Dr. Laura Amrhein (Ph.D. 2001), Assistant Professor, Art Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AK.

Dr. Claire Black-McCoy (Ph.D. 1998), William B. and Sue Marie Turner Faculty Chair in Art History, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.

Dr. Delane Bovenizer (Ph.D. 2000), Assistant Professor, School of Communication and the Arts, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA.

Dr. Mikell Brown (Ph.D. 2005), Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, John Tyler Community College, Chester, VA.

Dr. Kevin Concannon (Ph.D. 2000), Assistant Professor, Art Department, University of Akron, OH.

Dr. Debra Hanson (Ph.D. 2005), Adjunct Faculty, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

Dr. Marlena Hobson (Ph.D. 2003), Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.

Dr. Thomas Larose (Ph.D. 2001), Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Education, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.

Dr. Julia May (Ph.D. 1999), Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of the College Art Collection, Earlham College, Richmond, IN.

Dr. F. Johanna Minich (Ph.D. 2004), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

Dr. Kathryn Monger (Ph.D. 2003), Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Art & Art History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Dr. Reinaldo Morales, Jr. (Ph.D. 2002), Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AK.

Dr. Paula Rau (Ph.D. 2005), Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.

Dr. Muriel Rogers (Ph.D. 2003), Curator, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.

Dr. M. Kathryn Shields (Ph.D. 2001), Associate Professor of Art, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.

Dr. Richard Singletary (Ph.D. 1999), Adjunct Professor of Art, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA.

Kerri Jurgens (M.A. 2000), Collections Manager, Maymont Foundation, Richmond, VA.

Kathryn Brennan (M.A. 1999), curator and former Director of The Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Joan Reynolds Hoge (M.A. 1994), Executive Director, Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, DE.

Marla Curtis (M.A. 1996), Assistant Conservator for Modern & Contemporary Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Virginia Cofield (M.A. 2004), Assistant Director, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY.

Genevieve Ivan (B.A. 2003), Assistant to the Assistant Director, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

Craig Reynolds (M.A. 2004), Community Preservation Specialist, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN.

Lee Anne Hurt (Ph.D. 2006), Assistant Curator of Ancient American Art and Assistant to the Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.

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Ph.D.s AWARDED:

Claire Black (R. Hobbs), 1998. Dissertation: Rodin, Michelangelo, and the Discourse of Modernity: A Study of Rodin Criticism.

Richard Singletary (B. Lawal), 1999. Dissertation: Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Ethnic, National, International, and Modernistic Impulses in the Works of a Contemporary African Artist.

Julia May (J. Farmer), 1999. Dissertation: A Semiotic Analysis of the Puebloan Human Hand Image.

Delane Bovenizer (F. Jacobs), 2000. Dissertation: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Francesco Patrizi da Cherso: Rethinking Tenebrism.

Kevin Concannon (H. Risatti), 2000. Dissertation: Unfinished Works and Aural Histories: Yoko Ono's Conceptual Art.

Thomas Larose (J. Farmer), 2001. Dissertation: The Petroglyph Sites of Bellows Falls and Brattleboro, Vermont.

M. Kathryn Shields (R. Hobbs), 2001. Dissertation: Masking in Photography and the Art of Diane Arbus and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Laura Amrhein (J. Farmer), 2001. Dissertation: An Iconographic and Historic Analysis of Terminal Classic Maya Phallic Imagery.

Susan Frazer (C. Brownell), 2001. Dissertation: D. Wiley Anderson, Virginia Architect (1864-1940).

Kimberly Casey-del-Priore (E. Garberson), 2002. Dissertation: Théodore Géricault's "Erotic" Drawings Reconsidered as Exercises in Composition and Invention.

Reinaldo Morales, Jr. (J. Farmer), 2002. Dissertation: The Nordeste Tradition: Innovation and Continuity in Brazilian Rock Art.

Maria Lena Hobson (H. Risatti), 2003. Dissertation: Fascist Criticism and the Novecento Art Movement.

Muriel Rogers (C. Brownell), 2003. Dissertation: John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum, Virginia.

Jennifer Ramirez (H. Risatti), 2003. Dissertation: On the Double: Mirroring and Twinning in the Photographs of Clementina, Lady Hawarden.

Kathryn Monger (H. Risatti), 2003. Dissertation: The Mythologizing of Egypt in Late Nineteenth-Century British Art.

F. Johanna Minich (J. Farmer), 2004. Dissertation: The Hopewell Sculptors: Reconstructing the Role of Artist and Patron.

Mikell Brown (R. Hobbs), 2005. Dissertation: The Photographer’s Wife: Emmett Gowin’s Photographs of Edith.

Vittorio Colaizzi (R. Hobbs), 2005. Dissertation: Robert Ryman, Painting as Actuality: 1953-1969.

Debra Hanson (R. Hobbs), 2005. Dissertation: Thomas Eakins’ Home Scenes of the 1870s.

John Hubenthal (H. Risatti), 2005. Dissertation: George Grosz in America.

Paula Rau (H. Risatti), 2005. Dissertation: John Cage’s Visual Art.

Margaret Richardson (H. Risatti), 2005. Dissertation: K. G. Subramayan and National Identity in India.

Lee Anne Hurt (J. Farmer), 2006. Dissertation: The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for the Communion Between Humanity and Nature.

Lucinda K. Havenhand (R. Hobbs), 2007. Dissertation: Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States 1930-1965

Anita Holloway (B. Lawal), 2007. Dissertation: Animal Symbolism in Ewe Textiles