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Theses/dissertations from 2014 2014.

A Maoli-Based Art Education: Ku'u Mau Kuamo'o 'Ōlelo , Raquel Malia Andrus

Accumulation of Divine Service , Blaine Lee Atwood

Caroline Murat: Powerful Patron of Napoleonic France and Italy , Brittany Dahlin

.(In|Out)sider$ , Jarel M. Harwood

Mariko Mori's Sartorial Transcendence: Fashioned Identities, Denied Bodies, and Healing, 1993-2001 , Jacqueline Rose Hibner

Parallel and Allegory , Kody Keller

Fallen Womanhood and Modernity in Ivan Kramskoi's Unknown Woman (1883) , Trenton B. Olsen

Conscience and Context in Eastman Johnson's The Lord Is My Shepherd , Amanda Melanie Slater

The War That Does Not Leave Us: Memory of the American Civil War and the Photographs of Alexander Gardner , Katie Janae White

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Women and the Wiener Werkstätte: The Centrality of Women and the Applied Arts in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna , Caitlin J. Perkins Bahr

Cutting Into Relief , Matthew L. Bass

Mask, Mannequin, and the Modern Woman: Surrealism and the Fashion Photographs of George Hoyningen-Huene , Hillary Anne Carman

The End of All Learning , Maddison Carole Colvin

Civitas: A Game-Based Approach to AP Art History , Anna Davis

What Crawls Beneath , Brent L. Gneiting

Blame Me for Your Bad Grade: Autonomy in the Basic Digital Photography Classroom as a Means to Combat Poor Student Performance , Erin Collette Johnson

Evolving Art in Junior High , Randal Charles Marsh

All Animals Will Get Along in Heaven , Camila Nagata

It Will Always Be My Tree: An A/r/tographic Study of Place and Identity in an Elementary School Classroom , Molly Robertson Neves

Zofia Stryjeńska: Women in the Warsaw Town Square. Our Lady, Peasant Mother, Pagan Goddess , Katelyn McKenzie Sheffield

Using Contemporary Art to Guide Curriculum Design:A Contemporary Jewelry Workshop , Kathryn C. Smurthwaite

Documenting the Dissin's Guest House: Esther Bubley's Exploration of Jewish-American Identity, 1942-43 , Vriean Diether Taggart

Blooming Vines, Pregnant Mothers, Religious Jewelry: Gendered Rosary Devotion in Early Modern Europe , Rachel Anne Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Rembrandt van Rijn's Jewish Bride : Depicting Female Power in the Dutch Republic Through the Notion of Nation Building , Nan T. Atwood

Portraits , Nicholas J. Bontorno

Where There Is Design , Elizabeth A. Crowe

George Dibble and the Struggle for Modern Art in Utah , Sarah Dibble

Mapping Creativity: An A/r/tographic Look at the Artistic Process of High School Students , Bart Andrus Francis

Joseph as Father in Guido Reni's St. Joseph Images , Alec Teresa Gardner

Student Autonomy: A Case Study of Intrinsic Motivation in the Art Classroom , Downi Griner

Aha'aina , Tali Alisa Hafoka

Fashionable Art , Lacey Kay

Effluvia and Aporia , Emily Ann Melander

Interactive Web Technology in the Art Classroom: Problems and Possibilities , Marie Lynne Aitken Oxborrow

Visual Storybooks: Connecting the Lives of Students to Core Knowledge , Keven Dell Proud

German Nationalism and the Allegorical Female in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's The Hall of Stars , Allison Slingting

The Influence of the Roman Atrium-House's Architecture and Use of Space in Engendering the Power and Independence of the Materfamilias , Anne Elizabeth Stott

The Narrative Inquiry Museum:An Exploration of the Relationship between Narrative and Art Museum Education , Angela Ames West

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Portable Art Gallery: Facilitating Student Autonomy and Ownership through Exhibiting Artwork , Jethro D. Gillespie

The Movement Of An Object Through A Field Creates A Complex Situation , Jared Scott Greenleaf

Alice Brill's Sao Paulo Photographs: A Cross-Cultural Reading , Danielle Jean Hurd

A Comparative Case Study: Investigation of a Certified Elementary Art Specialist Teaching Elementary Art vs. a Non-Art Certified Teacher Teaching Elementary Art , Jordan Jensen

A Core Knowledge Based Curriculum Designed to Help Seventh and Eighth Graders Maintain Artistic Confidence , Debbie Ann Labrum

Traces of Existence , Jayna Brown Quinn

Female Spectators in the July Monarchy and Henry Scheffer's Entrée de Jeanne d’Arc à Orléans , Kalisha Roberts

Without End , Amy M. Royer

Classroom Community: Questions of Apathy and Autonomy in a High School Jewelry Class , Samuel E. Steadman

Preparing Young Children to Respond to Art in the Museum , Nancy L. Stewart

DAY JAW BOO, a re-collection , Rachel VanWagoner

The Tornado Tree: Drawing on Stories and Storybooks , Toni A. Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

IGolf: Contemporary Sculptures Exhibition 2009 , King Lun Kisslan Chan

24 Hour Portraits , Lee R. Cowan

Fabricating Womanhood , Emily Fox

Earth Forms , Janelle Marie Tullis Mock

Peregrinations , Sallie Clinton Poet

Leland F. Prince's Earth Divers , Leland Fred Prince

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Ascents and Descents: Personal Pilgrimage in Hieronymus Bosch's The Haywain , Alison Daines

Beyond the Walls: The Easter Processional on the Exterior Frescos of Moldavian Monastery Churches , Mollie Elizabeth McVey

Beauty, Ugliness, and Meaning: A Study of Difficult Beauty , Christine Anne Palmer

Lantern's Diary , Wei Zhong Tan

Text and Tapestry: "The Lady and the Unicorn," Christine de Pizan and the le Vistes , Shelley Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

A Call for Liberation: Aleijadinho's 'Prophets' as Capoeiristas , Monica Jayne Bowen

Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste" , Kiersten Claire Davis

Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy , Ashlee Whitaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum , Laura Paulsen Howe

And there were green tiles on the ceiling , Jean Catherine Richardson

Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition , K. Michelle Wimber

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

The Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies by Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson: Hybridity, History Painting, and the Grand Tour , Megan Marie Collins

Fix , Kathryn Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Ideals and Realities , Pamela Bowman

Accountability for the Implementation of Secondary Visual Arts Standards in Utah and Queensland , John K. Derby

The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa María de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate , Julia Alice Jardine McMullin

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Bartunkova, Barbora , “Sites of Resistance: Antifascism and the Czechoslovak Avant-garde” (C. Armstrong)

Betik, Blair Katherine , “Altars on the Roman Frontiers: Ritual Objects in Real Space.” (M. Gaifman)

Burke, Harry , “The Islands Between: Art, Animism, and Anticolonial Worldmaking in Archipelagic Southeast Asia” (P. Lee)

Boyd, Nicole , “Science, Craft, Art, Theater: Four ‘Perspectives’ on the Painted Architecture of Angelo Michele Colonna and Agostino Mitelli” (N Suthor). 

Chau, Tung , “Strange New Worlds: Interfaces in the Work of Cao Fei” (P. Lee)

Cox, Emily , “Perverse Modernism, 1884-1900” (C. Armstrong, T. Barringer)

Datta, Yagnaseni , “Materialising Illusions: Visual Translation in the Mughal Jug Basisht, c. 1602.” (K. Rizvi)

de Luca, Theo , “Nicolas Poussin’s Chronotopes” (N. Suthor)

Del Bonis-O’Donnell, Asia , “Trees and the Visualization of  kosmos  in Archaic and Classical Athenian Art” (Yale University, M. Gaifman)

Demby, Nicole , “The Diplomatic Image: Framing Art and Internationalism, 1945-1960” (K. Mercer)

Donnelly, Michelle . “Spatialized Impressions: American Printmaking Outside the Workshop, 1935–1975” (J. Raab)

Epifano, Angie , “Building the Samorian State: Material Culture, Architecture, and Cities across West Africa” (E. Cooke, Jr.)

Fialho, Alex , “Apertures onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit” (P. Lee, T Nyong’o)

Foo, Adela , “Crafting the Aq Qoyuniu Court (1475-1490) (E. Cooke, Jr.)

Franciosi, Caterina , “Latent Light: Energy and Nineteenth-Century British Art” (T. Barringer)

Frier, Sara , “Unbearable Witness: The Disfigured Body in the Northern European Brief (1500-1620)” (N. Suthor)

Galdone, Isabella , “Interwoven: Women Makers at the Intersection of Needlework and Painting in Victoria Britain” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke, Jr.)

Gaudet, Manon , “ Property and the Contested Ground of North American Visual Culture, 1900-1945” (E. Cooke, Jr.)  

Haffner, Michaela , “Nature Cure: ”White Wellness” and the Visual Culture of Natural Health, 1870-1930” (J. Raab)

Herrmann, Mitchell , “The Art of the Living: Biological Life and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century” (P. Lee)

Higgins, Lily , “Reading into Things: Articulate Objects in Colonial North America, 1650-1783” (E. Cooke, Jr.)

Hodson, Josie , “Something in Common: Black Art under Austerity in New York City, 1975-1990” (P. Lee)

Hong, Kevin , “Plasticity, Fungibility, Toxicity: Photography’s Ecological Entanglements in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States” (C. Armstrong, J Raab)

Horwitz, Vu , “Palm Wine Cups from the Kuba Cultural Region” (Edward Cooke, Jr.)

Kim, Adela , “Beyond Institutional Critique: Tearing Up in the Work of Andrea Fraser” (P. Lee)

Kitlinski, Sophia , “The Bureaucracy of Ritual: Spanish Administrative Iconography and Afro-Cuban Sacred Drawing in Nineteenth-Century Cuba” (J. Raab)

Keto, Elizabeth , “Reconstruction’s Objects: Art in the United States South, 1861-1900.” (J. Raab)

Koposova, Ekaterina , “Triumph and Terror in the Arts of the Franco-Dutch War” (M Bass)

Levy Haskell, Gavriella , “The Imaginative Painter”: Visual Narrative and the Interactive Painting in Britain, 1851-1914” (T. Barringer, E. Cooke Jr)

Marquardt, Savannah , “Chthon: Material Eschatologies of Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (5th-4th c BCE)” (M. Gaifman)

Miraval, Nathalie , “Sacred Subversions: Martha, Monsters, and Domestic Devotion in the Early Modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic” (C. Fromont)

Mizbani, Sharon , “Mediated Waters: Architectures of Thirst and Nourishment in Late-Ottoman Istanbul” (K. Rizvi)

Molarsky-Beck, Marina . “Seeing the Unseen: Queer Artistic Subjectivity in Interwar Photography” (C. Armstrong)

Nagy, Renata , “Remaking Natural History in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe” (M. Bass)

Olfat, Faraz , “Eclecticism in Architecture and the Politics of Nation Building, 1870-1920” (C. Buckley, E. Cooke, Jr.)

Petrilli-Jones, Sara , “Drafting the Canon: Legal Histories of Art in Florence and Rome, 1600-1800” (N. Suthor)

Phillips, Kate , “American Ephemera” (J. Raab)

Potuckova, Kristina , “The Arts of Women’s Monastic Liturgy, Holy Roman Empire, 1000-1200” (J. Jung)

Rapoport, Sarah , “James Jacques-Joseph Tissot in the Interstices of Modernity” (T. Barringer, C. Armstrong)

Robbins, Isabella , “Relationality and Being: Indigeneity, Space and Transit in Global Contemporary Art” (P. Lee, N. Blackhawk)

Sellati, Lillian , “When is Herakles Not Himself? Mediating Cultural Plurality in Greater Central Asia, 330 BCE – 365 CE” (M. Gaifman)

Valladares, Carlos , “Jacques Demy” (P. Lee)

Wang, Xueli , “Performing Disappearance: Maggie Cheung and the Off-Screen” (Q. Ngan)

Werwie, Katherine , “Visions Across the Gates: Materiality, Symbolism, and Communication in the Historiated Wooden Doors of Medieval European Churches” (J. Jung)

Wisowaty, Stephanie , “Painted Processional Crosses in Central Italy, 1250-1400: Movement, Mediation and Multisensory Effects” (J. Jung)

Webley, John , “Ink, Paint, and Blood: India and the Great Game in Russian Culture” (T. Barringer, M. Brunson)

Young, Colin , “Desert Places: The Visual Culture of the Prairies and the Pampas across the Nineteenth Century” (J. Raab)

Zhou, Joyce Yusi , “The Art and Material Culture of Women in Early Modern Batavia” (M. Bass, E. Cooke, Jr.)

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Care can be defined as a set of relational practices that foster mutual recognition, growth, protection, empowerment, and human community, among others (Gordon et al., 1996). This study investigates the practices of care in the context of the curatorial creation of collaborative arts engagements. The recent proliferation of partnerships between artists and communities has revealed that, in some instances, such relationships have not been productive or supportive. This raises questions about how curators and artists embed ethical commitments into their planning and whether their relational practices foster care. Informed by Ethics of Care theory, Relational Aesthetics, and feminist scholarship as derived from the fields of leadership, psychology, and higher education, an interview-based cross-case approach was utilized to examine the Ethics of Care praxis within participatory art engagements. Six art practitioners were interviewed for this study to reveal their common experiences relating to care and explore how this relates to the background and curatorial work of the researcher. Data were collected through interviews and the researchers’ photographic reflection journal. It is argued that the findings expand the definition of ethical, collaborative relations within artistic co-creations. They also highlight the need to embrace discomfort, set boundaries to inform reciprocity, and provide a sense of belonging within Holistic Communities of Practitioners. 

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While new approaches to displaying art free both the art and the viewer from overly didactic forms of curation, there have been very few attempts to examine how viewers negotiate meaning from art when no goal or directive is provided. While some see difference as the critical factor, others use similarity as a way to introduce new narratives. This dissertation research takes a close look at the kinds of things people observe in visual works of art to expose the specific ways that the offerings in the work are made knowable by its viewer and how different modes of presentation might affect the process. A paired design was developed to find out how juxtaposing works on dimensions of similarity and difference might affect what people see in individual paintings and whether the presence or absence of depictive content would be a factor. In three online experiments, participants were tasked with generating as many single words or short phrase responses as they could over a two-minute time period from a selection of modern and contemporary paintings – 32 abstract and 32 representational. In the first study, paintings were presented sequentially. In the next study, the same pictures were purposefully matched for color, composition, style, and thematic content. In the third study, the same pictures were re-paired to maximize difference. Pairing effected an overall decline in number of total comments for representational paintings compared to isolated single-view sequences. In contrast, significant increases were found for abstract art when the adjacent painting was also abstract. Significant consistency in response patterns for both art types across all three studies provide quantitative and content-based evidence for a normative level of engagement, with specific processing effects relative to art type. 

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Certain disjunctions exist between the structure, courses, and practices of current textile curricula on the one hand, and the demands of students for entry into diverse creative professions and the demands of the creative industry for qualified new talents on the other. Thus, this research will explore the history, current issues, and emerging trends of academia and the creative professions as these shape the qualifications, aspirations, and expectations of students, academia, and the textile-related fields. The ultimate goal of this study is to comprehend the contemporary issues—social, economic, and cultural shifts—that may impact textile education within art and design colleges, and propose an efficient and engaging BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) textile curriculum suitable for the era of interdisciplinary education and the fourth industrial revolution. Since scholarly study of the effectiveness of art school curriculum is limited and little research has examined the challenges of BFA education, and in particular BFA textile education in the context of 21st century college education, the researcher begins with a survey of existing literature from adjacent fields, including higher education, sociology, business, marketing, apparel, and art education, in particular, adolescent artistic development. The existing literature also includes statistics from government, consulting firms, colleges ranking sites, and annual reports published by each school.

This qualitative case study examines how stakeholders in BFA textile education—students, faculty, and professionals—from five selected art colleges in the U.S. perceive their educational experiences and post-college careers. The data were collected through 1) a review of existing literature pertaining to perspectives of general college education, creative industry, and current student generation, and 2) qualitative data gathered through initial surveys and verbal interviews, including two pilot studies. Stakeholder perspectives obtained through interviews are interpreted through the following theoretical frameworks: 1) the business perspective aiming at the success of all stakeholders; 2) the marketing perspective aiming at improving stakeholder satisfaction as a means of enhancing the operational efficiency of organizations; and 3) the educational perspective aiming to create effective teaching and engaging learning environments for the success of today's young creative talents. The researcher contends that the findings strongly suggest curricular and pedagogy change in accordance with societal changes and demands of the stakeholders—current student generation, creative industry, and academia—while at the same time informing the significant value of college education, BFA education, and textile education in the 21st century.

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This qualitative cross-case study explores the intricate practice of cutting within contemporary art, examining the works of six artists to unravel cutting’s diverse expressions. This research identifies cutting as a dynamic form of drawing that has evolved from ancient utilitarian uses and pre-modern crafts to a contemporary art form bridging various disciplines. The study meticulously charts the transformation of cutting from its historical roots in crafts like collages, quilts, writing, and pottery decoration to its present status as a ubiquitous tool in artistic creation through semi-structured interviews, visual analysis, and a comprehensive review of both digital and physical portfolios, the study explores how artists harness cutting to achieve a range of formal, conceptual, and metaphorical outcomes. The research, grounded in a constructivist worldview, contextualizes these practices within the broader contemporary art scene, drawing insights from theorists such as Thierry du Duve, David Joselit, Robert Storr, and Hito Steyerl. This research categorizes cutting techniques into literal, physical, and non-literal, encompassing digital and metaphorical approaches, highlighting the practice’s capacity for innovation and transformation. This study reveals a unifying theme across the artists’ works: the use of cutting as an extension of drawing, facilitating endless possibilities for transformation and expression. This dissertation posits that cutting extends beyond the confines of traditional art forms, acting as a versatile tool that empowers a spectrum of artistic expressions. By examining the historical development and diverse applications of cutting practices, the research enriches our comprehension of contemporary art. It reveals the profound and transformative potential inherent within this fundamental artistic act. 

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Civilization games can depict imaginative and sophisticated perspectives on the future. Yet some scholars have critiqued civilization games for their replication of dominant, limited ideologies. Game designers often learn about design directly or indirectly from frameworks, such as the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework which contains a very idiosyncratic definition of aesthetics. Given that aesthetic thinking can unlock the sociological imagination, the aim of this dissertation was to discover opportunities to expand civilization game design by understanding the aesthetic experience of designers. A qualitative interview study was conducted of 13 game designers who created at least one civilization game based in the future. The interview and analysis had an ontological focus, to better understand how aesthetics fit into the existing puzzle of game design knowledge. The findings showed that designers employ their perspective in game design; this sense of self and perspective is not captured by current ontologies of game design. Furthermore, designers are limited in their ability to explore the boundaries of civilization games by task complexity, emotionality, and reliance on player experience. Resultantly, they may focus intensely on known aspects of game design in order to deliver a product. The dissertation proposes two primary solutions. Firstly, a game design framework that integrates the self into game design and more clearly delineates the game as an artifact. Secondly, cultivate truer senses of vision in game design for those who want to push civilization games and games as a whole, while understanding the practical realities of game design. These implications can be used by educators to reconsider game design program curricula, as well as affirm game designers’ pursuit of their own perspective.

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This qualitative multiple case study tracks the work of six artists with an educational background in oriental painting, traditional Korean painting, for their BFA major. This study reveals a change in their artwork from their original training after graduation to their current manner of artistic expression. This transformation occurs as they develop their artwork in a more contemporary way in the South Korean art world where Western art/global art has become a center. Although oriental painting has been influenced by Western art since Japanese colonial liberation in the 1940s, this situation presents conceptual conflicts between traditional and contemporary approaches to this genre of art. This study examines how six artists find their artistic position between conflicting values through the examination of the trajectory of the changes in their artwork since their graduation from undergraduate school. The participants of this study were six artists (three men and three women) who earned a BFA degree in oriental painting in South Korea. Semi-structured interviews, visual data of artists’ artworks, and written notes were sources of data analysis. The qualitative case study was based on constructivism of philosophical worldviews. The evolution of the participants’ artwork is examined based on theories such as Jack Mezirow’s transformative learning and Robert Kegan’s adult development. This study presents the transformation from two perspectives: sociocultural factors and personal motivations. Each perspective reflects changes in materials and techniques as well as changes in imagery. Furthermore, the enduring values of oriental painting in the transformation are examined, which includes Eastern philosophy and aesthetics and visual elements such as three-distance perspective, blank space, and expression of line. Ultimately, this study argues that there exist various avenues of transformation based on oriental painting, with tradition persisting in novel forms of contemporary art.

