Enfilade

CAA publishes titles of dissertations in progress and completed by students at American and Canadian institutions. Clearly, however, there are problems (the index is neither timely nor comprehensive). Penn State University maintains its own list of “Art History Dissertations and Abstracts from North American Institutions,” as compiled by Catherine D. Adams and Carolyn J. Lucarelli. If your dissertation has been overlooked, please feel free to report it directly to them. I’m conflicted because I’m not in a position to maintain a list with any credibility on my own, but I also realize this is an incredibly frustrating system. Very belated congratulations to the four scholars named below and to many of you who have also finished more recently but are not yet named on either list. –CH

The CAA index for 2020 lists nine ‘eighteenth-century art’ dissertations in progress and one ‘eighteenth-century art’ dissertation completed:

• Christine Brander, “Addressing the Body: The Artless Art of Jean-Étienne Liotard” (Yale University, N. Suthor).

• Katherine Calvin, “Antiquity and Empire: The Construction of History in Western European Representations of the Ottoman Empire, 1650–1830” (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). [Calvin’s dissertation is not noted on CAA’s index, but it appears at Penn State’s list.]

The CAA index for 2021 lists seventeen ‘eighteenth-century art’ dissertations in progress, and two ‘eighteenth-century art’ dissertations completed:

• Jennifer Baez, “Painting the Miracles of Altagracia: Art, Piety, and Memory in Hispaniola, 1751–1795,” (Florida State University, P. Niell).

• Emily Thames, “Empire, Race, and Agency in the Work of José Campeche, Artist and Subject in Late Spanish Colonial Puerto Rico, 1751–1809,” (Florida State University, P. Niell). [At Penn State’s list, Thames’s dissertation is listed under 2022.]