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Art history majors are encouraged to pursue, with faculty guidance, a senior thesis: the preparation, writing, and public presentation of a piece of advanced art-historical research in any area of art history. Previous theses include the following:

• 2023 � �Failure's Undeniable Appeal: The Legacy of the Greatest Film Never Made,� Melena Johnson
• 2023 � �Digging into the Surface: The Public and Private Relationship of Japanese Bodysuit Tattoos,� Kaya Matsuura
• 2023 � �Seeing through Machines, or 'What do we do with AI art?�� David Gales
• 2022 � �The Metamorphosis of Medium: Considering Maura Wilson Schneider I Heart You as a Digital Comic,� Hannah Beshey
• 2022 � �Trauma and Queerness in the Art of Francis Bacon,� Will Borda
• 2022 � �Comme des Garçons: The Role of Antifashion and 1960s Western Fashion in Creating Modern Androgynous Dress,� Azamat Fuller
• 2022 � �Fabricated Unity in 16th-Century France Represented through the Valois Tapestries,� Sohom Pal
• 2022 � �Out of Reach: Touch, the Viewer, and Eva Hesse Accessions,� Leah Steding
• 2022 � �Experiencing Grief through Goya Disasters of War Series,� Sophie Wojdylo
• 2022 � �The Trapped Empress: Elisabeth and Titania through the Interplay of Fantasy and Reality,� Rei Yamada
• 2021 � �Dark Academia and Knightcore: Reinterpreting and Reconceptualizing the Medieval,� Katie Buhman
• 2021 � �Keith Haring, Jean Michel-Basquiat and Andy Warhol � A Triumvirate,� Kevin Donahue
• 2021 � �Returning the Gaze But Not the Gift: Framing the Palace of Culture in Contemporary Polish Film,�  Zoe Fruchte
• 2021 � �Interpreting Appropriation Art,� Inna Gjoleka
• 2021 � �The Sinicization of Mosques in Imperial China,� Xioyan Liu
• 2021 � �Subjectivity in Performance Art Pre and Post-Digital World,� Phinn Lloyd
• 2021 � �Zen Buddhism in Fusama Paintings and Contemporary Fusama �پ�����������,� Hinako Minagi
• 2020 � �Erotic Cloth Reconsidered: The Intersection of Erotic Aesthetics and Commercial Influences in the Production of Kikugawa Eizan Selections from the Brocade Quarter E-awase kingaisho,� Maggie Coleman
• 2020 � �The Dialectics of Early Sixteenth-Century Botanical Illustration,� Owen Daley
• 2020 � �Beyond the Calm Exterior: An Analysis of Santa Teresa de Jesús by Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652,� Kaity Moore
• 2020 � �The Secret Lives of Things: The Use of Everyday Objects in Ilya Kabakov Art to Depict the Soviet Reality,� Nicole Rosengurt
• 2020 � �The Renewal of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue: A House of Study,� Kelly Yu
• 2019 � �Tracing Western Influence on Japanese Modernist Painting: A Study of the Bijinga �ұ�԰���,� Amelia Geser
• 2019 � �Statues in Fragonard Picturesque Gardens,� Jiayun Chen
• 2019 � �Disability in Greek: Hephaestus,� Vivien Makos
• 2018 � �From Graffiti to Market: Contemporary Artists and the Commercialization of Graffiti and Street Culture,� Chris Baumann
• 2018 � �The Narrative Textile: Paula Nicho Cúmez Weaving of Form,� James Caruso
• 2018 � �Inheritance and Reinvention in Zao Wou-ki Abstraction,� Claire Ma
• 2018 � �Subversion in Japanese Youth Culture: The Art Books of Yoshitomo Nara,� Sonja Spain
• 2018 � �Divine Sorrow: Ethics and Violence in Ana Mendieta Iowa Period,� Ellen Taylor