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This visual and narrative-based qualitative research examined the specific cultural journeys of eight Korean contemporary artists as well as their meaning-making processes reflected in their art and growth of cultural perception. The data primarily consisted of interview descriptions that surrounded the participants’ lived experiences in South Korea or the United States, namely their cultural and educational influences represented in their artistic identity and artworks. To examine their personal and artistic growth, Kegan’s theory of adult meaning-making and Mezirow’s transformative learning development theory informed the reasoning behind the participants’ transition between their past and present encounters.

The research findings supported a host of literature regarding the influence of cultural changes and challenges in the individual development process of Korean contemporary artists in both South Korea and the United States. A discussion was also presented to highlight how the artist participants who studied abroad developed opportunities for growth through their artwork and navigation of new cultural environments in the United States. This research provides art educators and artists with concepts to best confront cultural and educational issues that emerge in the art classroom and the art world, specifically the impact these interventions can make on cross-cultural learners.

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As I began this research, and even as a younger person, I thought it was the responsibility of my father to teach me what it is to be a man and how to embrace manhood. However, through the tools of self-study and autoethnography as a research method, it has become apparent that the responsibility falls upon me to seek manhood and to develop a lifelong practice of building good character. In the words of Dr. Leon Wright (1975), “To know God, one must know all about man.” This research seeks to bring clarity to my efforts to find out who I am. It details my journey from boy to artist to man. It works to highlight the interplay between three aspects of identity that make up my sense of self: racial identity, social/emotional identity (manhood) and lastly, my professional identity as an artist. This writing works to establish a personal meaning for manhood gained through self-reflection, personal experience, and formal rites of passage participation.

This research initiates as an investigation concerning the members of my family, and my interaction with the men who have had a direct involvement in my life. This is an endeavor to document my path toward gaining/acknowledging purpose while working to acquire the knowledge of myself. I started with confronting my pain, realizing my creativity and artistry, welcoming my personality, to eventually embracing spirituality, all as a quest for knowledge. The knowledge of myself leads to the comprehension of my purpose in life, without which, as David Deida writes, I would be “totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events” (2007, p. 37). This document is my inquiry to this acquisition of life purpose. On this quest, I have since modified Dr. Wright’s words to suggest that, “To know God, one must know all about themselves.”

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The study explored the returning experience of six Chinese art education practitioners after they received their graduate degrees in the United States and moved back to China. It was grounded on the assumption that when art education returnees try to translate what they learned into the new system of art education in another country, their efforts will be shaped by the different cultural context, and conflicts will emerge with multiple and interrelated dimensions.

The dissertation employed a qualitative cross-case approach. Six returned art education practitioners were selected and interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol in 2019. I mainly worked as a non-participant researcher, obtaining information from the conversations with the participants. In addition, I collected blog entries, photos, and online articles related to what and how an interviewee responded to a question.

The findings of the research suggested that returnees move along diverse trajectories of professional development, and their professional ideas all contradict local traditions to some extent. Collectively, they experienced multiple challenges concerning professional, administrative, and interpersonal, as well as some minor challenges in their returning process. In coping with the challenges, they made two-way changes: they changed their own expectations and behaviors, while also changing art education in China in terms of teaching methods, space, and people involved.

This study aimed to provide educational implications for future art education returnees, international art programs, and China as the home country. It also provides implications for the developing art education programs in China. New thoughts sparked by the process of collecting data and writing the dissertation are also presented as suggestions for future studies.  

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The Sustained Investigation is a student-directed body of work completed as a requirement of the AP Studio Art (APSA) course. This work involves three audiences: students themselves, their teachers, and AP readers who evaluate their portfolios. Students must consider not only the personal meaning and relevance of their work, but the extent to which that significance can or should be communicated to these outside viewers. Teachers are faced with a related challenge: to guide students through work that is essentially self-defined. The purpose of this research was to document teacher, student, and reader descriptions of the pursuit of worthwhile ideas as they relate to the perceived goals and purposes of the Sustained Investigation. This research was undertaken as a collective case study involving interviews of APSA teachers and students across four school sites, as well as a selection of readers. Findings indicate that the term idea might describe a range of approaches to organizing a body of work, including themes, concepts, political stances, feelings, and other sources or motivations. Furthermore, this work often reflects multiple concurrent ideas, involving primary and secondary goals for one’s work. The development of ideas was often linked to a nonlinearity of practice; ideas were clarified through the process of making rather than beforehand. Respondents indicated that ideas should be meaningful to the creator, largely relating meaning to personal relevance. Meaning might be pursued by selecting topics of personal significance, developing individual creative processes, or reflecting on this experience as an opportunity to fully embody the role of artist. Meaningful ideas were differentiated from successful ones. Notions of success were defined in terms of the degree of internally and externally imposed challenge involved in this endeavor. Participants agreed that students should be considered the primary audience for their own work. For some students, awareness of readers motivated them to take on challenging work, but this awareness did not influence their choice of central ideas. The findings of this study, particularly the nuance in distinctions between idea, meaningful idea, and successful idea, may be useful in informing pedagogical and creative practice in the AP program and beyond.

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The Book of Arithmetic Problems of Johannes Whisler (1814-1815), a mathematics exercise book in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, is the central object of this study. This handwritten and illuminated book, created by a young Pennsylvania German man in the early 19th century, prompts a reevaluation of handwriting and doodling, with implications for the present era. The author documents the biographical and sociocultural circumstances surrounding the creation of Whisler’s cyphering book through primary and secondary historical research and applies Glăveanu’s theory of distributed creativity to describe the book as a creative process that emerged among people and objects, and across time.

As direct indices of immediate actions, handwriting and doodling emerge in moment-to-moment action, even as these actions are embedded in longer periods of developmental and historical change; the author documents Whisler’s handwriting flourishes and doodles and describes the particular qualities of these mark making activities with reference to the sociocultural context in which they appear, Werner’s theories regarding the physiognomic perception of symbols, and Stern’s theory of vitality forms. The dissertation concludes with educational implications of the research, which include considerations of the use of handwriting as a component of art education and the future of handwriting as an affective and cross-modal medium.  

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Abstract: In the years since the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement, American art museums have increased attempts to address the racial inequities that persist in the field. These inequities impact all aspects of museum work, not least of which education. Because museum educators are often seen as the conduit between museum collections and audiences, the work of implementing anti-racist programming often falls to them. However, the museum education field is majority White, and while there is a rich body of literature treating the adverse impacts of Whiteness on classroom teaching practices, very little exists on how Whiteness might manifest in gallery teaching practices specifically for White museum educators.

Utilizing participatory action research, practitioner inquiry, and a White affinity group model, this qualitative study explores aspects of Whiteness that impact the gallery teaching practices of four White museum educators. Our research questions seek to understand better how Whiteness manifests in our teaching specifically in the context of single visit field trips, how those impacts might shift depending on the racial demographics of the groups we are teaching, what questions come for us as a White practitioner-researcher group dedicated to undermining Whiteness in our teaching, and how, if at all, does participation in such a study impact how we think about and implement anti-racist teaching in our practice.

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Using an ecological systems approach, this qualitative study examined how continuously evolving, personal living experiences and the ideologies and attitudes of their material, folk, and school culture come to be (re) presented in the construction of images and meaning in children’s artwork. The research was conducted with three groups of fifth-grade students facilitated by the art teacher at their schools in three different countries: United States, Greece, and Ghana. Data in the form of a set of autobiographical drawings from observation, memory, and imagination with written commentary were created by each participant and supported with responses to questionnaires and correspondences from teachers and parents. The sets of drawings were analyzed in terms of how the drawings reflect the children’s (a) artistic expression as mediated by their interaction with local and media influences and (b) sense of self, agency, or purpose.

The findings strongly suggest that style, details, content, and media use assumed a dominant role within the drawings. Furthermore, these results were reflected differently in the drawings of the cohort from each country. Having considered the set of drawings each child made as a network of enterprise emphasizes the active role the children played in the production of the artwork, involving their choices of theme and content, the media images incorporated, and the means by which a task was adapted to suit their interests. However, the results also show that the specific skills—drawing from observation, memory, and imagination—required by the four drawing tasks had a tempering effect on their creative output, leading to the conclusion that the children’s limited drawing experience constrained their ability to express themselves in pictorial representation with fluency. In view of these findings, lesson suggestions are designed to develop drawing skills across drawing modes in a rhizomatic manner of thinking. Suggestions for future research address exploring the evolution of children’s identity and sense of agency in the world through artistic expression; the role of the environment in which children draw as an embodied and embedded experience in a physical and sociocultural world; and further research into how and why children use images to communicate.

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Contemporary artist residencies are institutions or programs that enable artists to develop their practice beyond the confines of their typical work setting. Increasingly, they are also a means to access significant material, interpersonal, and professional resources, and a medium through which to engage with local communities. In response to these developments, the present interview-based study aims to understand how artists develop within a community context by investigating the work and experiences of eight artists who have participated in community-based residencies across—and sometimes beyond—the United States. By collecting each artist’s narrative and supplementing it with documents, images, and auto-reflections of their artwork, the study investigates the complex network of characteristics that help facilitate the creative process. Furthermore, by canvassing research from fields like social psychology, business management, and arts education, it explores the relations of educational reciprocity that emerge between artists and residency communities. This study suggests that the complex physical and interpersonal dynamics of each residency environment contributed in distinctive ways to the artists’ development. It also notes that each unique residency program provided support for the use of new materials, the exploration of new practices, and the investigation of new content. The residency characteristics that were most conducive to creative growth included (1) difference from one’s typical working environment; (2) access to new (and sometimes unconventional) materials, tools, and facilities; (3) social opportunities such as shared meals and public forums to cultivate relationships with residency cohorts; and (4) ample time (usually 1–2 months) and space (access to both private and public studios) to settle into the residency environment, explore one’s artistic practice (and the practice of other resident artists), and foster relationships among cohorts, staff members, and community visitors. Ultimately, this study argues that artist residencies can contribute to the field of non-formal art education by serving as a relational framework for artists and their residency communities.

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This research investigates how power dynamics function in three cases of participatory art, each created by a different artist. Participatory art (PA) is understood as art whose physical or visual properties are shaped or altered by the viewers’ engagement. The study responds to the fact that discourses on PA often refer to the emancipation of participants. Rooted in concepts from Foucauldian biopolitics, the research also assumes that PA inevitably involves a distribution of power among artists and participants, which often vacillates between cultivation and instrumentalization.

Data for this qualitative, multi-case study were collected through interviews with the three artists and with three viewers of each studied work. The researcher’s memories of her participatory experiences in the studied artworks, captured in a journal, were also considered as data.

Detailed narrative findings illustrate how artists’ and viewers’ positions in relation to particular works are never detached from the art systems that frame them. Yet, these positions are not necessarily static and can shift in significant ways. Therefore, the balance between cultivation and instrumentalization can change from work to work, from participant to participant, and from situation to situation. The study shines a light on the potential of critical reflection, enacted once artists and viewers “step out” of the work, for realizing, questioning, and critiquing the conditions of participatory artworks. The researcher suggests that it is in such reflective spaces that awareness of one’s power within a work, and the emancipation that follows, are more likely to occur.

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The purpose of this study was to illuminate characteristics of the pedagogical learning environment in three contemporary MFA Visual Arts programs in the United States and to investigate effective pedagogical practice for graduate art students in preparation for teaching in higher education. According to the College Art Association (CAA), the MFA is considered the terminal degree in the visual arts, unlike other related fields such as art history and art education, where the doctorate is the highest degree. While MFA students can pursue a professional practice of creating and exhibiting their artwork after graduation, many students also enter the MFA with the aim of becoming college art educators. However, there has been a lack of research that specifically examines the degree to which MFA visual arts students are being prepared for teaching. How are students preparing to become college art faculty, and what professional development programs are provided to graduate art students to help them teach art at the college level? These are questions that were the background context of this dissertation study.

This study took the form of a cross-case analysis that employed qualitative and descriptive case study traditions. Data were collected from multiple sources: primary documents and semi-structured interviews with nine MFA students, six studio art faculty members, and three administrators at three MFA programs. This study presented findings of: (a) the pedagogical preparation offered to graduate students by the selected art schools; (b) the perceptions of graduate art students, studio art faculty, and administrators regarding the quality of current academic career preparation, specifically for teaching, in their MFA programs; (c) the insights of those participants into the most important characteristics of college teaching preparation; and (d) suggestions by the participants for the best practices that lead students to become successful college art educators. Based on the findings through an analysis of the learning and practical experiences of MFA students and the perspectives of faculty and administrators, I hope that the study will extend the field’s understanding of the state of college teaching preparation in higher art education.

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We have become increasingly dependent on our smartphones and use them for entertainment, navigation, to shop, and to connect among other tasks. For many, the camera on the smartphone has replaced a dedicated digital camera, especially for the adolescent. With advances in smartphone technology, it is has become increasingly difficult to determine differences between smartphone camera and digital camera photographs. To date there is little research on the differences between photographs taken by smartphone and digital cameras, particularly among adolescents, who are avid photographers.

This study used a qualitative task-based research method to investigate differences in photographs taken by adolescents using both types of cameras. Twenty-three adolescents ages 15 to 17 attending a regularly scheduled high school photography class participated in the study. The students were invited to capture a typical day in their life, first using their digital camera or smartphone camera and then switching to the other type of camera. Data were collected by way of written reflections, student interviews, and the participants’ photographs. The three data sources were coded, analyzed, and triangulated to provide results for this study.

Results suggest that, for these particular participants, marginal differences exist between the photographs taken with a smartphone camera and a digital camera. Analysis also suggests there were minimal differences across specific categories of focus, color balance, and thoughtfully captured images between the smartphone and the digital camera photographs for this population of students.

The study concludes that teenagers ultimately use whatever capturing device is available to them, suggesting that it is the photographer who controls the quality of a photograph—not the capturing device. Educational implications of the study focus on the use of technology in the art classroom, and suggestions are offered for photographic curricula based on the results of this study. In addition, an examination of different pedagogical styles, such as reciprocal and remote teaching and learning models, finds them particularly appropriate in supporting photography education for adolescents.

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University-based teacher educators’ first three years on the job are often imbued with tension, as they must renegotiate their professional identities and pedagogical philosophies in relation to ambiguous and sometimes conflicting expectations of what they should do and stand for in this role. As role models for aspiring art teachers, art teacher educators have a powerful influence on their pre-service students’ views of teaching, and on their emergent professional dispositions. However, despite the moral and intellectual significance of their work, and the diversity of their identities and work contexts, research on this population is limited and does not reflect current demographics in the field. While existing studies suggest some of the tensions that art teacher educators—both new and veteran—face on the job, research has not yet explored how new faculty members, specifically, experience their earliest years in the role nor how they learn to develop personally authentic art teacher education pedagogy. This qualitative multi-case study responds to these gaps in the literature, and to the understanding that new knowledge-for-practice is often generated within spaces of creative tension such as career transition.

The study participants were eight full-time art education faculty members with less than three years in the role. Individual and cross-case analysis of data collected through semi-structured interviews, qualitative questionnaires, and reflective tasks, revealed that participants’ tensions were predominantly influenced by discrepancies between (1) their established occupational roles/identities and practices, and expectations placed upon them in the art teacher educator role that they had not fully anticipated, and (2) their own, and others’ art-education-related (ideological) values. Most of the participants identified strongly with discipline-specific values (e.g., being grounded in activism and arts-informed social justice). These values functioned as core elements of their professional identities and of their teaching, research, and scholarship. However, in some cases, there were difficulties in translating these values into effective art teacher education pedagogical content knowledge.

The data analysis suggested that through reflecting on tensions, participants gained increased professional self-understanding and keener awareness of the forces that enable or constrain the enactment of their personal pedagogical values. Additionally, the data suggest that greater intentional preparation and support for this role (particularly mentorship that validates their established identities and backgrounds) prior to and during the early years, could greatly benefit art teacher educators’ adjustments into the academy and facilitate their building of pedagogical content knowledge for this role.

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The following dissertation presents a historical narrative and an arts (music, dance, and visual arts) curriculum based on the artwork of the quintessential Caribbean-American artist, Geoffrey Holder. The dissertation is a response to a reported lack of research and teaching materials on Caribbean artists. That is, arts educators at the secondary and postsecondary levels as well as art museum educators reported a lack of, and need for, curriculum and teaching materials grounded in Caribbean content and reflective of Caribbean cultural epistemologies. Through the qualitative research methodology of historiography, an historical analysis of Holder’s artwork was conducted to develop a historical narrative, and through the instructional design approach of ADDIE an arts curriculum on music, dance, and visual arts was developed. The framing of the historical narrative was based in concepts drawn from Third Space theory into conversation with creolization to form the conceptual grounding for my exploration into Caribbean epistemologies. The curriculum development is grounded in concepts of intercultural education and inclusive arts education curriculum design. The results of this dissertation confirm the research gap of teaching resources for arts educators and needed for the supplemental materials provided through this research. 

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Over the last four decades, museum education in the United States has developed into a legitimate and respected profession. However, for those who want to become art museum educators, the path is neither clear nor smooth. Those in the profession often face low pay, limited career growth opportunities, and a lack of job security. Despite these realities, the museum education field continues to attract people. Yet, there is scant literature about novice art museum educators, specifically about how they find their way as they enter the profession.

Utilizing a post-intention phenomenological methodology, this qualitative study explores the phenomenon of wayfinding, defined as how someone orients themselves to the museum education profession and the ways they navigate the opportunities and challenges they encounter. The research questions guiding this study include how wayfinding took shape for five art museum educators with less than two years of work experience, what they went through upon entering the profession, and what helped them navigate their way.

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This qualitative multiple case study examines how learning is elicited in three artist-led socially engaged artworks. Three contemporary artists created their process-based artworks by intentionally employing educational methods and formats to promote a learning experience with an audience group. This type of participatory artmaking is often associated with the educational turn in contemporary art. However, the majority of contemporary art literature has focused on the artist, often overlooking the audience’s experience. Hence, from the position of an art educator, I investigate not only the artists’ intentions and pedagogical frameworks in creating the artworks, but also the learning outcomes from the perspectives of the audience members. 

The three artworks in my study all shared a two-tier structure: first, a private working phase in which the artists collaborated with participating audience members whom I identified as “core group members”; and second, a public presentation phase in which the work was presented to “public audience members”. In order to examine the perceived learning from the three perspectives, I carried out on-site observations, and interviewed the artists, core group members, and public audience members, respectively. 

The findings revealed how artists created their artworks as a process and platform to promote collective knowledge making, particularly using current affairs as themes to instill political consciousness among the core group members. The core group members shared their salient learning experiences in relation to collaboration within their groups and with the artists, and “gaining confidence” in tandem with overcoming the challenges of public engagement. Aspects of self-directed learning, social bonding, and sense of belonging promoted motivation and eventually deeper learning. The public audience members shared their learning experiences in regard to public dialogue and display of the artworks. 

This study supports recognizing the value of pedagogy-based artworks in relation to learning that is intrinsically motivational and meaningful. The artworks in my study serve as arts-based models for learning and teaching social justice issues and civic engagement. In conclusion, artists’ approaches can diversify educators’ pedagogical approaches, and educational outcomes can support artists in creating empowering work with participants. Ultimately, this study advocates for the value of artmaking as a collective, transformative experience.

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Community-based public art education in emergencies is an emerging transdisciplinary field that exists at the crossroads of art education and education in emergencies. The Rohingya refugee camp is the largest refugee camp in the history of the world, on the border of Myanmar in Southern Bangladesh. As a response to the 2017 Rohingya refugee influx crisis, 

the international NGO Artolution started the first locally led collaborative public art education program in the refugee camps by selecting and educating individuals fleeing the Rohingya genocide. 

