Graduate Alums
Alums of the Graduate Program in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at Binghamton University have, since the late 1960s, gone on to take up significant academic and curatorial appointments in universities and museums across the United States and abroad, as well as positions in museum education, historic preservation, visual resources management and corporate research, among many other professional fields.
To list only a few examples, graduates of the Department of Art History can currently be found in the faculty and curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Morgan Library, New York, the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, the Bowdoin College Museum, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the University of Arizona at Tucson, the University of Notre Dame, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Kaywon School of Art and Design, Euiwang, Korea.
Recent PhDs:
Jihan Jang, “World and Black Hole: Korean Contemporary Art After Globalization” (2026). Advisor: Tom McDonough
Duaa Khalil, “Unscripted: The Transformation of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Printmaking, 1970s to the Present” (2025). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Kasumi Kugo, “The Theory and Practice of EIZŌ: Photographic Publications in 1960s and 1970s Japan” (2025). Advisor: John Tagg.
Joonsoo Park, “Reconsidering Environmental Art, 1972-1982” (2025). Advisor: Kevin Hatch.
Mariah Postlewait, “Richard Avedon’s In the American West Revisited” (2025). Advisor: John Tagg. Curator, Dayton Art Institute.
Bookyung Son, “Antagonistic Feedback: Rethinking Korean Media Art through Nam June Paik’s Reimportation to Korea” (2025). Advisor: Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Lauren Cesiro, “The Body Is a Battleground: Mapping Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann” (2024). Advisor: John Tagg. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Design, Art History, Hofstra University and Lecturer, Visual Communications, Farmingdale State College.
Pei-Chun Hsieh, “Common Senses: The Postwar Sensorium and Contemporary Art in Taiwan” (2023). Advisor: Kevin Hatch. Assistant Professor, Art History, National Taiwan Normal University.
Yuri Chang, “Negotiating Urban Identities: International Art Events and the Cultural Identities of Korean Cities, 1988-1995” (2022). Advisor: Tom McDonough. Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Visual Arts and Design Department, DeAnza College.
Debora Faccion Grodzki, “Creative Recoveries: Making Art with Antonio Dias” (2022). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Ismail Kugu, “The Consumption of Porcelain Coffee Cups in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Court” (2022). Advisor: Nancy Um.
David Thomas, “Tune In, Turn On, Don’t Drop Out: Pulsa’s Computer-Based Ecology” (2022). Advisor: Kevin Hatch.
Jeffrey Youn, “The Planning, Construction, and Operations of Suwon in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea: A Genealogy of the Joseon City and the Modernization of Korean Production and Markets” (2022). Advisor: Karen-edis Barzman. Assistant Professor, Art History, College of Charleston.
Addie Gordon, “Imaging Pilgrimage: Monumental Iconographies of Cultural Policy and Revitalization at the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia” (2021). Advisor: Pamela Smart. Digital Archivist & Research Associate, coLAB Arts.
Ihnmi Jon, “When Willful Institutionalization Becomes Form: Artworld Globalization, Cai Guo-Qiang, and an Aesthetics of Contingency” (2021). Advisor: Pamela Smart. Assistant Teaching Professor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.
Wylie Schwartz, “Experimental Pedagogies: The Art and Politics of the Scandinavian Neo-Avant-Garde (1961-1972)” (2021). Advisor: Tom McDonough. Assistant Professor, Art and Art History Department, SUNY Cortland.
Nicole Wagner, “Women Working the Table: The Material Culture, Gendered Spaces, and Visual Representations of Female Card Players in Early Modern Italy” (2021). Advisor: Karen-edis Barzman.
Hyeok Cho, “Can the Subaltern Speak? Postmodernist Theory, Feminist Practice, and the Art of Lee Bul” (2020). Advisor: John Tagg.
Alissa De Wit-Paul, “Predock, Reynolds, and Mazria: New Mexico Architects on the Margins of Eco-Architecture in 1960s and 1970s America” (2020). Advisor: Tom McDonough. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Zohreh Soltani, “Tehran: A Symptomatic Rendering of Public Architecture” (2020). Advisors: Tom McDonough and Nancy Um. Assistant Professor, Art History, New York University.
