Dissertations Underway and Recently Completed Dissertations (since 1994) on Architectural History

Compiled by Julie Nicoletta [jn@u.washington.edu]
The following list has been assembled from a number of sources, including the Art Bulletin's list of dissertations in progress, and by word-of-mouth. The dissertations listed below cover topics including and related to architectural history, such as urbanism, landscape studies, and interior design. This list is by no means complete--additions and corrections are welcome. Dissertations that have been completed since 1994 are at the end of this list.

As of March 1, 2008, I will no longer be maintaining this list.  If you are interested in taking over this list, you may reach me at the email address above.

Abend-David, Ilana, State University of New York at Binghamton, "The Heribert Shrine."

Ajello, Guendalina, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Rione Parione: The Afterlife of an Ancient Roman Cluster of Spectator Buildings."

Aksamija, Nadja, Princeton University, "The Villa in the Life of Sixteenth-Century Ragusan Patricate."

Al Tal, Raed, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Structures of Authority: A Political Account of Architectural and Urban Programs in Jordan (1970-1999)."

Allais, Lucia, Massachusetts of Technology, "Will to War, Will to Art: The Architectural Ethics and Aesthetics of Cultural Internationalism, 1932-1960."

Allan, Ken, University of Chicago, "Making the Scene: Artistic Identity, Urban Space, and Popular Culture in 1960s Los Angeles."

Allison, Lara, Columbia University, "The Bauhaus in Chicago, 1937-1955."

Álvarez-González, Manuel Fernando, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  "From Syndicalism to Imperialism: José Luis Sert and His Master Plans for Barcelona (1931-34) and Havana (1956-58)."

Anderson, Eric, Columbia University, "The Design Theory of Jacob van Falke: Historicism and Cultural Transformation in Ringstrasse Vienna."

Anderson, Paul A., University of California at Santa Barbara, "Roman Wooden Church Ceilings of the Renaissance."

Anderson, Sean, University of California at Los Angeles, "In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea, 1890-1941."

Andre, Laura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Strange Territories: Space-Age Frontiers in American Art and Architecture of the 1960s."

Andrianou, Dimitra, Bryn Mawr, "Domestic Space in Greek Antiquity."

Arioli, Kristin, University of Southern California, "Cardinal Raffaele Riario and the Politics of Cultural Patronage in Renaissance Rome (1477-1521)."

Atwell, Adrienne, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Corporate Architecture in Trecento Florence: The Guild Hall of the Arte della Lana."

Austin, Nancy, Brown University, "New Brutalism and the Artisanal Architect, 1945-1970."

Badawi, Sherine, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Transposition and Transformation: The Interconnection between Tomb Chapel and Coffin in Middle Kingdom Egypt."

Badgett, Amanda, Columbia University, "Gothic Revival Churches in the Antebellum South."

Baghdady, Omar, University of Michigan, “Creating The Canon: A Critical History Of Modern Architecture In Egypt Between 1930-1960”.

Baker, Jill L., Brown University, "The Middle and Late Bronze Age Tomb Complex at Ashkelon: Its Architecture and the Funeral Kit."

Ball, Jeffrey L., University of Missouri at Columbia, "Progressive Era Missouri and the New State Capitol."

Barrett, Catherine, University of Washington, "Cordes and the Intersections of Identity." [kitzen@u.washington.edu]

Barrett, Marguerite, Rutgers University, "The Origin, Character, and Probable Function of Norwegian Stave-Church Decoration."

Barteet, Cody, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Colonial Contradictions in the Casa de Montejo and Merida: Space, Society, and Self-Representation at the Edge of Viceregal Mexico."

Bassnett, Sarah, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Representing the Urban 'Real': Instrumental Discourse and City Planning in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Toronto and Montreal."

Batuman, Bulent, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Spaces of Counter-Hegemony: Turkish Architects and Planners as Political Agents in the 1970s."

Bauman, Johanna Elizabeth, University of Virginia, "Piero de Crescenzi's Liber ruralium commodorum: Agriculture, Pleasure Gardens, and Social Context."

Baweja, Vandana, University of Michigan, "Otto Koenigsberger: Tropical Architect From Princely Mysore to Post-Colonial London".

Bechtel, Alison, University of Pennsylvania, "Public/Private, Private/Public: Millionaires' Mansions and Cycles of Need in Late Nineteenth-Century America."

Bills, Emily, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Communications Systems and the Shaping of Urban Form in the Twentieth Century: The L.A. Example."

Blackburn, Marcia, State University of New York at Binghamton, "A Social Architectonics of Science Fiction Film Design."

Blokker, Johanna, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Kirchen in Trummern: World War II and the Reconstruction of the Church in Cologne, 1945-1963."

Borum, Kathy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Perception of Renaissance Architectural History at the Rise of Modernism: Great Britain, 1880-1940."

Bowes, Kimberly, Princeton University, "Christianity in the Private Sphere: Private Chapels, Villa-Churches, and Domestic Piety in Late Antiquity."

Brooks-Shirey, Heather, Indiana University-Bloomington, "Divine Spaces: Candomblé Art in Terreiros and the Streets, Salvador, Brazil."

Brown, Marisa Angell, Yale University, "Imagined Communities: The Architecture and Image of Public Housing in America (1934-1974)."

Bryan, James E., III, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Historic Dolls' Houses as Material Culture."

Busbea, Lawrence, City University of New York, "Spatial Urbanism, 1950-1965."

Bush, Olga, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Alhambra and Nasrid Fortifications."

Canning, Jonathan P., Columbia University, "The Stone-Cage Chantry Chapel and the Architecture of Perpetual Commemoration in Late Medieval England."

Carpenter, Lisa, University of Louisville, "Roadside Architecture of Kentucky, 1920-1960."

Casid, Jill, Harvard University, "Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization in the Eighteenth Century."

Castillo, Greg, University of California at Berkeley, "Building Stalin's Germany: Ideology, Identity, and Reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic, 1946-1954." [gregcastillo@yahoo.com]

Çelik, Zeynep, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Kinaesthetic Impulse: Space, Performance and the Body in German Architecture, 1880-1914."

Ciresi, Lisa Victoria, Rutgers University, "Church-Shaped Shrines of the Rhineland: Iconography and Ideology."

Cody, Madeleine, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Mendes: Reflections of an Egyptian Community in the Eastern Delta?"

Coffman, Peter, Quenn's University, Kingston, "Gothic Revival Architecture in Atlantic Canada."

Cooperman, Emily T., University of Pennsylvania, "'The Habit of Rural Retirement': National Identity in William Birch's Country Seats of the United States." [etcooper@sas.upenn.edu]

Costa, Patrizia, University of Pittsburgh, "Leonardo da Vinci's Sala delle Asse in the Sforza Castle in Milan."

Costanzo, Denise, Pennsylvania State University, "The Lessons of Rome: Architects at the American Academy, 1947-1966."

Cro, Robert J. W., Princeton University, "The Forum Romanum in Late Antiquity: A.D. 330-630."

Davidson, Naomi, University of Chicago, "La Mosquée de Paris and the Creation of French Islam, 1917-1982."

Davis, Blair Hixson, University of California at Santa Barbara, "The Drawings of Charles Percier."

Deming, M. Elen, Harvard University, "Wish Landscapes and Garden Cities: The Uses of Landscape Allegory in English Reform Movements, 1884 to 1918." [medeming@mailbox.syr.edu]

Dillon, Jennifer, Duke University, "Modernity, Sanitation, and the Public Bath: Berlin, 1896-1933, as Archetype."

Donhauser, Peter L., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "New York's Broadway Theaters, 1893-1930: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Culture of Amusement."

Dow, Douglas, Pennsylvania State University, "Confraternal Piety and Corporate Patronage: The Art and Oratory of the Compagnia di San Giovanni Battista dello Scalzo, Florence."

Dowling, Dale, George Washington University, "For God, For Country, For Family: Colonial Revival Churches in the Cold War."

Dubin, Nina, University of California at Berkeley, "The Monument in Ruins: Hubert Robert, Paris Urbanism, and the Crisis of Revolutionary France."

Eggebeen, Janna, City University of New York, "The American Air Passenger Terminal and Modernity."

Eggler-Gerozissis, Marianne, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, "A decorator in the best sense:" Mies van der Rohe and the articulation of the German modernist interior."

Eimen, Alisa, University of Minnesota, "Architecture of Reform and Revolution: Tehran and the Twentieth Century."

Ekici, Didem, University of Michigan, "Creating the “New Man”: The Modern Architecture and Life Reform Movement in Hellerau Garden City ".

El Amrousi, Mohamed, University of California at Los Angeles, "Colonialism and Islamic Cities: 17th-20th Centuries."

Elleh, Nnamdi, Northwestern University, "Architecture and Nationalism at Abjua, Nigeria: A Study of the Ideologies of 'Federal Character.'"

Elliott, Therese Martin, University of Pittsburgh, "The Royal Church of San Isidoro of León: An Architectural History."

Epstein, Clarence, The University of Edinburgh, "Church Architecture in Montreal during the British-Colonial Period, 1760-1860."  [clarence@caad.ed.ac.uk]

Erdim, Burak, University of Virginia, "The Inception and Cultural Impact of the Middle East Technical University within the Context of Cold War Politics from 1950-1964."

Faletti, Rina Cathleen, University of Texas at Austin, "Water, Architecture and Landscape in California and the American West."

Farhat, May, Harvard University, "Displaying Piety: The Shrine of Imam Ali Al-Rida in Mashhad under the Safavids."

Fedders, Kristin U., University of Pennsylvania, "Pop Art in Public Space, 1954-1965." [kfedders@worldnet.att.net]

Feng, Jiren, Brown University, "Imperial Song Architecture: Treatises, Buildings, Literature, and Art."

Fernandez, Henry Dietrich, Cambridge University, "Bramante's Architectural Legacy in the Vatican Palace."

Flentye, Laurel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Decorated Elite Mastaba and Rock-cut Tomb in the Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza and Their Relationship to the Development of Art during the Fourth Dynasty."

Floyd, Cheryl R., Temple University, "The Plateia Building at Pseira: Evidence for Regional Style, Social Stratification, and the LMIB Domestic Economy."

Fredericksen, Andrea, University of California at Los Angeles, "Uses of the Past: The Houses of Parliament and the Construction of Identity."

Frohne, Andrea, State University of New York at Binghamton, "The African Burial Ground in New York City: Manifesting and Representing Spirituality of Space."

Fugate, Susan, University of Louisville, "A Tomb Fit for a Princeps: The Mausoleum of Augustus, Its Typology and History."

Gantt, Richard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Urbanism and Architecture in Early Modern London: The Act of 1711 to Build Fifty New Churches."

