Postgraduate Research
Current Titles or Fields (MPhil and PhD)
Please note that only those students who have agreed to have
their details disclosed are included in this list.
Supervised by Dr Caroline Arscott
Hammerschlag, Keren (keren.hammerschlag@courtauld.ac.uk)
Aesthetics and Violence in the Art of Frederic Leighton
Harlow, Venetia (venetia.harlow@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Aesthetic Movement and Sixteenth-Century Italian Art
Johnson, Lucetta (lucetta.johnson@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Symbolism of Hair in Nineteenth-century British Art
Lepine, Ayla (ayla.lepine@courtauld.ac.uk)
Sacred Beauty: G. F. Bodley's Designs for Oxford and Cambridge,
1861-1905
Supervised by Dr Shulamith Behr
Benton, Maya
Framing the Shtetl: Roman Vishniac’s Photographic Record of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Keiser, Alexandra (alexandra.keiser@courtauld.ac.uk)
Alexander Archipenko and cultural exchange between the wars: from European avant-gardes to avant-gardism in the USA
Mileeva, Maria
Russia and the West: Cultural Politics, Artistic Exchange and the case of International Exhibition Design in Interwar Europe
Shiner, Helen
Sculptural Patronage in Germany from 1890 to 1933
Sujo, Glenn
Disseminating Memory: Life and Work of Yehuda Bacon
Tommasini, Alexandra
Changing Topographies and the Search for Identity: Visual Identity
in the New Berlin
Supervised by Dr Joanna Cannon
Davies, Glyn (glyn.davies@courtauld.ac.uk)
Liturgy and Metalwork in Northern and Central Italian Churches from the Fourth Lateran Council to the Council of Trent
Leukumaavaara, Suvi (suvi.leukumaavaara@courtauld.ac.uk)
Purple pigments and pigment mixtures
co-supervised by Dr David Saunders
Lucchini, Francesco (francesco.lucchini@courtauld.ac.uk)
Objects at Work. A Material and Cultural History of the Reliquaries of St Anthony of Padua in the Basilica del Santo, ca.1231-1438
Stevens, Anthea
The Massacre of the Innocents in late-medieval and early renaissance
Italian art
Supervised by Sharon Cather
Nevin, Austin (austin.nevin@courtauld.ac.uk)
Laser induced fluorescence for the analysis of paintings
co-supervised by Aviva Burnstock
Zheng, Jun (jun.zheng@courtauld.ac.uk)
Conservation Planning for Heritage Sites in China: a Critical
Review and Case Study
Supervised by Professor Robin Cormack
Brisby, Claire (claire.brisby@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Samokov Archive and icon-painters' perception of western art 1800-1850.
Ioannou, Tereza (itereza@hotmail.com)
Images of the Last Judgement from Cyprus Within the Context of 16th-Century Cypriot Art
Letwin, Bradley (bletwin@hotmail.com)
St Catherine's on Mt. Sinai
Paphiti, Maria (mcpaphiti@hotmail.com)
The Historiated Reliquaries in Christian Art until the Tenth Centrury
Parlby, Geraldine (gerip@dsl.pipex.com)
The Evolution of the Early Iconography of the Virgin and Child Pre-Iconoclasm: the Involvement of Art in the Development of the Cult of Mary in the Early Church
Rawlin-Cushing, Heather (heather@hrawlin.freeserve.co.uk)
Attitudes Towards Death and the Body in Anglo-Saxon Art
Rubery, Eileen (eileen.rubery@courtauld.ac.uk)
Papal Patronage, Ecumenical Councils, Iconoclasm and the Mother of God in Rome between 550 and 800.
Supervised by Professor Paul Crossley
Gilderdale, Heather (heathergilderdale@hotmail.com) - co-supervised by Dr Tim Ayres
The Painted Glass of Great Malvern Priory (Worc.) c.1440-1500
Lundgren, Karen (karen.lundgren@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Elaborate Romanesque Carving of the Yorkshire School of Sculpture
Milner, Lesley (lesley.milner@courtauld.ac.uk)
Wordly Goods and Sacred Spaces: Medieval Church Treasuries 1150-1350
Naydenova, Mellie (mellie.naydenova@courtauld.ac.uk) - co-supervised by David Park.
Images of the Holy Kinship in England, c. 1200 to c. 1500
Nickson, Tom (tomnickson@cantab.net)
Toledo cathedral: art and society in medieval Castile 1200-1415
Olympios, Michalis (michalis.olympios@courtauld.ac.uk)
'Gothic Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus, c. 1200-c. 1350: Design and Patronage
Puth, Andreas (andreas.puth@courtauld.ac.uk)
Dynastic Representation of the Habsburgs c.1270-c.1490
Victoir, Géraldine (g.victoir@gmail.com) - co-supervised by David Park.
The Polychromy
of Gothic Churches in Picardy, ca. 1250 - ca. 1350
Supervised by Dr. Antony Eastmond
Christidou, Anna (annachr@fastmail.fm)
An exploration of unknown medieval art in the Balkan area: manifestations of art and cross-cultural interactions in thirteenth century Albanian churches.
