Research

PhD Graduate Dissertation Titles
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Allais, Lucia
2008

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University

"Will to War, Will to Art: Cultural Internationalism and the Modernist Aesthestics of Monuments 1932-1964"

Bible, Ann Vollmann
2008

"Cakewalking into Representation: Gabriele Münter's America Travels (1898-1900) and Art of Dailiness"

Kroiz, Lauren
2008

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College

"New Races, New Media: The Struggle for a Modern American Art, 1890-1925"

Osman, Michael
2008

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA

"Regulation, Architecture and Modernism in the United States, 1890-1920"

Rogers,Sarah
2008

Eleanor Tufts Fellow, Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University

"Postwar Art and the Historical Roots of Beirut's Cosmopolitanism"

Weiss, Kirsten
2008

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

"The Face of the German House: Modernization and Cultural Anxiety in 20th Century Architectural Photographs"

Çelik, Zeynep
2007

Lecturer, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow, Deprtment of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University

"Kinaesthetic Impulses: Aesthetic Experience, Bodily Knowledge, and Pedagogical Practices in Germany, 1870-1914"

Israel, Janna
2007

Postdoctoral Research Associate, CASVA, National Gallery of Art

"The Picture of Poverty: Charitable and Artistic Patronage in Renaissance Venice"

Michailidis, Melanie
2007

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Art History, Carleton College

"Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance: Monumental Funerary Architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries"

Muzaffar, M. Ijlal
2007

"The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the Making of the Third World"

O'Brien, James
2007

"Possibilities for Architectural Production Under Capitalism"

Wheeler, Katherine
2007

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami

"The Reception and Study of Renaissance Architecture in Great Britain, 1890-1914."

Lamprakos, Michele
2006

"Conservation and Building Practice in a World Heritage City: the Case of Sana'a, Yemen"

Maxim, Juliana
2006

Assistant Professor, Art History Department, University of San Diego

"The New, the Old, the Modern: Architecture and its Representation in Socialist Romania, 1955-1970"

Urban, Florian
2006

Visiting Professor, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Department of History, Berlin Technical University

"The Invention of the Historic City -- Building the Past in East Berlin 1970-1990."

Wortham, B.D.
2006

Assistant Professor, Programs in Architecture & Historic Preservation, University of Maryland

"Mythologies of an Everyday American Landscape: Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn"

Anderson, Glaire
2005

Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Art History Department, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

"The Suburban Villa (munya) and Court Culture in Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE)"

Grigor, Talinn
2005

Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-09
Getty Research Institute

"Cultivat(ing) Modernities: the Society for National Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran"

Tohme, Lara
2005

Knafel Assistant Professor of Medieval European and Islamic Architecture, Wellesley College

"Out of Antiquity: Umayyad Baths in Context"

Yahya, Maha
2005

"Unnamed Modernisms: National Ideologies and Historical Imaginaries in Beirut's Urban Architecture"

Beischer, Thomas
2004

Lecturer, Architecture and Visual Studies, California College of the Arts

PhD thesis: "Great Expectations: Provisional Modernism and the Reception of J.J.P. Oud"

Christ, John X.
2004

Visitng Assistant Professor, Art History, History Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

"Painting a Theoretical World: Stuart Davis and the Politics of Common Experience in the 1930s"

Erten, Erdem
2004

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Izmir Institute of Technology

"In Pursuit of Cultural Continuity: the Architectural Review 1947-1971"

Cowherd, Robert
2002

Associate Professor, Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technology

"Cultural Construction of Jakarta: Design, Planning, and Development in Jabotabek, 1980-1997" [Received Urban Design Certificate concurrently with PhD. ]

Moffat, Isabelle
2002

Independent Critic

PhD thesis; "The Independent Group’s Encounters with Logical Positivism and Searches for Unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition"

Morshed, Adnan
2002

Assistant Professor, Architecture & Planning, The Catholic University of America

"The Aviator's (Re)Vision of the World: An Aesthetics of Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama"

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona
2002

Senior Lecturer, Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel institute of Technology

"Isrealizing Jerusalem: The Encounter Between Architectural and National Ideologies 1967-1977"

Otero-Pailos, Jorge
2002

Architect and Assistant Professor, Historic Preservation, Columbia University

"Theorizing the Anti-Avant-Garde: Invocations of Phenomenology in Architectural Discourse 1945-1989"

