Bard College Commencement, May 25, 2019
Another academic year has closed and Bard Graduate Center once again celebrates the outstanding achievements of our latest graduates—fifteen master’s degree students who presented their qualifying papers and five doctoral candidates who successfully completed their dissertations. We wish them success as they embark on the next phase of their careers.
PhD dissertation titles and MA qualifying paper titles are listed below each student’s name. Awards are indicated beneath the titles
Doctor of PhilosophyChristine E. Brennan, Glen Ridge, NJ
The Brummer Gallery and the Market for Medieval Art in Paris and New York,1906–1949
Mei-Ling Israel, Cobb, CA
Circles, Pins, and Threads: Craft Knowledge Exchange in the Digital Sphere
CINOA Award
Hadley Welch Jensen, Los Angeles, CA
Shaped by the Camera: Navajo Weavers and the Photography of Making in the American Southwest, 1880–1945
Meredith Picton Nelson, Rye, NY
Adorning Venus: Roman Gold Body Chains, the Corpus, and their Context
Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation Dean’s Prize
Rebecca Sandler Perten, Teaneck, NJ
Postwar American Jewish Religious Identity, Ritual Objects, and Modern Design: Ludwig Y. Wolpert, the Tobe Pascher Workshop, and the Joint Committee on Ceremonies of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations/Central Conference of American Rabbis
Master of Philosophy
Colin Fanning, Pueblo, CO
Bringing Theory to Form: Katherine and Michael McCoy, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Expanded Discourse of Design, 1971–2005
Master of Arts
Jessica Ashley Boven, San Francisco, CA
Setting the Modern Table: American Flatware and the Domestication of Stainless Steel
Dylan Leah Brekka, Bristol, RI
Dressing the Strange Artist: Fashion and Fame in Georges Clairin’s Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt
Taryn Clary, Rye, NY
Buttons to Banners: The Material Culture of Museum Marketing
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award
Tessa Goldsher, Avon, CT
“Grandeur Now Departed”: Race, Nationalism, and the Aesthetic of Nostalgia in the Brooklyn Museum Southern Period Rooms
L. Bates Jaffe, New York, NY
Morbid Consumption: The Commodification of Mummies in Victorian England
Drew Catherine Jepson, Los Angeles, CA
Sensing Sassafras: Materia Medica Exchange in the British Atlantic
Clive Wainwright Award
Sybil Faris Johnson, Sudbury, MA
Very Much American: The Education, Travels, and Legacy of Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812–1884
Leela Outcalt, New York, NY
Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Cookery Book: A Symphony in the Gender Politics of Nineteenth-Century Dining
Clara May Puton, Toronto, Canada
Lacing a Nation: Renaissance Lace Revivalism and the Scuola Merletti di Burano in Post-Unification and Fascist Italy
Skylar A. Smith, Moore, OK
Familiar Narratives and Clothing Caricatures: The Realities of Tex Avery’s Imaginary Universe
Sophie Anne Swanson, Phoenix, AZ
Plush: Wall-to-Wall Liberation
Christianne Ellen Teague, New Orleans, LA
Voices in Stone: An Exploration of the Use of Pounamu in the Contemporary Jewelry of Aotearoa New Zealand
Colleen E. Terrell, Philadelphia, PA
Rose Slivka and the Crafting of Craft Horizons, 1955–1979
Bailey Elizabeth Tichenor, Unionville, IN
Conspicuous Cataloging: An Investigation of Collections Management in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Museum
Yusi (Joyce) Zhou, Beijing, China/Bangkok, Thailand
European Turned Ivories at the Court of the Kangxi Emperor: A Study in Early Modern Cross-Cultural Relations