Paschali, Maria (maria.paschali@courtauld.ac.uk)
Fourteenth-century monumental painting in the city of Famagusta,
Cyprus
Supervised by Professor Chris Green
de Mille, Charlotte (charlotte.demille@courtauld.ac.uk) - co-supervised by Dr John Mullarkey
Bergson in Britain c. 1890-1914
Elmer, Samuel (samuel.elmer@courtauld.ac.uk)
Middle-Class Modernism: Institutional Change in the English Modern Art World, 1918-1933
Levitt, Caroline (caroline.levitt@courtauld.ac.uk)
Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton: encounters in the poetic and artistic avant-gardes
Rook, Penelope (rook@rooksheath.harrow.sch.uk)
Vu as a Forum for Photography 1928-34
Turner, Sarah (sarah.turner@courtauld.ac.uk)
Artistic Networks in Britain, c.1890-1914: Circles, Societies
and Brotherhoods
Supervised by Professor Paul Hills
Pittaluga, Michela (michela.pittaluga@courtauld.ac.uk)
Venetian Presences in Genoese collection 1525-1656/57
Supervised by Professor John House
Clausen Pedersen, Line (line.clausen@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Late Degas - Landscape, Caricature, Artificiality.
Givens, Ashley (ashley.givens@courtauld.ac.uk)
Painted and Photographic Portraits of Napoléon III and the Empress Eugénie
Mill, Alister (alister.mill@courtauld.ac.uk)
Alfred Philippe Roll (1846-1919) - The Career Path of a Third
Republic Salon Painter
Richards, Marion (marion.richards@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Language of Criticism on French Landscape Painting 1855-67
Vandenbrouck, Melanie (melanie.vandenbrouck@courtauld.ac.uk)
The representation of the conquest of Algeria during the reign
of Louis-Philippe, 1830-1848
Supervised by Professor John Lowden
Bacile, Rosa (rose.bacile@talk21.com)
The Architecture, Liturgy and Decorative Programmes in Sicily under the Norman Kings (1130-1189)
Eze, Anne-Marie
(anne-marie.eze@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Market for Illuminated Miniatures in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Italy:
Luigi Celotti, William Young Ottley and Some Contemporaries
Keefe, Beatrice (beatrice.keefe@courtauld.ac.uk)
Terence Manuscript Illustration
Luker, Emma (emma.luker@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Leiden Psalter
Supervised by Joseph Koerner
Lawrence, Nicole (nicole.lawrence@courtauld.ac.uk)
Without the Brush: the Curious Paintings of Ugo da Carpi and Cornelis Ketel
Porras, Stephanie (stephanie.porras@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Peasant as Pagan in the work of Pieter Bruegel the
Elder
Supervised by Dr Sheila McTighe
Carrabino, Danielle (danielle.carrabino@courtauld.ac.uk)
Caravaggio and Sicily
Gottardo, Ketty (ketty.gottardo@courtauld.ac.uk)
Barberini's patronage and the market of prints in Rome
Lopez-Fanjul Diez del Corral, Maria (maria.lopez-fanjul@courtauld.ac.uk)
Collecting Italian drawings in 17th-century Spain: the Marqués del Carpio collection
Payne, Edward (edward.payne@courtauld.ac.uk)
Violence and Corporality in the Art of Jusepe de Ribera
Supervised by Dr Susie Nash
Green, Susie (susan.green@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Tree of Jesse in Northern Europe c. 1400-1550
Kline, Brandon (brandon.klein@courtauld.ac.uk)
Patrons and sculpture in Castile c. 1450-1520
Ikeda, Mayumi (mayumi.ikeda@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Fust Master: Illuminator of the First Mainz Presses
Hope, Melena (melenahope@hotmail.com)
Framing Domestic Devotion: Painted Chapels and Oratories in the Households of Fifteenth-Century France
Supervised by Professor Mignon Nixon
Aloni, Shir (shir.aloni@courtauld.ac.uk)
Brushstrokes: Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists
Campagnolo, Kathleen (kathleen.campagnolo@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Art of Walter De Maria 1960-2004
Patterson, Kristin (kristin.patterson@courtauld.ac.uk)
Framing Reception: The Biographical Discourses of Eva Hesse,
Ana Mendieta, and Joyce Wieland.
Tan, Adele (wei.tan@courtauld.ac.uk)
Looking for Ethics and Eros: A History of Performance Art in
China post -1979
Supervised by Professor Aileen Ribeiro
Backhouse, Clare (clare.backhouse@courtauld.ac.uk).
Early
Modern Dress in the Pepys Ballad Collection.