Gee, Regina, University of Texas at Austin, "The Vatican Necropolis: Ritual, Status, and Social Identity in the Roman House Tomb."

Gittings, Elizabeth, Harvard University, "The Ideology and Aesthetics of Architecture in the Early Christian Mosaics of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki."

Gobran Sophie, Columbia University, "The First Dresden Hoftheater (1835-41): Gottfried Semper and Theater Architecture in Vormärz Germany."

Goldfus, Haim, Princeton University, "Tombs and Burials in Churches and Monasteries of Byzantine Palestine 324-628 A.D."

Gollannek, Eric, University of Delaware, "Colonial Exchange and Visions of Empire in Britain and Its Colonies."

Gorman, Carma, University of California at Berkeley, "The Conceptual Limits of Architecture: Domestic Space and Interior Design in the U.S., 1890-1930."

Grevstad-Nordbrock, Anne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Ilse Bing in Frankfurt and Paris: Interwar Photography of Modern Architecture and the City."

Grossman, Max Elijah, Columbia University, "Architecture and Ideology in the Sienese Contado from the Age of Frederick II to the Fall of the Nine."

Gyure, Dale Allen, University of Virginia, "The Transformation of the Schoolhouse: American School Architecture and Educational Reform, 1890-1930."

Hamilton, Jeffery, University of Delaware, "Adapting the City to Meet Rural Desires: The English Urban Landscape as Surrogate Country House."

Hargrove, James B., University of Pennsylvania, "Serious Pleasures: The Impact of Interior and Ornamental Sculpture upon French Aesthetics, 1850-1900."

Haughey, Patrick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Presidential Library: Archive, Afterlife and the National Imagination."

Henderson, Amy, University of Delaware, "Furnishing the Republican Court: Building and Decorating Philadelphia Homes, 1790-1800."

Henthorn, Cynthia, City University of New York, "The Push-Button Miracle: The Military Invades the Postwar Home (The Politics of Design and Domestic Space)."

Higgs, Jamie, University of Louisville, "Visigothic Architecture: Its Distinctive Style and Influence."

Holst, Nancy A., University of Delaware, "A Wise Woman Buildeth Her Home."

Hsu, Eileen Hsiang-Ling, Columbia University, "The 6th-Century Buddhist Caves at Anyary: Daliu Shengku, Xiaonanhai Shiku, and Dazhu Shengku."

Hufbauer, Benjamin, University of California at Santa Barbara, "The Father in the Temple: Memory and Masculinity in Presidential Libraries."

Humer, Colleen, University of Toronto, "Adolf Loos: A Modern House for the Suburbs."

Hunting, Mary Anne, City University of New York, "Edward Durell Stone: Perception and Criticism."

Jacobs, Jamie, The George Washington University, "'You Can't Dream Yourself a House': The Evolving Postwar House and Its Place Within a Renewed Consumer World, 1945-1970."

James, Stephen B., University of Virginia,  "Louis Kahn in India: Negotiating an Iconography of Memory."

Jung, Jacqueline, Columbia University, "Screens, Sculpture, and the Formation of Social Space at Naumburg Cathedral."

Kakar, Shalini, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Fashioning the Divine: Bollywood Stars, Museum Temples and Cultural Politics in Contemporary India."

Katz, Ariela, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Maison du Peuple:  Modernity and Working-Class Identity in French Architecture and Urbanism, 1914-1940."

Kaukas Havenhand, Lucinda, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Creating a Modern Gesamtkunstwerk: Interior Design 1930-1960."

Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, University of California at Los Angeles, "From Picturesque Ruin to World Heritage Site: The History of Fatehpur Sikri as a Modern Indian Shrine."

Keen, Ann, Rutgers University, "Redefining Modernism: Monumentality and Expressionism in Architecture of the Olympic Summer Games, 1960-1976."

Keller, William Bradford, University of Delaware, "Urban Architecture for Community and Spectacle: The Roofed Arena in the United States, 1890-1968." [wkeller@pobox.upenn.edu]

Kennedy, Matthew Heath, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Terminal City: Urbanism and the Construction of Grand Central Terminal."

Kidd, Stephen, George Washington University, "Defining a Better Philadelphia: Class, Culture, and Decentralizing the Urban Landscape after World War II."

Kiese, Dara, City University of New York, "Public Reception of the Dessau Bauhaus, 1925-1932."

Kim, Grace E., University of Washington, "Adalberto Libera's Unita di abitazione orizzontali: Modernization in Housing Typology."

Klahr, Douglas, Brown University, "The Architectural Patronage of Wilhelm II: Issues of Urban, Dynastic, and National Identity within the Work of Hofarchitekt Ernst von Ihne."

Klee, Jeffrey, University of Delaware, "The Five Orders of Beacon Hill."

Knight, Cher Krauss, Temple University, "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Disney World in Its Multifarious Contexts."

Koll, Ann, City University of New York, "The Synthesis of the Arts: Le Corbusier's Pavillions and the Re-humanization of Architecture."

Koval, Lindsay M., Columbia University, "Architectural Patronage and Liberal Religion at New York's Riverside Church." 

Krause, Cher, Temple University, "'The Stuff that Dreams are Made of?': Disney World in Its Multifarious Contexts."

Krieg, Annie, University of Pittsburgh, "In the Service of the Nation: Medieval and Neo-Medieval Architecture in the Contested Terrain of Breslau/Wroclaw, 1860-1960."

Kully, Deborah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Morality, Architecture, and the French Interior (1860-1890)."

Lavasani, Noushin, University of California at Los Angeles, "Tehran and Istanbul: Architecture and Urbanism as Forms of Tutelage and Conveyors of National Identity."

Leone, Stephanie, Rutgers University, "The Palazzo Pamphilj in the Piazza Navona, Rome (1470-1655): Urban Context, Architecture, Function, and Patronage."

Lew, Stefanie, Princeton University, "Private Space and Public Display in Renaissance Venice."

Lieber, Jeffrey, University of Michigan, "Waging Total Peace: Architecture and Aesthetics circa 1958-1963."

Lindenfeldar, Maria F. A. "Denise Scott Brown, Sociology and Design," University of Pennsylvania. [alim@sas.upenn.edu]

Locke, Alison, Yale University, "Visuality and Experience in the Twelfth-Century Church of Castel Sant'Elia near Nepi."

López-Durán, Fabiola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Eugenics in the Garden: Medicine, Architecture and Landscape from France to Latin American in the Early Twentieth Century."

Lovette, Celeste, Columbia University, "Travels and Traversals in Hellenistic Architecture."

Luce, Kristina, University of Michigan, "Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing within Architectural Design.”

Lucey, Stephen, Rutgers University, "The Church of Santa Maria Antigua, Rome: Defining the Contexts."

Luttrull, Mary Parke, Florida State University, "Rosedown, 1835-2002: A Louisiana Plantation."

Luyster, Amanda, Harvard University, "Text, Image, Context: Representations of Tristan and Isolde in Medieval Architecture."

Magleby, Mark, Ohio State University, "Traversing the World: The Legacy of the English Landscape Garden in Utopian Modernism."

Mahde, Fatima, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Building Monreale Cathedral."

Manson, Andrew, Columbia University, "Architecture, Archaeology, and Urbanism in 'La Grande Roma': The Via dell'Impero and the Palazzo del Littorio Competition."

Maranci, Christina, Princeton University, "The Historiography of Armenian Architecture: Josef Strzygowski and His Legacy."

Marcus, Elizabeth, City University of New York, "Consuming Interests: The American Home of the 1930s."

Marina, Areli, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Urbanistic Transformation of Parma in the Time of the Commune, 1149-1347."

Marinis, Vassileios, University of Illinois at Chicago, "The Monastery Tou Libos: Architecture, Liturgical Planning, and Urbanism in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople."

Marlowe, Elizabeth, Columbia University, "Sybolic Captial: Constantine's Rome."

Marshall, Jessica, Columbia University, "Architecture and Popular Religion: French Pilgrimage Churches of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries."

Maulsby, Lucy, Columbia University, "Architecture and Urbanism in Fascist Italy: Milan 1926-40."

McAtee, Cammie, Harvard University, "Form and Formalism in American Architecture in the 1950s and '60s."

McCarthy, Heather, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Queenship, Cosmography, and Regeneration: The Decorative Programs and Architecture of Ramesside Royal Women's Tombs."

McDonald, Terry, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Trondheim Cathedral: Nationalist Praxis and Medievalism in Norway."

McDowell, Eddie-Sue, University of Louisville, "Designed for Speed: W. S. Arrasmith's Streamlined Moderne Greyhound Bus Terminals."

McGettigan, Mary R., University of California at Berkeley, "The Space of Athens: Finding One's Place in the 'Polis.'"

McHenry, Bannon, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "James Renwick, Jr. and the Revival of Medieval and Renaissance Styles in American Architecture: 1840-65."

McKiernan Gonzalez, Eileen, University of Texas at Austin, "Monastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa Maria la Real de las Huelgas and Santa Maria la Real de Sigena."

McNamara, Denis R., University of Virginia, "Modern and Medieval: American Church Architecture, 1920-1945."

Meadows, B. Ted, University of Kansas, "Monuments and Memory: Three American World War I Memorials in Context."

Mekinda, Jonathan, University of Pennsylvania, "Reconstruction and Revolution: The Re-Invention of Modernism in Milan, 1945-1955."

Menefee, Ellen, University of Delaware, "Live the Dream: The Rhetoric of the Furnished Model Home in Late Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century America."

Michailidis, Melanie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance: Monumental Funerary Architecture in Iran and Central Asia, 10-11th Centuries."

Milla Bernad, Martina, Emory University, "Student Housing á la brésilienne? Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, and the Maison du Brésil at the Cité Universitaire in Paris."

Milnarik, Elizabeth, University of Virginia, "The Publicly Funded American Dream, America's Inital, Direct Build Public Housing Program, 1933-1937."  [eam3m@virginia.edu]

Mims, Martina, Columbia University, "August Endell's Exploration of the Relationship of the Modern Observer and Form."

Minsky, Diana H., Columbia University, "The Baths of Diocletian: Responses to a Ruin."

Mochizuki, Mia M., Yale University, "The Haarlem St. Bavo Church and the Image of Worship in 17th-Century Holland."

Mohr, Paula A., University of Virginia, "Displays of Nature and Art: The Architecture of Central Park, 1858-1880." [pam3v@virginia.edu]

Monroe, Elizabeth, University of Southern California, "Synagoga as Christian Discourse 1007-1215."

Moylan, Valerie, City University of New York, "A Citadel behind the Walls: The House of the Amateur in Late Nineteenth-Century France."

