Current Graduate Students: Recent Degree Recipients: Laura Haertel





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.
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
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"
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