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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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