Congratulations to our 2017 graduates! On May 27, eighteen MA, two MPhil, and two PhD candidates received their degrees at Bard College’s
commencement ceremony in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Students who received awards for their dissertations and qualifying papers are listed here.
PhD dissertation titles, MPhil dissertation topics, and MA qualifying paper titles are listed below each graduate’s name.
Doctor of PhilosophyCaroline Margaret Hannah, New York, New York
Henry Varnum Poor: Crow House, Craft, and Design
Masako H. Shinn, New York, New York
Case Studies in Critical Regionalism: Takashi Sugimoto, Kuma Kengo, and Hiroshi Sambuichi
Master of Philosophy
Martina A. D’Amato, New York, New York
Lyon and the Revival of the French Renaissance, 1877–1917
Marjorie L. Folkman, Boston, Massachusetts
Dancing Imprints: Choreographic Persistence of Interwar European Avant-Garde Visual Culture
Master of Arts
Persephone Allen, Providence, Rhode Island
The Metallic Sphere as Mechanical Eye: Reflected Identities at the Bauhaus
Alexandra Grey Beuscher, Westwood, Massachusetts
Portals, Vessels, and Seams: The Seal in Yup’ik Material Culture
Michael Herkimer Dewberry, Dallas, Texas
The Birth of ‘Millionaire’s Taste’: Famille Noire in Western Collections
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie, Harrowsmith, Canada
Art and Imperial Allegory: The Glass Deckelpokal of Archduke Ferdinand II
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Stockholm, Sweden
The Presence of the Past: Influence of Porcelain Production on Contemporary Art from Jingdezhen
Emily Sumner Field, Tecumseh, Michigan
The History and Continuing Impact of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Margaret Stauffer Frick, Springboro, Ohio
Cooking for the Masses: An Examination of 18th-Century Tavern Cookbooks and the Urban Metropolis
Amanda Joan Hinckle, Richmond, Virginia
“Who Tells Your Story?” Online Audiences and Museums of Early American History
Susan J. Hunter, New York, New York
The Rustiques Figulines of Bernard Palissy
Irene Jaramillo-Vélez, Manizales, Colombia
Prosthetic Bodies in Public Space: The Reception and Perception of the Crinoline in France, 1856–67
Aleena Malik, Lahore, Pakistan
The Qur’an of ’Uthmān: From Religion to Political Legitimacy
Sheila Margaret Moloney, Brockton, Massachusetts
Crystal Palaces, Glass Houses, and Geodesic Domes: The VSI Study House Nr. 1 and Its Antecedents
Michael Austin Parker, Montclair, New Jersey
Zippos at the Wall: Engraved Lighters in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
Grace Reff, Nashville, Tennessee
From Mexico to Black Mountain College: Josef Albers, Clara Porset, and the Butaque
Catherine Dickson Stergar, Columbia, South Carolina
“The Everlasting Fire of Achievement”: An Examination of the Life and Career of Ceramic Artist Mary Chase Perry (1867–1961)
Darienne Turner, Baltimore, Maryland
Women as Flock, Woman as Shepherd: Croziers and Gender Performance in the Middle Ages
Alyssa Velazquez, Vineland, New Jersey
The Makings of a Character: Aging, Gender, and Sexuality in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operetta Patience
Nadia Westenburg, Redding, Connecticut
A New Deal for the Parks: Interpretation and Poster Advertising for the National Park Service, 1938–41
