Congratulations to 2023 PhD recipients

May 31, 2023
Commencement at Harvard

The Department of History of Art and Architecture extends heartfelt congratulations to the eleven graduate students who received PhD degrees during the 2022–2023 academic year.

  • Max Boersma – Technical Difficulties: Abstraction's Entanglements in the World, 1918-1933
  • Kelsey Eldridge – Roma Sempiternal: Porphyry and the Imperialization of the Papacy in Medieval Rome
  • Davida Fernandez-Barkan – International Arte Popular: Mexican, American, and French Muralism, 1920-1940
  • Eleanor Goerss – Le Mvésier's Ladder: The Breviculum and the Project to Re-Diagram Lull's Ars
  • Thea Goldring – Matters of Life and Art: Art and French Materialism in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
  • Frances St. Amant – Nec Curant Carmina Manes: A Contextualized History of the Material Culture of Roman Children's Burials
  • Seung Hee Oh – The Theater of Consciousness: Self-Aware Fictionality in the Pictorial Art of Seventeenth-Century China
  • David Sadighian – The World is a Composition: Beaux-Arts Design and Internationalism in the Age of Empire, 1867-1914
  • Normandy Vincent – Dürer Endures: The Prospective Aspect of a Drawing on Blue Paper
  • Rachel Vogel – Mutual Registration: Printmaking and/as Conceptual Art, 1964-1980
  • Christopher Williams-Wynn  – Valences of the System: Art in an Era of Control, 1966-1985