Art and Art History

In its Honors Program the Department of Art and Art History awards one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

Samantha Jane Beirne, (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Liz Moran, Chuck Bailey, Jennifer Taylor
Charles Cheng, " (Honors)
Xin Wu + Catherine Levesque, Michael Hill
Zoe W. Davis, (Honors)
Alan Braddock + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Francesca Sawaya
Madeleine Kelly Kent, (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Victoria Castillo
Madison Elizabeth Meyers, (Honors)
Eliot Dudik + Nikki Santiago, Brian Kreydatus, Dorothy Ibes
Lynn Marie Trott, (Honors)
Michael Gaynes + Alan Braddock, Mike Jabbur, Dorothy Ibes, Jennifer A. Stevens

2023-2024

Alice Taylor Baughman, (Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Cristina Stancioiu, Giulia Pacini
Cecilia Anne Deasy, (Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Fernando Galeana-Rodriguez, Alan Braddock
Anna C. Wershbale, (Honors)
Alan C. Braddock + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Dawn Edmiston
Anna Idonna Wilkinson, (Honors)
Alan Braddock + James Tumulty, Catherine Levesque

2022-2023

Sandra Kaitlyn Kelso, "" (Honors)
Cristina Stancioiu + Elizabeth Clayton Moran, David Garrett, Charles Palermo
Tara Vasanth, "" (Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Alan Braddock, John Swaddle
Yaxi Xiao, "" (Honors)
Eliot Dudik + Elizabeth Mead, Keith Johnson

2021-2022

Victoria Erisman, "" (Honors)
Alan Braddock + Charles Palermo, Chitralekha Zutshi
Yuchen Zhou, "" (Honors)
Xin Wu + Charles J Palermo, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Kaitlyn Harrigan
Yuhua Luo, "Z" (Honors)
Xin Conan-Wu + Charles J Palermo, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Michael Gibbs Hill

2020-2021

Charles Parsons, "" (Honors)
Charles Palermo + Elizabeth Mead, Timothy Costelloe, Xin Conan-Wu
Sarah Robers, "" (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Alan Braddock, Elizabeth Radcliff
Jingxin Wu, "" (Honors)
Eliot Dudik + Elizabeth Mead, Charles Palermo, Richard Lowry

2019-2020

Virginia (Grace) Bland, "" (Honors)

Catherine Levesque + Cristina Stancioiu, Philip Daileader
Evan Broennimann, "" (Honors)

Elizabeth Mead + Mike Jabbur (Co-Advisors), Dan Cristol
Elizabeth Dowker, "" (Honors)

Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Cristina Stancioiu, Philip Daileader, Anne Williams
Elanor Pschirrer-West, "" (Honors)

Catherine Levesque + Cristina Stancioiu, Simon Joyce
Samantha Ros, "" (Honors)

Anne Williams + Cristina Stancioiu, Betsy Konefal

2018-19

Rachel Ciampoli, “" (Honors)
SusanWebster + Alan Braddock, Melvin Ely
Emma Efkeman, "" (Honors)
Susan Webster + Alan Braddock, Mark McLaughlin, Patton Burchett
Zhengyang Huang, ""
Elizabeth Mead + Eliot Dudik, Michael Gaynes, Tanya Stadelmann

2017-18

Erin Lottes, "" (Honors)
Nicole Santiago + Brian Kreydatus, David Campbell, Gregory Conradi-Smith

2016-17

Jacqueline Chapman, "" (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Cristina Stancioiu, Monica Potkay
Tianchu Gao, "" (Honors)
Xin Conan-Wu + Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Charles Palermo, Michael Hill
Kexin Ma, "" (Honors)
Xin Conan-Wu + Catherine Levesque, Kevin Vose, Cristina Stancioiu

2015-16

Ethan Davis, "That Which Caresses Me" (High Honors)
Elizabeth Mead + John Lee, Allan Braddock and Tucker McKinney
Katie Fee, "" (Highest Honors)
Michael Jabbur + Elizabeth Mead, Joe Bova, Carey Bagdassarian and Jennifer Stevens

2014-15

No Honors students this year

2013-14

Erin Gregory, (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Monica Potkay and Cristina Stancioiu

2012-13

Nina Cavazos, (High Honors)
Ravi Gupta + Grey Gundaker and Charles Palermo
Jarrett Ley, "Human Praxis: LGBTQ Homeless Youth Center" (Highest Honors)
Edwin Pease + Joanne Braxton, Elizabeth Mead and Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Barbara Pearsall, "Materially Mandated" (Highest Honors)
Elizabeth Mead + Carey Bagdassarian, Ed Pease, Sibel Zandi-Sayek and Kara Thompson
Michelle Repper, (High Honors)
Charles Palermo + Alan Braddock, Nancy Gray and Xin Conan-Wu

2010-11

Erin Sexton, (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Silvia Tandeciarz and Susan Webster

2009-10

Kiernan Lofland, "Prints and Sculpture, a Tactile World" (High Honors)
Elizabeth Mead + Brian Kreydatus, Edwin Pease, Jason Lowery and Daniel Cristol
Rusty Meadows, " (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Charles Palermo
Sarah Williams, "Interiors: A Study of Human Core Samples" (Highest Honors)
Nicole McCormick Santiago + Elizabeth Mead, Timothy Costelloe and Naomi Falk

2008-09

Andrea Alvarez, (High Honors)
Charles Palmero + Victoria Scott, Alan Wallach and Melanie Dawson
Joan Bowlen, (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott, Sibel Zandi-Sayek and Christy Burns
Greta Glaser, (High Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Alan Wallach, Shelley Svoboda and J.C. Poutsma
Amy Sedivi, (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott and Michael Nichols
John Starcher, (High Honors)
Alan Wallach + Susan Webster and Bob Scholnick
Peter Zimmerman, (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Victoria Scott, Sibel Zandi-Sayek and Christy Burns

2007-08

Sarah Gowen, "The Convergence of Science and Art: Conserving a Print of Hannah Snell" (High Honors)
Barbara Watkinson + Charles Palermo, Pam Young and Elizabeth Harbron
John Hawley, (Highest Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Charles Palermo, Barbara Watkinson and Dale Hoak
Mary Ramsey, "The Vanitas of Jacques de Gheyn II: Technë as an Expression of an Artist" (Honors)
Catherine Levesque + Charles Palermo and LuAnn Homza
Kathryn Swanson, (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Charles Palermo and Kimberly Phillips

2006-07

Naomi Ocko, "Everett Stockton: Proposal for Affordable Housing Structure in Manchester, Richmond" (High Honors)
Edwin Pease + Margaret Grubiak, Elizabeth Mead and David Phillips
Amanda Stuckey, "Joseph Cornell and Visual Possession" (Honors)
Alan Wallach + Eun Jung and Nancy Gray
Bonnie Wilson, "Bodies of Work: Marc Quinn, Tim Hawkinson, and the Quest for Immortality" (Highest Honors)
Charles Palermo + Sally Price, Eun Jung and Elizabeth Mead

2004-05

Kate Zimmermann
Alan Wallach + Sibel Zandi Sayek and Christy Burns
Caitlin Freeman
Catherine Levesque + Miles Chappell and Dorothy Chansky

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