Mulder, Karen L., University of Virginia, "New Rationales for Neues Glas: Architectonic Considerations in Postwar German Glass Installations."

Muzaffar, M. Ijlal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the Making of the Third World."

Myers, Tracy, University of Delaware, "Modern Architecture for Education in the Post-War Era: Public School Buildings by the Architects Collaborative (TAC) and the Development of American Modernism, 1946-1995."

Nieman, Richard J., University of Virginia, "Monuments to God and Man: The Local Churches of Cruciform Plan in Anglo-Norman Sussex and the New Norman Aristocracy." [rjn3k@virginia.edu]

Nilsen, Micheline, University of Delaware, "The 'Other Side of the Tracks': The Implantation of the Railroads in Western European Cities."

Nowicki, Susan, City University of New York, "Montclair, New Jersey: The Development of a Suburban Town and Its Architecture."

O'Brien, James, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Reification or Revolution? Towards the Aesthetics of Capital Realism."

O'Rourke, Kathryn E., University of Pennsylvania, "Architecture and Nationalism in Revolutionary Mexico."

Olgren-Leblond, Kelli, University of Southern California, "Reading Expressionist Architecture: The German Avant-Garde and 'Paper Architecture,' 1914-1924."

Oryshkevich, Irina, Columbia University, "A History of the Roman Catacombs from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance."

Osayimwese, Itohan, University of Michigan, "Colonialism at the Center: German Colonial Architecture and the Design Reform Movement, 1828-1914."

Osman, Michael, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Regulation in the Architecture of American Modernism, 1890-1920."

Pagalos, Panayiotis, University Of Patras (Greece), "The Presence of Time in the Contemporary Architecture: Technical and Poetic Time. The Case of Aldo Rossi."

Parker, Timothy, University of Texas at Austin, "The Modern Church in Rome:  Architecture, Theology, and Community, 1945-80."

Parnell, Traci, Rutgers University, "Gilding the Black Box: Showmanship and Revivalism in 1920s American Movie Palace Architecture."

Passanti, Francesco, Columbia University, "Le Corbusier at the Salon d'Automne of 1922."

Patel, Alka, Harvard University, "The 'Sultanate' Architecture of Gujarat: A Case Study in Scholarship on Islam in India."

Penick, Monica, University of Texas at Austin, "The Forgotten Generation: House Beautiful's Pace Setter House Program and the Popularization of Organic Modernism in Postwar America, 1945-1965."

Perdue, Martin C., University of Virginia,"Building with Bark, Logs, and Sticks: Rustic Wooden Architecture in the United States, 1830-1916."

Phillips, Pamela, Rutgers University, "The Chiostro dei Voti of SS. Annunziata in Florence."

Phillips, Ruth Anne, City University of New York, "Pre-Columbian Appropriation: Ancient American Influence in U.S. Architecture, 1910-1940."

Pilat, Stephanie, University of Michigan, "Re-imagining Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era."

Pillai, Harimohan, I.I.T. Kharagpur, "Identifying and Establishing Linkages and Deviations from Traditional to Modern Architectural Design Detailing." [pillaisir@yahoo.com]

Pope, Elizabeth, University of Texas at Austin, "Mythologically Significant Structures among the Aztec, Maya, and Mixtec: The Manifestation of Sacred Space and Time."

Prescher, Amy M., Yale University, "Saxon Convent Architecture: The Diocese of Halberstadt in the High Middle Ages."

Proctor, Robert, Cambridge University (UK), "Producing Architecture Producing Consumption: Department Stores in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris." [rp236@hermes.cam.ac.uk]

Pugh, Emily, City University of New York, "The Berlin Wall and the Urban Space and Experience of East and West Berlin, 1961-1989."

Rafii, Keyvan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Public Images and Civic Pride: Town Halls in Germany, 1300-1600."

Redensek, Jeanette, City University of New York, "Manufacturing Gemeinschaft: Architecture, Tradition, and the Sociology of Community in Germany, 1890-1920."

Rein, Michelle A., University of Pennsylvania, "Visual Expressions of Baraka: Marabout Architecture and Material Culture."

Reinhard, Jayni, University of Minnesota, "The Roman Bath at Isthmia: A Reconstruction of the Interior."

Remini, Alice, University of North Carolina, "The Architecture and Sculpture of the Doujon Atelier."

Ricci, Alessandra, Princeton University, "New City and New Countryside: Late Antique and Early Byzantine Palaces and Villas in Constantinople (ca. 330 A.D. - ca. 850 A.D.)."

Richardson, Milda, Boston University, "The Architecture of Charles Donagh Maginnis, 1867-1955."

Rinehart, Michelle A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "The Influence of German Culture on the Development of Architecture in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago." [michrine@umich.edu]

Ringelberg, Kirsten, University of North Carolina, "The Artist's Studio as Domestic Interior: Impressions of Gender in the Late 19th Century."

Ritter, Jonathan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Progressive Ideal: A Study of the Civic Center Movement in U.S. Cities, 1900-1920."

Robinson, Matthew Seth, Pennsylvania State University, "The Tension between the Future and the Past in American Archtiecture, circa 1960."

Rodney, Marguerite Carnell, George Washington University, "Form Follows Faith: Institutional Churches and the Architecture of the Social Gospel in American Cities."

Rogers, Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Art as History in Postwar Lebanon."

Rohrer, Thelma, Ohio State University, "Popularizing Imagery of the Single-Family Home in the United States, 1880-1920."

Rogier, Francesca, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Confronting the Modern Metropolis: The Greater Berlin Planning Competition, 1908-1910."

Rosenblum, Charles, University of Virginia, "Modernity and the Beaux Arts: The Architecture of Henry Hornbostel."

Rowe, Nina Ariadne, Northwestern University, "Synagoga and Ecclesia at Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg: Allegorical Embodiments and the Daily Confrontation between Christians and Jews in the Early 13th Century."

Sachant, Pamela, University of Delaware, "Eddie Arning: 'Artis Work' and the American Dream."

Sandler, Daniela, University of Rochester, "Incarnate Politics: National Identity, History, and Architectural Heritage in Postwar Berlin."

Sandlin, Julianne Parse, Florida State University, "Religious Orders and Catholic Reform: Parisian Churches during the Reign of Louis XIII."

Sawyer, Sean E., Columbia University, "Sir John Soane and the Palace of Westminster: 'Architectural Visions of Early Fancy and Dreams in the Evening of Life.'"

Scalzo, Julia, University of Toronto, "Street Architecture: 19th-Century Urban Buildings and the British Architectural Press."

Schluntz, Erika L., Brown University, "From Royal to Public Assembly Space: The Transformation of the 'Great Temple' Complex at Petra, Jordan."

Schultz, Anne-Catrin, University of Stuttgart, "The Principle of Statification in the Work of Carlo Scarpa." [acs@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de]

Scibilia, Anthony, Columbia University, "Perspective before Perspective: The Spaces of Medieval Architecture."

Senseney, John, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Architecture Ordering the Imperial Cosmos. Colonnade, Space, and Enclosure in Rome from Caesar to Trajan."

Shoup, Daniel, University of Michigan, "Managing Many Pasts: The Present, Past, and Future of Greco-Roman Cities in Western Anatolia."

Shubailat, Nadine Ghaith, Columbia University, "Churches Built and Repaired during the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Period in Jordan."

Skelton, Kimberly, Yale University, "Planning Anew: The English Country House and Social Identity in the 1650s."

Sloan, Anna, University of Pennsylvania, "Building Jaunpur: Architectural Production and Urban Experience in Medieval North India."

Smith, Cynthia Duquette, University of Texas at Austin, "Constructing the American Home: The Rhetoric of Domestic Architecture." [cdsmith@mail.utexas.edu]

Smith, J. Kirsten, Harvard University, "Martyrs, Monks and the End of Time in the Church of Saint John in Müstair."

Smith, Sharon C., State University of New York at Binghamton, "Planned Grandeur: A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Early Modern Italy and Mamluk Egypt."

Smith, Tim, Florida State University, "Alberto Aringhieri and the Chapel of John the Baptist: Patronage, Politics, and the Cult of Relics in Renaissance Siena."

Sornin, Alexis, Harvard University, "The Jaipur Building Workshop and Architectural Practice in Mughal India."

Sprio, Anna, Columbia University, "The Façade of San Zeno in Verona: A Banner Worth of Defense."

Stanford, Charlotte, Pennsylvania State University, "Building Civic Pride: The High Tower of Strasbourg Cathedral (1360-1439)."

Steinsaper, Ann, University of California at Berkeley, "Rural Sanctuaries in Roman Syria: The Dynamics of Architecture in the Sacred Landscape."

Stephenson, Anne, University of Chicago, "Rebuilding Bungalows: The Historic Chicago, Bungalow Initiative."

Stewart, Charles A., Indiana University, "Domes of Heaven: The Domed Basilicas of Cyprus."

Stoddard, Susan, Columbia University, "Signification in Micro-Architectural Forms in Gothic Art."

Stritzler-Levine, Nina, City University of New York, "The Representation of Architecture in the Public Art Museum."

Surdu, Robert C. A., Queen's University, Kingston, "Wholesome Architecture and the Rise of the Tourist State in Early-Twentieth Century Canada."

Surh, Dominique, University of Virginia, "The Corpus Christi Chapel and Orvieto."

Swan, Christopher, Yale University, "An Alternative Modernism: The Pacific Northwest Architecture of John Yeon."

Tang, Jessica S. C. O. A., Zurich University (Switzerland) "Between Spolia and Simulacrum. Historical Evocation in American Art Museums, 1903 - 1974."

Tapp, Erika, University of Pennsylvania, "Colonial Modernismo: The Architecture and Urbanism of Spanish Morocco."

Tarandjieva, Teodora, Indiana University, "The Church of St. John Aleitourgetos in Mesembria: A Study of Its Constantinopolitan Origins."

Tatum, Terry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Architecture of Pond and Pond."

Teasley, Sarah, The University of Tokyo, "The National Geographics of Design: Nation and Modernity in Japanese Domestic Interiors, 1915-35"

Totton, Mary-Louise, University of Michigan, "Weaving Flesh and Blood into Sacred Architecture: Ornamental Stories of Candi Loro Jonggrang."

Triff, Kristin, Brown University, "Patronage and Public Image in Renaissance Rome: Three Orsini Palaces."

Van Den Hurk, Jeroen, University of Delaware, "Early Dutch Neo-Gothic Architecture, 1772-1840." 

Van Liefferinge, Stefaan, Columbia University, "Gothic Church Architecture and the Quadrivium: Geometry and Arithmetic for Religious Building in Twelfth-Century Paris."