My research examines the learning that occurred throughout three years of teaching artist education programs with 14 Rohingya refugee and Bangladeshi women and men, through their journey to lead independent art education programs. This research employs a performance-based ethnographic data collection methodology, with qualitative interviews, focus groups, and narratives collected from the teaching artists and participating learners over three phases of data collection that took place from 2018–2019 in collaboration with UNHCR, UNICEF, IFRC, et al. 

The findings of the study suggest that the Rohingya Artolution teaching artist team is a living model for building a durable approach for emergency responses and humanizing a resilient future where history is defined by the voices that establish their own roles and identities in the world. The findings were presented through interweaving personal narratives and testimonials of the displaced and host teaching artists with supporting thinkers and commentary, in order to accurately link the stories of their learning and experiences by tracking the evolving teaching artist education process of cultivating creativity, curiosity, and expression in crisis-affected populations, and what that means for the future of their communities.

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Digital technologies have become fundamental to communication designers in their professional practice. The speed of technology change has been profound, and communication design educators, professionals, and students are challenged with reimagining what constitutes an education responsive to digital transformation. Attempts to address these changes have often been reactive, emphasizing digital skills requirements without always examining what practices best support design students as they prepare to pursue careers in various communication design-focused positions. The question of how educators can best prepare and support communication design students for what awaits them in the workplace is at the center of this study. Through mixed-methods research, including both survey analysis and in-depth semi-structured interviews (N = 202), this dissertation attempts to answer that question by analyzing practices incorporated by communication design educators, professionals, and students.

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This research examines how artists sustain their art practice in real-life situations, despite ongoing struggles, by developing strategies that befit individual circumstances. The research originates from the reality that many young artists give up their careers due to difficulties in finding a balance between art-making, living, and money-making. However, there are exceptional cases in which artists have managed to maintain their active art practice despite facing similarly difficult situations. This research began with questioning what made them different and how they acquired such differences. By setting space, material, and time as the basic elements for art making, I researched four New York-based artists who have not been able to live solely on their art, therefore have had to locate other sources of income through non-art or art-related activities. 

This research employs a qualitative case study approach. Accepting the impossibility of coming up with universal answers to solving the precarity in an artist’s life, I chose to investigate individual cases in an in-depth manner. I collected data through interviews over multiple sessions to elucidate each artist’s perspective on their lives and the nature of an artist’s life. 

This research reveals that three basic elements—space, material, and time—are not fixed, unnegotiable conditions for art making for the participants. Rather, these artists flexibly handle these three elements depending on their given circumstances by integrating the availability of certain elements with their art practice. In so doing, the artists tend to take limitations and constraints not merely as a barrier to overcome but more as a source of creativity to enhance the uniqueness of their art practice. Overall, the artists are familiar with the constant mode of learning for the unclear path of an artist’s career. 

Although the outcome of this research cannot be generalized to encompass every artist’s career, it can be of benefit to many struggling artists who have yet to figure out their own way of sustaining their practice. Also, this research can be helpful for college-level art teachers and school administrators in preparing their educational curricula to meet the practical needs of their students who dream of becoming artists as their life’s work.

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This qualitative case study investigates first-year college-level art education in the United States today. Specifically, 12 art instructors from a broad range of postsecondary institutions (including private art institutes, public research universities, public liberal arts colleges, and community colleges) were interviewed to explore perceptions of first-year students’ art skills, dispositions, and teaching. When supplemented by online institutional data, descriptions emerge of the curricular structures and changing teaching environments of the sampled first-year art programs. 

This study finds that art majors enter college art programs today with different skill sets and dispositions than past students. While digital media offers new options for artmaking, the data suggest it may also influence students’ development of manual, fine-motor, and drawing skills. These art instructors describe first-year students as having shorter attention spans and experiencing greater frustration when learning new skills. Furthermore, the data and literature suggest that more college students today enter with mental health issues (such as anxiety and depression) and learning disabilities. 

Budgetary cutbacks to K-12 arts programming may have diminished students’ abilities to produce quality portfolios for admission to selective art programs, which may have consequences for enrollment. Enrollments reflect shifting student demographics, such as more international students attending private art colleges. Rising college costs have prompted 

other changes, such as more students living at home and commuting to save money, or transferring to four-year programs after attending community college, working jobs while attending college, and pursuing career-oriented art majors. 

First-year art programs are continually adapting to new technical, educational, and cultural challenges through restructured curricula and modified pedagogy targeted to the student demographic served by the institution. In addition to teaching art skills required for subsequent coursework, the participants reported helping first-year students adjust to the college environment in ways that foster personal growth. This study documents changes in first-year art education as a basis for further research. Art educators at all levels benefit from knowledge of how college art instructors and first-year programs are modifying pedagogy and curricula to meet the changing needs of incoming art students.

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This research follows the topic of art and the everyday, and focuses on how our experience of the everyday is a significant area of educational inquiry. This study investigates the potential of walking as an interactive method of art education that relates to the way we learn from our everyday environment, and is connected to the field of visual culture art education, and the aesthetics of everyday life. 

By taking participants on an art walk, I can observe how they engage with their everyday environment directly, and examine whether walking can promote visual and aesthetic awareness towards their ordinary surroundings. A total of eight participants will be studied during the walk; participants represent a mixed variation of age and gender, with and without backgrounds in art, and will participate in a walking interview followed by a sit-down interview.

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Arguably, the practice of spiritual healing is simple in that it requires only the human body without utilizing a known physical means of intervention. Yet, it is confounding because its mechanisms, such as the belief and ability of the healer, are unable to be measured with a device. Given that, in recent years, spiritual healing has been found to be among the most prevalent practices in the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and that studies measuring its efficacy show variable results, it is important to understand its underlying mechanisms. Researchers have been studying the practice of spiritual healing, finding that, although the spiritual healer is not considered an actual device, metaphorically speaking, evidence suggests that she or he appears to be the most refined “instrument” of measurement. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceptions of spiritual healers, this qualitative case study asks: what is the role of the mental imagery of ten spiritual healers and their three clients over the course of three spiritual healings? To determine this, the study presents the following subquestions: 1) How do spiritual healers construct, experience, and express mental imagery during a spiritual healing treatment? 2) What kind, if any, comparability is there across different constructions, experiences, and expressions of mental imagery during a spiritual healing as described by the spiritual healers and their clients? Among other findings, this study found that the spiritual healers constructed, experienced, and expressed mental imagery in three main ways, including 1) initial perceptions, 2) meaning and interpretations, and 3) perceptions of spiritual healing. These themes existed for all of the spiritual healers across all cases. Within each of these themes, the researcher then generated a list of subthemes that were most prevalent. This study found that the subthemes and statements were overlapping and distinct to each case. Additionally, this was further confirmed by overlaps among the spiritual healers’ perceptions as they related to each of their clients’ accounts, reiterating that the spiritual healers constructed, experienced, and expressed mental imagery that was specific to each of their clients. 

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Transformative Learning seeks to encourage learners to critically reflect on their assumptions and preconceptions, thereby transforming their existing frameworks and perspectives. This qualitative study investigates what Transformative Learning looks like in a diverse group of adult learners at a graduate school of education who attended sculpture classes intentionally designed to enable such change. When Transformative Learning is part of the teacher’s intention, how, if at all, does learning through artmaking in mixed media sculpture classes transform these adults with regard to their understanding of their identities as artists and learners (“Who am I?”), their approaches to artmaking (“How do I make art?”), and their understanding of art (“What is art?”)? Furthermore, the study seeks to understand what aspects of their class experiences contributed to these transformations. 

The study examines the studio creations and artmaking processes of five adults from diverse backgrounds and experiences and analyzes what they reported about their artmaking experiences. 

Data gathered from semi-structured interviews, retrospective surveys, and class artifacts are organized and analyzed based on three stages of the Transformative Learning cycle—Stability, Reflection, and Transformation. The five participants’ three stages are then discussed according to the participants’ perceptions of their identities as artists, their understanding of art, and their approaches to artmaking, based on the research questions. 

The findings of the study suggest that the participants experienced heightened levels of Transformative Learning in individualized ways. Data indicate that specific class activities—a gallery trip, in-class artmaking sessions with material and time constraints, and an artist statement exercise—contributed to participants’ transformations over the course of the semester. Once the semester ended, some participants took further actions based on their changed perspectives of artist identities, understanding of art, and approaches to artmaking, which indicates that dramatic shifts and multiple perspectives can be achieved in an art class designed to teach for Transformative Learning.

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This narrative-based qualitative research investigated the distinct journeys of eight cross-cultural artists (four artists from South Korea and four artists from China). Utilizing a variety of theoretical frameworks surrounding cross-cultural research, this dissertation examined current discussions on cross-cultural challenges and their implications in the field of art education. Methods of data collection focused primarily on interviews and were examined through the lens of Bandura’s (1997) self-efficacy theory. Evaluating the lived experiences of artists illuminated nuances in cross-cultural environments, specifically, how socio-cultural transitions influenced their artwork and professional lives. 

The findings of this research correlate with previous literature surrounding current challenges in the lives of cross-cultural students. These challenges were discussed in the context of how art educators can best confront issues that emerge in the classroom. The analysis and discussion presented in this thesis seeks to provide insights into the experiences of cross-cultural artists, while highlighting the educational implications for both artists and educators.

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This study examined current conditions of existing multi-purpose studio art classrooms, or "dedicated spaces," in a cross-section of America's schools. To date, most of the research completed to assess the state of arts education programs in the last 20 years has been through government-conducted statistical analysis, detailing the number of part- and full-time certified arts teachers and the number of dedicated spaces in which arts programs are housed in each reporting school. 

The NAEA's Design Standards for School Art Facilities served as the guideline for analyzing the physical design features and arrangement of the 18 classrooms included in the study. The work of Nel Noddings, Maxine Greene, and Parker Palmer provided framework for how the physical space influences human flourishing. The research utilized a multi-case study, and pursued two new methodologies: "Goldsworthy as methodology," where Andy Goldsworthy's inquiry-based creative practice in natural settings is transposed into the observation and analysis of art classroom design features; Design Thinking was used to understand the dynamic nuances that tie both physical features and human experience together. The findings suggest that a large number of spatial problems exist in the classrooms included in the study, that the current state of these art rooms are not indicative of spaces that are designed to support visual art learning and human flourishing, and offer insight into how to better facilitate the construction or rearrangement of studio art classrooms so that they are more intuitively suited to creative activity than they currently are.

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This research investigated how constructivist approaches are conceptualized and implemented in "gallery tour and studio workshop" programs at three art museums, and the relationship that exists between the gallery and studio learning. To address these questions, I examined how administrators from each museum designed programs and supported educators, how educators facilitated teaching, and how students responded to the gallery and studio learning. 

I employed a basic qualitative multi-case study. This method suited my research—an investigation of three cases (three iterations of a program at each museum)—because I aimed to understand the uniqueness of each case while examining a range of similar and contrasting cases. Data collection methods included observations of program sessions, interviews with museum administrators and museum educators, casual conversations with participating students, photos of students' artworks, and museum documents. 

The cases offer examples of educators' teaching approaches, which reflect—or do not reflect—constructivist tenets, as well as factors that influence the connection—or lack of connection—across gallery and studio learning. Specifically, the findings indicate that a smaller students-educator ratio and knowing students' information in advance helped ensure a conducive learning environment. Another relevant factor was the educators' facilitation of dialogue. Students became more involved in interpreting artworks when educators were most responsive to their ideas, and less involved when educators asked leading or less open-ended questions. Program themes, reflections on the tour prior to the studio session, and motivating questions for studio activities helped ensure connections between gallery and studio. Additionally, exploratory studio activities and small group discussions in the studio helped students make unique choices within their art projects, whereas step-by-step demonstrations led to prescriptive artworks. Further, students' responses reflected the sequencing of the program: ways of discussing artworks traveled from the galleries to the studio, and student artworks referenced visual elements from artworks displayed in the galleries. 

While the findings of this research are not generalizable, they provide insight into methods and approaches that might be adopted by museum administrators, museum educators, and art educators who aim to provide school students meaningful and well-connected museum “gallery tour and studio workshop” educational programs.

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An integration of the researcher’s own experience as a creative professional with that of other artists suggested that there are occasions in a creative practice that are experienced as pivotal, moments when something opens up and an apparent change takes place. 

Looking beyond art practice, researchers such as Land et al. (2010), Mezirow (1997), and Cranton (2016) have addressed the concept and importance of transformational learning in adults, leading toward a significant shift in the perception of a subject. 

In order to understand the moments that trigger pivotal experiences for artists, two qualitative studies took place: a pilot study (Alarcón, 2012) and the present study, which includes the narrative accounts of three women painters residing in Tacoma, United States; Paris, France; and Cape Town, South Africa. The research question assumes that artists experience Pivotal Moments in the ongoing development of their work and asks what the narrative accounts of three

artists reveal about: (a) the moments that trigger their experiences of creative change or transformation; (b) the nature of these pivotal moments; and (c) how the moments coalesce within the dynamics of the creative act itself. 

Analysis of the interview data suggests that moments of change are revealed in terms of a set of four Pivots or turning points. In Chapter V, the Pivots are examined as they emerged within the artists as a group, then explored as experienced by each artist individually. The nature of these moments of change is revealed through preparation, location, process, and disruption, and a set of Sub-Pivots housed under each of the main ones. The thematic analysis in Chapter V also revealed the characteristics of these pivotal moments as ritualistic, interconnected, and dynamic. It was also unveiled that they express an inherent dynamic in the ability to turn things around in a creative practice such as painting. Pivotal Moments coalesce within the dynamics of the creative act through the ongoing development of the artist’s work. 

Finally, this study reveals multiple perspectives on content and suggestions on how we can support the richness of Pivotal Moments as related to Art Education. 

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You only get once chance to make a first impression, so when writing a dissertation it helps if you pick a good title. And while the title of your paper won’t determine whether you pass or fail, the information you provide therein can make your work easier to follow for the reader.

To make sure you set out on the right foot, the title of your dissertation should be clear and informative. It helps to think about what you want your reader to know from the moment they pick up your work (unlike a good novel, your dissertation doesn’t need a twist ending). So here are a few things to consider when picking a title for your dissertation.

1. What Is Your Research About?

The most vital thing that any dissertation title can do is communicate the topic and focus of your research. This includes the general area you’re researching and the specific aspect of this being investigated.

For instance, in a dissertation called “Barriers to Using Social Media in Marketing a Luxury Fashion Brand,” the topic is the marketing of luxury fashion brands and the focus is the factors preventing the use of social media.

2. Your Research Approach

Your research approach has a major impact on the results you achieve and it can help to include this in your title. For example, if you have conducted a large-scale survey of management strategy, you might pick a title such as “Management Strategy: A Quantitative Study of Current Practice.”

3. The Outcomes of Your Research

More specific is better when it comes to the results of your research.

Rather than calling your dissertation “Factors Influencing Recovery from Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries,” it makes sense to specify the kind of factors being investigated. Are they success factors? Factors which impede recovery? Stating this in the title means your reader will know immediately.

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Seeking a second opinion on your title can be helpful. Try asking a friend or professor to check it for clarity . If they can tell what your work is about from the title alone, you’re doing a good job. If not, think of how you can make it clearer. It is also advisable to avoid acronyms in titles for this reason.

Overly long titles can be confusing or off-putting. Regardless of how good the work is, for instance, only the most dedicated are going to want to read a paper called “In silico exploration of the fructose-6-phosphate phosphorylation step in glycolysis: genomic evidence of the coexistence of an atypical ATP-dependent along with a PPi-dependent phosphofructokinase in Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermanii.”

Check your college’s style guide for how to format your title. Different institutions have different requirements when it comes to factors like capitalization, so you’ll need to make sure you get your formatting right.

7. Uniqueness and Humor

Generally, it is good if your title makes your dissertation stand out. It is also tempting to use a humorous title, though this is best saved for when writing for a popular audience. Neither uniqueness nor humor, however, should come at the expense of communicating important details about your work.

Hopefully these tips will have helped you come to a decision over your dissertation title. But if not, then our expert proofreaders can let you know of any issues to do with the title and headings in your dissertation, as well as providing a variety of services to ensure the quality of your work. For more information about writing a dissertation or thesis, read our full dissertation writing guide.

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Dissertation,   the dissertation.

After the successful completion of the general examination, a topic and adviser for the dissertation should be chosen. Students should discuss potential topics with several faculty members before beginning. The final prospectus should be approved not later than 3 months (within the academic calendar -- September through May) of passing the general examinations in order to be considered to be making satisfactory progress toward the degree. This is the time when the Thesis Reader and Dissertation Proposal form should be completed and submitted to the department office or DGS. Three signatures are now required on the thesis acceptance certificate. Two of the three signatories must be GSAS faculty. The primary adviser must be in the department of History of Art and Architecture; the secondary adviser need not be. In addition to the primary and secondary advisers the student may have one or more other readers. Two readers must be in the department.

Thesis Defense

The Department of History of Art and Architecture requires that all Ph.D. dissertations (of students entering in September 1997 and beyond) be defended. At the defense, the student has the opportunity to present and formally discuss the dissertation with respect to its sources, findings, interpretations, and conclusions, before a Defense Committee knowledgeable in the student's field of research. The Director of the thesis is a member of the Defense committee. A committee is permitted to convene in the absence of the thesis Director only in cases of emergency or other extreme circumstances. The Defense Committee may consist of up to five members, but no fewer than three. The suggested make-up of the members of the committee should be brought to the Director of Graduate Studies for approval. Two members of this committee should be from the Department of History of Art and Architecture. One member can be outside the Department (either from another Harvard department or outside the University). The Defense will be open to department members only (faculty and graduate students), but others may be invited at the discretion of the candidate. Travel for an outside committee member is not possible at this time; exceptions are made rarely.  We encourage the use of Skype or conference calling for those committee members outside of Cambridge and have accommodation for either.  A modest honorarium will be given for the reading of the thesis for one member of the jury outside the University. A minimum of one month prior to scheduling the defense, a final draft of the dissertation should be submitted to two readers (normally the primary and secondary advisors). Once the two readers have informed the director of graduate studies that the dissertation is “approved for defense,” the candidate may schedule the date, room, and time for the defense in consultation with the department and the appointed committee. This date should be no less than six weeks after the time the director of graduate studies has been informed that the dissertation was approved for defense. It should be noted that preliminary approval of the thesis for defense does not guarantee that the thesis will be passed. The defense normally lasts two hours. The candidate is asked to begin by summarizing the pertinent background and findings. The summary should be kept within 20 minutes. The Chair of the Defense Committee cannot be the main thesis advisor. The Chair is responsible for allotting time, normally allowing each member of the committee 20 to 30 minutes in which to make remarks on the thesis and elicit responses from the candidate. When each committee member has finished the questioning, the committee will convene in camera for the decision. The possible decisions are: Approved; Approved with Minor Changes; Approved Subject to Major Revision (within six months); Rejected. The majority vote determines the outcome. --Approved with minor changes: The dissertation is deemed acceptable subject to minor revisions. The dissertation is corrected by the candidate, taking into account the comments made by the committee. The revisions will be supervised by the primary adviser. Upon completion of the required revision, the candidate is recommended for the degree. --Approved subject to major revision within six months: The dissertation is deemed acceptable subject to major revisions. All revisions must be completed within six months from the date of the dissertation defense. Upon completion of the required revisions, the defense is considered to be successful. The revisions will be supervised by the primary adviser. --Rejected: The dissertation is deemed unacceptable and the candidate is not recommended for the degree. A candidate may be re-examined only once upon recommendation of two readers. Rejection is expected to be very exceptional. A written assessment of the thesis defense will be given to the candidate and filed in the Department by the Chair of the Defense Committee. Candidates should keep in mind the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences deadlines for submission of the thesis and degree application when scheduling the defense.