Pyla, Panayiota
2002

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

"Ekistics, Architecture and Environmental Politics 1945-76: A Prehistory of Sustainable Development"

Koukoutsi-Mazarakis, Valeria
2001

Office of Rafael Moneo, Cambridge

"José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965—1985"

Kraynak, Janet
2001

Assistant Professor of Art History, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts

"A Rose Has No Teeth"

McLaren, Brian
2001

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington

"Mediterraneità and modernità: Architecture and Culture during the Period of Italian Colonization of North Africa"

Orbay, Iffet
2001

Lecturer, History of Architecture, Laval University, Québec

"Istanbul Viewed: The Representation of the City in Ottoman Maps of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"

Pedret, Annie
2001

Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago

"CIAM and the Emergence of Team 10 Thinking, 1945-1959"

Steiner, Hadas
2001

Assistant Professor, Architecture, University at Buffalo-SUNY

"Bathrooms, Bubbles, and Systems: Archigram and the Landscapes of Transience"

Whiting, Sarah
2001

Assistant Professor, History and Theory, Princeton University and Founding Partner of WW Architecture, Princeton, NJ

"The Jungle in the Clearing: Space, Form and Democracy in America--1940-1949"

Bhatt, Ritu
2000

Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

"On the Epistemological Significance of Aesthetic Values in Architectural Theory"

Eigen, Edward
2000

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

"Between Stations and Habitations: The Architecture of French Science at the Shore, 1830-1900"

Fatsea, Irene
2000

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

"Monumentality and Its Shadows: A Quest for Modern Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862)"

Keyvanian, Carla
2000

"Charity, Architecture and Urban Development in Post-Tridentine Rome: The Hospital of the SS. ma Trinita' dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1548-1680)"

Koss, Juliet
2000

Associate Professor of Art History, Scripps College

"Empathy Abstracted: Georg Fuchs and the Munich Artisits' Theater"

Rizvi, Kishwar
2000

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Yale University

"Transformations in Early Safavid Architecture: The Shrine of Shaykh Safi al-din Ishaq Ardabili in Iran (1501-1629)"

Carson, Juli
1999

Associate Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies, and Director of University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine

"Excavating Discursivity: Post-Partum Document in the Conceptualist, Feminist, and Psychoanalytic Fields"

Hamadeh, Shirine
1999

Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Rice University

"The City's Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul"

Lum, Eric
1999

Assistant Professor, Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

"Architecture as Artform: Drawing, Painting, Collage, and Architecture 1945-1965"

Wong, Yunn Chii
1999

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

"The Geodesic Works of Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1948-68 (Universe as a Home of Man)"

Last, Nana
1998

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Rice University

"Images of Entanglement : Wittgensteinan Spatial Practices between Architecture and Philosophy"

Pereira, Claudio
1998

Faculty in Architecture, Universidade Federal Do Rgs, Porto Alegre, Brazil

"Architectural Practice and the Planning of Minor Palaces in Renaissance Italy: 1510-1570"

Haglund, Karl Thomas
1997

Regional Planner, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston

"Inventing the Charles River Basin: Urban Images and Civic Discourse in Boston, 1844-1994"

Isenstadt, Samuel
1997

Architect; Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University

""Little Visual Empire:: Private Vistas and the Modern American House"

Legault, Rejean
1997

Head, Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec, Cananda; Professor, School of Design, Université du Québec à Montréal

"L'Appareil de L'Architecture Moderne: New Materials and Architectural Modernity in France,1889-1934"

Desmond, J. Michael
1996

Associate Professor, Architecture Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

"A Clearing in the Woods: Self & City in Frank Lloyd Wright's Organic Communities"

Lee, Sanghun
1996

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

"Technology and Form: Iron Construction and Transformation of architectural Ideals in Nineteeth Century France, 1830-1889"

Okoye, Ikemefuna
1995

Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Delaware

"'Hideous' Architecture: Feint and Resistance in Turn of the Century South-Eastern Nigerian Building"

Udovicki-Selb, Danilo
1995

Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

"The Elusive Faces of Modernity: The Invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition and theTemps Nouveaux Pavilion"

Savas, Aysen
1994

Assistant Professor and Director of Museum of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

"Between Document and Monument: Architectural Artifact in the Age of Specialized Institutions"

Wendelken, Cherie
1994

"Living with the Past: Preservation and Development in Japanese Architecture and Town Planning"

Allaback, Sarah
1993

Historic American Buildings Survey, Washington, DC

"The Writings of Louisa Tuthill: Cultivating Architectural Taste in Nineteenth-Century America"

Anderson, Christy
1993

Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, University of Toronto

"Inigo Jones's Library and the Language of Architectural Classicism in England, 1580-1640"

Bentel, Paul
1993

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York City; architect & partner of Bentel & Bentel, AIAs

"Modernism and Professionalism in American Architecture, 1919-1933"

Pai, Hyungmin
1993

Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea

"From the Portfolio to the Diagram: Architectural Discourse and the Transformation of the Discipline of Architecture in America, 1918-1943."

