Seniors' Research Projects
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Helena Meier – studentMary Cassatt's Representations of Modern Women My project focuses on the Impressionist artist, Mary Cassatt, and her depictions of
bourgeois women at the opera in Paris. Her work offers fascinating representations
of modernity and also reveals how a female artist engaged with issues of female display
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Laila Morgan - studentBirthing Bodies: The Pregnant, Birthing, and Postpartum Body in Modern and Contemporary Art My virtual exhibition comprises nine artworks that depict the pregnant, birthing,
and postpartum body. The essays accompanying the exhibition put the biological facets
of motherhood in dialogue with broader historical and cultural themes. Given how few
artistic works exist on this subject, I seek to address the broader disconnect between
feminism and motherhood, and motherhood and art. |
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Lindsey Poremba - studentPhotographing the “Foreign”: Portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants My project analyzes the portraits by Augustus Sherman, a clerk and amateur photographer
at Ellis Island at the turn of the twentieth century, as a reflection of prevailing
thought about pseudoscience and race theory. Most notably, Sherman’s photographs were
used by publications such as National Geographic to accompany articles expressing concern about the heavy influx of immigrants. His
photographs of otherness and difference proved significant for contemporary readers. |