Kirk,
Anna Marie (anna.kirk@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Female Doppelgänger in Victorian Art and Dress,
c.1850-1899
Pott, Alexis (bazarov1859@hotmail.com)
Restoration Dress in Colonial Virginia
Supervised by Professor Patricia Rubin
Brooke, Irene (irene.brooke@courtauld.ac.uk)
Pietro Bembo and the Visual Arts
Childs, Kevin (kevin.childs@courtauld.ac.uk)
Michelangelism: Theory and Critique. The Influence of Michelangelo on his Contemporaries 1540-1570
Gray, Emily (emily.gray@courtauld.ac.uk) - co-supervised by Dr. Mark McDonald, Keeper of Prints, British Museum
Rhetoric and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Prints
Harris, Jim (james.harris@courtauld.ac.uk)
Case studies in
materials, techniques and expertise in the sculpture of Ghiberti
and Donatello
Nuttall, Geoffrey (geoffrey.nuttall@courtauld.ac.uk)
Lucchese Patronage, 1400 to 1430
Rumberg, Per (per.rumberg@courtauld.ac.uk)
Art in an Age of Discovery, Italy c. 1470-1500
Supervised by Dr Katie Scott
Knothe, Florian (florian.knothe@gmx.net)
Social, Political and Cultural Significance of the Manufacture des Meubles de la Couronne aux Gobelins, and the Artisans du Roi in Paris During the Later 17th Century
Kopp, Edouard (edouard.kopp@courtauld.ac.uk)
'Sculpted Sanguines': Edme Bouchardon as a Draughtsman
Morel, Anissia (anissiamorel@hotmail.com)
Not at School in Rome: the Early Career of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1734-53)
Price, Abigail (abigail.price@courtauld.ac.uk) - co-supervised by Dr Peter Stewart
Collecting and Collections: the Museo Pio Clementino in the Light of the Enghlightened Classical Scholarship
Williams, Hannah (hannah.williams@courtauld.ac.uk)
Self-Portraiture and Representations of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century
France
Supervised by Professor David Solkin
Grandjouan, Kate (kate.grandjouan@courtauld.ac.uk)
Close Encounters: French identities and the Visual Arts in
Britain 1756-1793
Supervised by Dr Julian Stallabrass
Chien, Shang-Min (shang-min.chien@courtauld.ac.uk)
Distributed aesthetics in the East Asian Net Creations
Gaskin, Fiona (fiona.gaskin@virgin.net)
The Contours of Identity: English Landscape Painting in the Cold War, 1945-1963
Memou, Antigoni (antigoni.memou@courtauld.ac.uk)
From the globalisation of the movement(1968) to the movement against globalisation (2001): Social Movements, Photography, Representation in the Late Twentieth Century.
Tang, Jeannine (jeannine.tang@courtauld.ac.uk)
Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art in the Cold War
William, Roberts (billrob@gmail.com)
Labour in European and American art of the 1990s: Research,
Collaboration and Services from 'Project Art' to 'Tactical
Media'.
SUPERVISED BY DR CHRISTINE STEVENSON
Hradsky, Robert (roberthradsky@hotmail.com)
The Architecture of the Inns of Court, c.1660–c.1830
Mann, Emily (emily.mann@courtauld.ac.uk)
British Imperial Architecture in the 17th and early 18th Centuries
Potts, Philippa (philippa.potts@courtauld.ac.uk)
The Influence of British Ambassadors on National Gardens in
the 17th Century
Supervised by Dr Peter Stewart
Rawden, Anooshka (dimacheri@hotmail.com)
The Female Grotesque: Deviations From the Classical Norm
Supervised by Dr Deborah Swallow
Seth, Preeya (preeya.seth@courtauld.ac.uk) - co-supervised by Dr Sarah Wilson
Contemporary Indian Art
Supervised by Dr Sarah Wilson
Abykayeva, Aliya (aliya.abykayeva@courtauld.ac.uk)
Socialist Realism/Orientalist Tradition: Art and Identity Formation in the Central Asian Republics of the USSR, 1934-1954.
Bancroft, Sarah (sarah.bancroft@courtauld.ac.uk)
James Rosenquist: Abstraction in the Work of a Pop Art Revolutionary
Bobrowicz, Ania (a.bobrowicz@kent.ac.uk)
New Media Art and Feminism in Post-Soviet Russia
Caruso, Martina (martina.caruso@courtauld.ac.uk)
Miseria, Misericordia, Mascolinità: Italian Neorealist
Photography, 1944 - 1956
Lewin, Mireya (mireya.lewin@courtauld.ac.uk)
Antoni Tàpies and Cultural Identity: between the National
and International
Samman, Nadim (nadim.samman@courtauld.ac.uk)
American Postcommunism: Chinese and Former-Soviet Art in the
USA
Supervised by Dr Joanna Woodall
Balfe, Thomas
The Relationship Between Art and Violence in the Work of Jan Fyt
Draper,
Helen
Mary Beale and her 'Paynting Room' in London 1655 to 1665 and 1670 to 1699
- co-supervised with Matthew Davies, the Institute of Historical Research
Durante, Stephanie-Suzanne (stephanie-suzanne.durante@courtauld.ac.uk)
Netherlandish Grisaille, 1500 - 1625
Marsden, Eleanor
Athena Polyglossos: Athena-Minerva as Multivalent Goddess in Early Modern Western Art
(co-supervised with Katie Scott)
