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Art of the United States
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2014
Abrams, Matthew, “Alternate Modernity: From Aby Warburg to Agnes Martin” (Yale, D. Joselit)
Abrego, Sonya, “Westernwear and the Postwar American Lifestyle” (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham)
Applebaum, Lauren, “Elusive Matter, Material Bodies: American Art in the Age of Electronic Mediation, 1865–1918” (UIUC, J. Greenhill)
Athens, Elizabeth, “Figuring a World: William Bartram’s Natural History” (Yale, T. Barringer)
Autry, La Tanya, “The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America” (Delaware, C. Holloway)
Barnhart, Clara, “Murals, Montage, Modernism: Public Art in the 1930s United States” (Washington University, A. Miller)
Baskin, Jill, “Picturing Freedom’s Shores: The Visual Culture of African Americans in Liberia, 1821–1865” (Virginia, L. Nelson)
Bass, Nicole, “Picturing Privacy: The Press and Private Life in Turn-of-the-Century American Art” (Yale, E. Cooke, Jr)
Beach, Caitlin, “Sculpture, Slavery, and Commodity in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
Beck, Sara, “From Kitchen Porn to Filthy Glamour: Marilyn Minter and New York, 1975–2005” (Rice, G. Bader)
Begin, Jacob, “Gone but Not Forgotten: The Temporality and Technique of Portraiture on Gravestones in Rhode Island” (Boston, K. Morgan)
Bernstein, Noga, “Global Age Design: Ruth Reeves’s Methods of Appropriation” (Stony Brook University, M. Bogart)
Besaw, Mindy, “Reframing the American West: Contemporary Artists Engage the Past” (Kansas, C. Eldredge)
Bianco, Christine, “Modern Art for Middle America: American Abstraction in Postwar Mass Magazines” (Oxford Brookes, E. Darling)
Boone, Jobyl, “Christo and Jean-Claude in the United States, 1964–2005” (Delaware, A. Gibson)
Brown, Leslie, “Pay Per View: Touristic Viewing Devices, Photographic Behaviors, and Picturing Landscape in American Art” (Boston, K. Sichel)
Brunstrom, Mary Reid, “Faith’s Midwest Modern Forms: Midcentury Catholic Churches by Murphy and Mackey, Architects” (Washington University, A. Miller)
Butler, Eliza, “The Public Murals of Francis Davis Millet” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
Campbell, Bryna, “The Comic Grotesque: Satirizing the Body Politic in American Caricature, 1925–1945” (Washington University, A. Miller)
Chamberlain, Colby, “George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork” (Columbia, B. Joseph)
Charuhas, Christina, “Constructing Eighteenth-Century Bermuda: Utopia in the Transatlantic Imagination” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
Choi, Connie, “A Matter of Building Bridges: Photography and African American Education across the Century” (Columbia, K. Jones)
Coleman, William, “Something of an Architect: Thomas Cole and the Country House Ideal” (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)
Corcoran, Eloise, “‘Chalk-Talking’: Blackboards, Slates, and the Technology of Erasure in Nineteenth- Century American Visual Culture” (Yale, E. Cooke, Jr)
Corrales-Diaz, Erin R., “Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma, and the American Civil War, 1861–1915” (UNC Chapel Hill, R. Barrett)
Crawford, Katelyn D., “Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780” (Virginia, M. McInnis)
Dawood, Azra, “Beginning the World Again: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the Architecture of Protestant Internationalism (1919–1946)” (MIT, N. Rabbat)
DeLosSantos, Jenevieve, “Envisioning Egypt: American Orientalism in Turn-of-the-Century New York, 1880–1920” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