Vedageri, Anu, Ohio State University, "Five Narasimha Temples in Andhra Pradesh and Their Function as a Religious Collective."

Veronesi, Gene P., Case Western University, "Domenico Morone and the Decoration of the Sagramoso Library in the Church of San Bernardino."

Vessely, Jill, University of Kansas, "The Romanesque Duomo in Sovana, Italy: Context, Iconography and Style."

Walker, Julia, University of Pennsylvania, "Capital Building: Anxiety and Authorship in Berlin's New Federal Architecture."

Watson, Elizabeth, City University of New York, "Debating Montevideo: The Views of Julio Vilamajo and Joaquin Torres Garcia, 1930-1949."

Watters, Richard, University of Kansas, "French Styles and Celtic Folklore: The Late Gothic Churches of Le Faouet, Brittany."

Weiss, Kirsten, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Aesthetics of Banality: The Cultural Politics of Architectural Representation in Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Gerhard Richter."

Wheeler, Katherine Jean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Perception of Renaissance Architectural History at the Rise of Modernism: Great Briatin, 1880-1940."

Whittemore, Leila, Columbia University, "Theory, Practice, and the Architectural Imagination: Filarete's Treatise on Architecture and Early Sforza Urbanism, 1450-1464."

Wilk, Deborah, University of Kansas, "Immigration in American Art and Architecture, 1880-1924."

Willis, Carol, Columbia University, "Futuricity: American Visionary Urbanism in the 1920s."

Winling, LaDale, University of Michigan, “Post-Industrial Plans: Universities, Students and the Politics of Urban Space.”

Wood, Kathleen Sinclair, University of Delaware, "American and English Architects' European Travel Sketchbooks and the Design of Towers and Turrets in 19th-Century Residential Architecture."

Yu, Shuishan, University of Washington, "To Achieve the Unachievable: Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization Process of Chinese Architecture."

Yunn, Amee, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Bargello, Florence, and the Architecture of Justice in Tuscan Communes."

Zitrides, Christine, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Post-Roman Domestic Architecture in Carthage."

Dissertations Recently Completed (since 1994)

Aaron, Thomas, Open University, "The Cultural Politics of Architecture: The Rise and Rise of Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia, 1952-1994." [completed 1999]

Abdel-Kader, Mohamed Hussein, University of California at Berkeley, "Cairo: 1952-2001. Identity, Housing and Urban From in a Changing Political Economy." [completed 2002]

Abplanalp, Kathleen, Temple University, "Medieval America: Reverence for an Old-World aesthetic, 1860--1930." [completed 2005]

Acland, Joan Reid, Concordia University, "The Native Artistic Subject and National Identity: A Cultural Analysis of the Architecture of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Designed by Douglas J. Cardinal." [completed 1994]

Ahlfeldt, Jennifer F., Columbia University, "On reconstructing and performing ancient Maya architecture: Structure 22, Copan, Honduras (AD 715)." [completed 2004]

Aksamija, Nadja, Princeton University, "Between humanism and the Counter-Reformation: Villa and villeggiatura in Renaissance Ragusa." [completed 2004]

Albert, Samuel, Yale University, "Nationality and Architecture in Austria-Hungary: 1873-1914. [completed 1997]

Alexander, John Hughes, University of Virginia, "The Collegio Borromeo: A Study of Borromeo's Early Patronage and Tibaldi's Early Architecture." [completed 2001]

Alexander-Shilland, Kimberly, Boston University, "Ware and Van Brunt: Architectural Practice and Professionalization." [completed 1999]

Amundson, Jhennifer A., University of Delaware, "Thomas Ustick Walter's 'Lectures on Architecture.'" [completed 2001] [jamundson@judson-il.edu]

Anderson, Glaire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Suburban Villa (munya) and Court Culture in Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE)." [completed 2005]

Andres, Christopher R., Indiana University, "Building Negotiation: Architecture and Sociopolitical Transformation at Chau Hiix, Lamanai, and Altun Ha, Belize." [completed 2005]

Andrzejewski, Anna Vemer, University of Delaware, "Architecture and the Ideology of Surveillance in Modern America, 1860-1945." [completed 2000]

Andueza Unanua, Pilar, Universidad de Navarra, "Urban and monumental renewal of Pamplona along the first half of the 18th century: Primogeniture main houses, families and mentalities." [completed 2002]

Angelone, Anita, New York University, "At home in the city: Urban transformation and the modern Italian subject." [completed 2003]

Antrim, Zayde Gordon, Harvard University, "Place and Belonging in Medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th Centuries." [completed 2005]

Apelian, Colette, University of California at Los Angeles, "Negotiating the City:  Conserving Fez, Morocco, during the French Protectorate (1912-1956)." [completed 2005]

Aplenc, Veronica Evelyn, University of Pennsylvania, "Locating the Slovenian nation: Competing folkloristic, state planning, and local constructions of the Trnovo neighborhood, 1895--1989." [completed 2005]

Armbruster, Elif S., Boston University, "Reading in Three Dimensions: Architectural Biography from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton." [completed 2005]

Armstrong, Christopher Drew, Columbia University, "Progress in the age of navigation: The voyage-philosophique of Julien-David Leroy." [completed 2003]

Aronds, Robert Samuel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "'An architecture of its own': Material Correspondence of Literature and Architecture in Antebellum America." [completed 1998]

Arrhenius, Thordis, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, "The fragile monument: On conservation and modernity." [completed 2003]

Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed, University of Pennsylvania, "The Hermit's Hut: A Study in Asceticism and Architecture." [completed 2002]

Aslan, Carolyn Chabot, Bryn Mawr College, "The Architectural Expression of Social Categories at Five Early Bronze Age West Anatolian Communities."  [completed 2000]

Babaie, Sussan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Safavid Palaces at Isfahan: Continuity and Change (1590-1666)." [completed 1994]

Bakirtzis, Nikolas, Princeton University, "Hagios Ioannis Prodromos Monastery on Mount Menoikion: Byzantine Monastic Practice , Sacred Topography, and Architecture." [completed 2005]

Balasinski, Maciej, Politechnika Wroclawska, "The architecture of small railway stations in the Sudetes and in the foothills of the Sudetes." [completed 2003]

Barile, Kerri Saige, University of Texas at Austin, "Archaeology, architecture, and Alexander Spotswood: Redefining the Georgian worldview at the Enchanted Castle, Germanna, Orange County, Virginia." [completed 2004]

Barker, Sheila, Columbia University, "Art in a Time of Danger: Urban VIII's Rome and the Plague of 1629-1634." [completed 2002]

Bassett, Michele Beth, Columbia University, "The Funerary Patronage of Catherine De' Medici: The Tomb of Henri II, Heart Monuments and the Valois Chapel." [completed 1999]

Batie, David L., Texas A&M University, "The Incorporation of Construction History into Architectural History Education: The 'HISTCON' Interactive Computer Program." [completed 1996] [dbatie@eds.tamu.edu]

Bavuso, Francesca M., University of California at Irvine, "The gravity of memory: Recollection and forgetting at the Bibliotheque Imperiale of Napoleon III." [completed 2004]

Bhattacharyya, Monolina, University of Minnesota, "Locating Identities: Residential Architecture of the Bengali Elite in Calcutta, Mid-eighteenth to Late-nineteenth Century." [completed 2002]

Becker, Stephen W., Northwestern University, "The Rhetoric of Architecture: Civic Republican Space in Early Boston." [completed 2000]

Bédard, Jean-François, Columbia University, "The Architect as Honnete Homme: The Domestic Architecture and Decoration of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)." [completed 2003].

Bedford, Steven, Columbia University, "The Architectural Career of John Russell Pope." [completed 1994]

Behner, Victoria, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "Identity, Status, and Power: The Architecture of Contemporary Art Exhibition in Los Angeles." [completed 2003] [turkel@umich.edu]

Behrendt, Kurt Allen, University of California at Los Angeles, "The Image Shrine in Northwest India (1st-6th Centuries C.E.): Its Role in Buddhist Practice and Architectural Development." [completed 1997]

Beischer, Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Great Expectations: Provisional Modernism and the Reception of J.J.P. Oud." [completed 2004]

Benaissa, Ramla, University of Pennsylvania, From History to Posterity: The Oeuvres Completes of Jacques-Francois Blondel and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux." [completed 2002]

Berenfeld, Michelle, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Bishop's Palace at Aphrodisias: A Late Roman Townhouse in the Center of the City." [completed 2002]

Berliner, Nancy, Harvard University, "Yin Yu Tang: The architecture and daily life of a Chinese house." [completed 2004]

Berman, Scott Joseph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication." [completed 1998]

Berman, Richard Wayne, University of Pennsylvania, "Assessing Urban Design: Historical Ambience on the Waterfront." [completed 1999]

Bernard, Lance Vernon, University of Nevada at Reno, "Nature building nature: Architecture and regional identity in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1870--1970." [completed 2002]

Bernier, Anthony Allyre, University of California at Irvine, "The Sidewalk Metropolis: Street Furniture and Pedestrian Public Space in Twentieth Century Los Angeles." [completed 2002]

Betts, Mary Beth, City University of New York, "The American Architecture of Joseph Urban." [completed 1999]

Bhatt, Ritu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "On the Epistemological Significance of Aesthetic Value in Architectural Theory." [completed 2000]

Bilello, Joseph, University of Maryland at College Park, "Deciding to Build: University Organization and the Design of Academic Buildings." [completed 1998]

Bilsel, S. M. Can, Princeton University, "Architecture in the museum: Displacement, reconstruction and reproduction of the monuments of antiquity in Berlin's Pergamon Museum." [completed 2003]

Bird, Randall, Harvard University, "The Majesty of Architecture in Madagascar: Transforming a Kingdom in the Central Highlands, 1820-1870." [completed 2003]

Bjurklint Rosenblad, Kajsa Therese, Lunds Universitet, Backdrops for Noble Lives: Building Stately Homes in Southern Sweden, 1840-1900." [completed 2005]

Bradley, Robert, Columbia University, "The Architecture of Kuelap." [completed 2005]

Brack, Mark Leslie, University of California at Berkeley, "The Nature of Architecture: The Origins of the Rustic Tradition in Eighteenth-century British Architecture." [completed 1999]

Breiner, David M., Cornell University, "Vincenzo Scamozzi, 1548-1616: A Catalogue Raisonné." [completed 1994]

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Brenningmeyer, Todd, University of Minnesota, "Post Bronze Age architecture at Ano Englianos: Architectural commemoration of a Bronze Age site." [completed 2003]

Bresnahan, Keith, York University, "Architectures of Affect: Form and Feeling between Enlightenment and Modernity." [completed 2007]