• 2017 � �Staging the Politics: A Life Portrait of Emperor Yongzheng,� YanYan Liu
• 2017 � �Cruel NightMares: The Role of British Print Culture in the Moralization against Horse Cruelty from 1750-1850,� Donna Brunnquell
• 2017 � �Hungry, Thirsty Roots: Exploring Victorian Female Appetite and Suppression Thereof,� Hannah Zucker
• 2017 � �An Affective Space: Lygie Clark Anthropophagic Installation �A casa é o corpo: penetração, ovulação, germinação�,� Murielle O�Brien
• 2017 � �Speculative Spaces: The Case of Marion Mahony Griffin,� Rebekah Rennick
• 2017 � �Mending the Gap: The Reconciliation of the �Lesbian� and the �Female� in Joan Snyder 1970s Paintings,� Lauren Toppeta
• 2017 � �On the Edge of Shanghai: Postmodern Critique in Andrew Cheng �Welcome to Destination Shanghai�,� Fenyi Wu
• 2017 � �From History to Heaven: Gold in the Church of Santo Domingo,� Xena Fitzgerald
• 2015 � �Early Sonia Delaunay: The Avant-Garde at Home,� Eli Harrison co-winner of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Iowa, Scholar Award, Spring 2016
• 2014 � �Portraying Jewish Identity in Dreyfus-Era France: Changing Approaches to Picasso Portrait of Gertrude Stein,� Hannah Safter
• 2014 � �Art in American Diplomacy: Fallacies, Phalluses, and Freedom,� Remy Ferber
• 2014 � �Wes Peters Pearl Palace: Expressing Nationalism in Modernist Persia,� Emily Sortor
• 2014 � �Zaha Hadid: Building the Unbuildable,� Kathlyn Cabrera
• 2010 � �The Depression and the Curve: American Streamlined Design at the Rise of Modernism,� Isabel Miller
• 2008 � �Higher Powers Commanded: Sigmar Polke and Painting after Painting,� Rex Unger
• 2008 � �Re-Framing Minimalism: Literalism and Illusionism in the Contemporary Gallery,� Jonathan Patkowski
• 2008 � �Self-Portrait of a Tahitian: Essentialism and Identity in the Work of Amrita Sher-Gil,� Stephanie Cox
• 2008 � �Ardengo Soffici Cubo-Futurism,� Liza Newman
• 2007 � �Socialist Realism and the Evolution of Stalinist Official Culture, 1920�1940,� Nicole Reiner
• 2007 � �Adelita: Enrique Chagoya Recast Heroine,� Julia McHugh
• 2006 � �T. J. Clark and the Postmodern Perspective on Manet Modernism,� Nicole Reiner
• 2006 � �Ambiguity and the Subversion of Ideology: Arte Povera, Luciano Fabro, and Michelangelo Pistoletto,� Patrick Waldo
• 2006 � �Towards Liberation and Abstraction: Haiti as a Trope of Resistance in Modern African American Art,� Alfredo Rivera
• 2006 � �In Volumes, Shapes, and Shades: Filming Abjection in Shirin Neshat Zarin,� Katherine Rochester
• 2005 � �Serving Structures, Transcendent Tapestries: The Power of the Prototype in the Architecture and Art of Modern Weaving,� Katherine Rochester
• 2003 � �It A Girl Thing: When Lesbian Art Met Culture in the 1990s,� Allison Dolan
• 2003 � �Fashion as the Language of Modernity,� Jenni Wu
• 2002 � �This Film Has Been Formatted to Fit Your Screen: Consequences of Frame Erasure in Visual Media,� Carrie Robbins
• 2002 � �Jolán Gross-Bettelheim: The American Prints,� Emily Stamey
• 2001 � �The Persona of Los Angeles Pop Artists in the 1960s: Negotiating Cultural Conflict with Business Cards, Tuxedos, and Motorcycles,� Elizabeth Ferrell winner of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Iowa, Scholar Award, Spring 2001