DiBenedetto, Erica, “Drawing from Architecture: The Conceptual Methods of Sol LeWitt’s Art, 1965–1980” (Princeton, B. Doherty, H. Foster)
Dibble, Rebecca, “Making the War: Materiality and Memory in the American Civil War” (Yale, E. Cooke, Jr)
Dierkes, Anne-Louise, “Assemblage as Opposition: California’s Counterculture and the Struggle for US Cultural Definition” (CUNY, A. Chave)
Eaton, Nicole, “Lt. Claggett Wilson, Queer Masculinity, and American Modernism” (Missouri, K. Schwain)
Eisenbarth, Erin, “Imagining the Founding Fathers: Luther & DeLancey Kountze’s Collection of Washingtoniana” (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen)
Ericson, Klint, “Sumptuous and Beautiful, As They Were: Architectural Form, Everyday Life, and Cultural Encounter in a Seventeenth-Century New Mexico Mission” (UNC Chapel Hill, E. Douglas)
Faletti, Rina, “Undercurrents of Urban Modernism: Water, Architecture, and Landscape in California and the American West” (UT Austin, R. Shiff; M. Charlesworth)
Favorite, Jennifer, “Museum Additions at US War Memorials and the Reinterpretation of National History” (CUNY, H. Senie)
Flores, Jessica, “Camp as a Weapon: Chicano Identity and Asco’s Aesthetics of Resistance” (UC Berkeley, J. Bryan-Wilson)
Fravel, Laura, “Gazing Westward: The Quest for Unity in American Art Displays at the World’s Fairs, 1876–1916” (UNC Chapel Hill, R. Barrett)
Gavino, Julianne, “Visualizing Topographies of Race and Public Space: Asian American Artists in California, 1970 to Present” (UC Santa Barbara, B. Robertson)
Gerami, Sheila, “The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: The Evolution of a Forgotten Memorial” (CUNY, H. Senie)
Gratta, Eva, “‘Great Links of the Chain’: Maritime Imagery in North America, 1750–1850” (Graduate Center, CUNY, K. Manthorne)
Green, Kate, “Encountering Vito Acconci: Performing Conceptual Art in New York ca. 1970” (UT Austin, A. Reynolds)
Greenberg, Alyssa, “Arts Awareness at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art Museum Education as Artistic and Political Practice” (UIC, T. Quinn)
Green, Robin C. (Cowie), “‘A Certain Slant of Light’: Exhilaration, Oppression, and the Forces of Sunlight in American Impressionism” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
Greenwold, Diana, “Crafting New Citizens: Art and Handicraft in American Settlement Houses, 1900–1945” (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)
Hamilton, Elizabeth C., “Afrofuturist Feminism in the Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora” (Florida, A. Ongiri)
Hamming, Grant, “Americanischer Malkasten: American Art and Düsseldorf” (Stanford, B. Wolf)
Hannah, Caroline, “Between Art, Craft, and Design: Henry Varnum Poor and the Making of the Modern American Artist” (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham)
Harvey, Melanee, “Upon this Rock: Mapping Architecture and Material Histories of the Protestant Black Church, 1881–1969” (Boston, K. Morgan)
Hassan, S. Faisal, “Modernist Aberrations: The Dialectics of Expressionism in American Art and Architecture (1958–1992)” (MIT, M. Jarzombek; C. Jones)
Haviland, Mary, “Documenting Douglas Huebler: His Conceptual Works” (Virginia, S. Crane)
Heung, Elsie, “Portraying Women’s Suffrage: Visual Arts and the Campaign for the Vote in the United States, 1900–1920” (CUNY, G. Levin)
Hooper, Rachel, “A Singular Cloud: The Racial Politics of Art History, 1850–1900” (Rice, L. Costello)
Huang, Karen, “Artists’ Reenactments: The Vietnam War, the War on Terror, and the Performance of American Activism” (USC, K. Flint)
Israel, Mei-Ling, “Circles, Bees, and Threads: Traditional Craft Communities and the Digital” (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen)