Bross, Louise Smith, University of Chicago, "The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study In the Development of Art, Architecture and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome." [completed 1994]

Brothers, Cammy Rebecca, Harvard University, "Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome." [completed 1999]

Broucke, Pieter, Yale University, "The Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento." [completed 1996]

Brousseau, Frances Mary, University of Delaware, "The Library of Congress, 1873-1897: the Building, Its Architects, and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Architectural Practice." [completed 1998]

Brown, Amy S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Nature in practice: The Olmsted Firm and the rise of landscape architecture and planning, 1880--1920." [completed 2002]

Brown, Mark M., University of Pittsburgh, "The Architecture of Steel: Site Planning and Building Type in the Nineteenth-Century American Bessemer Steel Industry." [completed 1995]

Brown, Rebecca, University of Minnesota, "The Architecture and Urban Space of Early Colonial Patna." [completed 1999]

Bubenzer, Brian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Arthurian Architecture of H. H. Richardson."  [completed 2002]

Buck, Eric M., University of Kentucky, "Making Sense of Architecture: A Philosophical Call for Tectonic Wholeness." [completed 2005]

Buck, Susan Louise, University of Delaware, "The Aiken-Rhett House: A Comparative Architectural Paint Study." [completed 2003]

Burke, Aaron Alexander, University of Chicago, "The architecture of defense: Fortified settlements of the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age." [completed 2004]

Butler, Sara A., University of Virginia, "Constructing New Deal America: Public Art and Architecture and Institutional Legitimacy." [completed 2001]

Bzdak, Meredith Arms, Rutgers University, "The Architecture of Ralph Thomas Walker: 1919-1939." [completed 1995]

Caicco, Gregory, McGill University, "Ethics and Poetics:  The Architectural Vision of Saint Francis of Assisi." [completed 1999] [caicco@mail.com]

Callahan, Meghan A., Rutgers University, "The Politics of Architecture: Suor Domenica da Paradiso and Her Convent of La Crocetta in Post-Savonarolan Florence." [completed 2005]

Cambareri, Marietta, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Ippolito Scalza and the Sixteenth-Century Renovation Projects at Orvieto Cathedral." [completed 1998]

Campbell, Andrea Boyce, Rutgers University, "The Social and Artistic Context of the Baptistry of Siena." [completed 2000]

Canejo, Cynthia, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Transforming Early Gothic Form: The Cistercian Church of Pontigny, Saint-Martin at Chablis, and Northern Burgundian Architecture." [completed 2005]

Capasso, Nicholas, Rutgers University, "The National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Context: Commemorative Public Art in America 1960-1997." [completed 1997]

Capistrano, Florina Hernandez, Columbia University, Reconstructing the Past: the Notion of Tradition in West Sumatran Architecture, 1791-1991." [completed 1997]

Carbone, Cristina, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Building Propaganda: Architecture at the American National Exhibition in Moscow of 1959." [completed 2002]

Carroll, Roy William, University of Iowa, "Place, Praise and Faith: A Study of Architecture and Music in the Worship Life of the Lutheran Church." [completed 1999]

Carso, Kerry, Boston University, "Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850." [completed 2001]

Cash, Cristin Loren, University of Texas at Austin, "Locating the Place and Meaning of the Talud-Tablero Architectural Style in the Early Classic Maya Built Environment." [completed 2005]

Caskey, Jill, Yale University, "The Rufolo Palace in Ravello and Merchant Patronage in Medieval Campania." [completed 1994]

Cavanagh, Ted, Lehigh University, "Who Designed Your House? A Technological and Cultural History of Conventional Wood Construction, 1790 - 1880." [completed 2002]

Cavell, Leslie Joan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "Social and Symbolic Functions of the Romanesque Facade: The Example of Mâcon's Last Judgment Galilee." [completed 1997]

Chanchani, Samiran, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Architecture and central public libraries in America, 1887--1925: A study of conflicting institutions and mediated designs." [completed 2002]

Chase, Vanessa, Columbia University, "The Casa delle Zitelle: Gender and Architecture in Renaissance Venice." [completed 2002]

Chasin, Noah Bernard, City University of New York, "Ethics and Aesthetics: New Brutalism, Team 10, and Architectural Change in the 1950s."[completed 2002]

Chaturawong, Chotima, Cornell University, "The Architecture of Burmese Buddhist Monasteries in Upper Burma and Northern Thailand: The Biography of Trees." [completed 2003]

Chauvet, Violaine, Johns Hopkins University, "The conception of private tombs in the late Old Kingdom." [completed 2004]

Chiou, Shang-Chia, Carnegie-Mellon University, " Computational Considerations of Historical Architectural Analysis: A Case Study of Chinese Traditional Architecture." [completed 1997]

Cho, Jong-Soo, Illinois Institute of Technology, "Design Methodology for Tall Office Buildings: Design Measurement and Integration with Regional Character." [completed 2002]

Choi, Don Hoon, University of California at Berkeley, "Domesticated modern: Hybrid houses in Meiji Japan, 1870--1900." [completed 2003]

Christensen, Ellen A., Northwestern University, "Government Architecture and British Imperialism: Patronage and Imperial Policy In London, Pretoria, and New Delhi, 1900-1931." [completed 1994]

Clancy, Brian C., Rutgers University, "An Architectural History of Grand Opera Houses: Constructing Cultural Identity in Urban America from 1850 to the Depression." [completed 2005]

Clarkson, Peter, University of Bath, "Chivalry and medievalism in Cheltenham's Victorian public schools, 1841--1918." [completed 2003]

Cogdell, Christina Grace, University of Texas at Austin, "Reconsidering the streamline style: Evolutionary thought, eugenics, and United States industrial design, 1925--1940." [completed 2001]

Cohen, Meredith Marie, Columbia University, "The Sainte-Chapelle of Paris: Image of authority and locus of identity." [completed 2004]

Conroy, Thomas E., III, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "The Politics of Style: Building, Builders, and the Creation of Federal Boston." [completed 2005]

Cooper, James Gill, University of Virginia, "The Genesis and Design of Michelangelo's Campidoglio." [completed 2002]

Couture, Nicole Claire, University of Chicago, "The Construction of Power: Monumental Space and Elite Residence at Tiwanaku, Bolivia." [completed 2002]

Cowherd, Robert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Cultural Construction of Jakarta: Design, Planning, and Development in Jabotabek, 1980-1997." [completed 2002]

Crane, Sheila Ruth, Northwestern University, "Reconstructing Place: Transformations of the Vieux-Port of Marseille, 1939--1959." [completed 2001]

Crout, Roy Durham, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, "Architectures and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain (1878-1895)." [completed 2000]

Crysler, Christopher Greig, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Spaces of Representation/Representations at Space: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism, and the Built Environment, 1960-95." [completed 1998]

Culver, Milton Lawrence, Jr., University of California at Los Angeles, "The island, the oasis, and the city: Santa Catalina, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Southern California's shaping of American life and leisure." [completed 2004]

Cummins, Joan M., Columbia University, " Dual darsana: Re-addressing the Surya icon." [completed 2001]

Currier, Janice Arlee, University of Victoria, "Golubets, Gravehouse, and Gate: Old Russian Traditions and the Wooden Mortuary Architecture in Russia, Siberia, and the North Pacific." [completed 1999]

Curtis, Alexander Darren, Princeton University, "Sir Christopher Wren's City Churches: a Critical Reappraisal." [completed 1995]

D'Evelyn, Margaret Muther, Princeton University, "Word and Image in Architectural Treatises of the Italian Renaissance." [completed 1994]

Damljanovic, Tanja, Cornell University, "The Question of National Architecture in Interwar Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana." [completed 2003]

Darling, Masuyo Tokita, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "The Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture of Perrecy-les-Forges." [completed 1994]

Daskalakis, Annie-Christine, New York University, "Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance." [completed 2004]

Datta, Ayona, Arizona State University, "Gender, Space, and Power: A Cross-Cultural Perspective." [completed 2003]

Davidson, Lisa Pfueller, George Washington University, "Consumption and Efficiency in the 'City within a City':  Commercial Hotel Architecture, 1890-1930." [completed 2002]   Lisa_Davidson@nps.gov

Davidson, Rebecca Warren, Cornell University, "Images and Ideas of the Italian Garden in American Landscape Architecture." [completed 1994]

Davis, Timothy, University of Texas at Austin, "Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway." [completed 1997]

Dawson, Peter Colin, University of Calgary, " Variability in Traditional and Non-traditional Inuit Architecture, Ad. 1000 to Present." [completed 1998]

Day, Andrew Elam, Columbia University, "Building Socialism: the Politics of The Soviet Cityscape in the Stalin Era." [completed 1998]

DeAngelis, Adrienne, Rutgers University, "'La Virtu fa Sempre Vivo': Danese Cattaneo and the Monument to Giano Fregoso in Sant'Anastasia, Verona." [completed 1997]

Decker, Kevin F., State University of New York at Albany, "Grand and Godly Proportions:  Roman Catholic Cathedral Churches of the Northeast, 1840-1900." [completed 1999]

Dedek, Peter Brigham, Middle Tennessee State University, "Journeys on the Mother Road: Interpreting the Cultural Significance of United States Route 66." [completed 2002]

DeLancey, Mark Dike, Harvard University, "Representing rulership: Palace architecture, spatial orientation, ritual movement, and secrecy in northern Cameroon." [completed 2004]

Delaney, Lesley Jill, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Spaces of Appearance: The Civic Square in the Design of New Canadian City Halls." [completed 1997]

Dennis, Kimberly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Reconstructing the Counter Reformation: Women Architectural Patrons in Rome and the Case of Camilla Peretti." [completed 2005]

Desiderio, Francis A., Emory University, "Centering the city: John Portman and private plans for public spaces in Atlanta and Detroit." [completed 2003]

Desmond, John Michael, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A Clearing in the Woods: Self and City in Frank Lloyd Wright's Organic Communities." [completed 1996]

Deupi, Victor Luis, University of Pennsylvania, "Architectural Temperance: Spaniards and Rome, 1700-1758." [completed 1999]

DeVries, Joyce Carol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Power, Gender, and Representation in the Italian Renaissance Court: The Cultural Patronage of Caterina Sforza (1463--1509)." [completed 2002]

Dewsnap, Terence Francis, Jr., Columbia University, "The Romanesque Cathedral of St. Mary at Lincoln  and the Image of Reform." [completed 2005]

Di Palma, Vittoria, Columbia University, "The School in the Garden: Science, Aesthetics, and Perceptions of Landscape in England, 1640-1740". [completed 1999] vittoriadp@hotmail.com

Duhamel, Pascale, Universite de Montreal, "Musique et architecture au temps de l'art gothique (1140--1240) ." [completed 2002]