Submitting the Dissertation

Students ordinarily devote three years to research and writing the dissertation, and complete it prior to seeking full-time employment. The dissertation will be judged according to the highest standards of scholarship, and should be an original contribution to knowledge and understanding of art. The final manuscript must conform to University requirements described in the Supplement The Form of the Doctoral Thesis distributed by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Graduate students should negotiate with their readers the timing of submission of drafts prior to final revisions. However, the complete manuscript of the dissertation must be submitted to the thesis readers not later than August 1 for a November degree, November 1 for a March degree, and April 1 for a May degree (this in order to provide both the committee with time to read and the candidate to revise, if necessary). The thesis readers may have other expectations regarding dates for submission which should be discussed and handled on an individual basis. The student is still responsible for distribution of the thesis to the committee for reading. In cases where a thesis defense is scheduled, the thesis must be submitted to the primary adviser at least one month prior to the defense. The thesis defense must be scheduled at least two weeks prior to the university deadline for thesis submission.

A written assessment by dissertation readers must be included with the final approval of each thesis including suggestions, as appropriate, on how the dissertation might be adapted for later publication.

The Dissertation is submitted online.   The Dissertation Acceptance Certificate (original) must be on Harvard watermark paper and is submitted directly to the registrar’s office once it is signed.

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Art history: resources for research: 8-dissertations.

• 1-Literature Guides/Research Methods
• 2-Primary Resources
• 3-Directories & Biographical Dictionaries
• 4-Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Multi-volume Surveys & Corpora
• 5-Indexes, Current Bibliographies & Online Journal & Book Collections
• 6-Specialized Subject Bibliographies & Websites
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• 9-Museum & Exhibition Catalogs
• 10-Iconography
• 11-Image Indexes & Online Image Sites
• 12-Geographical, Topographical Sources, Cultural Heritage & Guides
• 13-Artists' Signatures
• 14-Sales/Auction Catalogs & Provenance Indexes
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• 16-Library Catalogs & Directories
• 17-Accessing Licensed & Open Online Resources
• 18-Citing Sources

Resources marked with this symbol are restricted to Columbia affiliates.

Columbia university, general (all disciplines).

Jahresverzeichnis der Deutschen Hochschulschriften . (Online:1890-1900, 1904-1909, limited view: 1940-1942) Butler Offsite R016.37843 J19  (1937-1970) Index to German dissertations. Arranged by institution.

Fine Arts & Archaeology

Archaologischer Anzeiger . (1963 to date) Avery AC D480105 End of each year it lists current dissertations in archaeology from Germany and Austria. Arranged by author, gives dissertation title, institution or university and date of completion.

Burt, Eugene. Ethnoart: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; a Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations . (1988) Avery-Fine Arts N5313 AB95 An example of a subject specific bibliography of dissertations.

Current Lists in Fine Arts (a sample)

CAA.Reviews/Dissertations . (Online) (http://www.caareviews.org/dissertations) PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies from US and Canadian institutions are published each year in caa.reviews. Titles can be browsed by subject category or year.   Titles are submitted once a year by each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies.

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Department of History of Art PhD Dissertations

2020 to present.

• 2022 Katharine Campbell: Creating the Composite: Combinatory Artistry and the Notion of Style in Antwerp, c. 1510-1585 (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Megan Holmes)
• 2022 Sean Kramer: Military Manhood: Visualizing the Common Soldier in French and British Art and Culture, 1871-1914 (Directed by Susan Siegfried and Elizabeth Sears)
• 2022 Jun Nakamura: Prints and Printedness: Mark Making, Meaning, and Perceptions of Print in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Megan Holmes)
• 2022 Gerui Wang: Landscape and the Representation of Public Spaces: Chinese Visual Culture from 10th-14th Centuries (Directed by Kevin Carr and Martin Powers) 
• 2021 Courtney Wilder:  Novel Impressions: Prints, Textiles, and the Visual Economy in Europe, 1815-1851  (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
• 2021 Susan Dine:  Seeing Speech, Reading Bodies: Manifestations of Language in Japanese Buddhist Visual Cultures of the Thirteenth Century  (Directed by Kevin Carr)
• 2021 Vishal Khandelwal:  Crafting Expertise: Art and Design Pedagogy and Professional Values at the National Institute of Design in India, 1955-1985  (Directed by Claire Zimmerman)
• 2020 Chanon Praepipatmongkol:  Postwar Abstraction and Practices of Knowledge: Fernando Zobel and Chang Saetang  (Directed by Joan Kee)
• 2020 Elizabeth Rauh:  An Islamic Cosmos: Artistic Engagements with Islamic Heritage in Iran and the Arab East, 1958-2018  (Directed by Christiane J. Gruber)
• 2020 Stephanie Triplett:  The Rise of Narrative Animal Painting in France and Germany, 1790- 1880  (Directed by Susan Siegfried)

2010 - 2019

• 2019 Ashley Dimmig:  Making Modernity in Fabric Architecture: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period  (Directed by Christiane J. Gruber)
• 2019 Ximena Gomez:  Nuestra Senora: Confraternal Art and Identity in Early Colonial Lima  (Directed by Megan Holmes and Stella Nair)
• 2018 Chun Wa Chan:  Framing a Foreign God: The Tamamushi Shrine and the Opportunities of Buddhism in Early Japan  (Directed by Kevin G. Carr)
• 2018 Alexanda Fraser: Art, Decoration, and the Texture of Modern Experience: The Interior Before 1900 (Directed by Alex D. Potts)
• 2018 Jennifer Gear: Visualizing the 1630-31 Plague Epidemic in Early Modern Venice and the Veneto  (Directed by Megan Holmes) 
• 2018 Tina Le: Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968 – 1986  (Directed by Joan Kee) 
• 2018 Grant Mandarino: Seeing Class: Graphic Satire and the Cultivation of Radicalism in the Weimar Republic  (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2018 Allison Martino: Stamping History: Stories of Social Change in Ghana's Adinkra Cloth   (Directed by Raymond Silverman)
• 2018 Wendy Sepponen: Milanese Bronze, Spanish Stone, and Imperial Materials: Sculptural Interchange and the Leoni Workshops 1549-1608  (Directed by Megan Holmes and Alex D. Potts)
• 2017 Ashley Miller: Locating ‘Heritage’ in Morocco: Colonial Notions of Cultural Heritage and the Promotion of Morocco’s Decorative Arts under the French Protectorate (1912-1931)  (Directed by Raymond A. Silverman)
• 2017 Kristin Schroeder: How to Look Sachlich: Fashion and Objectivity in Weimar Germany  (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2017 Alice Sullivan: The Painted Fortified Monastic Churches of Moldavia: Bastions of Orthodoxy in a Post-Byzantine World   (Directed by Achim Timmermann)
• 2017 Emily Talbot: The Photographic Effect: Making Pictures After Photography, 1860-1895  (Directed by Susan L. Siegfried)
• 2016 Nicholas Hartigan:  The Purpose of Public Sculpture: Artistic, Institutional, and Cultural Motivations since 1965  (Directed by Alex D. Potts)
• 2016 Lehti Keelmann: Bachelors Bridging the Baltic: The Artistic Ambitions of the Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads, c. 1400-1524  (Directed by Achim Timmermann)
• 2016 Kristine Ronan: Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image  (Directed by David Doris)
• 2016 Anna Wieck:  Painting, Popular Culture, Putrefaction: Depicting Tradition on the Eve of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)  (Directed by Alex Potts)
• 2015 Antje K Gamble: National and International Modernism in Italian Sculpture from 1935-1959. (Directed by Alex Potts)
• 2015 Vivian Li:  Art's Public Lives: Sculpture in China after 1949. (Directed by Joan Kee)
• 2015 Megan C McNamee:  Picturing Number in the Central Middle Ages. (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 2015 Pamela AV Stewart:  Devotion to the Passion in Milanese Confraternities, 1500-1630: Image, Ritual, Performance.  (Directed by Megan Holmes)
• 2014 Katherine Brion:  Decorative Painting and Politics in France, 1890-1914.  (Directed by Howard Lay)
• 2014 Monique Johnson:  An Insistent Subject: The Countess de Castiglione Facing the Lens. (Directed by Susan Seigfried)
• 2014 Melanie Sympson:  Experiment and Visual Transformation in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose, c. 1338 - c. 1405.  (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 2014 Kathy Yusuf Zarur:  Self-Portraiture and the Rise of "Arab" Art: Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Hassan Musa and Walid Raad.  (Directed by Matthew Biro and Nadine Naber)
• 2013 Rebecca Bieberly:  "Seeing" the "Ordinary" at Lingyan Temple in Eleventh-Century China. (Directed by Kevin Carr and Martin Powers)
• 2013 Bridget Gilman:  Re-envisioning Everyday Spaces:  Photorealism in the San Francisco Bay Area.  (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2013 Elissa Park:  Negotiating the Discourse of the Modern in Art: Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and the Transnational Modern.  (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2013 Silvia Tita:  Political Art of the Papacy: Visual Representations of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period.  (Directed by Megan Holmes and Thomas Willette)
• 2013 Heather Vinson:  Repetitions: Memory and Making Degas's Ballet Classroom Series. (Directed by Howard Lay)
• 2012 Nadia Baadj:   "Monstrous creatures and diverse strange things": The Curious Art of Jan van Kessel I, 1626-1679.  (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2012 Jessica Fripp:  Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Eighteenth- Century France.  (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
• 2012 Lauren Graber:  Gruppe SPUR and Gruppe GEFLECHT: Art and Dissent in West Germany, 1957-1968.  (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2012 Philip Guilbeau:  El Paular: Anatomy of a Charterhouse.  (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Achim Timmermann)
• 2012 Marin Sullivan:  Material Dispersions: Sculpture, Photography, and International Interventions in Italy, 1962-72.  (Directed by Alex Potts)
• 2011 Heather Badamo:  Image and Community: Representations of Military Saints in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.  (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Thelma Thomas)
• 2011 Christopher Coltrin:  Apocalyptic Progress: The Politics of Catastrophe in the Art of John Martin, Francis Danby, and David Roberts.  (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
• 2011 Ksenya A Gurshtein:   TransStates:  Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe and the Limits of Utopia.  (Directed by Alex Potts)
• 2011 Katharine Raff:  Painted Decoration in the Apartments of Roman Ostia: Standardization, Social Status, and Visual Experience.  (Directed by Elaine Gazda)
• 2010 Monica Huerta:  Encountering Mimetic Realism: Sculptures by Duane Hanson Robert Gober  and Ron Mueck.  (Directed by Pat Simons and Rebecca Zurier)
• 2010 Christina Chang:   The End of Painting.   (Directed by Alex Potts)
• 2010 Kathie Hornstein:   Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in France (1804-1856).   (Directed by Susan Siegfried)
• 2010 Heidi Gearhart:   Theophilus' On Diverse Arts: the persona of the artist and the production of art in the twelfth century.   (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)

2000 - 2009

• 2009 Kirsten Olds:   Networked Collectivities:  North American Artists' Groups, 1968-1978. (Directed by Alexander Potts)
• 2009 Bo Liu:   Political Expression in Song Dynasty Fan Painting.  (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2008 Christopher Bennett:   Boetti and Pascali, Two Case Studies (1965-70): Revisiting Arte Povera after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  (Directed by Alexander Potts)
• 2008 Jen Yi Lai:   Cultural Identity and the Making of Modern TaiwanesePainting During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1945).  (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Joel Isaacson)
• 2008 Min Yong Cho:   How Land Came into the Picture: Rendering History in Fourteenth-Century Iran.  (Directed by Martin Powers and Sussan Babaie)
• 2008 Diana Bullen-Prescuitti:  The Visual Culture of the Central Italian Foundling Hospital, 1400-1600.   (Directed by Megan Holmes)
• 2007 Jong Phil Park:   Ensnaring the Public Eye: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China (1550-1644) and the Negotiation of Taste.   (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2007 Angela Ho:   Rethinking Repetition: Constructing Value in Dutch Genre Painting, 1650s to 1670s.  (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2007 Joan Downs:   The Topography and Iconography of Death in Christian North Africa.  (Directed by Thelma Thomas)
• 2007 Jeffrey Lieber:   Pervasive Beauty: Modern Architecture and Mass Democracy at Mid-Century.   (Directed by Alexander Potts)
• 2006 Heather Flaherty:  The Place of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Rise of Affective Piety in the Later Middle Ages . (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 2006 Sean Roberts:   Cartography Between Cultures: Francesco Berlinghieri’s ‘Geographica’ of 1482.  (Directed by Patricia Simons)
• 2006 Timothy McCall:   Networks of Power: The Art of Patronage of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma. (Directed by Patricia Simons)
• 2005 Leela Wood:   The Buddha and the Shape of Belief: Indic Visual Jatakamalas.   (Directed by Luis Gomez and Martin Powers)
• 2005 Tatiana Senkevitch:   Printmaking's Perspectives Abraham Bosse and the Pedagogic Debates at the French Academy 1648 - 1661.   (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2005 Sandra Seekins:   Stelarc: Peformance Art, Technology & Gender.  (Directed by Patricia Simons)
• 2005 Natsu Oyobe:   Materials that scream: Yoshihara Jiro and the Early Years of the Guai Art: Assoc. (1954-1970).   (Directed by Martin Powers and Kevin Carr)
• 2005 Carmenita Higgenbotham:   Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blacknes and Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh.   (Directed by Rebecca Zurier)
• 2005 Chris Defay:  Art, Enterprise, Collaboration: Richard Serra and the Art of Technology Program,   1966 – 1979.   (Directed by Alexander Potts)
• 2004 Yao-Fen You:   Import / Export:  A Case Study of Brabantine Alterpieces in the Rhineland, 1500 – 1530.   (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2004 Alexandra Schwartz:   Designing Ed Ruscha: The Invention of the Los Angeles Artist, 1960 – 1980.  (Directed by Alexander Potts and Maria Gough)
• 2004 Julia Perlman:   Taking Aim at Amore: Michelangelo, Bronzino and the Lexico of Pictorial Ambiguity in Representations of Venus and Cupid.   (Directed by Patricia Simons)
• 2004 Catherine McCurrach:   The Veneration of St. Benedict in Medieval Rome: Parish Architecture, Monumental Imagery, and Popular Devotion.   (Directed by Caroline Bruzelius and Elizabeth Sears)
• 2004 Allison MacDuffee:   Camille Pissaro: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Representation of ‘The People’ 1888 – 1903.  (Directed by Howard Lay)
• 2004 Lisa Langlois:   Exhibiting Japan: Gender and National Identity at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.   (Directed by Jonathan Reynolds and Patricia Simons)
• 2004 Douglas Hildebrecht:   Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619 / 20 - 1678) and the Nature Piece: Art, Science, Religion, and the Seventeenth – Century Pursuit of Natural Knowledge.  (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2004 Mariana D. Giovino:   Interpretations of the ‘Assyrian Sacred Tree,’ 1849-2004 .  (Directed by Margaret Root)
• 2004 Lisa Bessette:   Early Medieval Visualization of the Contents of the Psalms . (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 2003 Elizabeth Otto:   Figuring Gender: Photomontage and Cultural Critique in Germany’s Weimar Republic . (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2003 Susan Jung Lee:   The Sooji Screens and Teinai Yurakuzu . (Directed by Martin Powers and Jonathan Reynolds)
• 2003 Wen-Chien Chang:   Images of Happy Farmers in Song China (960-1279): Drunks, Politics and Social Identity.  (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2003 Laura Bassett:   The Paintings and Carreer of Cornelius De Man: Art and Mercantile Culture in Seventeenth-Century Delft.   (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 2002 Mary Louise Totton:   Weaving Flesh and Blood into Sacred Architecture: Ornamental Stories of Candi Loro Jonggrang.   (Directed by Walter Spink)
• 2002 George Kuwayama:  Chinese Ceramics in colonial Latin America . (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2002 Roslyn Lee Hammers:  The Production of Good Government: Images of Agrarian Labor in Southern Song (1272 / 79 – 1368).   (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2002 Jane H. Carpenter:  Conjure Woman:  Betye Saar and Rituals of Transformation, 1960-1990  (Directed by Jacqueline Francis and Richard Candida Smith)
• 2002 Nancy Anderson:  Observing Techniques: Images from Microscopial Life Sciences, 1850-1895 . (Directed by Celeste Brusati and Martin Pernick)
• 2001 Irene Leung:   The Frontier Imaginary in the Song Dynasty (960-1279):  Revisiting Cai Yan’s “Barbarian Captivity” and Return.   (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 2000 Christina Waugh:   Style-Consciousness in Fourteenth-Century Society and Visual Communication in the Moralized Bible of John the Good.   (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 2000 Maureen Shanahan:   Forging Men and Manufacturing Women:  Fernan Leger’s Mechanical Arts. (Directed by Matthew Biro)
• 2000 Kathryn Selig-Brown:   Handprints and Footprints in Tibetan Painting.   (Directed by Walter Spink)
• 2000 Jonathan Perkins:   Klee and Eros.   (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 2000 Jonathan Binstock:   Sam Gilliam:  The Making of a Career, 1962-1973.  (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick and S. Patton)