Jacks Gamble, Lauren, “John Trumbull and the Art of Environment in Early National America” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
Jentleson, Katie, “Gatecrashers: The First Generation of Outsider Artists in America” (Duke, R. Powell)
Jordan, Cara, “Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States: Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, and Mary Jane Jacob” (CUNY, H. Senie)
Kauffman, Alexander, “The Bachelors Twenty Years Later: Marcel Duchamp, and the European Avant-Garde in America, 1935–1950” (Pennsylvania, C. Poggi)
Kerrigan, Emily A., “Art off the Beaten Path: Developing American Modernism in New England’s Small Towns, Seaports, and Villages” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
Ketcham, Christopher M., “Minimal Art and Body Politics in New York City, 1961–1975” (MIT, C. Jones)
Kim, Joy Jeehye, “New Documents to Pictures: Lee Friedlander and the Remaking of the Photographic Image, 1962–1989” (Yale, D. Joselit)
Kim, Miri, “‘Right Matter in the Right Place’: The Paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder” (Princeton, R. DeLue)
Kirschner-Perlstein, Melanie, “Arthur Dove: Material Issues” (Virginia, E. Turner)
Klein, Shana, “The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in American Art, 1865–1900” (New Mexico, K. Buick)
Korobkin, Rachel, “Art and Violence in the 1930’s” (Yale, E. Cooke)
Kubo, Michael, “Architecture Incorporated: Anonymity in Postwar Modernism” (MIT, M. Jarzombek)
Kurtz, Amy, “Old Worlds and New: Edward Lamson Henry (1814–1919), Conservative Genre Painting” (Yale, J. Prown)
Landres, Sophie, “Body, Law, Instrument: Charlotte Moorman’s Early Performances with Nam June Paik” (Stony Brook University, A. Uroskie)
Larson, Christina, “America Seen through the Work of Paul Sample” (Case Western Reserve, H. Adams)
LeBourdais, George Philip, “An Aesthetics of Ice: William Bradford’s ‘Arctic Regions’ and the Invention of Ecology” (Stanford, A. Nemerov)
Lee, KeyJo, “Melancholic Materiality: History and the Unhealable Wound in African American Photographic Portraits, 1850–1877” (Yale, K. Mercer)
Lee, Patricia, “Browning the White Body: Race, Color, and Perception in Modern American Visual Culture” (UC Santa Barbara, B. Robertson)
Lehman, Bree, “Ancestors and Heirlooms: The Reception, Collection, and Display of Early American Portraiture, 1876–1941” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
Levenson, Abra, “Figures and Things: Charles Demuth, 1914–1935” (Princeton, R. DeLue)
Lewis, Sarah, “Black Circassia: Frederick Douglass and Racial Pictures in the Wake of the Civil and Caucasian Wars” (Yale, A. Nemerov, R. Thompson)
Lopes, Shana, “‘The Fraternity throughout the World’: American and German Photography, Interactions from 1840 to 1890” (Rutgers, T. Sheehan)
LoScerbo, Gianna, “A Struggle for the Real: Documentary Photography and Film in Post-WWII American Culture” (Rutgers, A. Zervigón)
Lueth, Ranelle M., “Conflicting Lines: The Ambush on America’s World War I Combat Art” (Iowa, J. Kinsey)
Macfarlane, Ellen, “Seeing Plus: Group f.64 Photography and the Political” (Princeton, A. McCauley)
Machida, Nico, “City-Site-Syntax: Art and the US Urban System, 1950s–1970s” (UCLA, M. Kwon)
Mays, Eowyn, “Tracing the Imperial Imaginary in American and Philippine Visual Culture from 1898 to 1918” (Maryland, College Park, R. Ater)
McCain, Sandy, “A Southerner’s Agenda: Charles Fraser and His Antebellum Landscape Paintings” (Georgia, J. Simon)
McCann, Justin, “Elastic Capacities: Whistler and the Art of Transformation” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
McCarthy, Megan, “The Empire on Display: Exhibitions of Germanic Art and Design in America, 1890–1914” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
