Our students engage with the material world from many different points of view, within many different home departments. Our program encourages this diverse, self-styled approach to the study of material culture. Current Graduate Students: Leslie Bellais Ph.D. student, Department of History Victorian women's fashion Meghan Doherty Ph.D. student, Department of Art History Early American material culture Liz Galewski Ph.D. student, Department of Communication Arts Rhetorical constructions of femininity in the United States Christine Gesick M.A. student, Department of Art History Vernacular and contemporary American architecture Molly Greenfield M.S. student, Department of Design Studies Department Textiles and material culture BA Harrington M.F.A. Department of Art, M.A. student, Department of Art History Archetypal early American furniture forms and their contemporary incarnations in popular culture Andrea Hoffman M.S. student, Design Studies Department Victorian material culture Elizabeth Hooper-Lane Ph.D student, Department of Art History World War II/post-war American housing and material culture Lindsey Housel M.S. student, Design Studies Department People-centered museum environments Jessica Jones-Coggins Ph.D. student, Design Studies Department Textiles and artifacts of mourning Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler Ph.D. student, Design Studies Department Material culture of the American office Andrea Kolasinski Marcinkus Ph.D. student, Design Studies Department Nature, culture and Victorian women: "nature fancywork" Saadia N. Lawton Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History Audience reception of trans-Atlantic African American imagery Margarete Ordon M.S. student, Design Studies Department Textiles and material culture Amy Ortiz-Holmes Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art History American vernacular and self-taught art Stefan Osdene M.A. student, Department of Art History Contemporary American Material Culture and Theory Cory Pillen Ph.D. student, Department of Art History American art and material culture Lucy Traverse M.A. student, Department of Art History Katharine Wells M.A. student, Department of Art History Nineteenth and twentieth Century Design Andrew Williams M.S. student, Design Studies Department Architecture of utopian communities Recent Degree Recipients: Laura Haertel M.A. Department of Art History Modern American art and material culture Martha Monroe M.A. Department of Art History American art and material culture Emily Pfotenhauer M.A. Department of Art History, May 2006 "Furniture in Mineral Point, Wisconsin 1830-1890: Craft, Trade, and Fashion in a Midwestern Marketplace" Meghan Doherty M.A. Department of Art History, May 2005 (continuing in Ph.D. program) "Robert Thornton's A New Illustration: Imaging and Imagining Nation and Empire" Cory Pillen M.A. Department of Art History, May 2005 (continuing in Ph.D. program) "Debating Domesticity: Gender Roles in Tompkins Matteson's Now or Never" Jane Bianco M.A. Department of Art History, May 2004 "Mary Nohl's Art--Her Best Beloved Home; Happy Within Her Own Construction" Alexis Dyszel M.A. Department of Art History, December 2003 "A Century of Progress? The Interiors of the Model Homes at the 1933 Chicago International Exhibition" Jim Bryan Ph.D. Department of Art History, August 2003 "Material Culture in Miniature: Historic Dolls' Houses Reconsidered"	Core Faculty Affiliated Faculty & Staff Students
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