Dumser, Elisha, University of Pennsylvania, "The Architecture of Maxentius: A Study in Architectural Design and Urban Planning in Early Fourth-Century Rome." [completed 2005] dumser@sas.upenn.edu

Dunlap, David Douglas, Pennsylvania State University, "The Rhetorical Labor of Architecture (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)." [completed 1995]

Dutta, Arindam, Princeton University, "Designing the Present: The Cole Circle, and the Architecture of (an) Imperial Bureaucracy, 1851--1901." [completed 2001]

Earenfight, Phillip J., Rutgers University, "The Residence and Loggia della Misericordia-Bigallo: Art and Architecture of Confraternal Piety, Charity, and Virtue in Late Medieval Florence." [completed 1999]

Edelstein, Bruce L., Harvard University, "The Early Patronage of Eleonora di Toledo: The Camera Verde and Its Dependencies in the Palazzo Vecchio." [completed 1995]

Eggener, Keith L., Stanford University, "Luis Barragan's 'El Pedregal' and the Making Of Mexican Modernism: Architecture, Photography, and Critical Reception." [completed 1995]

Eigen, Edward, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Between Stations and Habitations: The Architecture of French Science at the Shore, 1830-1900." [completed 2000]

El-Habashi, Alaa El-Din Elwi, University of Pennsylvania, "Athar to monuments: The intervention of the Comite de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe." [completed 2001]

El-Khoury, Rodolphe Georges, Princeton University, "In Visible Environments: Architecture and The Senses in Eighteenth-Century France." [completed 1996]

Elefterion, Christa Williford, Indiana University, "Modeling Historic Theatre Spaces: A Computer Reconstruction of the Palais Cardinal Theatre, 1641." [completed 2000]

Eleishe, Azza Mohamed, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "Contextualism in Architecture: A Comparative Study of Environmental Perception." [completed 1994]

Ellis, Clifton, University of Virginia, "Building Berry Hill: Plantation Houses and Landscapes in Antebellum Virginia." [completed 2000]

Englot, Anne Therese Schaper, Syracuse University, "Community as Embodied Critique:  A Spatial and Textual Analysis of Jerusalem, New York." [completed 2005]

Epstein Jones, Dora, University of California at Los Angeles, "Architecture on the move: Modernism and mobility in the postwar." [completed 2004]

Ergut, Tomris Elvan, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Making a National Architecture: Architecture and the Nation-State in Early Republican Turkey." [completed 1999]

Ersoy, Ahmet, Harvard University, "On the Sources of the Ottoman Renaissance: Architectural Revivalism and Its Discourse in the Abdulaziz Era (1861-76)." [completed 2000]

Erten, Erdem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Shaping 'The Second Half Century': 'The Architectural Review', 1947--1971." [completed 2004]

Escobar, Jesus, Princeton University, "The Plaza Mayor of Madrid: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Imperial Capital, 1560-1640." [completed 1996]

Esperdy, Gabrielle, City University of New York, "Modernizing Main Street: Everyday Architecture and the New Deal."  [completed 1999]  gesperdy@pratt.edu

Esshak, Hashem Ali Abdul-Rahman, Politechnika Wroclawska, "Designing of Housing Complexes in Arabic Countries, Especially in Yemen." [completed 1999]

Evans, R. Tripp, Yale University, Classical Frontiers: New World Antiquities in the American Imagination, 1820-1915." [completed 1998]

Fanning, Kathryn, University of Virginia, "American Temples: Presidential Memorials of the American Renaissance." [completed 1996]

Farris, Johnathan ('Nathan), Cornell University, "Dwelling on the Edge of Empires: Foreigners and Architecture in Guangzhou (Canton), China." [completed 2004] [jaf43@cornell.edu]

Fatsea, Irene D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Monumentality and its Shadows: A Quest for Modern Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862)". [completed 1999]

Faherty, Duncan F., City University of New York, "A 'Game of Architectural Consequences:' The American House and the Formation of National Identity, 1776-1858." [completed 2003]

Fausch, Deborah, Princeton University, "The Context of Meaning Is Everyday Life: Venturi and Scott Brown's Theories of Architecture and Urbanism." [completed 1999]

Fee, Nancy H., Columbia University, "The Patronage of Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: Constructing the Cathedral and Civic Image of Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico." [completed 2000]

Feferman, Milton Vitis, University of Pennsylvania, "Imaginary figures of death and life in the architecture of Grandjean de Montigny." [completed 2005]

Ferguson, Cheryl Lynn Caldwell, University of Delaware, "Upscale suburban architecture and development in Dallas and Houston, Texas, 1890--1930." [completed 2004]

Ferguson, John C., University of Delaware, "Luis Barragan: A Study of Architect-Client Relationships." [completed 2000]

Fernandes, Ines Palma, Princeton University,  "Building Brasilia: Modern Architecture and National Identity in Brazil." [completed 2003]

Finkel, Jennifer, Case Western Reserve University, "Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Tragedy of the Facade." [completed 2005]

Flanigan, Theresa, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Ponte Vecchio: Building an Urbanized Bridge in Early Modern Florence." [completed 2005]

Flinchum, Russell Alan, City University of New York, "Henry Dreyfuss and American Industrial Design." [completed 1998]

Flinn, Margaret C., Harvard University, "Architectures of Social Being:  Monuments in 1930s French Cinema." [completed 2005]

Flowers, Benjamin Sitton, University of Minnesota, "Constructing the modern skyscraper: The politics and power of building New York from the Great Depression through the Cold War." [completed 2003]

Flusche, Laura A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy." [completed 2000]

Ford, Jennifer Lee, University of Pittsburgh, "Landscape and Material Life in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798--1838." [completed 2001]

Foster, Laura, Duke University, "From Monastery to Theatre: The Casa di Correzione for Boys in Rome and the Role of Prisons in Eighteenth-Century Architecture." [completed 2000] [lkf@acpub.duke.edu]

Frakes, James F. D., Columbia University, "Framing Public Life: The Portico in Roman Gaul." [completed 2002]

Frank, Marie, University of Virginia, "The Theory of 'Pure Design' and American Architectural Education in the Early Twentieth Century." [completed 1996]

Frazer, Susan Hume, Virginia Commonwealth University, "D. Wiley Anderson, Virginia Architect (1864--1940)." [completed 2001]

French, Sara, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Women, Space and Power in Elizabethan England:  The Building and Use of Hardwick Hall." [completed 2000]

Fuller, Maria Gubiena, University of California at Berkeley, "Colonizing Constructions: Italian Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Creation of Modern Society in the Colonies, 1869-1943." [completed 1994]

Galvin, Terrance Gerard, University of Pennsylvania, "The Architecture of Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843) and Sir John Soane (1753-1837): An Exploration into the Masonic and Occult Imagination of the Late Enlightenment." [completed 2003]

Ganz, Cheryl R., University of Illinois at Chicago, "A New Deal for Progress: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair." [completed 2005]

Garfinkel, Susan L., University of Pennsylvania, "Genres of Worldliness:  Meanings of the Meeting House for Philadelphia Friends, 1760-1830." [completed 1997]

Garimella, Annapurna, Columbia University, "Vijayanagara: Architectural Style, Patronage, and Kingship (1336-1485)." [completed 2002]

Gerbino, Anthony, Columbia University, "François Blondel (1618-1686): Architecture, Erudition, and Early Modern Science." [completed 2002]

Gessert, Genevieve Simandl, Yale University, "Urban Spaces, Public Decoration, and Civic Identity in Ancient Ostia." [completed 2001]

Ghaly, Dina, University of Toronto, "The Shari' al-A'zam in Cairo: Its topography and architecture in the Mamluk period." [completed 2004]

Ghanimati, Soroor, University of California at Berkeley, "Kuh-e Khwaja: A Major Zoroastrian Temple Complex in Sistan." [completed 2001]

Gilkerson, Ann Melissa, Harvard University, "Aristocratic Chateau to Republican Villa: The Changing Construction of Rational Theory and Regional Form in the Country Houses of Viollet-le-Duc." [completed 2003]

Giberti, Bruno, University of California at Berkeley, "The Classified Landscape: Consumption, Commodity Order, and the 1876 Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia." [completed 1994]

Gibson, Jeffrey Lanham, The Ohio State University, "The Early High-Rise in Germany: A Study in Modernism and the Creation of a Modern Metropolis." [completed 1994]

Gill, Alyson Ann, University of Memphis, "'Balaneia': A sourcebook for the Greek bath from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods." [completed 2004]

Gitler, Inbal Ben-Asher, Tel Aviv University, "The architecture of the Jerusalem YMCA building (1919-1933): constructing multiculturalism." [completed 2006]

Giurescu, Ena, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Trecento Family Chapels in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce: Architecture, Patronage, and Competition." [completed 1997]

Glanville, Patricia, University of Calgary, "The Effect of the Interaction of Architecture, Culture, and Nature on Well-being and Spirituality." [completed 2005]

Glaser, Stephanie Alice Moore, Indiana University, "Explorations of the Gothic Cathedral in Nineteenth-century France." [completed 2002]

Goldman, Dan, The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, "The Architecture of the Templers in their Colonies in Eretz Israel, 1868-1948 and their Settlements in the United States 1860-1925". [completed 2003]

Goldman, Natasha, University of Rochester, "Missing Absence: Trauma and National Memorials to the Holocaust." [completed 2001]

Goode, James M., George Washington University, "Architecture and Politics: Thomas Ustick Walter and the Enlargement of the United States Capitol, 1850-1865." [completed 1995]

Goodson, Caroline Jane, Columbia University, "The Basilicas of Pope Paschal I (817--824): Tradition and transformation in early medieval Rome." [completed 2004]

Goodstein, Ethel Sara , University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "The Image of a Southern City: Architecture, Culture, and Sense of Place in New Orleans, 1884-1984." [completed 1997]

Graham, Diane, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Planting, Planning, and Design: A Comparative Study of British Colonial Cities in North America, the Caribbean, and India, 1660-1710." [completed 2001]

Grash, Valerie S., Penn State University, "The Commercial Skyscrapers of Pittsburgh Industrialists and Financiers, 1885-1932." [completed 1998]

Gray, Emily Fisher, University of Pennsylvania, "Good neighbors: Architecture and confession in Augsburg's Lutheran Church of Holy Cross, 1525--1661." [completed 2004]

Green, Bryan Clark, University of Virginia, "In the shadow of Thomas Jefferson: The architectural career of Thomas R. Blackburn, with a catalog of architectural drawings." [completed 2004]

Greenleaf, Gale Robin, University of Texas at Austin, "Cohousing in the United States: Utopian Ideals in the Twenty-First Century." [completed 2002]

