Art History

Our art history students participate in regional and national research conferences. Seniors regularly present the results of their theses at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, the most competitive gathering of undergraduate scholars in the country. Students follow a rigorous application process. Juniors are encouraged to participate in other conferences. Wittenberg rewards the successful candidates with travel and presentation grants.

Recent participants at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research

2015: Kathryn Scudier, The Functional Image: Pre-Columbian Ceramics of the Wittenberg Collection
Caitlin Green, Giving Form to God: The Legacy of Savonarola in Paintings by Fra Bartolommeo and Raphael

2013: Corie Cappelucci, An Artistic Equation for Preservation: Wildlife, Minimal Realism, and the Art of Charley Harper
Leslie Winter, Body, Identity and Narrative in Titian's Paintings

2012: Hilary Strimple, Space, Function, and Experience in the Museum: The Barnes Foundation

2011:Jessica Thomas, The Shapeshifter in Tokugawa Art

2010:Megan Bixel, Layers: Dissecting the Art of Aminah Robinson
Kara Blakley, Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century France

2009 : Caitlin Hedrick, A Wall of Women
Stacy Kitchen, The Effects of Isabella d'Este on Perugino's Art

2008: Shiloh Aderhold, Organic Architecture: the Wescott House and Casa Batlle.

Recent Art History theses

2015: Kathryn Scudier, The Functional Image: Pre-Columbian Ceramics of the Wittenberg Collection
Caitlin Green, Giving Form to God: The Legacy of Savonarola in Paintings by Fra Bartolommeo and Raphael

2014: Rebecca Petrilli, The Liminality of Antoine Watteau
Kirsten Stricker, The Art of Drama: Abstraction and Locke and Key

2013: Corie Cappelucci, An Artistic Equation for Preservation: Wildlife, Minimal Realism, and the Art of Charley Harper
Leslie Winter, Body, Identity and Narrative in Titian's Paintings

2012: Hilary Strimple, Space, Function, and Experience in the Museum: The Barnes Foundation

2011: Chelsea Graham. The Effects of Economic Change on the Residential Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Jessica Thomas. The Shapeshifter in Tokugawa Art

2010: Kara Blakley. Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century France
Megan Bundy. Between Science and Art: Medical Illustration
Geoffrey Naunheim. Repetitive Imagery for a Tagging Society
Rachel Sampson. Manipulating the Magi: The Medici's Pursuit of Power and the Adoration Theme
Emily Schroeder. The Proto-American Scene: Toward an American Identity

2009: Megan Bixel. Layers: Dissecting the Art of Aminah Robinson
Krista Borghese. Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Borghese Sculptures
Suzanne Fuhrman. Art and Revolution: The Impact of History and Culture on Nicaraguan Art
Caitlin Hedrick. A Wall of Women
Stacy Kitchen. The Effects of Isabella d'Este on Perugino's Art

2008: Shiloh Aderhold. Organic Architecture: the Wescott House and Casa Batlle.
Sarah Toms. Caravaggio's Fidelity to the Real

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