Undergraduate Research
Shari Wei
Thesis: Pull of the Tł’éé’honaa’éí: Bearing Witness to Transformation, Transgression and Transcontinental Exchange
Major: Art and Art History
Graduation: Spring 2023
Image credit: xRez Studio
Sofia J. Ingegno
Thesis: Silverman: Indigenous Jewelry of the American Southwest in Diné (Navajo) Silversmithing and Lapidary Forms
Major: Art History
Minor: Anthropology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Image credit: Concho belt buckle made by Fred Peshlakai c.1967. Made of sterling silver and turquoise through stamp work and repoussé. Chipeta Trading Company 2023.
Elizabeth Friedman
Thesis: The Layered Landscape of the “Mound City” Group: Land-use as a Weapon of Colonial Violence
Major: Art History and History
Graduation: Summer 2022
Image credit: Plate XIX. “Ancient Works, Ross County Ohio (three miles north of Chillicothe)”, from Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848) by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis
Andrew Ontiveros
Thesis: Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis: Facial Disfiguration in Moche Pottery
Major: Art History
Graduation: Spring 2021
Image credit: Stirrup-spout bottle: mutilated figure, Peru, Moche, 400-600 CE, Ceramic and slip paints, 22.385 x 18.258 x 12.7 cm, Dallas Museum of Art 1976.W.123
Ana Laura Paolini Paiva
Thesis: Lina Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro, The Glass House: a view into how the architecture grows into the Brazilian landscape
Major: Art History
Minor: English
Graduation: Spring 2020
Lime Spoon in the Form of a Hummingbird, Peru, Central Highlands, Inca, 1250-1470, Gold and malachite, 9.21 x 3.81 cm, LACMA M.2003.77
Emilie Liu
Thesis: Manipulating the Senses and Making Art: An Analysis of Inca Vilca Usage
Major: Neuroscience and Art History
Graduation: Winter 2020
Guaman Poma de Ayala, Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, c. 1615, folio 130 r
Miranda Claxton
Thesis: Sounds of the Empire: Female Voice and Song in the Inca Empire
Major: Art History
Graduation: Spring 2020
Miniature Headdresses and Garments, Inca, c. 1400-1532.Camelid fibers, feathers, 11.4 x 7.9 cm. Brooklyn Museum, 41.1275.108b.
Hope Noakes
Thesis: Inca Women of Feathers and Power: Capacocha Feather-Work and Figurines
Major: Art History
Graduation: Spring 2020