Grigor, Talinn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Cultivat(ing) Modernities: the Society for National Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran." [completed 2005]

Grossman, Heather E., University of Pennsylvania, "Building Identity: Architecture as Evidence of Cultural Interaction between Latins and Byzantines in Medieval Greece." [completed 2004]

Gruber, Samuel David, Columbia University, "Medieval Todi: Studies in Architecture and Urbanism." [completed 1998]

Grubiak, Margaret Mary, University of Virginia, "Preserving Religion in the Campus: Religious Architecture in the Modern American University, 1890-1955." [completed 2006]

Gruen, Jason Philip, University of California at Berkeley, "Manifest Destinations: Tourist Encounters in the Urban American West, 1869-1893." [completed 2004]

Gruskin, Nancy B., Boston University, "Building Context: The Personal and Professional Life of Eleanor Raymond, Architect (1887-1989)." [completed 1998]

Guile, Carolyn C., Princeton University, "According to the Polish Sky and Customs: Theories of Architecture and Art in Early Modern Poland." [completed 2005]

Gurdil, Bekir, University of California at Los Angeles, "Architecture and Social Complexity in the Late Ubaid Period: A Study of the Built Environment of Degirmentepe in East Anatolia." [completed 2005]

Gutfreund, Owen D., Columbia University, "Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the United States." [completed 1998]

Gutschow, Kai, Columbia University, "The Culture of Criticism:  Adolf Behne and the Development of Modern Architecture in Germany, 1910-1914." [completed 2005]

Hagan, Carol, University of Pennsylvania, "Visions of the City at the 1939 New York World's Fair." [completed 2000] [chagan@sas.upenn.edu]

Hammond, Cynthia Imogen, Concordia University, "Wings, Gender and Architecture: Remembering Bath, England." [completed 2002]

Haney, David Henderson, University of Pennsylvania, "Leberecht Migge (1881--1935) and the modern garden in Germany." [completed 2005]

Hardwick, Jeffrey A., Yale University, "Creating a Consumer's Century: Urbanism and Architect Victor Gruen, 1938-1968." [completed 2000]

Harmansah, Omur, University of Pennsylvania, "Spatial Narratives, Commemorative Practices and the Building Project: New Urban Foundations in Upper Syro-Mesopotamia during the Early Iron Age." [completed 2005]

Harris, Elizabeth Edwards, University of California at Los Angeles, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst and the Changing Nature of 19th-century Architectural Patronage." [completed 2002]

Hartfield, Anne E., Claremont Graduate University, "Sisters of Mercy, Mothers to the Afflicted: Female-Created Space in San Francisco, 1859 Through the Turn of the Century." [completed 2003]

Hartnett, Jeremy Scott, University of Michigan, "Streets, Street Architecture, and Social Presentation in Roman Italy." [completed 2003]

Healey, Mark Alan,  Duke University, "The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism, Architecture and the Rebuilding of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake." [completed 2000]

Heath, Anne Elizabeth, Brown University, "Architecture, Ritual and Identity in the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne and the Abbey of Saint-Germain in Auxerre, France." [completed 2005]

Heathcott, Joseph, Indiana University at Bloomington, "The City Remade: Race, Public Housing, and the Urban Landscape in St. Louis, 1900-1960." [completed 2001] [heathcje@SLU.EDU]

Hebert, Laura, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Temple-Church at Aphrodisias." [completed 2000]

Helfrich, Kurt G. F., University of Virginia, "Building the Contemporary House: Modernity, Regionalism, and the Ideal of Japan in Antonin Raymond's Residential Designs, 1921-1952. [completed 1997]

Hellman, Mimi, Princeton University, "The Hôtel de Soubise and the Rohan-Soubise Family: Architecture, Interior Decoration, and the Art of Ambition in Eighteenth-Century France." [completed 2000]

Helmstutler, Kelley, Rutgers University, "'To Demonstrate the Greatness of His Spirit': A Contextual Study of Leone Leoni's Casa degli Omenoni." [completed 2000]

Henderson, Peter Harry, Johns Hopkins University, "Local Deals and the New Deal State: Implementing Federal Public Housing in Baltimore, 1933-1968." [completed 1994]

Henderson, Virginia K., Emory University, "In the Image of the King: The Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey." [completed 1998]

Henige, Christopher C., University of Wisconsin, "The Augustinian Abbey Church of Saint-Martin-aux-Bois: The Thirteenth-Century Rebuilding." [completed 1997]

Hendrix, John S., Cornell University, "Philosophical Structures in the Architecture of Francesco Borromini." [completed 2001]

Hermann, Elizabeth Dean, Harvard University, "Urban Formation and Landscape: Symbol and Agent of Social, Political and Environmental Change in Fifteenth-Century Nasrid Granada." [completed 1996]

Hernandez, Leonardo Fabricio, Brown University, "Implicated Spaces, Daily Struggles: Home and Street Life in Late Colonial Guatemala City, 1750-1824." [completed 1999]

Heuer, Christopher Petty, University of California at Berkeley, "The city rehearsed: Architecture, rhetoric, and print in the arts of Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526--1609)." [completed 2003]

Higgens, Delwyn Mae, York University, "Monuments/Memory/Mediation: The Rational Architecture of Postwar Italy." [completed 1996]

Hoffman, Tracy Lynn, University of Chicago, Ascalon 'Arus Al-Sham: Domestic Architecture and the Development of a Byzantine-Islamic city." [completed 2003]

Holbert, Kelly, Yale University, "The Reliquary Shrine of St. Hadelinus: A Twelfth Century House of the Mossan Region." [completed 1995]

Holliday, Kathryn, University of Texas at Austin, "Leopold Eidlitz and the Architecture of Nineteenth-Century America." [completed 2003]

Horiuchi, Carol Lynne, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Environments of Japanese American Internment." [completed 2005]

Hornbeck, Elizabeth, University of California at Santa Barbara, "Visions of Modernity: The Architectural Landscape of the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts, Paris." [completed 2002]

Horton, Tonia Woods, Arizona State University, "Indian lands, American landscapes: Toward a genealogy of place in national parks." [completed 2003]

Houlihan, Timothy John, State University of New York at Binghamton, "The New York City Building Trades, 1890-1910." [completed 1994]

Houston, Kerr, Yale University, "Architecture, Audience, and Gender: Paintings for the Early Clarisse, Recontextualized." [completed 2001]

Hu, Bing, University of Florida, "Operative Topography: An Agent for Place-Making in the Age of Globalization." [completed 2005]

Hummel, Laurel Jeannette, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Alaska's Militarized Landscape: The Unwritten Legacy of the Cold War." [completed 2002]

Hunter, Charlotte Anne Tsali, Brown University, "The C-shaped Structures of Haleakala National Park: Vernacular Architecture in the Hawaiian Islands." [completed 2002]

Huppert, Ann C., University of Virginia, "The Archaeology of Baldassarre Peruzzi's Architectural Drawings." [completed 2001]

Hurtt, Deborah Dawson, University of Virginia, "Rivalry and Representation: Regionalist Architecture and the Road to the 1937 Paris Exposition." [completed 2005]

Iannacone, Rachel E., University of Pennsylvania, "Open Space for the Underclass: New York's Small Parks (1880--1915)." [completed 2005]

Iarocci, Louisa, Boston University, "Spaces of Desire: The Department Store in America." [completed 2003]

Idzior, Aleksandra, University of British Columbia, "Urbanotopia and the frontier: Reaching heights before the crash in Moscow and New York at the end of the 1920s." [completed 2005]

Isenstadt, Samuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "'Little Visual Empire:' Private Vistas and the Modern American House." [competed 1997]

Jacobs, Kenneth Franklin, University of Pennsylvania, "Leopold Eidlitz:  Becoming an American Architect." [completed 2005]

Jacobsohn, Diane, Boston University, "Boston's 'Three-decker Menace': The Buildings, the Builders and the Dwellers, 1870s--1930." [completed 2004]

James, Jason Carl, University of California at San Diego, "Imagining Restoration: Loss and Redemption in an Eastern German Cityscape." [completed 2001]

James, Steven Randall, Arizona State University, "Regional Variation in Prehistoric Pueblo Households and Social Organization: A Quantitative Approach." [completed 1994]

Jenkens, Alton Lawrence, Jr., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "The Palazzo Piccolomini in Siena: Pius II's Architectural Patronage and its Afterlife." [completed 1995]

Jenner, Ross Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, "Building in the Air: Aspects of the Aerial Imagination in Modern Italian Architecture." [completed 2005]

Jerris, Randon Matthew Newman, Princeton University, "Alpine Sanctuaries: Topography, Architecture, and Decoration of Early Medieval Churches in the Bishopic of Chur." [completed 1999]

Joffee, Jennifer Beth, University of Minnesota, "Art, Architecture and Politics in Mewar, 1628--1710." [completed 2005]

Johnson, Amy, University of Delaware, "Model Housing  for the Poor: Turn-of-the-Century Tenement House Reform and the Boston Cooperative Building Company." [completed 2004]

Jones, Lynn F., University of Oregon, "The Multi-Unit Housing of Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra." [completed 1998]

Jones, Virginia Louise, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, "Sun City Retirement Community: An Alternative to Aging in Place?" [completed 1994]

Joselow, Evie T., City University of New York, "The Ideal Catalogue House: Mail-order Architecture and Consumer Culture, 1914-1930." [completed 1998]

Langmead, Alison, Columbia University, "The Architectural Landscape of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century South-Central France." [completed 2003]

Laporte, Carrie Anne, University of Pennsylvania, "Displaying Empire? The Architecture and Development of Museums in Nineteenth-Century India." [completed 2003]

Lutz, Eric, University of California at Santa Barbara, " The architect's eye: R. M. Schindler and his photography." [completed 2004]

Kabala, Irene, The Johns Hopkins University, "Medieval Decorated Refectories in France, Italy, and England until 1250." [completed 2002]

Kaberg, Helena, Uppsala Universitet, "Rational Architecture: Corporate Offices for Mass Production and Mass Communication." [completed 2003]

Kalas, Gregor A., Bryn Mawr, "Sacred Image/Urban Space: Images, Installations, and Rituals in the Early Medieval Roman Forum." [completed 1999]

Kalas, Veronica, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Rock-Cut Architecture of the Peristrema Valley: Society and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia."  [completed 2000]

Kamehiro, Stacy L., University of California at Los Angeles, "Monarchs, Monuments, and Museums: Public Art, National Culture, and the Reign of King Kalakaua in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i." [completed 2000]

Karmon, David, Harvard University, "The protection of ancient monuments in Renaissance Rome." [completed 2003]