1990 - 1999

• 1999 Melanie Holcomb:   The Function and Status of Carved Ivory in Carolingian Culture Metropolitan Museum.  (Directed by Elizabeth Sears and Ilene Forsyth) 
• 1999 Andrew Campbell:   Negotiating the Archive: Photography, Authority and Cultural Memory, 1861-1876.   (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1999 Kirsten Buick:   The Sentimental Education of Mary Edmonia Lewis:  Identity, Culture and Ideal Works.   (Directed by S. Patton and Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1999 Tamara Bentley:   Authenticity in a New Key:  Chen Hongshou’s Figurative Oevre, “Authentic Emotion,” and the Late Ming Market.   (Directed by Martin Powers)
• 1999 Jasmine Alinder:   Out of Site:  Photographic Representations of Japanese American Internment.  (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1999 Kirk Ambrose:   Romanesque Vezeley:  The Art of Monastic Contemplation.   (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Elizabeth Sears)
• 1998 Jane Chung-Apley:   The Illustrated Vie et Miracles de Saint Louis of Guillame de Saint-Pathus (Paris, B.N., ms. fr. 5716).   (Directed by Elizabeth Sears)
• 1997 Monika Schmitter:   The Display of Distinction:  Art Collecting and Social Status in Early Sixteen Century Venice.   (Directed by Patricia Simons)
• 1997 Rebecca Price-Wilkin:   The Late Gothic Abbey Church of Saint-Riquier:  An Investigation of Historical Consciousness.   (Directed by Ilene Forsyth and Neagley)
• 1997 Marcelle Hourt Pour:   Charles Blanc and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts: 1859-1870. (Directed by J. Isaacson and Celeste Brusati)
• 1997 Leslie Cavall:   Social and Symbolic Functions of the Romanesque Façade: The Example of Maeacon’s Last Judgement Gailee.   (Directed by Ilene Forsythe)
• 1996 Lisa J. De Boer:   Martial Arts:  Military Themes and Images in Dutch Art of the Golden Age. (Directed by Celeste Brusati)
• 1996 Mayra V. Rodriguez:   Austere Late Gothic:  The Architecture of the Collegiate Church of the Notre-Dame at Clery-Saint-Andre.  (Directed by Ward Bissell and Linda E. Neagley)
• 1996 Molly M. M. Lindner:   The Vestal Virgins and Their Imperial Patrons:  Sculptures and Inscriptions from the Atrium Vestae in the Roman Forum.  (Directed by Elaine Gazda)
• 1996 Rita S. Goodman:   Theodore Gericault's Portraits of the Insane:  Art, Psychiatry and the Politics of Philanthropy.  (Directed by Thomas Crow and Joel  Isaacson)
• 1995 Katharine Persis Burnett:   The Landscapes of Wu Bin (C. 1543-C. 1626) and a Seventeenth-Century Discourse of Originality.   (Directed by Richard Edwards & Martin Powers)
• 1995 Charlene Marianna Villasenor Black:   Saints and Social Welfare in Golden Age Spain: The Imagery of the Cult of Saint Joseph   (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
• 1995 Carmen Belen Lord:   Point and Counterpoint:  Ramon Casas in Paris and Barcelona, 1866-1908  (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
• 1995 S. Richard Rand:   Representing the Picturesque Garden:  The Landscapes of Fragonard (Directed Hood Museum of Art by T. Crow and J. Isaacson)
• 1995 David J. O'Brien:   The Art of War:  Antoine-Jean Gros and French Military Painting, 1795-1804  (Directed by J. Isaacson and T. Crow)
• 1995 John Andrew Listopad:   The Art and Architecture of the Reign of Somdet Phra Narai (Directed by Walter Spink)
• 1995 Natalija Natasha Kuzmanovic:   John Paul Cooper (1869-1933), Designer and Craftsman (Directed by William Hennessey and Marvin Eisenberg)
• 1994 Derrick Randall Cartwright:   Reading Rooms:  Interpreting the American Public Library 1890-1930  (Directed by J. Isaacson)
• 1994 Todd Philip Olson:   Nicolas Poussin, His French Clientele and the Social Construction of  Style  (Directed by T. Crow and P. Simons)
• 1994 Masuyo Tokita Darling :   The Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture of Perrecy-Les-Forges  (Directed by Ilene H. Forsyth)
• 1994 Elizabeth Horton Sharf:   Abaku Zen Portrait Painting:  A Revisionist Analysis (Directed by Karen L. Brock and Walter Spink)
• 1994 John Tadao Teramoto:   The Yamai No Soshi:  A Critical Reevaluation of Its Importance to Japanese Secular Painting of the Twelfth Century  (Directed by Paul Berry and Jonathan Reynolds)
• 1994 Masumi Iriye:   Le Vau's Menagerie and the Rise of the Animalier: Enclosing, Dissecting, and Representing Animal in Early ModernFrance  (Directed by Nathan T. Whitman and Graham Smith)
• 1994 John Siewert:  Whisler's Nocturnes and the Aesthetic Subject  (Directed by J. Isaacson)
• 1994 David Acton:   Hendrik Goltzius and Rudolfine Mannerism in the Graphic Arts (Directed by Graham Smith)
• 1993 Timothy A. Motz:   The Roman Freestanding Portrait Bust:  Origins, Context, and Early History  (Directed by E. Gazda)
• 1993 Giovanna D Costantini:  Maesta: Humanism and the Art of Francisco Zuniga (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1993 Bille Wickre:   Collaboration in the Work of Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and J. Herbert MacNair  (Directed by J. Isaacson and D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1993 Nathan P. Griffith:   Richard Serra and Robert Irwin:  Phenomenology in the Age of Art and Objecthood  (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1993 Barbara Lee Tannenbaum:   The Paintings of Seymour Rosofsky  (Directed by D.Kirkpatrick)
• 1993 Robert E. Haywood:   Revolution of the Ordinary:  Allan Kaprow Invention of Happenings (Directed by Joel Isaacson and Thomas Crow)
• 1992 Susan Elizabeth Ryan:   Figures of Speech:  The Art of Robert Indiana, 1958-73  (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1992 Eun-wha Park:   The World of Idealized Reclusion:  Landscape Painting of Hsiang Sheng-Mo (1597-1658)  (Directed by Richard Edwards and Walter Spink)
• 1992 Gabrielle Langdon:   Decorum in Portraits of Medici Women at the Court of Cosimo, 1537-1574  (Directed by R. W. Bissell and G. Smith)
• 1992 Jean Ann Dabb:   The Church of St. Nicolas at Civrey: The Facade and its Sculptural Mary Decoration  (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1991 Martha J. McClintock:   Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913):  The Life and Arts of a Period Literati Artist  (Directed by Paul Berry)
• 1991 Victoria L. Weston:   Modernization in Japanese-Style Painting:  Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) and the Morotai Style  (Directed by Paul Berry)
• 1991 Jasmin W. Cyril:   The Imagery of San Bernardino Da Siena, 1440-1500:  An Iconographic Study  (Directed by M. Eisenberg & R. W. Bissell)
• 1991 Chuhui Judy Lai:   The Han Representation of exemplary Women:  Context and  Interpretation  (Directed by Martin J. Powers)
• 1991 Carolyn Marie Carty:   Dreams in Early Medieval Art  (Directed by Ilene Forsyth)
• 1990 Janice Simon:   The Crayon, 1855-1861:  The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, and the Fine Arts  (Directed by David Huntington)
• 1990 Woodard Openo:   The Summer Colony at Little Harbor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Its Relation to the Colonial Revival Movement  (Directed by David Huntington)
• 1990 Elizabeth Higashi:   Conical Glass Vessels from Karanis:  Function and Meaning in a Pagan/Christian Context in Rural Egypt  (Directed by Margaret Root)

1980 - 1989

• 1989 Joan O'Mara:   The Haiga Genre and the Art of Yosa Buson  (1716-84) (Directed by W. Spink)
• 1989 Elizabeth Pilliod:   Studies on the Early Career of Alessandro Allori  (Directed by Graham Smith)
• 1989 Stephen A. Markel:   The Origin and Early Development of the Nine Planetary Deities Mus\Art (Navagraha)  (Directed by Walter Spink)
• 1989 Marshall Wu:  Chin Nung:   An Artist with a Wintry Heart  (Directed by Richard Edwards and Paul Berry)
• 1989 M. Carol Morland:   Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841:  Tradition and Innovation in Japanese Painting  (Directed by Paul Berry)
• 1989 Karen Kleinfelder:   The Theme of the Artist and Model in Picasso's Late Graphics  (Directed by R. Arnheim & Victor Miesel)
• 1989 Diane Tepfer:   Edith Gregor Halpert and the Downtown Gallery Downtown: 1926-1940; A Study in American Art Patronage  (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1988 Laurie Taylor-Kelley (Mitchell):   The Horizontal Tuscan Panel, 1200-1365:  Frame Format and Pictorial Composition  (Directed by R. Arnheim & Marvin Eisenberg)
• 1988 Kathleen A. Pyne:   Immanence, Transcendence, and Impressionism in Late Nineteenth- Century American Painting  (Directed by David C. Huntington)
• 1987 Beverly Orlove Held:   "To Instruct and Improve...To Entertain and Please" American Civic Protests and Pageants 1765-1784  (Directed by David C. Huntington)
• 1987 Linda J. Wolk:   Studies in Perino Del Vaga's Early Career  (Directed by Graham Smith)
• 1987 Erica Susanna Trimpi:   Matteo Di Giovanni:  Documents and a Critical Catalogue of His Panel Paintings   (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg)
• 1987 Barbara K. Schnitzer:   The 16th Century French Ceramic Ware called Saint-Porchaire (Directed by Nathan Whitman)
• 1987 Robert Alan Benson:   Douglas Putnam Haskell (1899-1979) The Early Critical Writings (Directed by Leonard Eaton)
• 1986 Christine M. Nelson Ruby:   Art for the People:  Art in Michigan Sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1934-1943  (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1986 Catherine Elna Fruhan:   Trends in Roman Sculpture Circa 1600  (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
• 1986 Pearson M. Macek:   The Westminster Retable: A Study in English Gothic Panel Painting  (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg & Christine Verzar Bornstein)
• 1985 Paul A. Berry:   Tanomura Chikuden 1777-1835: Man Amidst the Mountains Japan F'97 (Directed by Cal French)
• 1985 Marjorie L. Harth:   Robert Hudson Tannahill (1893-1969) Patron and Collector (Directed by M. Eisenberg & Charles Sawyer)
• 1985 Marion E. Jackson:   Baker Lake Inuit Drawings:  A Study in the Evolution of Artistic Self-Consciousness  (Directed by Evan M. Maurer)
• 1985 Michael A. Marlais:   Anti-Naturalism, Idealism and Symbolism in French Art Criticism, 1880-1895  (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
• 1985 Frank I. Heckes:   Supernatural Themes in the Art of Francisco De Goya  (Directed by Joel Isaacson & H. E. Wethey)
• 1985 Eleanor Mannikka:   Angkor Wat:  Meaning Through Measurement  (Directed by W. Spink & H. Woodward, Jr.)
• 1985 Sung-woo Kim:   History and Design of the Early Buddhist Architecture in Korea  (Directed by Leonard Eaton & Richard Edwards)
• 1984 Sadako Ohki:   Ike Taiga's "Karayo Calligraphy  (Directed by Cal French)
• 1984 Matthew L. Rohn:   Visual Dynamics in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions  (Directed by Rudolf Arnheim & Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1984 Marjorie J. Panadero (Hall):   The Labors of the Months and the Signs of the Zodiac in 12th-Century French Facades  (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1984 Vishakha N. Desai:   Connoisseur's Delights:  Early "Rasikapriya" Paintings in India (Directed by Walter M. Spink)
• 1984 Shelley K. Perlove:   Gianlorenzo Bernini's Blessed Lodovica Albertoni and Baroque Devotion  (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
• 1984 Beth E. Genne:   The Film Musicals of Vincente Minnelli and the Team of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen: 1944-1958  (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1984 James J. Robinson:   The Vitality of Style:  Aspects of Flower and Bird Painting During the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)  (Directed by Richard Edwards)
• 1983 Phylis A. Floyd:   Japonisme in Context:  Documentation, Criticism, Aesthetic Reactions (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
• 1983 Ellen A. Plummer:   The Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1983 Marilyn E. Leese:  The Traikutaka Dynasty and Kanheri's Second Phase of Buddhist Cave Excavation  (Directed by Richard Edwards)
• 1983 Maribeth Graybill:   Kasen-e An Investigation into the Origins of the Tradition of Poet Pictures in Japan  (Directed by Cal French)
• 1983 Barbara J. Haeger:   The Religious Significance of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son":  An Examination of the Picture in the Context of the Visual and Iconographic Tradition  (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1983 William R. Levin:   Studies in the Imagery of Mercy in Late Medieval Italian Art (Directed by Christine Bornstein & M. Eisenberg)
• 1983 John B. Hunter III:   The Life and Work of Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta  (Directed by G. Smith & R. Ward Bissell)
• 1983 Elizabeth M. B. Gosling:   The History of Sukhothai as a Ceremonial Center: A Study of Early Siamese Architecture and Society  (Directed by H. W. Woodward, Jr. and Walter M. Spink)
• 1983 Daniel E. O'Leary:   Harmony and Ritualistic Allusion in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella  (Directed by Graham Smith)
• 1983 Leonard B. Darling, Jr.:   The Transformation of Pure Land Thought and the Development of Shinto Shrine Mandala Paintings:    Kasuga and Kumano  (Directed by Cal French)
• 1983 Harry Murutes:   Lorenzo Lotto's Major Altarpieces of the "Enthroned" Madonna with Saints":  Doctoral Meaning, Sources, and Expression  (Directed by H. E. Wethey and R. Ward Bissell)
• 1982 Kenneth A. Breisch:   Small Public Libraries in America 1850-1890:  The Invention and Evolution of a Building Type  (Directed by Leonard K. Eaton)
• 1982 Jacquelynn Baas:   Auguste Lepere and the Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1875-1895  (Directed by J. Isaacson)
• 1981 Alice R. Merrill (Hyland):   Wen Chia (1501-1583), Derivation and Innovation  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1981 David M. Kowal:   The Life and Art of Francisco Ribalta  (Directed by R. W. Bissell)
• 1981 Stephanie Spencer:   O. G. Rijlander--Art Photographer  (Directed by D. C. Huntington)
• 1981 Jeremy Adamson:   Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara":  The Sublime as Transcendence (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1981 Dennis Costanzo:   Cityscape and the Transformation of Paris During the Second Empire (Directed by Joel Isaacson)
• 1981 Toh Sugimura:   The Chinese Impact on Certain 15th-Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi of Ethnology, Sarayi Museum, Instanbul  (Directed by R. Edwards and C. French)
• 1981 Steve J. Goldberg:   Court Calligraphy in the Early T'ang Dynasty  (Directed by R. Edwards and C. French)
• 1981 Kathe B. Geist:   The Cinema of Wim Wenders 1967 to 1977  (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1980 Carole Drachler:   The Gallery and Art Collection of Henry Clay Lewis  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1980 Janice Schimmelman:   The Spirit of Gothic:  The Gothic Revival House in Nineteenth- Century America  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1980 Ann T. Brown:   Non-Narrative Elements in Tuscan Gothic Frescoes  (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
• 1980 Chi-sheng Kuo:   The Paintings of Hung-Jen  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1980 Sewall Oertling:   Ting Yun-p'eng:  A Chinese Artist of the Late Ming Dynasty  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1980 Jane Block:   Les II and Belgiam Avant-gardism, 1868-1894  (Directed by V. Miesel)
• 1980 Sara Schastok:   6th-Century Indian Sculptures from Samalaji:  Style & Iconography (Directed by W. Spink)

1940 - 1979

• 1979 Michael Browne:  Kawahara Keiga:   The Painter of Deshima  (Directed by C. French)
• 1979 Louise Yuhas:   The Landscape Painting of Lu Chih (1496-1576) An Analysis of the Style of a Sixteenth-Century Soochow Painter  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1979 Warren Tresidder:   The Classicism of the Early Works of Titian:  Its Sources and Character  (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
• 1979 I. Job Thomas:   Painting in Tamil Nadu A.D. 1350-1650  (Directed by W. Spink)
• 1979 Melinda Takeuchi:   Visions of a Wanderer:  The True View Paintings of Ike Taiga (1723-1776)  (Directed by C. French)
• 1979 Susan Feinberg:   Sir John Soane's "Museum":  An Analysis of the Architect's House-Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London  (Directed by David Huntington)
• 1979 Michael Davis:   The Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1979 Vicky Clark:   The Illustrated "Abridged Astrological Treatises of Albumasar" (Directed by C. Olds and C. Bornstein)
• 1979 Ghazi Bisheh:   The Mosque of the Prophet at Madinah Throughout the First Century A. H., with Special Emphasis on the Umayyad Mosque  (Directed by P. Soucek)
• 1979 Ali El Ballush:   A History of Libyan Mosque Architecture During the Ottoman and Libya Karmanli Period (1551-1911) Evolution, Development and Typology  (Directed by Pricilla Soucek)
• 1978 Robert Neuman:   Robert De Cotte, Architect of the Late Baroque  (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1978 William Jensen:   The Sculptures of the Tomb of the Haterii  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1978 Mona Kathryn Horste:   The Capitals of the Second Workshop from the Romanesque Law School Cloister of La Daurade, Toulouse  (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1978 Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard:   Bernardo Martorell:  15th-Century Catalan Artist  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1978 Dan Ewing:   The Paintings & Drawings of Jan de Beer  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1978 Robert Del Bonta:   The  Hoysala Style: Architectural Development & Artists, 12th & 13th Centuries A.D.  (Directed by W. Spink)
• 1978 Wichit Charernbhak:   Architectural Criticism as Reflected in Publication on Chicago Commercial Architecture in the 1880s and 1890s  (Directed by David Huntington)
• 1978 Penelope Brownell:   The Venetian Painter, Francesco Maffei (1620-1660)  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1978 Doris Birmingham:   Andre Masson in America:  The Artist's Achievement in Exile, 1941-1945  (Directed by V. Miesel)
• 1978 Julie Badiee:   An Islamic Cosmography:  The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwini  (Directed by P. Soucek)
• 1977 Jean Weir:   Timberline Lodge:  A WPA Experiment in Architecture and Crafts  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1977 Charles Walters:   Hiram Powers and William Rimmer:   A Study in the Concept of Expression  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1977 Walter Thompson:   The Domed Entry Pavilion in French Classical Architecture: Its Origin, Evolution and Interpretation  (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1977 Richard Swain:  “ Le Jardin de Plaisir” in Tudor and Stuart England  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1977 Edwin L. Rifkin:   Antonioni's Mise-En-Scene:  Elements of a Visual Language  (Directed by D. Kirkpatrick)
• 1977 Margaret Rajam:   The Fresco Cycle by Spinello Arentino in the Sala Di Balia, Siena: Imagery of Pope and Emperor  (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
• 1977 Dorothy Habel (Metzger):   Piazza S. Ignazio, Rome in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1977 Forest McGill:   The Art and Architecture of the Reign of King Prasatthong of Ayutthaya (1629-1656)  (Directed by W. Spink & H. Woodward)
• 1977 Martha Agnew (Fader):   Sculpture in the Piazza della Signoria as Emblem of the Florentine Republic  (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
• 1977 Roger Berkowitz:   Benjamin Smith, Sr., Regency Silversmith  (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
• 1977 Susan Barnes:   Giacomo Balla: His Life and Work 1871 to 1912  (Directed by V. Miesel)
• 1977 Stephen Addiss:   Uragami Gyokudo:  The Complete Literati Artist  (Directed by Cal French)
• 1976 Gail Weigl:   Foundations of a Momoyama Theme:  Birds & Flowers of the Four Seasons in a Landscape  (Directed by Cal French)
• 1976 Law Watkins:   The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes:  Meaning and Use  (Directed by R. Ward Bissell)
• 1976 Grace Vlam:   Western-Style Secular Painting in Momoyama Japan  (Directed by C. French)
• 1976 Duncan Kinkead:   Juan de Valdes Leal (1622-1690):  His Life and Work  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1976 Diane Upright (Headley):   Morris Louis:  The Mature Paintings 1954-1962  (Directed by Diane Kirkpatrick)
• 1976 Billie Thompson Fischer:   The Sculpture of Valerio Cioli 1529-1599  (Directed by Graham Smith)
• 1976 Gerald Carr:   The Commissioners' Churches of London, 1818-1837:  A Study of Religious Art, Architecture & Patronage in Britain from the Formation of the Commission to the Accession of Victoria  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1976 Katherine R. Bateman:   St. Albans, Its Ivory and Manuscripts Workshops: A Solution to the St. Albans Bury, St. Edmunds Dilemma  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1975 Kathleen Raben Castiello:   The Italian Sculptors of the United States Capitol: 1806-1834 (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1975 Ryan Howard:   Pedro Duque de Cornejo, Andalusian Sculpture 1678-1757  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1975 Sharon Rich Harrison:   A Catalogue of the Etchings of Odilon Redon  (Directed by J. Isaacson)
• 1975 James Collier:   Linear Perspective in Flemish Painting and the Art of Petrus   Christus and Dirk Bouts  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1974 Joanne Winjum:   The Canterbury Roundels  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1974 John Steyaert:   The Sculpture of St. Martin's in Halle and Related Netherlandish Works (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1974 Charles Rosenberg:   Art in Ferrara During the Reign of Borso d'Este, 1450-1471 (Directed by E. Verheyen)
• 1974 Milan Mihal:  Sakai Hoitsu:   A Catalogue Raisonne of Selected Works  (Directed by C. French)
• 1974 Deborah C. Brown (Levine):  The Victoria and Albert Museum Akbar-Nama:  A Study in History, Myth and Image  (Directed by W. Spink)
• 1974 Bernard Bonario:  Marco Basaiti:   A Study of the Venetian Painter and a Catalogue of his Works  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1974 Sister Johanna Becker:   The Karatsu Ceramics of Japan:  Origins, Fabrications, and Types (Directed by C. French)
• 1974 Richard Axsom:   Parade:  Cubism as Theatre  (Directed by J. Isaacson)
• 1974 Leila Avrin:   The Illumination of the Moshe Ben-Asher Codex of 895 C.E.  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1973 Victoria Thorson:   The Drawings of Rodin in America  (Directed by V. Miesel)
• 1973 Michael Stoughton:   The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Caracciolo  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1973 Barbara Carlisle (Rutledge):   The Theatrical Art of the Italian Renaissance: Interchangeable Conventions in Painting and Theatre in the Late 15th & Early 16th Centuries  (Directed by N. Whitman)
• 1973 Betty Monroe:   Okada Beisanjin (1744-1820):  Transitional Bunjinga  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1973 Richard Janke:   Janin Lomme and Late Gothic Sculpture in Navarre  (Directed by H . E. Wethey)
• 1973 Annemarie Weyl Carr:   The Rockefeller-McCormick New Testament  (Gregory 2400) (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1973 Laurel Blank Andrew:   19th Century Mormon Architecture  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1972 Peter Bermingham:   Importation and Influence on the School in America  (Directed by D. Huntington)
• 1971 Lois Drewer:   The Carved Wooden Beams of the Church of Justinian, Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai  (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1971 Jeannie Chenault (Porter):   Bradley Walker Tomlin Abstract Expressionist  (Directed by V. Miesel)
• 1971 Mary Cazort (Taylor):   The Drawings and Paintings of Ubaldo Gandolfi  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1971 Donald Kuspit:   Durer and the Northern Critics (1502-72)  (Directed by C. Olds)
• 1971 Fay Frick:   A Typology of Fustat Ceramics  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1970 John Varriano:   The Roman Church Commissions of Martino Longhi the Younger  (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1970 Margret Pond Rothman:   A Sculpture Record of the Age of the Tetrarchies  (Directed by I. H. Forsyth)
• 1970 Robert Mode:   Famous Men and Women Illustration in 15th Century Italian Manuscripts  (Directed by M. Eisenberg)
• 1970 Edward Keall:   Significance of Parthian Nippur  (Directed by D. White)
• 1970 Beverly Heisner:   Aspects of Ecclesiastical Architecture of Viscardi  (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1970 Geraldine Fowle:   The Biblical Paintings of Sebastian Bourdon  (1611-1671) (Directed by N. T. Whitman)
• 1970 James Caswell:   Early Cave Sculptures in Yun-Kang  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1970 Ulku Bates:   The Anatolian Mausoleum of the 12th, 13th and 14th Centuries  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1970 Janet Anderson:   Pedro de Mena:  Spanish Sculptor  (1628-1688) (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1970 Mohamed Abd El Wahab:   Decorated Woodwork from Egyptian-American Collections (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1969 David Wilkins:   Maso di Banco  (Directed by Marvin Eisenberg)
• 1969 Diane Kirkpatrick:   Edoardo Paolozzi  (Directed by V. H. Miesel)
• 1969 Esin Atil:   The illustration of the Sur-Nameh of Ahmet, the Third  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1968 Lisa Beth Golombeck:   Timurid Shrine at Gazur Gah: An Iconographical Interpretation of Timurid Architecture 1360-1506  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1968 Stanislaw Czuma:   The Brahmanical Rashtrakuta Monuments at Ellora  (Directed by Walter M. Spink)
• 1967 William Trousdale:   Sword-Scabbard Slides  (Directed by O. Grabar)
• 1967 Charles Meyer:   The Staircase of the Residenz at Wurzburg  (Directed by N. T. Whitman) 
• 1967 Ellen Johnston Laing:   The Theme of the Scholars Meeting in Chinese Painting  (Directed by R. Edwards)
• 1966 Theodore Turak:   William Le Baron Jenney  (Directed by Leonard Eaton)
• 1966 Margaret Damm Rolland:   The Mythological Paintings of Van Dyck  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1966 R. Ward Bissell:   Orazio Gentileschi  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1965 Gunar Inal:   The Fourteenth-Century Miniatures of the Jami Al-Tayarika in Returned to the Topkapi Museum in Instanbul  (Directed by O. Grabar & R. Edwards)
• 1964 Suzanne Edwards Lewis:   Early Christian Architecture in Milan  (Directed by G. H. Forsyth)
• 1963 John Williams:   The Bible of Leon of 960  (Directed by J. E. Snyder)
• 1961 Antanas Melnikas:   The Early Works of Gentile de Fabriano  (Directed by Marvin J. Eisenberg)
• 1961 Rosemary A. Marzolf:   The Life and Works of Juan Carreno de Miranda (1614-1685) (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1960 H. Phillip Stern:   Ukiyoe Paintings  (Directed by J. M. Plumer)
• 1960 Mojmir Frinta:   The Master of the Beautiful Madonnas  (Late Gothic Sculpture in Bohemia) (Directed by J. E. Snyder)
• 1959 Victor Miesel:   The Classical Elements in the Paintings of Rubens  (Directed by  H. E. Wethey)
• 1959 Bernard Goldman:   The Oriental Background of Etruscan Culture  (Directed by Clark Hopkins)
• 1958 Glenn N. Patton:   Antonio Guerro y Torres and Mexican Architecture of the 18th Century (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1958 James Cahill:   Wu Chen, His Life Paintings and Ideas  (Directed by Max Loehr)
• 1957 Marilyn Stokstad:   The Romanesque Sculpture of the Portico de la Gloria at Santiago de Compostela  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1957 Sister Mary Angelina Filipiak:   The Plans of the Convents of the Poor Clares in Central Italy in the 13th & 14th Centuries  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1956 Emma Mellencamp:   Renaissance Costume in Italian Painting 1450-1500  (Directed by H. E. Wethey and completed under M. Eisenberg)
• 1953 Robert Enggass:   The Religious Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli  (Directed by H. E. Wethey)
• 1946 Harry A. Broad:   Contemporary American Lithography  (Begun under Bruce Donaldson & finished with J. G. Winter)
• 1940 Aloysius G. Weimer:   The Munich Period in American Art  (Directed by Bruce Donaldson & J. G. Winter)
• 1940 Paul McPharlin:   Puppets in American Life  (Directed by J. G. Winter)
• 1940 Florence Day:   Mesopotamian Pottery:  Parthian, Sassanian and Early Islamic (Begun under M. Aga-Oglu & finished with R. Ettinghausen)