Amanda Beardsley, “Celestial Mechanics: Technologies of Salvation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and American Culture” (2019). Advisors: Tom McDonough and Pamela Smart.
Lalaine Little, “Retablo: Configuring Relationships, Spaces, and Activities in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Philippines” (2019). Advisor: Nancy Um. Director, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University.
Young-Sin Park, “The Choson Industrial Exposition of 1915” (2019). Advisor: John Tagg.
Rotem Rozental, “Photographic Archives, Nationalism, and the Foundation of the Jewish State, 1903-1948” (2019). Advisor: John Tagg. Executive Director and Chief Curator, Los Angeles Center of Photography. Author of Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement (Routledge, 2023).
Cagatay E. Dogan, “Picturing the Nation: Turkish Republican-Era Photographic Representations of Istanbul” (2018). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Recents MAs:
Nathanial Craig, “Home Economics and Domesticity at Cornell University: From Reform to Governance” (2026). Advisors: Kevin Hatch and Tom McDonough.
Lydia Adam Papadopoulou, “Millennia Apart: Chryssa and Takis Re-Envision Cycladic Art” (2025). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Matthew DelGaudio, “Control, or Lack Thereof: The Future(s) according to Alison and Peter Smithson” (2025). Advisors: Kevin Hatch and Julia Walker.
Justin Huczko, “Twisted Waters: Steina’s Video Landscapes and the Techniques of Naturalism” (2025). Advisor: Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Hannah Meacham, “Arcane Connections: Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo in Mexico City” (2025). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Autumn Weston, “The Stained Glass Spolia of Northern France: Light, Politics, and Artistic Reuse” (2025). Advisors: Alexis Wang, Anatole Upart and Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Fan Zhang, “Embodied Archives: Intergenerational Trauma and Therapeutic Potential in He Chengyao’s Performance Art” (2025). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Krysteena Race, “The Artistic Legacy of the Black Death: Storytelling and the Death Drive in a Time of Pandemic” (2024). Advisors: Katherine Reinhart and Alexis Wang.
Annette Resk, “Beyond the Myth: Eroticism and Religious Symbolism in Bachiacca’s Leda and the Swan” (2024). Advisor: Alexis Wang.
Cherese Wiesner-Rosales, “The Other Side of the Diptych: Kay Walkingstick’s Abstractions” (2024). Advisor: Kevin Hatch.
Emma Brown, “‘The System in Its Decadence’: Gift Giving and Opulent Display among the Valois Princes during the Reign of Jean the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy” (2023). Advisor: Katherine Reinhart.
Stephen McKee, “The Memorial Film: Commemoration through Cinema in Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour” (2023). Advisor: Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Jenna Bennett, “Curator of New York: Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s Influence on WPA Murals in New York City” (2022). Advisor: Kevin Hatch.
Alyssa Abesamis, “Pushing the Public Art Network Database into the Current Digital Age: Collections as Data” (2021). Advisors: Pamela Smart and Nancy Um.
Nathan Goldberg, “Modernity and Utopia in Camille Pissarro’s Countryside Markets” (2021). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Jessica McGee, “Constructing Images: The Significance of Mary Beale (1633-1699)” (2020). Advisors: Pamela Smart and Andrew Walkling.
Lawrence Sanchez, “Leaving the Pinhole Behind: Woody Vasulka’s Didactic Video” (2019). Advisors: Kevin Hatch and Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Sierra Blumenthal, “Transformed Text in Postwar Conceptual Art: Language to Be Looked At” (2018). Advisor: Jeffrey Kirkwood.
Allison Coppola, “The Gendered Gaze: Analysis of Three Nineteenth-Century French Prints” (2018). Advisor: Tom McDonough.
Kaeun Park, “Reconsidering Everyday Life Photography (Saenghwalchuui Sajin) in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s” (2018). Advisor: John Tagg.
Hannah Hempstead, “‘I See Your Heart Is in Your Work’: Making, Collecting, and Inhabiting in Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ and Anne Brontë’s ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’” (2017). Advisor: Andrew Walkling.