Keller, Sean Blair, Harvard University, "Systems Aesthetics: Architectural Theory at the University of Cambridge, 1960-1975." [completed 2005]

Kendall, Douglas, Boston University, "In the Shadow of the Great Elm: Wethersfield, Connecticut, in Transition, 1850-1940." [completed 1994]

Kenney, Ellen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Power and patronage in Mamluk Syria: The architecture and urban works of Tankiz al-Nasiri, 1312--1340." [completed 2004]

Kerns, Jennifer Karen, University of Arizona, "A Social Experiment in Greenbelt, Maryland: Class, Gender, and Public Housing, 1935-1954." [completed 2002]

Kerr, J. Minott, Yale University, "The Former Cluniac Priory Church at Paray-le-Monial: A Study of Its Eleventh and Twelfth Century Architecture and Sculpture." [completed 1994]

Keshani, Hussein, University of Victoria, "The architecture of ritual: Eighteenth-century Lucknow and the making of the Great Imambarah Complex, a forgotten world monument." [completed 2004]

Khiati, Tarik Seif, University of Washington, "Urban forms under colonial dominance: Making Algiers French (1830--1880) ." [completed 2004]

Kidd, Benton, University of Missouri at Columbia, "The Doric Revival under the Attalids of Pergamon." [completed 2003]

Kincaid, Andrew Fannin, University of Minnesota, "Holding the Centre: The Geographies of Consolidation and the Emergence of Postcolonial Dublin." [completed 2002]

King, Julia Redmond, University of London, "George Hadfield (1763-1826): his life and works and his place in American architecture." [completed 2001]

Kingsbury, Pamela Denman, University of Chicago, "'So Noble a Fabrick'. Chiswick: Lord Burlington's Architectural Theory and Practice." [completed 1994]

Kirin, Asen, Princeton University, "The Rotunda of St. George and Late Antique Serdica: From Imperial Palace to Episocopal Complex." [completed 2000]

Kisacky, Jeanne Susan, Cornell University, "An Architecture of Light and Air: Theories of Hygiene and the Building of the New York Hospital, 1771-1932." [completed 2000]

Kiyak, Acalya, University of Pennsylvania, "Towards a Draped Architecture: An Examination of Theatricality, Virtuosity, and Ambiguity in the Recent Works of Frank O. Gehry, and Others." [completed 2005]

Komisar, June Diana, University of Michigan, "Innovation in Brazilian architecture: The churches of colonial Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais." [completed 2004]

Koss, Juliet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Empathy Abstracted: Georg Fuchs and the Munich Artists' Theater." [completed 2000]

Koukoutsi-Mazarakis, Valeria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Jose Rafael Moneo Valles: 1965--1985." [completed 2001]

Kropp, Phoebe Schroeder, University of California at San Diego, "'All Our Yesterdays': The Spanish Fantasy Past and the Politics of Public Memory in Southern California, 1884-1939." [completed 1999]

Kuroishi, Izumi, University of Pennsylvania, "Kon Wajiro: a Quest for the Architecture as a Container of Everyday Life." [completed 1998]

Kusno, Abidin, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Political Cultures in Indonesia." [completed 1998]

Laird, Margaret, Princeton University, "Evidence in Context: Public and Funerary Monuments of the Seviri Augustales at Ostia." [completed 2002]

Lamprakos, Michele, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Conservation and Building Practice in a World Heritage City: The Case of Sana'a, Yemen." [completed 2006]

Lane, Evelyn Staudinger, Brown University, "Architectural Evolution Within a Changing Religious Community: Preservation and Memory in Notre-dame de Donnemarie-en-Montois." [completed 1997]

Lange, Alexandra, New York University, "Tower typewriter and trademark: Architects, designers and the corporate utopia, 1956--1964 ." [completed 2005]

Langmead, Alison Diane, Columbia University, "The architectural landscape of eleventh- and twelfth-century south-central France." [completed 2003]

Lanier, Gabrielle Milan, University of Delaware, "A Region of Regions: Local and Regional Culture in the Delaware Valley, 1780-1830." [completed 1998]

Laos, Nora Edith, Princeton University, "Provencal Baptisteries: Early Christian Origins and Medieval Afterlife." [completed 2002]

Lasansky, Diana Medina, Brown University, "The Italian Renaissance Refashioned: Fascist Architecture and Urban Spectacle." [completed 1999]

Last, Nana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Images of Entanglement: Wittgensteinian Spatial Practices between Architecture and Philosophy." [completed 1999]

Lawrence, Snezana, Open University "Geometry of Architecture and Freemasonry in 19th-century England." [completed 2002] [snezana_l@hotmail.com]

Lee, Paula, University of Chicago, "The Logic of the Bones: Architecture and the Anatomical Sciences at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1793-1889." [completed 1999]

Lee, Sanghun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Technology and Form: Iron Construction And Transformation of Architectural Ideals in Nineteenth Century France, 1830-1889." [completed 1996]

Legault, Rejean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "L'Appareil de l'Architecture Moderne: New Materials and Architectural Modernity in France (1889-1934)." [completed 1997]

Lesk, Alexandra L., University of Cincinnati, "A diachronic examination of the Erechtheion and its reception." [completed 2005]

Lewallen, Nina, Columbia University, "The Aristocratic Town House in Regency Paris: Hôtel du Maine and Hôtel de Matignon." [completed 2000]

Lewittes, Deborah, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, "London Calling: Modern Architecture in the Diaspora, 1933-51." [completed 2003]

Levine, Gregory, Princeton University, "Jukuin: Art, Architecture, and Mortuary Culture at a Japanese Zen Buddhist Temple." [completed 1997]

L'Heureux, Marie Alice, University of California at Berkeley, "Appropriating Space: Ideology and Identity in the Cultural Landscape of Estonia." [completed 2002]

Linder, Mark David, Princeton University, "Space Between Disciplines, 1967: Identifying Architecture in Modernist and Literalist Criticism." [completed 1998]

Littlefield, Sharon, University of Minnesota, "The Object in the Gift: Embassies of Jahangir and Shah Jahan." [completed 2000]

Littmann, Bruce William, University of California at Berkeley, "Manufacturing obedience: Labor relations and the making of the American industrial landscape, 1880--1930." [completed 2004]

Liverman, Astrid, University of Virginia, "Art Nouveau as Social Art: The Modern Democratic Aesthetic of Parisian Worker Housing, 1894-1914." [completed 2006]

Liu, Cary, Princeton University, "The Ching Dynasty Wen-Yuan-Ku Imperial Library: Architecture and the Ordering of Knowledge." [completed 1997]

Lobsinger, Mary Lou, Harvard University, "Antinomies of Realism in Postwar Italian Architecture." [completed 2004]

Loeffler, Jane Canter, George Washington University, "Architecture of Diplomacy: The United States Builds Embassies Abroad, 1926-1964." [completed 1996]

Lorance, Loretta, City University of New York, "Building Values: Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House in Context."  [completed 2004]

Luebbers, Leslie, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Place, Time, and the Art of Architecture: The Education of Charles W. Moore." [completed 2001]

Lum, Eric, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Architecture as Artform: Drawing, Painting, Collage, and Architecture, 1945-1965." [completed 1999]

Lupkin, Paula, University of Pennsylvania, "Y.M.C.A. Architecture: Building Character in the American City, 1869-1929." [completed 1997]

MacDonald, Deanna Helen, McGill University, "Acknowledging the 'Lady of the House': Memory, Authority and Self-representation in the Patronage of Margaret of Austria." [completed 2002]

Maciuika, John Vincent, University of California at Berkeley, "Hermann Muthesius and the Reform of German Architecture, Arts, and Crafts, 1890-1914." [completed 1998]

Mann, Charles Griffith, The Johns Hopkins University, "From Creation to the End of Time: The Nave Frescoes of San Gimignano's Collegiata and the Structure of Civic Devotion." [completed 2002]

Maranci, Christina, Princeton University, "Medieval Armenian Architecture in Historiography: Josef Strzygowski and His Legacy." [completed 1998]

Martin, Christopher, George Washington University, "Tract House Modern: A Study of Housing, Design and Consumption in the Washington Suburbs, 1946-1960." [completed 1999]

Martin, Reinhold, Princeton University, "Architecture and Organization: U.S.A., c. 1956." [completed 1999]

Martin, Louis, Princeton University, "The Search for a Theory in Architecture: Anglo-American Debates, 1957-1976." [completed 2002]

Martin, Tania, University of California at Berkeley, The Architecture of Charity: Power, Religion, and Gender in North America, 1840-1960." [completed 2002]

Martin, Therese, University of Pittsburgh, "Queen as King: Patronage at the Romanesque Church of San Isidoro de Léon." [completed 2000]

Mason, Paul Warren, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Ephemerality, modernity, and progress, architectural light and color at Chicago's 'A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933--1934." [completed 2004]

Mason, Randall Frambes, Columbia University, "Memory Infrastructure: Preservation, 'Improvement' and Landscape in New York City, 1898-1925." [completed 1999]

Massey, Jonathan, Princeton University, "Architecture and Involution: Claude Bragdon's Projective Ornament." [completed 2001]

Mathews, Stanley, Columbia University, "An Architecture for the New Britain: The Social Vision of Cedric Price's Fun Palace and Potteries Thinkbelt." [completed 2003]

Maxim, Juliana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The New , the Old, the Modern.  Architecture and its Representation in Socialist Romania, 1955-1970." [completed 2006]

Maxwell, Robert, III, Yale University, "Romanesque Parthenay: Art and Feudal Urbanism in the Twelfth Century." [completed 1999]

Mayhall, Marguerite Katherine, University of Texas at Austin, "The Dissolution of Utopia: Art, Politics, and the City of Caracas in the 1960s." [completed 2001]

Maynard, W. Barksdale, University of Delaware, "American Architecture and the Picturesque Mind, 1800-60." [completed 1997]

Mazur, Susan Diane, University of California at Riverside, "Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany, 1990--2000." [completed 2002]

McCurrach, Catherine C., University of Michigan, "The Veneration of St. Benedict in Medieval Rome: Parish Architecture, Monumental Imagery, and Local Devotion." [completed 2005]

McDonough, Michael Joseph, University of Virginia, "Selling Sarasota: Architecture and Propaganda in a 1920s Boom Town." [completed 1999]

McElligott, Thomas Joseph, Graduate Theological Union, "Buildings and Spirituality: Christopher Alexander's 'The Nature of Order' as a Tool of Assessment." [completed 1999]

McEntire, Dee Lynn, Indiana University, "Remodeling Our Lives: A Search for Values in the Art, Folklore, and Ideology of Home Improvement, Bloomington, Indiana (1979-1998)." [complet