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250+ Research Paper Topics for Art Lovers and Curious Minds

Table of contents

• 1 Argumentative Art Topics for Research Papers
• 2 Fun Art Research Ideas for Professional Writers
• 3 Controversial Art Research Topics
• 4 Gendered Roles in Modern Art Research
• 5 Art Topics for Research Papers: The Impacts of Technology
• 6.1 Themes in 21st Century Paintings
• 7 Ancient Art History Research Paper Topics
• 8 Art Research Topics on Different Cultures
• 9 Greek Art Research Paper Topics
• 10 Art Topics during the Byzantine Period
• 11 Medieval Art History Research Paper Topics
• 12 Renaissance Paper Topics
• 13 Research Paper Topics on the Baroque Era
• 14 The Impressionist Artistic Movement
• 15 The Modern Art Talk about Romanticism
• 16 The Art Influence of Mannerism
• 17 The Post-impressionist Art Movement
• 18 Surrealism in Art History
• 19 The Highlights of Cubism
• 20 The Avant-garde Art Topics
• 21 The Expressionist Art Movement
• 22 Topics on Dadaism
• 23 Pop Art Debate Topics
• 24 Art Education Research Topics in the 16th Century
• 25 Cool Art Ideas during the 17th Century
• 26 Research Papers on Art Produced during the 18th Century
• 27 The 19th Century Artistic Styles
• 28 The 20th Century’s Artistic Characteristics
• 29 Contemporary Art History Topics
• 30 Mexican Revolutionary Art Research Paper Topics
• 31 Architecture Research Paper Topics
• 32 Theater Research Paper Ideas
• 33 The Study of Photography as Research about Art
• 34.1 Art Topics Ideas Base on the Artists of the 18th Century
• 34.2 Artists of the 19th Century

Art has been a significant aspect of human civilization for centuries. From the earliest cave paintings to modern-day installations, art has served as a means of expression and communication. The study of art encompasses a broad range of disciplines, including art history, aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. As such, the best controversial research paper topics within the field of art can be explored. This article aims to provide a comprehensive list of 250+ art topics covering various aspects of the discipline, including famous artists and artworks, art movements, theories and concepts, and social and political influences. These topics intend to inspire students and researchers before even choosing their favorite paper writing service and delving deeper into the complex world of art.

Argumentative Art Topics for Research Papers

Art has always been a recurring topic of debate, with different interpretations and perspectives on what it represents and its hidden meanings. From discussions on censorship and freedom of expression to art’s political implications, explore other possibilities in art.

• Write a Critical Analysis of Censorship Issues and How They Can Limit Artistic Freedom.
• Argue for or against Using Public Funds to Support Art and Institutions.
• Discuss the Ethical Considerations Surrounding the Cultural Appropriation of Symbolisms.
• Delimitate the Boundaries of the Tension between Art Commercialization and Artistic Expression’s Authenticity.
• Study How the Relationship between Art and Identity Is Explored and How It Can Shape and Express Individual and Collective Identities.

Fun Art Research Ideas for Professional Writers

Even the most skilled professionals need help developing fresh inspiration for art-related topics and finding  research paper writing help . With this list, we want to inspire writers to explore new horizons, from unconventional art mediums to unusual artists.

• Graffiti Art: Exploring Its Significance and Evolution as a Legitimate Artistic Expression.
• The Impact of Street Photography and How Does It Capture the Essence of Modern Life.
• How Have Album Covers Influenced Popular Culture, and How Do They Reflect the Artistic Vision of Musicians and Artists?
• Analyzing the History and Wonders of Asian Art and Animation and Its Impact on Popular Culture.
• Find Out How Indigenous Art Explores Its Diverse Forms and How It Reflects on the Culture of Their Communities.

Controversial Art Research Topics

Art has always been polarizing, sparking debates on various issues. Whether you’re an art student or an enthusiast, you’ll find excellent history research paper topics on this list.

• Examining the Limits of Expression through the Lenses of Artistic Freedom.
• The Power and Perils of Art Representing Marginalized Communities.
• What Responsibilities Do Collectors Have When Collecting Debatable Pieces?
• Reckoning with the past and the Controversial Legacy of Colonial Art.
• How Do Artists Navigate Appropriation through the Problematic Nature of Artistic Inspiration?
• Write an Argumentative Essay About the Use of Religious Imagery: Is It Blasphemy or Legitimate Creative Expression?
• Censorship: Protecting Public Morals or Inhibiting Creativity?

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Gendered Roles in Modern Art Research

Historically male dominance in art has resulted in a limited representation of women. Few female artists are recognized for their contributions, bringing discussions on gendered roles in modern art to the forefront. Check out some fine arts research paper topics.

• Explore the Works of Frida Kahlo and Unravel Gendered Representations in Modern Art.
• The Impact on the Evolution of Feminist Art Generated by Tracey Emin’s Work.
• Research Marina Abramovic’s Pieces and Learn How She Pushed Boundaries on Gender and Performance Art.
• How to See beyond the Male Gaze through John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” While Critiquing the Objectification of Fine Art.
• The Art of Challenging Conventional Female Roles by Agnes Martin.
• Take an in Depth Look at Cindy Sherman’s Gender and Identity Exploration in Contemporary Art.
• Defying Conservative Norms and Embracing the Body – The Visual Art of Kiki Smith.
• Learn More about the Rise of Women Artists in Modern Art Following the Artworks of Yayoi Kusama.

Art Topics for Research Papers: The Impacts of Technology

Technology has opened up several possibilities, from digital media and virtual reality installations to 3D printing, computer-generated imagery, or even an essay writing service . Look at some of the most interesting art topics that explore this relationship.

• Examine How Technology Has Enabled New Forms of Artistic Expression through Digital Art.
• Art Democratization: How Technology Has Made It Easier for Artists to Reach Wider Audiences.
• The Transformation of Experience and Interaction with Modern World Art through AR Technology.
• AI and New Art Forms: Potential to Challenge Traditional Notions of Creativity.
• Explore How New Social Media Platforms Have Transformed the Ways We Consume Art.
• How Can Digital Technology Preserve and Restore Deteriorating Works of True Art?

Interesting Modern and Contemporary Art Topics

From abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, contemporary artists have explored many creative avenues, resulting in thought-provoking works that challenge traditional notions of art. Check out some ideas for those who want to buy research papers about different epochs in Modern Art.

• Kandinsky, Pollock, and Rothko Pave the Path with the Force of Chaos and Calm.
• Artists like Banksy, Kruger and Weiwei Boldly Show Us How to Discuss Today’s Issues.
• Understand How Fairey, Botero, and Holzer Revolutionize the World through Art.
• Find Out Where Creativity Meets Technology with Arcangel, Utterback, and Lozano-Hemmer.
• Fashion and Art Become the Perfect Pairing: Warhol, Dali, and Haring Meet Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, and Scott.
• Shattering Stereotypes – Chicago, Sherman, and Ono Challenge the Status Quo.
• Richter, Hirst, and Walker Demonstrate the Ongoing Relevance of Modern Art.

Themes in 21st Century Paintings

• Explore beyond the Representation of Identity in Kerry James Marshall’s “Untitled (Studio)” and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s “Mascara.”
• Use the Landscapes of David Hockney and Anselm Kiefer’s “The Field” to Reflect on Environmental Consciousness.
• Analyze the Works of Yinka Shonibare Mbe and Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety.” to Understand Global Visions and Cultural Exchange.
• Politics Occur in Street Art, Becoming Activism in Banksy’s Art and AI Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds.”
• Memory, Nostalgia, and Figurative Painting in the Works of Elizabeth Peyton and Lisa Yuskavage’s “Night.”
• “Untitled” by Cecily Brown and the Works of Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Emotion.
• Technology in Contemporary Painting with Jenny Saville’s “Ancestors” and Stelarc’s “Third Hand.”
• Transcribed Gender and Sexuality in the Works of Nicole Eisenman’s “Procession” and John Currin’s “The Women of Franklin Street.”

Ancient Art History Research Paper Topics

The art of early civilizations is a testament to these societies’ creativity and cultural significance. Check out the best art topics for those interested in Ancient Rome, Mayan Culture, and African art.

• Explore the Development of Primordial Egyptian Art and Its Impact on Later Art Forms.
• The Significance of Art in Mesopotamian Civilization.
• Explore the Relevance of Ancient Chinese Art and Its Influence on the Following Centuries.
• Analyze the Evolution of Artworks in Old India and Their Relationship with Religion and Culture.
• The Role of Art in Mayan Society and Its Significance in Their Spirituality and Habits.
• The Development of Art in Mesoamerican Civilizations and Its Impact on Later Art Forms.
• Analyze the Symbolism of Motifs in Ancient Art and Its Historical Context.

Art Research Topics on Different Cultures

Each culture has unique artistic expressions that reflect its history and social norms. By delving into the art of various cultures, we can gain insights into how art shapes and reflects human experiences and choose exciting art history research topics.

• What Is the Role of Family and Community in Maori Art?
• The Tradition of African Art and Mask Making and Its Role in Identity Formation.
• Understanding the Symbolism and Meaning in Traditional Indian Textiles through the Colors of Culture.
• The Evolution of Japanese Woodblock Prints from Edo to Meiji Era.
• Try Looking for the Symbolism and Meaning in the Paintings of Raja Ravi Varma and Other Examples of Eastern Art.
• The Beauty of Symmetry: Geometry and Design in Islamic Art and Architecture.

Greek Art Research Paper Topics

Greek art is a rich and fascinating field of study that offers endless possibilities. Here is a list of art research paper topics exploring Greek artists’ diverse and complex world.

• Examine the Development of Sculptures from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period.
• Analyze How Greek Artists Portrayed Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Heroes.
• How Did Ceramics’ Significance in Daily Life Shape Pottery’s Role in Ancient Greece?
• Take an in Depth Look at the Use of Colour in Greek Sculpture, Painting, and Pottery.
• The Influence of Egypt on Greek Art and How It Impacted the Development of the Current Identity.
• Analyze How Women Were Represented and Their Role in Shaping the Cultural Context of the Time.
• Develop the Topic on the Symbolism and Representation of Animals in Greek Art and Mythology.
• Find Research Papers That Illustrate the Influence of Greece on Roman Art.

Art Topics during the Byzantine Period

Byzantine art illustrates the social context of that time, focusing on religious themes and having a close relationship between art and theology. Explore some of the most notable examples of Byzantine art, including mosaics and frescoes.

• A Study of the Architectural and Artistic Achievements of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
• Compare Your Personal Impressions on the Similarities and Differences between Byzantine Art and the Pieces Created during the Renaissance.
• What Was the Importance of Ivory Triptychs in Byzantine Art?
• To Understand Illumination, Research the Byzantine Manuscripts and Their Decorations.
• Compare the Artistic Styles of the Byzantine Art and the Romanesque Period.
• Learn More about the Revival of Classical Artistic Techniques in Byzantine Art.

Medieval Art History Research Paper Topics

Medieval art is characterized by intricate designs, elaborate ornamentation, and religious symbolism, reflecting the time’s beliefs. In writing a research paper on Medieval art history, choosing the right topic allows an in-depth exploration of various aspects of this period.

• Examine the Development in the Representation of Religious Figures and Scenes in Medieval Artworks.
• Analyze the Artistry and Significance of Illuminated Manuscripts in Europe.
• Explore the Influence of Islamic Art on the Development of Medieval Paintings.
• Examine the Meanings and Representation of Animals and Their Significance in That Time’s Worldview.
• Deep Dive into the Techniques and Symbolism Used in Stained Glass Windows in Medieval Churches.

Renaissance Paper Topics

The Renaissance Era was a period of profound cultural rebirth that had a lasting impact on the development of Western art. New growing ideas started a revolution in paintings and sculptures that saw the emergence of new techniques and forms of expression.

• Exploring the Ideals of Humanism and How They Were Reflected on Art at That Period.
• Analyze the Revival of Classical Motifs and Themes in Renaissance Art.
• Write about the Use of Perspective during the Renaissance Era and Its Impact on the Representation of Space and Depth.
• Analyze How Women Were Represented in Art and Their Role in Shaping the Cultural Context of That Time.
• Patronage System during Renaissance: Individual and Institutions Support of Art.
• Examine the Rise of Artists-Genius, Such as Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo, and How Society Perceived Them.
• Explore How Religious Themes Were Depicted in Renaissance Art.
• Start an Analysis of the Use of Allegory in Renaissance Art and Its Meaning in the Cultural Context of the Time.

Research Paper Topics on the Baroque Era

The Baroque era is known for its dramatic and ornate style, intricate ornamentation, and bold colours. In the following topics, we will explore some research paper key concepts related to the Baroque era.

• The Power of Light and Shade: A Study of Caravaggio’s Dramatic Use of Chiaroscuro.
• Carry an in Depth Analysis of the Religious Context of Baroque Art Presented in Murals and Paintings.
• The Triumph of Movement: An Analysis of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Sculpture and Its Dynamic Qualities.
• Study Female Portrayals by Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster and Learn More about the Role of Women in the Baroque Era.
• Baroque and Politics: The Relationship between Art and Power in 17th-Century Europe.
• Develop an Article about Trompe-L’œIl Painting in Baroque Art and Discover the Power of Illusion.

The Impressionist Artistic Movement

Impressionism is an art movement that emphasizes capturing the transient effects of light and colour in the natural world. By exploring the following art research paper topics, we will gain a deeper understanding of the significance of impressionism and its ongoing legacy.

• Understand Better the Concept of Time in Impressionist Paintings by Studying Some of Paul Cézanne’s Still Life.
• What’s the Relevance of Weather in Impressionist Work, and What Can We Learn from It?
• Discover the Importance of Motion in Impressionist Landscapes, According to Camille Pissarro.
• What Was the Reception of Impressionism in America, and How It Impacted Local Artists?
• Draw a Timeline of the Evolution of éDouard Manet’s Artistic Style.
• The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Degas’ Art: A Comparative Study of His Depictions of Black and Asian Figures.

The Modern Art Talk about Romanticism

Romanticism is an interesting topic characterized by a fascination with emotion, nature, and the individual. By examining the art nuances of Romanticism, we can better understand the cultural and historical context in which these works were created and appreciate its enduring influence.

• Evoking Awe and Terror in the Art of Caspar David Friedrich and J.M.W. Turner.
• Learn more about the occult in the works of Samuel Taylor coleridge and William Blake.
• Did the Portrayal of Femininity in the Works of Jane Austen, Eugène Delacroix, and William Blake Romanticize Women?
• Explore Turner and Wordsworth’s responses to the Industrial Revolution.
• Delacroix and the Impact of the French Revolution on the Romantic Movement.
• How Did Wordsworth and Goethe Portray Childhood?

The Art Influence of Mannerism

The Mannerist period followed the High Renaissance and preceded the Baroque era. Its highlights include the works of artists such as Michelangelo and Tintoretto, who created some of the era’s most beautiful and thought-provoking pieces.

