As part of the major in Art History students are regularly involved in writing honors theses during their senior year; collaborating on curatorial projects at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and with both the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection and the Wetmore Print Collection; and working with individual faculty on selected topics for independent research.
Recent Honors Theses Topics
- Dis Manibus Sacrum: The Political Culture of Non-Elite Funerary Relief Sculpture During the Late Republic and Early Empire (2024)
- Visual Depictions of Lucretia: Exploring Assault in Art through Myth (2022)
- Theater of the World: The Display of Contemporary Chinese Art in United States Museums (2020)
- The Female Body, Myth, and Sexual Power: Women in Italian Renaissance Art (2020)
- Tracing Laozi: The Development of Daoist Art (2017)
- Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: The Appropriation of Indigenous Cultures in 20th-Century Latin American Art (2015)
- The Animalization of Spirituality in the Works of Franz Marc (2014)
- Xu Bing and the Redefined Chinese American Art (2014)
- Revolutionary Art from China, South Africa and Tunisia (2013)
- Identity Politics and Cultural Policy in Contemporary Senegalese Art (2011)
Recent Exhibition Projects (Student/Faculty Collaborations)
- Behind the Curtain: The Art and Photobooth Collection of Näkki Goranin (Shain Library, 2024)
EXHIBITION CATALOG - Beatrice Cuming: Connecticut Precisionist (Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2024)
- Labors of Love: Work, Family and Play in American Folk Photography (Shain Library, 2023)
EXHIBITION CATALOG - Barkley L. Hendricks in New London (Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2023)
- Unbeatable Women: Power and Innovation in the Work of Women Photographers (Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2022)
- Revisiting the Nut Museum: Visionary Art of Elizabeth Tashjian (Cummings Arts Center, 2019)
- Time Capsule: New London (Shain Library, 2019)
- It’s Only a Paper Moon: Souvenir Photography in America, 1870-1950 (Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2017)