McClellan, Meghan, “Snapshot Satire: Visual Conversations among Women Photographers, 1860–1910” (Missouri, K. Schwain)
McCormick, Heather Jane, “Woodcarvers in the City of New York: A Study in Craft Change, 1820–1880” (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham)
McGinnis Flanagan, Julie, “Remapping the Spaces for American Art: John Singer Sargent, Modernism, and the Grand Central Art Galleries, 1922–1939” (Temple, T. Cooper; A. Arabindan-Kesson)
Merola, Rose, “Multiple Exposures: The Photography of Austin Hansen in Harlem” (CUNY, A. Chave)
Metcalf, Megan, “Dancing with the Art World: Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, and Simone Forti Encounter the Contemporary Art Museum” (UCLA, M. Kwon)
Meyer, Don, “Gilded Steel: Figures of Refinement in Pittsburgh at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
Miller, Mark Parker, “Claiming and Denying Sophistication: Grant Wood’s Art and Responses to It, 1930–1942” (Delaware, A. Gibson)
Mintie, Katherine, “Legal Lenses: Intellectual Property Laws and American Photography, 1839–1890” (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)
Mitchem, Hollis Anne, “Triptychs for Victory: Altar Paintings for the American Armed Forces in World War II” (Graduate Theological Union, M. Morris)
Moses, Kelema Lee, “Between Hegemony and Imperialism in Honolulu: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Visualities of a US City in the Pacific (1900–1970)” (Penn State, C. Zabel)
Murphy, Elizabeth, “A Forward Looking Art: Education, Creative Exchange, and the Rise of Modern Native American Art” (USC, R. Meyer)
Newton, Gregory, “The Emergence of Monochrome Painting in 1950s New York” (CUNY, A. Chave)
Obniski, Monica, “Accumulating Things: Folk Art and Modern Design in the Postwar American Projects of Alexander H. Girard” (Illinois, Chicago, R. Bruegmann)
O’Donnell, Charles, “Pragmatism and the Problem of Art Historical Knowledge” (Berkeley, W. Davis)
Oliver, Christopher, “Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845–1870” (Virginia, M. McInnis)
Parrish, Sarah, “Embellishing Modernism: Abstraction and Decoration in 1970s American Art” (Boston, G. Williams)
Parsons, Heather, “The Tableaux of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the Spectacle of Photography” (Penn State, S. Rich)
Parsons, Jennifer Stettler, “John Sloan: Between Philadelphia and New York, 1892–1907” (Virginia, E. Turner)
Perry, Rebecca, “Problematic Bodies: Dressing Pre-Adolescent Girls in the United States, 1930–1965” (Bard Graduate Center, A. Ogata)
Piper, Corey, “Animal Pursuits: Hunting and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century America” (Virginia, M. McInnis)
Pistill, Gillian, “Ray Johnson: Artist as Archivist” (CUNY, A. Chave)
Price, Shannon, “Fashion in Motion: The Emerging Genre of the Fashion Film and Redefinitions of Fashion Imaging, Representation, and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century” (Bard Graduate Center, C. Whalen)
Quick, Jennifer, “Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha 1956–69” (Harvard, R. Kelsey)
Raimond, Ellen, “The Artist as Immigrant: Performative Photographic Projects by Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki S. Lee, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew” (Kansas, J. Pultz)
Ramsey, Rosemary, “Biases and Bridges: Reception of the Italian Avant-Garde in the United States, 1949–1957” (CUNY, E. Braun)
Reed, Alycia F., “Ready to Blow Your Mind: Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable” (Iowa, C. Adcock)
Reed, Emily, “Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Isamu Noguchi, and the Pre-and Post-War Development of Abstract Art for Public Space” (Virginia, E. Turner)
