Select any of the programs below to explore what students are currently researching in the AHVA Department.
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MFA
Primary Advisor: Marina Roy
Secondary Advisors:Christine D’Onofrio, Gareth James

MFA
Primary Advisor:Althea Thauberger
Secondary Advisors:Ignacio Adriasola, Sheryda Warrener

MFA
Primary Advisor: Althea Thauberger
Secondary Advisors:Christine D’Onofrio, Erin Silver

MFA
Primary Advisor: Althea Thauberger
Secondary Advisors:Barbara Zeigler, Janice Stewart

MFA
Primary Advisor: Marina Roy
Secondary Advisors:Michelle McGeough, Althea Thauberger

MFA
Primary Advisor: Marina Roy
Secondary Advisors:Christine D’Onofrio, Gareth James

PhD
20th Century East German Performance Art, Soviet Design and Eastern European Feminist ‘Near-Collectives”

PhD
Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistic Practice; Decorative Arts; Multimedia/Intermedia; Politics; Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; Northern Europe.

PhD
Thesis Title: Mutable Moderns: An Art Colony in Blackfoot Territory and the Lives of Its Works

PhD
Early Modern artistic encounter between Europe and Asia, with a specific focus on 18th-century Korean art

PhD
Thesis Title: Expanding the Limits of Sound (Art): Aesthetics On the Edge of Humanity

PhD
Early modern European print culture, the relation between the human and the machine, and the replication, dissemination, and circulation of printed images.

PhD
Thesis Title: Modernism Laid Bare: Mediation, Measurement, and Mathematics 1870-1970

PhD
Thesis Title: Microscope/Macrocosm: Early Modern Technology, Visualization and Representations of Nature

PhD
Contemporary art, curatorial practice and museum studies, post-1960s artistic practices, institutional critique, performance, socially engaged art, intersections in art and pedagogy

PhD
Indigenous Northwest Coast Art, performance, critique of colonialism

PhD
Thesis Title: The ‘Mass Media’ Debates between the Caricaturists Honoré Daumier and Cham: 1866 – 1870

PhD
Thesis Title: Disappearing Threads: Art, Text, and Textile during Dictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

PhD
Thesis Title: The Conceptual, The Romantic and the Non-Human: the SÚM Group and the Emergence of Contemporary Art in Iceland 1965-1978

MA
Early modern theories of looking and their social impact on both early modern and contemporary audiences, feminist and critical race theory, exhibition studies, critical museology and public engagement programs of historical heritage

MA
Queer affect and phenomenology; Contemporary Russian protest; Post-1990 internet art; Feminist pedagogy; Queer art and popular culture; Methods of appropriation; Soviet visual culture

MA
Turkish modern art, postcolonial and feminist theory, critical theory, the production and management of histories, theories of melancholia

PhD
Early modern European print culture, the relation between the human and the machine, and the replication, dissemination, and circulation of printed images.

MA
20th-century Japanese and American craft, East Asian art and transculturation

MA
Post-colonial studies and theory, Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding space and place, spatial theory, cartography, representations of space

MA
Representations of urban and domestic space, American postwar art and film, gothic and contemporary horror cinema, queer theory, media studies

MA
Late medieval and early modern cross-cultural encounters in the Mediterranean world, with a focus on issues of mediation, transmediality, pilgrimage art, and image-object interrelations

MA
History of art and science collaboration, its emergence out of the military-industrial complex of MIT in the late 1960s, and its relation to the depoliticization of logical empiricism from the Vienna Circle to the Unity of Science