• A Study of the Relationship between Artistic Style and Religious Change in Europe.
• Find Out More about Innovative Techniques and Styles Used by Mannerist Portraitists.
• Research about Michelangelo’s Influence on the Development of the Mannerist Style.
• Write an Article about the Innovations Employed by the Painter Bronzino.
• How Was the Relationship between Cellini and Michelangelo?
• A Comparative Study of Female Portrayals by Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana.
• Innovative Techniques Used by Mannerist Artists in Their Departure from Classical Tradition.

The Post-impressionist Art Movement

Post-impressionism was a reaction against the limitations of impressionism. They sought to expand the boundaries of art by exploring new techniques, emphasizing individual expression, and infusing their works with symbolic meaning.

• Examine How Post-impressionist Painters Used Colour to Convey Emotion and Atmosphere.
• The Evolution of Pointillism from Seurat to Pissarro and Van Gogh.
• Discuss the Influence of Scientific Theories on the Development of Post-impressionist Painting Techniques.
• The Influence of Music on Gauguin and Kandinsky’s Post-impressionist Works.
• What Was the Legacy of Post-impressionism in the Paintings of Fauvists and Expressionists Such as Vlaminck and Nolde?

Surrealism in Art History

Surrealism sought to challenge the rationality and logic of Western thought, emphasizing the power of the unconscious mind. Surrealist artists sought to create works that blurred the lines between reality and fantasy.

• Breaking Barriers and Boundaries: Feminist Critique of Surrealist Art.
• How Did Surrealism Represent Sexuality and Desire in Its Artworks?
• Dreams and the Unconscious: Surrealism’s Gateway to the Psyche.
• What Was the Role of Surrealism in the Construction of Gender Identity?
• From Art to Advertising: Surrealist Techniques in Marketing.
• How Did Surrealism Represent the Non-human?

The Highlights of Cubism

Cubism is an art movement where Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque revolutionized traditional forms of representation by breaking down objects into geometric shapes. Here are some ideas of themes for your next art research paper regarding Cubism.

• Study the Impacts of Cubist Paintings on American Artists Such as Stuart Davis and Charles Demuth.
• The Role of Cubism in Modern Graphic Design: A Comparative Analysis of the Work of Cassandre and Moholy-Nagy.
• The Relationship between Cubist Art and Literature and How It Influenced the Trajectory of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.
• A Comparative Study of the Depiction of Time in the Paintings of Picasso and Braque.
• Find Out How Jazz and African Rhythms Influenced the Development of Cubism.

The Avant-garde Art Topics

The Avant-garde art movement pushed art boundaries, experimenting with new techniques, materials, and subject matter. In these topics, college students can explore the critical characteristics of this art style.

• What Was the Role of Marcel Duchamp in Shaping the Avant-Garde Movement?
• Learn More about Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” Significance in Avant-Garde Art.
• How Did the Work of Francis Picabia Challenge Traditional Notions of Art and Beauty?
• Examine the Impact of Futurism on Avant-Garde Art through the Creation of Umberto Boccioni.
• Understand the Use of Technology in Avant-Garde Art through the Work of Nam June Paik.

The Expressionist Art Movement

Expressionist artists sought to convey intense emotions through their works, rejecting traditional forms of representation in favour of abstraction and distortion. This list will explore the critical characteristics of Expressionism, examining its cultural and historical context.

• What Was the Influence of Expressionism on Abstract Art: From the Work of Rothko and Newman.
• Nature in Expressionist Art: A Survey of the Creation of Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
• Deep Dive into German Expressionism’s Impact on Modern Art Development.
• Expressionism and the Representation of War: A Comparative Analysis of Dix and Grosz’s Depictions of World War I.
• Analyze How Religion Existed in the Expressionist Movement, Englobing Marc Chagall’s Work and Its Relationship to Mysticism.
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Topics on Dadaism

The Dadaist era was famous for its irreverent humour and rejection of logic and reason. By reviewing the Dadaist age, we can better understand how art can be used as a social and political critique.

• A Study of the Use of Humor in the Work of Duchamp and Ernst during Dadaism.
• How Was the National Identity Represented in Dadaism in the Work of Huelsenbeck and Grosz?
• Trace the Dadaist Roots in the Cultural and Political Context of the Early 20th Century.
• Analyze How Dadaists Turned Chance and Accident into Creative Tools.
• Examine How Artists Used Collage and Photomontage to Challenge Traditional Notions of Art during Dadaism.
• Trace the Journey of Francis Picabia’s Shifting Style in the Dada Movement.
• Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades and the Subversive Legacy of Dadaism.

Pop Art Debate Topics

Pop Art is a visual arts movement that appropriated popular cultural imagery and techniques, challenging traditional fine art concepts. With their lasting influence, these art epochs are exciting topics for research papers for college students.

• How Did Pop Art Reflect and Critique Consumer Culture and Consumerism?
• Analyze the Art and Influence of Andy Warhol and How He Contributed to the Development of the Movement.
• How Did Pop Art Appropriate and Recontextualize Advertising Imagery?
• Examine How Female Artists Contributed to Pop Art and How They Challenged Traditional Gender Roles.
• How Did Roy Lichtenstein Contribute to Developing Graphic Novel-Inspired Imagery in Pop Art?
• Analyze How Pop Art Has Influenced and Been Influenced by Digital Media.

Art Education Research Topics in the 16th Century

• Discover the Artistic Innovations of Bruegel, Bosch, and Dürer in the Northern Renaissance.
• Why Was the Artistic Response to the Catholic Church’s Reforms Called Counter-Reformation Art?
• Venetian Renaissance: The Colorful and Opulent Art of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese.
• Emphasize the Artistic Achievements of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals.
• What Did the Spanish Golden Age Contribute through the Work of Velázquez, Murillo, and Zurbarán?
• Understand Mannerist Architecture and Its Ornate and Playful Buildings of Italy’s Palladio, Vignola, and Scamozzi.
• What Happened When Rococo’s Lavish and Ornamental Style Was Present in Boucher, Fragonard, and Watteau’s Work?

Cool Art Ideas during the 17th Century

• The Realistic and Genre Scenes of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals in Dutch Baroque.
• The Theatrical Style of Poussin, Le Brun, and Lorrain of the Baroque Period in France.
• Naturalistic Art in the Flemish Baroque of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens in Flanders.
• The Emotive and Dramatic Style of Caravaggio, Bernini, and Borromini in the Italian Baroque.
• The Revival of Classical Antiquity in European Art and Design through Neoclassicism.
• The Mastery of Detail in the Dutch Still Life Paintings by Willem Kalf, Pieter Claesz, and Rachel Ruysch.
• Illustrating the Contrast of Light and Dark in the Paintings of Velázquez and Zurbarán.
• Flemish Still Life Painting: The Richness in the Works of Jan Davidsz de Heem, Clara Peeters, and Osias Beert.

Research Papers on Art Produced during the 18th Century

• The Ornate and Playful Rococo Art by Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard in France.
• The Revival of Classical Antiquity in European Art, Architecture, and Design in the Rising of Neoclassicism.
• Depictions of Natural Beauty by Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner in 18th-Century British Landscape Paintings.
• The Development of a New Style in Portraiture, Landscape, and Still Life Painting in American Colonial Art.
• Intricacy and Elegance of Porcelain, Jade, and Lacquer Ware Developed during the Qing Dynasty in China.
• Discover Indian Miniature Painting through Its Colorful and Narrative Art of Mughal and Rajput Courts.
• The Use of the Contrast of Light and Dark in the Spanish Baroque, Illustrated by the Works of Velázquez and Zurbarán.
• Extravagant and Sensuous Italian Rococo Paintings by Tiepolo, Guardi, and Canaletto in Italy.

The 19th Century Artistic Styles

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• The Emphasis on Ideas over Aesthetics Inspired Conceptual Art Constructed by Kosuth, Weiner, and Acconci.
• The Return to Figurative and Emotional Art in Neo-Expressionism with Focus on Basquiat, Schnabel, and Kiefer.

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• How the International Art Market Is Changing the Art Landscape through Globalization.
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• Examine How Painters Incorporate New Technologies and Techniques into Their Work.
• Analyze How Performance Art Challenges Traditional Notions of Art and Audience Participation.
• Explore How Contemporary Artists Challenge the Status Quo and What Constitutes Art in the Last Centuries.

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The Mexican Revolution was a significant political change in Mexico. Revolutionary art emerged as a powerful tool for propaganda and expressed the hopes and aspirations of the Mexican people. These themes exemplify some of the most interesting paintings to write about.

• Art Contribution to the Mexican Revolutionary Movement.
• Analyze How Artists Portrayed Revolutionary Heroes Such as Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
• Examine How Muralists Such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco Used Art to Promote Social Change.
• Artists’ Representation of Indigenous People during the Revolutionary Period.
• Explore How Mexican Revolutionary Art Has Influenced and Inspired Artists in Mexico and Beyond.

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• An Analysis of Organic Forms and Materials in Santiago Calatrava’s Designs.
• Write a Critical Analysis of Zaha Hadid’s Visionary Designs.
• Examine How Shigeru Ban’s Designs Address Social and Environmental Challenges.
• Build a Historical Overview of the Green Building Movement and Its Influence on Contemporary Architecture.
• Analyze the Effects of Colonialism on the Built Environment of Former Colonies.

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• Carry an Examination of the Role of Emotion and Empathy in Theater Performance.
• Start a Comparative Study of Emerging Trends and Innovations in Contemporary Theater Production.
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• Discover the Role of War Photography in Documenting and Promoting Social Justice.
• Analyze How Photos Can Be Used as a Tool for Scientific Research and New Technological Discoveries.
• The Rise of Digital Photography and Its Effects on the Field.
• Explore How Photographers Portray and Challenge Traditional Gender Roles and Identities in Contemporary Photography.

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• Frida Kahlo: The Work of the Iconic Mexican Surrealist Artist.
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How to Structure a Dissertation – A Step by Step Guide

Published by Owen Ingram at August 11th, 2021 , Revised On September 20, 2023

A dissertation – sometimes called a thesis –  is a long piece of information backed up by extensive research. This one, huge piece of research is what matters the most when students – undergraduates and postgraduates – are in their final year of study.

On the other hand, some institutions, especially in the case of undergraduate students, may or may not require students to write a dissertation. Courses are offered instead. This generally depends on the requirements of that particular institution.

If you are unsure about how to structure your dissertation or thesis, this article will offer you some guidelines to work out what the most important segments of a dissertation paper are and how you should organise them. Why is structure so important in research, anyway?

One way to answer that, as Abbie Hoffman aptly put it, is because: “Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”

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How to Structure a Dissertation or Thesis

It should be noted that the exact structure of your dissertation will depend on several factors, such as:

• Your research approach (qualitative/quantitative)
• The nature of your research design (exploratory/descriptive etc.)
• The requirements set for forth by your academic institution.
• The discipline or field your study belongs to. For instance, if you are a humanities student, you will need to develop your dissertation on the same pattern as any long essay .

This will include developing an overall argument to support the thesis statement and organizing chapters around theories or questions. The dissertation will be structured such that it starts with an introduction , develops on the main idea in its main body paragraphs and is then summarised in conclusion .

However, if you are basing your dissertation on primary or empirical research, you will be required to include each of the below components. In most cases of dissertation writing, each of these elements will have to be written as a separate chapter.

But depending on the word count you are provided with and academic subject, you may choose to combine some of these elements.

For example, sciences and engineering students often present results and discussions together in one chapter rather than two different chapters.

If you have any doubts about structuring your dissertation or thesis, it would be a good idea to consult with your academic supervisor and check your department’s requirements.

Parts of  a Dissertation or Thesis

Your dissertation will  start with a t itle page that will contain details of the author/researcher, research topic, degree program (the paper is to be submitted for), and research supervisor. In other words, a title page is the opening page containing all the names and title related to your research.

The name of your university, logo, student ID and submission date can also be presented on the title page. Many academic programs have stringent rules for formatting the dissertation title page.

Acknowledgements

The acknowledgments section allows you to thank those who helped you with your dissertation project. You might want to mention the names of your academic supervisor, family members, friends, God, and participants of your study whose contribution and support enabled you to complete your work.

However, the acknowledgments section is usually optional.

Tip: Many students wrongly assume that they need to thank everyone…even those who had little to no contributions towards the dissertation. This is not the case. You only need to thank those who were directly involved in the research process, such as your participants/volunteers, supervisor(s) etc.

Perhaps the smallest yet important part of a thesis, an abstract contains 5 parts:

• A brief introduction of your research topic.
• The significance of your research.
•  A line or two about the methodology that was used.
• The results and what they mean (briefly); their interpretation(s).
• And lastly, a conclusive comment regarding the results’ interpretation(s) as conclusion .

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Tip: Make sure to highlight key points to help readers figure out the scope and findings of your research study without having to read the entire dissertation. The abstract is your first chance to impress your readers. So, make sure to get it right. Here are detailed guidelines on how to write abstract for dissertation .

Table of Contents

Table of contents is the section of a dissertation that guides each section of the dissertation paper’s contents. Depending on the level of detail in a table of contents, the most useful headings are listed to provide the reader the page number on which said information may be found at.

Table of contents can be inserted automatically as well as manually using the Microsoft Word Table of Contents feature.

List of Figures and Tables

If your dissertation paper uses several illustrations, tables and figures, you might want to present them in a numbered list in a separate section . Again, this list of tables and figures can be auto-created and auto inserted using the Microsoft Word built-in feature.

List of Abbreviations

Dissertations that include several abbreviations can also have an independent and separate alphabetised  list of abbreviations so readers can easily figure out their meanings.

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Introduction

Introduction chapter  briefly introduces the purpose and relevance of your research topic.

Here, you will be expected to list the aim and key objectives of your research so your readers can easily understand what the following chapters of the dissertation will cover. A good dissertation introduction section incorporates the following information:

• It provides background information to give context to your research.
• It clearly specifies the research problem you wish to address with your research. When creating research questions , it is important to make sure your research’s focus and scope are neither too broad nor too narrow.
• it demonstrates how your research is relevant and how it would contribute to the existing knowledge.
• It provides an overview of the structure of your dissertation. The last section of an introduction contains an outline of the following chapters. It could start off with something like: “In the following chapter, past literature has been reviewed and critiqued. The proceeding section lays down major research findings…”
• Theoretical framework – under a separate sub-heading – is also provided within the introductory chapter. Theoretical framework deals with the basic, underlying theory or theories that the research revolves around.

All the information presented under this section should be relevant, clear, and engaging. The readers should be able to figure out the what, why, when, and how of your study once they have read the introduction. Here are comprehensive guidelines on how to structure the introduction to the dissertation .

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Literature Review 

The  literature review chapter  presents previous research performed on the topic and improves your understanding of the existing literature on your chosen topic. This is usually organised to complement your  primary research  work completed at a later stage.

Make sure that your chosen academic sources are authentic and up-to-date. The literature review chapter must be comprehensive and address the aims and objectives as defined in the introduction chapter. Here is what your literature research chapter should aim to achieve:

• Data collection from authentic and relevant academic sources such as books, journal articles and research papers.
• Analytical assessment of the information collected from those sources; this would involve a critiquing the reviewed researches that is, what their strengths/weaknesses are, why the research method they employed is better than others, importance of their findings, etc.
• Identifying key research gaps, conflicts, patterns, and theories to get your point across to the reader effectively.

While your literature review should summarise previous literature, it is equally important to make sure that you develop a comprehensible argument or structure to justify your research topic. It would help if you considered keeping the following questions in mind when writing the literature review:

• How does your research work fill a certain gap in exiting literature?
• Did you adopt/adapt a new research approach to investigate the topic?
• Does your research solve an unresolved problem?
• Is your research dealing with some groundbreaking topic or theory that others might have overlooked?
• Is your research taking forward an existing theoretical discussion?
• Does your research strengthen and build on current knowledge within your area of study? This is otherwise known as ‘adding to the existing body of knowledge’ in academic circles.

Tip: You might want to establish relationships between variables/concepts to provide descriptive answers to some or all of your research questions. For instance, in case of quantitative research, you might hypothesise that variable A is positively co-related to variable B that is, one increases and so does the other one.

Research Methodology

The methods and techniques ( secondary and/or primar y) employed to collect research data are discussed in detail in the  Methodology chapter. The most commonly used primary data collection methods are:

• questionnaires
• focus groups
• observations

Essentially, the methodology chapter allows the researcher to explain how he/she achieved the findings, why they are reliable and how they helped him/her test the research hypotheses or address the research problem.

You might want to consider the following when writing methodology for the dissertation:

• Type of research and approach your work is based on. Some of the most widely used types of research include experimental, quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
• Data collection techniques that were employed such as questionnaires, surveys, focus groups, observations etc.
• Details of how, when, where, and what of the research that was conducted.
• Data analysis strategies employed (for instance, regression analysis).
• Software and tools used for data analysis (Excel, STATA, SPSS, lab equipment, etc.).
• Research limitations to highlight any hurdles you had to overcome when carrying our research. Limitations might or might not be mentioned within research methodology. Some institutions’ guidelines dictate they be mentioned under a separate section alongside recommendations.
• Justification of your selection of research approach and research methodology.

Here is a comprehensive article on  how to structure a dissertation methodology .

Research Findings

In this section, you present your research findings. The dissertation findings chapter  is built around the research questions, as outlined in the introduction chapter. Report findings that are directly relevant to your research questions.

Any information that is not directly relevant to research questions or hypotheses but could be useful for the readers can be placed under the  Appendices .

As indicated above, you can either develop a  standalone chapter  to present your findings or combine them with the discussion chapter. This choice depends on  the type of research involved and the academic subject, as well as what your institution’s academic guidelines dictate.

For example, it is common to have both findings and discussion grouped under the same section, particularly if the dissertation is based on qualitative research data.

On the other hand, dissertations that use quantitative or experimental data should present findings and analysis/discussion in two separate chapters. Here are some sample dissertations to help you figure out the best structure for your own project.

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Tip: Try to present as many charts, graphs, illustrations and tables in the findings chapter to improve your data presentation. Provide their qualitative interpretations alongside, too. Refrain from explaining the information that is already evident from figures and tables.

The findings are followed by the  Discussion chapter , which is considered the heart of any dissertation paper. The discussion section is an opportunity for you to tie the knots together to address the research questions and present arguments, models and key themes.

This chapter can make or break your research.

The discussion chapter does not require any new data or information because it is more about the interpretation(s) of the data you have already collected and presented. Here are some questions for you to think over when writing the discussion chapter:

• Did your work answer all the research questions or tested the hypothesis?
• Did you come up with some unexpected results for which you have to provide an additional explanation or justification?
• Are there any limitations that could have influenced your research findings?

Here is an article on how to  structure a dissertation discussion .

Conclusions corresponding to each research objective are provided in the  Conclusion section . This is usually done by revisiting the research questions to finally close the dissertation. Some institutions may specifically ask for recommendations to evaluate your critical thinking.

By the end, the readers should have a clear apprehension of your fundamental case with a focus on  what methods of research were employed  and what you achieved from this research.

Quick Question: Does the conclusion chapter reflect on the contributions your research work will make to existing knowledge?

Answer: Yes, the conclusion chapter of the research paper typically includes a reflection on the research’s contributions to existing knowledge.  In the “conclusion chapter”, you have to summarise the key findings and discuss how they add value to the existing literature on the current topic.

Reference list

All academic sources that you collected information from should be cited in-text and also presented in a  reference list (or a bibliography in case you include references that you read for the research but didn’t end up citing in the text), so the readers can easily locate the source of information when/if needed.

At most UK universities, Harvard referencing is the recommended style of referencing. It has strict and specific requirements on how to format a reference resource. Other common styles of referencing include MLA, APA, Footnotes, etc.

Each chapter of the dissertation should have relevant information. Any information that is not directly relevant to your research topic but your readers might be interested in (interview transcripts etc.) should be moved under the Appendices section .

Things like questionnaires, survey items or readings that were used in the study’s experiment are mostly included under appendices.

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FAQs About Structure a Dissertation

What does the title page of a dissertation contain.

