Bard College Commencement, May 26, 2018
PhD dissertation titles and MA qualifying paper titles are listed below each student’s name.
Doctor of Philosophy
Mei Rado
“The Empire’s New Cloth: Western Textiles and Imperial Identity at the 18th-Century Qing Court”
Jorge Rivas Pérez
“Modern Design for Living in Venezuela: Miguel Arroyo and His Circle, 1948–63”
Master of Arts
Daisy Adams
“The Gift That Keeps on Giving: An Interpretation of Nicola da Urbino’s Calini and Valenti-Gambara Credenze”
Lolly Burrows
“Problems of the Minoan ‘Snake Goddess’: Reconsidering the Faience Figurines from the Temple Repositories at Knossos”
Anne Carlisle
“Kami in the Maker, Kami in the Making: Arts and Crafts, Mingei Theory, and the Spiritualizing of Japanese Woodcraft in the USA”
Cassandra Celestin
“The Ornament of 19th-Century Athens”
Emily Cormack
“Commercial Ephemera at the Fin-de-siècle: A Study of Au Bon Marché Chromos”
Neil Creveling
“Dressing for the Future: Military Uniforms and Nation-Building in Meiji, Japan”
Madeline Crispell
“Presenting Identity and Culture in the Era of Exclusion: The Chinese Empire Reform Association and Chinese Restaurants in Butte and New York City”
Jaime Ding
“A History of Trash in Sight”
Zoe Groomes-Klotz
“Reading the Queer Photo Book: Tactility and Surface in Catherine Opie’s 700 Nimes Road”
Brockett Horne
“Shaker Packaging: The Design of Patent Medicines”
Gaia Lettere
“Forming and Transforming Knowledge: Early Ethnographic Approaches to Understanding Northern Material Culture in 17th-Century Europe”
Meghan Lynch
“Ambiguous Script: The Efficacy of the Written Word across 12th-Century Fāṭimid Lands”
Rebecca Merriman
“The Performative Female Body: Costume and Athleticism at the New York Hippodrome, 1905–17”
Jeanette Miller
“A Good Craft: 19th-Century Quaker Influence on Occupational Therapy in 20th-Century New York City”
Sasha Nixon
“Statement Jewelry, 1887 BCE–Present: A View from the Jeweler’s Bench”
Pallavi Patke
“American Fashion with an Eastern Twist: An Exhibition of Modern Fabrics in Retrospect”
Sarah Reetz
“Spinning Women in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Using Data to Reveal the Symbolic and Economic Resonance of the Spindle Whorl”
Avery Schroeder
“Porcelain, Prestige, and Power: Louis XV’s Sèvres in Diplomacy”
Shining Wang
“An Imperial Spectacle of Power and Ingenuity: Rudolf II’s 1585 Mechanical Galleon”
Carson Woś
“Kraków to Lausanne: Self-Representation in Polish Tapestry, 1550–1970”
