Thesis and Dissertations

Kathleen Powers Conti 
'Tell it Like it Was': Race, Memory, and Historic Preservation in the American South 
Dissertation Co-Supervisors: Chris Long (Architecture) and Diana Berry (History) 
2020-21 Carter Manny Research Citation

Alexander Bala  
Polish Modernism’s Essentialist Claim: The Hansens and Open Form Architecture  
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Long

Ernesto Bilbao 
"Aviation, Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism: The Development of Quito, Ecuador’s Old Mariscal Sucre Airport, 1920-1960" 

Willa Granger 
Constructing Old Age: Race, Ethnicity, Religion and the Architecture of Homes for the Aged 
Dissertation Supervisor: Sarah Lopez 
2020-21 Carter Manny Writing Citation

Anna Christine Nau 
Preservation Professionals: Architects and the Origins of Architectural Preservation in the United States, 1876-1926 
Dissertation Supervisor: Michael Holleran

Jennifer Tate 
"Good Americans in Good American Houses: The Politics of Identity and Modern Housing Design in the New Deal Era" 
 Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Victoria Sanchez Holgin, 2018 
Colombia's History of Modern Architecture revisited through the Housing Agency Instituto de Crédito Territorial. 1939-1965. 
Supervisor: Fernando Lara

Bridget Gayle Ground 
Engaging Displays of Architecture and Design History: Approaches to Museum Exhibition Practice 
M.A. Thesis Supervisors: Christopher Long 

Robert Scott Gill, 2018 
"Hidden Truths in Flights of Fancy: Sex, Power, and the Cinematic Staircase, 1932-1955," 
Supervisor: Christopher Long

Williamena Ruth Granger 
Cedar Springs Place: Housing, Citizenship, and City-Making in Centennial Dallas 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Anastasia S. Rees 
Moscow as Montage and the Experience of the Soviet Modern from 1918 to 1938 
Dissertation Supervisors: Richard Schiff, Danilo Udovicki

Xiangnan Xiong 
From Am Karlsbad 24 to the Tugendhat House: Mies van der Rohe’s Quest for a New Form of Living 
Dissertation Supervisor: Christopher Long

Irina Rivero 
Triple Alliance in Reverse 
MA Thesis Supervisor: Fernando Lara

Aurora Wilson McClain 
Meeting in St. Louis: American Encounters with Nascent European Modernisms at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Samuel Tommy Dodd 
Televising Architecture: Media, Public Engagement, and Design in America 
Dissertation Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Laura McGuire 
Space Within: Frederick Kiesler and the Architecture of an Idea 
Dissertation Supervisor: Christopher Long

Jorge Villota Pena 
The Hyper Americans!: Modern Architecture in Venezuela During the 1950s 
Dissertation Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Bethany Christian Morse  
Richard Neutra, Biorealist  
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Long

Brian Poepsel  
Fay Jones and his Residential Clients: Communication Through the Details  
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Jennifer Leigh Tate  
The Language of the Dolmabahce Palace: Communicating Change in the Tanzimate-Era Ottoman Empire 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Ashley Blair Chadwick 
Negotiating the Represented City: Los Angeles, the City of Perpetual Becoming 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Long

Yuanjing Du 
A Heritage Tourism Preservation Plan for Mogao Grottoes, PR. China 
M.A. Thesis Supervisors: Michael Holleran, Christopher Long

Tara Dudley 
Ownership, Engagement, and Entrepreneurship: The Gens de Couleur Libres and the Architecture of Antebellum New Orleans, 1820-1850 
Dissertation Supervisors: Richard Cleary, Christopher Long

Elise Louise King 
Welton Becket and Bullock’s Pasadena: Quiet Icons of Mid-Century Design 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Long

Nonaka, Natsumi 
The Illusionistic Pergola in Italian Renaissance Architecture: Painting and Garden Culture in Early Modern Rome, 1500-1620 
M.A. Thesis Supervisors: Miroslava Benes, Rabun Taylor (Classics) 

Priyanka Sen 
The Architectural History of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Taylor, Christine Lynn 
The Architectural Imperative: A Dual History of Sustainability and Informal Housing Within Architectural Discourse 
M. A. Thesis Advisor: Fernando Lara

Timothy Kent Parker 
The Modern Church in Rome: On the Interpretation of Architectural and Theological Identities, 1950-80 
Dissertation Supervisors: Christopher Long, Danilo Udovicki

Elise Louise Wasser 
Writing About Wright: Edgar Kaufmann Jr.’s Analyses on Frank Lloyd Wright 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Samuel Tommy Dodd 
Merchandising the Postwar Model House at the Parade of Homes 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Vladamir Kulic 
Land of the In-Between: Modern Architecture and the State in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-65 
Dissertation Supervisor: Danilo Udovicki

Kathryn Alisa Pierce Meyer 
The Architect as Collector: Karl Kamrath’s Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Laura Margaret McGuire 
The Colors of Home: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Color at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Kristen Noel Brown 
House Designs of Norman Bel Geddes: Four Projects from the Collection of the Harry Ransom Center 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Richard Cleary

Monica Michelle Penick 
The Pace Setter Houses: Livable Modernism in Postwar America 
Dissertation Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

David Myron Bentley 
Saving Place: Preserving Authentic Community Character 
M.A. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Long

Ely Marie Merheb-Emanuelli 
Preservation of Urban Design: The Story of Paseo de Diego 
M.S. Historic Preservation Supervisor: Christopher Long

Yifeng Zhang 
Toward a Preservation of Isolated Historic Building as a Group: Case Study of XuJiaHui in Shanghai, China 
M.S. Historic Preservation Supervisor: Christopher Long

Kathryn Elizabeth Holliday 
Leopold Eidlitz and the Architecture of Nineteenth-Century America 
Dissertation Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

William Owen Harrod 
Bruno Paul: The Life and Work of a Pragmatic Modernist 
Dissertation Supervisor: Christopher Long

Lisa Diane Schrenk 
The Role of the 1933-1934 Century of Progress International Exposition in the Development and Promotion of Modern Architecture in the United States 
Dissertation Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Debra Kay Schafter 
Archaic Modernism in Viennese Art and Architecture, 1890-1918: Theories and Applications 
Dissertation Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin

Christopher Alan Long 
Josef Frank and the Crisis of Modern Architecture 
Dissertation Supervisor: Anthony Alofsin