Riley, Caroline, “‘Ambassador of Good Will’: The Museum of Modern Art’s Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe and the United States” (Boston, P. Hills)
Riley, Casey, “From Page to Stage: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Photograph Albums and the Development of a Museum, 1850–1920” (Boston, K. Sichel)
Robbins, Karen, “Discipline and Polish: Teaching Domesticity at the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, 1868–1917” (Boston, K. Morgan)
Rodgers, Josephine, “Patronage, Power, and Aesthetic Taste: The Marketing of James McNeill Whistler’s Art and Legacy” (Rutgers, S. Sidlauskas)
Roland, S. Zelda, “Hollywood Stockyards: People and Places in the Background of Classical Hollywood” (Yale, J. D. Connor)
Ronan, Kristine, “Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image” (Michigan, D. Doris)
Ryan, Tina Rivers, “‘Lights in Orbit’: The Howard Wise Gallery and the Rise of Media in the 1960s” (Columbia, B. Joseph)
Rye Kopec, Ashely, “No One a Stranger: Anglo-American Representations of Venetian Labor, ca. 1866–1900” (Delaware, W. Bellion)
Sackeroff, Samuel, “The Liberal Image” (Yale, S. Zeidler)
Salseda, Rose, “The Aftermath of the Los Angeles Riots: Trauma and Historical Revisionism in Art, 1992–2012” (UT Austin, C. Smith)
Sandler Perten, Rebecca, “Implications of Mass Production for the Consumption of Jewish Ritual Objects by American Jewry, 1880–1980” (Bard Graduate Center, D. Jaffee)
Satter, Todd, “The Clearinghouse of Modernism: Post-Perspectival Production in American Architecture, 1928–1946” (MIT, M. Jarzombek)
Sauzade, Alena, “Witnesses to Terror: Nationhood and Trauma in Memorials to Victims of Terrorism” (Stony Brook University, M. Bogart)
Sawyer, Drew, “Walker Evans’ Cultures of Work and the Politics of Style” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
Schiller, Emily, “Unsettled Masses: Transportation in American Art during the 1930s and 1940s” (Penn State, N. Locke)
Schwartz, George, “‘Collecting and Arranging…a History of the Globe’: A Reconsideration of the Salem East India Marine Society and Antebellum American Museology” (Boston, K. Morgan)
Schwartz, Rebecca Ayres, “Thomas Cole on Architecture: Picturing the Gothic” (Delaware, B. Herman)
Scott, Kate. “The Photography of Absence: Death and Temporality in Postmodern American Photography” (Rutgers, A. Zervigón)
Shannon, Heather A., “Just an Amateur: Adam Clark Vroman, Photography, and the American West, 1895–1904” (Rutgers, T. Sheehan)
Situ, Xiao, “Emily Dickinson’s Window Culture, 1830–1886” (Yale, A. Nemerov, E. Cooke, Jr.)
Slipp, Naomi, “The Secret Figure: Artistic Anatomy and the Search for the Medical Body in Nineteenth-Century American Art” (Boston, P. Hills)
Smith, Ginger Elliott, “Practicing Big Science: Artists, Technology, and Institutions in 1960s and 1970s Southern California” (Boston, G. Williams)
Sperling, Juliet, “Animating Flatness: Seeing Moving Images in American Painting and Mass Visual Culture, 1820–1895” (Pennsylvania, M. Leja)
Stein, Deborah, “Charles Callahan Perkins, Classical Sculpture, and the Rhetorical Tradition in Boston” (Boston, K. Morgan)
Strickland, Lisa Dillon, “Curbing Containment: Postwar American Art and the Cold War” (Stony Brook University, M. Bogart)
Swisher, Christine, “Beyond Euthenics: Home Economics and the Reinvention of the American House, 1893–1939” (Penn State, C. Zabel)
Szymanek, Angelique, “The Fear of Rape, the Threat of Looking: Performance, Activism, and Spectatorship” (Binghamton University, T. McDonough)
Thomas, Tashima, “An Imperial Diet: From Cacao to Coconuts – Representing Edible Bodies in the Americas from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” (Rutgers, T. Flores)