Revised version forthcoming from the MIT Press.

Hill, Kara
1992

Associate, Hammel Green & Abrahamson, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Pascal-Xavier Coste (1787-1879): A French Architect in Egypt"

Asfour, Khaled
1991

Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt

"The Villa and the Modern Eygptian Intelligentsia: A Critique of Conventionalism"

Grignon, Marc
1991

Associate Professor, Department of History, Laval University, Quebec

""Loing du Soleil: " Architectural Practice in Quebec City during the French Regime"

Rabbat, Nasser
1991

Professor, Architecture, MIT, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture and Director of the Aga Khan Program, MIT

"Reconstructing Architecture from Texts: The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341."

Schwarzer, Mitchell
1991

Chair, Visual Studies. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"Adolf Loos and Theories of Architecture and the Practical Arts in Nineteeth Century Austria and Germany"

Hays, K. Michael
1990

Professor in Architectural Theory and Director of tthe Advanced Independent Study Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

"Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer"

Andreotti, Libero
1989

Associate Professor of Architecture - Paris and Resident Director of the Paris Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Art and Politics in Fascist Italy: The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (1932))"

Artan, Tulay
1988

Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

"Architecture as a Theater of Life: Profile of the Eighteenth Century Bosphorus"

Fenske, Gail
1988

Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University

"The "Skyscraper Problem" and the City Beautiful: The Woolworth Building."

Marefat, Mina
1988

Director, Cities Program, The John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress

"Building to Power: Architecture of Tehran, 1921-1941"

Sayed, Hazem
1987

Software Developer, HotDispatch, Cambridge, MA

"The Rab' in Cairo: A Window on Mamluk Architecture and Urbanism"

Chewning, J.A.
1986

Associate Professor of Design, School of Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

"William Robert Ware and the Beginnings of Architectural Education in the United States, 1861-1881"

Jarzombek, Mark
1986

Professor of the History and Theory of Architectures, and Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT

"Leon Battista Alberti: The Rhetoric of Cultural Criticism"

Siler, Todd
1986

Artist, inventor, and founder and director of Psi-Phi Communications

"Architectonics of Thought: A Symbolic Model of Neuropsychological Processes"

Stieber, Nancy
1986

Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

"The Professionalization of Housing Design in Amsterdam, 1909-1919"

Ballon, Hilary
1985

Chair and Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

"Architecture and Urbanism in Henri IV's Paris"

Akbar, Jamel
1984

Professor, School of Architecture, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia ; Chairman, Umran Association

"Responsibility and the Traditional Muslim Built Environment"

Pollak, Martha
1984

Professor of the History of Architecture, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago

"The Civic Expansions of Turin in the Seventeenth Century: Military Architecture and Urban Design."

Siry, Joseph Michael
1984

Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, and Professor of American Studies, American Studies Program, Wesleyan University

"The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago"

Fadan, Yousef
1983

Associate Professor, Architecture, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"The Development of Contemporary Housing in Saudi Arabia (1950-1983): A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence under Conditions of Rapid Change"

Lunn, Margaret Rauschenbach
1983

"G.-Albert Aurier, Critic and Theorist of Symbolist Art"

Fichner-Rathus, Lois
1981

Professor, History of Art, College of New Jersey

"Jack Tworkov's Work from 1955-1979: The Synthesis of Choice and Chance"

Al-Hathloul, Saleh
1981

Deputy Minister of Town Planning, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh

"Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Physical Environment: The Arab-Muslim City"

Kang, Hong-Bin
1980

Former First Vice-Mayor, Seoul, Korea

"Environmentalism: Philosophical Sources of 19th Century Urban Thought"

Freeman, Nan
1979

Artist, Boston Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"Jasper Johns: 'False Start' and his Painting before 1964"