Roots of Caricature in the Drawing Practice of the Carracci's Accademia degli Incamminati
- Isabel Bird — Learning from the Line: The Drawing Practices of Ruth Asawa, Adrian Piper, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Sturtevant
- Kirsten Burke — Calligraphic Renaissance: From Gutenberg to Dürer
- Kristie La — Criteria of Modern Art: W. E. B. Du Bois Experiments, 1899-1928
- Patricia Manos — Actually-Existing: Reconsidering the State Socialist Past in Three Contemporary Art Practices
- Isabel McWilliams — In Situ Actualization: The Hyper-bodied Bodhisattva in Eighth-Century East Asian Buddhist Art
- Linda Mueller — Drawings and the Law in Early Modern Southern Europe
- Yingxue Wang — Jewel Beetle Ornament: Art, Animals, and Power in East Asia, 5th–8th Centuries
- Hannah Hyden — The Ethics of Wonder: The Persian Qazvini Corpus (1300–1632)
- Rahul Kulka — Visual Politics under Duke Albrecht of Prussia (1511-1568): Intersections of Materiality and Memoria in the Cosmopolitan Culture of an Emerging State
- Avantika Kumar — Between Book and Body: Art, Language, and the Limits of Interpretation in the Manuscripts of the English Benedictine Movement
- Zeynep Oğuz Kursar — The Kaplıca Zaviye and the Emergence of Sultanic Funerary Complexes in Ottoman Architecture in the Fourteenth Century
- Ozge Yildiz — The Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617): Re-interpreting the Ottoman Architectural Tradition



 

 

 



 

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