Art and Art History

In its Honors Program the Department of Art and Art History awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2010-2011

• Erin Sexton, "The Art Museum as a Socio-political Actor: El Museo del Barrio and the Museo de Arte y Memoria as Activist Cultural Productions in their Respective Communities" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Silvia Tandeciarz, Susan Webster


2009-10

• Kiernan Sudler Lofland, "Prints and Sculpture, a Tactile World" (High Honors)
  Elizabeth Mead + Brian Kreydatus, Edwin Pease, Jason Lowery, Daniel Cristol

• Rusty Adam Meadows, "Appropriating from the World of Business: Andy Warhol's Key to Success" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Charles Palermo
• Sarah Kristen Williams, "Interiors: A Study of Human Core Samples" (Highest Honors)
  Nicole McCormick Santiago + Elizabeth Mead, Timothy Costelloe, Naomi Falk

2008-09

• Andrea Alvarez, "Jasper Johns: A Crisis in Criticism" (High Honors)
  Charles Palmero + Victoria Scott, Alan Wallach, Melanie Dawson
  
• Joan Bowlen, "Body Language: The Presence and Absence of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and Barbara Kruger" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Christy Burns
  
• Greta Glaser, "An Introduction to Painting Conservation" (High Honors)
  Catherine Levesque + Alan Wallach, Shelley Svoboda, J.C. Poutsma
  
• Amy Sedivi, "Unveiling the Unconscious: The Influence of Jungian Psychology on Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott, Michael Nichols
• John Starcher, "Portraits of Professional Men in the Gilded Age: An Investigation of the Life and Art of Thomas Eakins" (High Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Susan Webster, Bob Scholnick
  
• Peter Zimmerman, "Body Language: The Presence and Absence of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and Barbara Kruger" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Christy Burns
  

2007-08

• Sarah Elizabeth Gowen, "The Convergence of Science and Art: Conserving a Print of Hannah Snell" (High Honors)
  Barbara Watkinson + Charles Palermo, Pam Young, Elizabeth Harbron
• John Charleton Hawley, "'Spreekt, Schilderij...Swijgt, Schilderij': Some Thoughts on Thomas de Keyser's 1627 Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and His Clerk" (Highest Honors)
  Catherine Levesque + Charles Palermo, Barbara Watkinson, Dale Hoak
• Mary Jeanette Ramsey, "The Vanitas of Jacques de Gheyn II: Technë as an Expression of an Artist" (Honors)
  Catherine Levesque + Charles Palermo, LuAnn Homza
• Kathryn Lee Swanson, "John Steuart Curry: A Pictorial Autobiography" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Charles Palermo, Kimberly Phillips

2006-07

• Naomi Alison Ocko, "Everett Stockton: Proposal for Affordable Housing Structure in Manchester, Richmond" (High Honors)
  Edwin Pease + Margaret Grubiak, Elizabeth Mead, David Phillips
• Amanda Ellyn Stuckey, "Joseph Cornell and Visual Possession" (Honors)
  Alan Wallach + Eun Jung, Nancy Gray
• Bonnie Colleen Wilson, "Bodies of Work: Marc Quinn, Tim Hawkinson, and the Quest for Immortality" (Highest Honors)
  Charles Palermo + Sally Price, Eun Jung, Elizabeth Mead

2004-05

• Kate Zimmermann
  Alan Wallach + Sibel Zandi Sayek, Christy Burns
• Caitlin Freeman
  Catherine Levesque + Miles Chappell, Dorothy Chansky