Thompson, Whitney, “Foreign-born Artists Making ‘American’ Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819–1893” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
Torbert, Amy, “Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840” (Delaware, W. Bellion)
Tredway, Thomas, “Dinner at Tiffany’s: Van Day Truex and Postwar American Design” (Bard Graduate Center, P. Kirkham)
Tritch Roman, Gretta, “The Reach of the Pit: Negotiating the Multiple Spheres of the Chicago Board of Trade Building in the Late Nineteenth Century” (Penn State, C. Zabel)
Truitt, Andrea, “Experiencing the Otherworldly: Magazine Reading and Illustrations of Orientalist Domestic Space in the United States, 1880–1920” (Minnesota, J. Marshall, K. Solomonson)
Tuite, Diana, “Methods for Modernism: Arthur Wesley Dow Intersects the Stieglitz Circle” (Princeton, J. Wilmerding)
Varet, Esther Kim, “Art INC: A Reassessment of the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art” (Columbia, A. Alberro)
Vasiliou, Tia, “American Art of the Charles Lang Freer Collection: Trans-Pacific Harmony and American Imperialism in the Pacific Era” (Washington University, A. Miller)
Vittoria, Shannon, “Nature and Nostalgia in the Etchings of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842–1899)” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)
Walkiewicz, Alice, “From the ‘Song of the Shirt’ to the Call to Organize: The Seamstress in the Art of Europe and the United States from 1870–1900” (CUNY, J. Sund)
Walsh, Catherine, “‘Tell Me a Story’: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture” (Delaware, W. Bellion)
Walsh, Taylor, “Medium at the Margins: Bruce Nauman, 1965–1975” (Harvard, C. Lambert-Beatty, B. Buchloh)
Warner, Emily S., “Painting the Abstract Environment: Abstract Murals in New York, 1935–1955” (Pennsylvania, M. Leja)
Weaver, Alison, “The Beuys Effect: Joseph Beuys’ Reception in the United States” (CUNY, A. Chave)
Webb-Binder, Bernida Anne, “Affinities and Affiliations: Black Pacific Art in the United States and New Zealand, 1948–-2008” (Cornell, C. Finley)
Weintraub, Sara, “From Design to Completion: The Transformation of US War Memorials on the National Mall” (CUNY, H. Senie)
Welch, Adam, “‘Borderline Research’: Art between Canada and the United States, 1965–1980” (Toronto, E. Legge)
Wertheim, Laura, “Dust and Shadow Feminism: Disavowed Supportive Labor, Feminine Transitivity, and Temporal Drag in Postwar American Art and Performance” (Minnesota, J. Blocker)
White, Rachel, “Graphic Form: Vogue and the Politics of the Body, 1930–1950” (UIUC, T. Weissman)
Williams, Elizabeth, “Casting a New Mold: The American Silver Industry and Japanese Meiji Metalwork 1876–1893” (Kansas, S. Fowler)
Wilson, Alona, “Hughie Lee-Smith, African American Artist: Narrative Paintings, Jim Crow, and the Cold War” (Boston, P. Hills)
Wolf, Vanessa, “Surplus Feeling: War and Remembrance in Lee Bontecou’s Wall Reliefs, 1958–1966” (Yale, A. Nemerov)
Wood Kirchhoff, Mary Catherine, “Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World, c. 1812” (Delaware, W. Bellion)
Yau, Elaine, “Acts of Conversion: Sister Gertrude Morgan and the Sensation of Black Folk Art, 1960–1983” (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)
Young, Megan, “After the Deluge: Contemporary Artists Engage Katrina” (Kansas, D. Cateforis)
Zawadzki, Mary, “St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)
Zavistovski, Katia, “Uncommon Objects: The Representational Painting of Vija Celmins, Llyn Foulkes, and Joe Goode in 1960s LA” (Rice, G. Bader)
Zundo, Mary Elizabeth, “Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier” (UIUC, D. O’Brien)