The title page will contain details of the author/researcher, research topic , degree program (the paper is to be submitted for) and research supervisor’s name(s). The name of your university, logo, student number and submission date can also be presented on the title page.

What is the purpose of adding acknowledgement?

The acknowledgements section allows you to thank those who helped you with your dissertation project. You might want to mention the names of your academic supervisor, family members, friends, God and participants of your study whose contribution and support enabled you to complete your work.

Can I omit the glossary from the dissertation?

Yes, but only if you think that your paper does not contain any terms or phrases that the reader might not understand. If you think you have used them in the paper,  you must create a glossary that lists important phrases and terms with their meanings explained.

What is the purpose of appendices in a dissertation?

Any information that is not directly relevant to research questions or hypotheses but could be useful for the readers can be placed under the Appendices, such as questionnaire that was used in the study.

Which referencing style should I use in my dissertation?

You can use any of the referencing styles such as APA, MLA, and Harvard, according to the recommendation of your university; however, almost all UK institutions prefer Harvard referencing style .

What is the difference between references and bibliography?

References contain all the works that you read up and used and therefore, cited within the text of your thesis. However, in case you read on some works and resources that you didn’t end up citing in-text, they will be referenced in what is called a bibliography.

Additional readings might also be present alongside each bibliography entry for readers.

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What Is a Dissertation? | Guide, Examples, & Template

A dissertation is a long-form piece of academic writing based on original research conducted by you. It is usually submitted as the final step in order to finish a PhD program.

Your dissertation is probably the longest piece of writing you’ve ever completed. It requires solid research, writing, and analysis skills, and it can be intimidating to know where to begin.

Your department likely has guidelines related to how your dissertation should be structured. When in doubt, consult with your supervisor.

You can also download our full dissertation template in the format of your choice below. The template includes a ready-made table of contents with notes on what to include in each chapter, easily adaptable to your department’s requirements.

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• In the US, a dissertation generally refers to the collection of research you conducted to obtain a PhD.
• In other countries (such as the UK), a dissertation often refers to the research you conduct to obtain your bachelor’s or master’s degree.

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Dissertation committee and prospectus process, how to write and structure a dissertation, acknowledgements or preface, list of figures and tables, list of abbreviations, introduction, literature review, methodology, reference list, proofreading and editing, defending your dissertation, free checklist and lecture slides.

When you’ve finished your coursework, as well as any comprehensive exams or other requirements, you advance to “ABD” (All But Dissertation) status. This means you’ve completed everything except your dissertation.

Prior to starting to write, you must form your committee and write your prospectus or proposal . Your committee comprises your adviser and a few other faculty members. They can be from your own department, or, if your work is more interdisciplinary, from other departments. Your committee will guide you through the dissertation process, and ultimately decide whether you pass your dissertation defense and receive your PhD.

Your prospectus is a formal document presented to your committee, usually orally in a defense, outlining your research aims and objectives and showing why your topic is relevant . After passing your prospectus defense, you’re ready to start your research and writing.

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The structure of your dissertation depends on a variety of factors, such as your discipline, topic, and approach. Dissertations in the humanities are often structured more like a long essay , building an overall argument to support a central thesis , with chapters organized around different themes or case studies.

However, hard science and social science dissertations typically include a review of existing works, a methodology section, an analysis of your original research, and a presentation of your results , presented in different chapters.

Dissertation examples

We’ve compiled a list of dissertation examples to help you get started.

• Example dissertation #1: Heat, Wildfire and Energy Demand: An Examination of Residential Buildings and Community Equity (a dissertation by C. A. Antonopoulos about the impact of extreme heat and wildfire on residential buildings and occupant exposure risks).
• Example dissertation #2: Exploring Income Volatility and Financial Health Among Middle-Income Households (a dissertation by M. Addo about income volatility and declining economic security among middle-income households).
• Example dissertation #3: The Use of Mindfulness Meditation to Increase the Efficacy of Mirror Visual Feedback for Reducing Phantom Limb Pain in Amputees (a dissertation by N. S. Mills about the effect of mindfulness-based interventions on the relationship between mirror visual feedback and the pain level in amputees with phantom limb pain).

The very first page of your document contains your dissertation title, your name, department, institution, degree program, and submission date. Sometimes it also includes your student number, your supervisor’s name, and the university’s logo.

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The acknowledgements section is usually optional and gives space for you to thank everyone who helped you in writing your dissertation. This might include your supervisors, participants in your research, and friends or family who supported you. In some cases, your acknowledgements are part of a preface.

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The abstract is a short summary of your dissertation, usually about 150 to 300 words long. Though this may seem very short, it’s one of the most important parts of your dissertation, because it introduces your work to your audience.

Your abstract should:

• State your main topic and the aims of your research
• Describe your methods
• Summarize your main results
• State your conclusions

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The table of contents lists all of your chapters, along with corresponding subheadings and page numbers. This gives your reader an overview of your structure and helps them easily navigate your document.

Remember to include all main parts of your dissertation in your table of contents, even the appendices. It’s easy to generate a table automatically in Word if you used heading styles. Generally speaking, you only include level 2 and level 3 headings, not every subheading you included in your finished work.

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While not usually mandatory, it’s nice to include a list of figures and tables to help guide your reader if you have used a lot of these in your dissertation. It’s easy to generate one of these in Word using the Insert Caption feature.

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Similarly, if you have used a lot of abbreviations (especially industry-specific ones) in your dissertation, you can include them in an alphabetized list of abbreviations so that the reader can easily look up their meanings.

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In addition to the list of abbreviations, if you find yourself using a lot of highly specialized terms that you worry will not be familiar to your reader, consider including a glossary. Here, alphabetize the terms and include a brief description or definition.

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The introduction serves to set up your dissertation’s topic, purpose, and relevance. It tells the reader what to expect in the rest of your dissertation. The introduction should:

• Establish your research topic , giving the background information needed to contextualize your work
• Narrow down the focus and define the scope of your research
• Discuss the state of existing research on the topic, showing your work’s relevance to a broader problem or debate
• Clearly state your research questions and objectives
• Outline the flow of the rest of your work

Everything in the introduction should be clear, engaging, and relevant. By the end, the reader should understand the what, why, and how of your research.

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A formative part of your research is your literature review . This helps you gain a thorough understanding of the academic work that already exists on your topic.

Literature reviews encompass:

• Finding relevant sources (e.g., books and journal articles)
• Assessing the credibility of your sources
• Critically analyzing and evaluating each source
• Drawing connections between them (e.g., themes, patterns, conflicts, or gaps) to strengthen your overall point

A literature review is not merely a summary of existing sources. Your literature review should have a coherent structure and argument that leads to a clear justification for your own research. It may aim to:

• Address a gap in the literature or build on existing knowledge
• Take a new theoretical or methodological approach to your topic
• Propose a solution to an unresolved problem or advance one side of a theoretical debate

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Theoretical framework

Your literature review can often form the basis for your theoretical framework. Here, you define and analyze the key theories, concepts, and models that frame your research.

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Your methodology chapter describes how you conducted your research, allowing your reader to critically assess its credibility. Your methodology section should accurately report what you did, as well as convince your reader that this was the best way to answer your research question.

A methodology section should generally include:

• The overall research approach ( quantitative vs. qualitative ) and research methods (e.g., a longitudinal study )
• Your data collection methods (e.g., interviews or a controlled experiment )
• Details of where, when, and with whom the research took place
• Any tools and materials you used (e.g., computer programs, lab equipment)
• Your data analysis methods (e.g., statistical analysis , discourse analysis )
• An evaluation or justification of your methods

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Your results section should highlight what your methodology discovered. You can structure this section around sub-questions, hypotheses , or themes, but avoid including any subjective or speculative interpretation here.

Your results section should:

• Concisely state each relevant result together with relevant descriptive statistics (e.g., mean , standard deviation ) and inferential statistics (e.g., test statistics , p values )
• Briefly state how the result relates to the question or whether the hypothesis was supported
• Report all results that are relevant to your research questions , including any that did not meet your expectations.

Additional data (including raw numbers, full questionnaires, or interview transcripts) can be included as an appendix. You can include tables and figures, but only if they help the reader better understand your results. Read more about results sections

Your discussion section is your opportunity to explore the meaning and implications of your results in relation to your research question. Here, interpret your results in detail, discussing whether they met your expectations and how well they fit with the framework that you built in earlier chapters. Refer back to relevant source material to show how your results fit within existing research in your field.

Some guiding questions include:

• What do your results mean?
• Why do your results matter?
• What limitations do the results have?

If any of the results were unexpected, offer explanations for why this might be. It’s a good idea to consider alternative interpretations of your data.

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Your dissertation’s conclusion should concisely answer your main research question, leaving your reader with a clear understanding of your central argument and emphasizing what your research has contributed to the field.

In some disciplines, the conclusion is just a short section preceding the discussion section, but in other contexts, it is the final chapter of your work. Here, you wrap up your dissertation with a final reflection on what you found, with recommendations for future research and concluding remarks.

It’s important to leave the reader with a clear impression of why your research matters. What have you added to what was already known? Why is your research necessary for the future of your field?

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It is crucial to include a reference list or list of works cited with the full details of all the sources that you used, in order to avoid plagiarism. Be sure to choose one citation style and follow it consistently throughout your dissertation. Each style has strict and specific formatting requirements.

Common styles include MLA , Chicago , and APA , but which style you use is often set by your department or your field.

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Your dissertation should contain only essential information that directly contributes to answering your research question. Documents such as interview transcripts or survey questions can be added as appendices, rather than adding them to the main body.

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Making sure that all of your sections are in the right place is only the first step to a well-written dissertation. Don’t forget to leave plenty of time for editing and proofreading, as grammar mistakes and sloppy spelling errors can really negatively impact your work.

Dissertations can take up to five years to write, so you will definitely want to make sure that everything is perfect before submitting. You may want to consider using a professional dissertation editing service , AI proofreader or grammar checker to make sure your final project is perfect prior to submitting.

After your written dissertation is approved, your committee will schedule a defense. Similarly to defending your prospectus, dissertation defenses are oral presentations of your work. You’ll present your dissertation, and your committee will ask you questions. Many departments allow family members, friends, and other people who are interested to join as well.

After your defense, your committee will meet, and then inform you whether you have passed. Keep in mind that defenses are usually just a formality; most committees will have resolved any serious issues with your work with you far prior to your defense, giving you ample time to fix any problems.

As you write your dissertation, you can use this simple checklist to make sure you’ve included all the essentials.

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My title page includes all information required by my university.

I have included acknowledgements thanking those who helped me.

My abstract provides a concise summary of the dissertation, giving the reader a clear idea of my key results or arguments.

I have created a table of contents to help the reader navigate my dissertation. It includes all chapter titles, but excludes the title page, acknowledgements, and abstract.

My introduction leads into my topic in an engaging way and shows the relevance of my research.

My introduction clearly defines the focus of my research, stating my research questions and research objectives .

My introduction includes an overview of the dissertation’s structure (reading guide).

I have conducted a literature review in which I (1) critically engage with sources, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of existing research, (2) discuss patterns, themes, and debates in the literature, and (3) address a gap or show how my research contributes to existing research.

I have clearly outlined the theoretical framework of my research, explaining the theories and models that support my approach.

I have thoroughly described my methodology , explaining how I collected data and analyzed data.

I have concisely and objectively reported all relevant results .

I have (1) evaluated and interpreted the meaning of the results and (2) acknowledged any important limitations of the results in my discussion .

I have clearly stated the answer to my main research question in the conclusion .

I have clearly explained the implications of my conclusion, emphasizing what new insight my research has contributed.

I have provided relevant recommendations for further research or practice.

If relevant, I have included appendices with supplemental information.

I have included an in-text citation every time I use words, ideas, or information from a source.

I have listed every source in a reference list at the end of my dissertation.

I have consistently followed the rules of my chosen citation style .

I have followed all formatting guidelines provided by my university.

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Choosing a relevant dissertation topic means taking the first step toward obtaining an academic degree. Let's talk about how to do it right. Also, as a bonus, we have prepared ten dissertation topics for each popular scientific discipline.

How to Choose a Dissertation Topic?

Let’s find out how to choose a dissertation topic . You should understand that the dissertation has:

• to be relevant. It is important to identify what research already exists on this topic and how you can expand it. Historiography and the conclusions of your predecessors will help you. Some of them are dogmatic, and some need rethinking;
• to have scientific significance . The topic of the thesis must have scientific significance. This means that you will have to clearly formulate the goals and objectives of your research;
• to have practical applications. When choosing a topic, it is worth paying attention to practical significance. Determine who / what will benefit from this research and where its results can be applied;
• to correspond to a certain structure. A dissertation is a scientific work, and it should be created according to a certain structure, as can be seen in the table of contents in a dissertation , regardless of whether it is about the humanities or technical sciences.

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Dissertation Topics in Education

Education is one of the fastest-growing areas for scientific research. Here are ten good topics for a dissertation.

• The Role of Technology in Enhancing Learning Outcomes in K-12 Education.
• Evaluating the Impact of Montessori Methods on Early Childhood Education.
• The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education in Improving Students' Linguistic Competence.
• Inclusive Education: Strategies for Supporting Students with Special Needs in Mainstream Classrooms.
• The Influence of Parental Involvement on Student Academic Achievement and Social Development.
• STEM Education: Approaches to Increasing Female Participation in Male-Dominated Fields.
• The Impact of School Leadership on Teacher Morale and Student Achievement.
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Education Programs in Promoting Sustainable Practices Among Students.
• Digital Literacy in Education: Preparing Students for the Digital Age.
• The Role of Physical Education in Promoting Mental Health Among Students.

Dissertation topics in Higher Education

• Analyzing the Impact of Online Learning on Higher Education Post-Pandemic.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Strategies for Creating Equitable Learning Environments in Universities.
• The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindsets.
• Assessing the Financial Sustainability of Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century.
• The Influence of Globalization on Curriculum Development in Higher Education.
• Mental Health Services in Universities: Accessibility and Impact on Student Success.
• The Effectiveness of Community Engagement Programs in Enhancing University Reputation and Student Experience.
• Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing E-Learning Platforms in Universities.
• The Role of Internships in Higher Education: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice.
• Leadership Development Programs in Higher Education: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders.

Dissertation Topics in Educational Leadership

If earlier practical workers in the field of education waited for scientists and central authorities to develop new methods, today, due to the rapid development of this area, they themselves create innovative models of pedagogical (educational) systems. Here are ten topical topics for a dissertation in the discipline.

• Exploring the Impact of Transformational Leadership on School Culture and Student Achievement.
• The Role of Educational Leaders in Addressing Equity and Social Justice Issues in Schools.
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professional Development Programs for School Leaders.
• Leadership Strategies for Enhancing Teacher Performance and Student Outcomes in Low-Performing Schools.
• The Impact of School Leadership on Implementing Technology-Enhanced Learning.
• Strategies for Building Resilient Educational Communities in Times of Crisis.
• The Role of School Leaders in Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Education.
• Leadership and Management Challenges in Multicultural Educational Settings.
• Assessing the Role of Ethical Leadership in Promoting Integrity and Accountability in Education.
• The Influence of Leadership Styles on Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention.

Dissertation Topics in Business

Economic disciplines present tremendous opportunities for choosing a dissertation topic. Here are ten of them.

• The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Transforming Customer Service Operations.
• Analyzing the Impact of Social Media Marketing on Brand Loyalty among Millennials.
• Sustainable Business Practices: Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Going Green.
• The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Consumer Buying Behavior.
• Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age: Key Factors for Success in Online Startups.
• The Impact of Brexit on European Businesses: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Global Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Mitigating Risks and Enhancing Efficiency.
• The Role of Innovation in Maintaining Competitive Advantage in the Tech Industry.
• Consumer Perceptions of Privacy and Security in E-commerce Transactions.
• The Effectiveness of Strategic Alliances in the Aviation Industry.

Dissertation Topics in Management

The dissertation on management reflects the ability of an applicant for a scientific degree to correctly create ways of effective management in production and find solutions to improve the work of socio-economic mechanisms of different directions. Here are ten topics for this discipline.

• Leadership Styles and Their Impact on Employee Motivation and Performance.
• Managing Remote Work: Strategies for Enhancing Productivity and Employee Well-being.
• The Role of Cultural Intelligence in Managing Diverse Workforces.
• Evaluating the Impact of Organizational Change on Employee Satisfaction and Turnover.
• Risk Management in Project Management: Tools and Techniques for Success.
• The Influence of Corporate Governance on Firm Performance and Accountability.
• Agile Management: Principles and Applications in Non-IT Industries.
• Consumer Behavior Analysis for Effective Retail Management.
• Strategies for Managing Innovation and Creativity in Large Organizations.
• The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Management.

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Finance Dissertation Ideas

The financial industry is constantly undergoing changes that can be intelligently reflected in your dissertation. Here is a list of ten hot topics.

• Cryptocurrency: Investigating its Viability as a Mainstream Investment Option.
• The Impact of Interest Rate Changes on the Stock Market.
• Financial Technology (FinTech) Innovations: Implications for Traditional Banking.
• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Budgeting Practices on Organizational Financial Health.
• The Role of Microfinance in Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries.
• Corporate Financial Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Economic Downturns.
• The Influence of Credit Rating Agencies on Financial Markets.
• Sustainable Finance: Exploring the Growth of Green Bonds and Their Impact on Environmental Projects.
• Behavioral Finance: How Psychological Factors Influence Investment Decisions.
• The Effect of Corporate Tax Policies on Investment and Economic Growth.

Thesis Topics in Marketing

Now let's take a look at the next ten marketing topics.

• The Impact of Influencer Marketing on Consumer Purchase Intentions in the Beauty Industry.
• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Personalized Marketing Campaigns in E-commerce.
• Sustainability in Marketing: How Green Marketing Influences Consumer Choices.
• The Role of Brand Storytelling in Building Brand Identity on Social Media.
• Consumer Perceptions of Ethical Marketing Practices and Their Impact on Brand Loyalty.
• The Influence of Augmented Reality (AR) on the Shopping Experience in Retail.
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Content Marketing Strategies in SaaS Businesses.
• The Impact of Packaging Design on Consumer Buying Behavior in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).
• Digital Word of Mouth: Its Influence on Brand Reputation and Consumer Trust.
• Marketing Strategies for Engaging Generation Z: A Study of Preferences and Trends.

Law Dissertation Topics

The law is gradually changing and is the basis for the development of new topics for PhD theses. The choice is made in the field of lawmaking or changes in law enforcement practice. Below we have prepared ten hot topics.

• The Evolution of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age.
• Analyzing the Impact of GDPR on Online Privacy and Data Protection.
• The Role of International Law in Managing Global Environmental Challenges.
• Legal Challenges in the Enforcement of Cybersecurity Laws Across Borders.
• The Effectiveness of Legal Frameworks in Combating Human Trafficking.
• Corporate Governance and Accountability: A Study of Recent Legal Reforms.
• The Influence of Legal Policies on Refugee and Asylum Seeker Rights.
• Comparative Analysis of Family Law: Custody Disputes Across Different Jurisdictions.
• The Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the Workplace.
• Criminal Justice Reform: Evaluating the Impact of Restorative Justice Practices.

Psychology Dissertation Topics

Successful defense of a dissertation in psychology will allow you to realize your own potential in the field of research of human mental processes and get a high-paying, prestigious job. Here is a list of ten interesting topics in the discipline.

• The Psychological Impact of Social Media Usage on Teenagers.
• Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Mental Health.
• The Effect of Workplace Stress on Employee Mental Health and Productivity.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Its Effectiveness in Treating Anxiety Disorders.
• The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Personal and Professional Success.
• Parenting Styles and Their Impact on Child Development and Behavior.
• The Psychology of Decision Making: How Cognitive Biases Influence Choices.
• The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Psychological Well-being.
• Social Isolation: Psychological Effects During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• The Role of Psychological Support in Chronic Illness Management.

Dissertation Topics in Nursing

Here’s a list of ten dissertation topics examples in nursing.

• The Role of Nurses in Managing Patient Anxiety in Pre-operative Settings.
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telehealth Nursing Practices in Rural Areas.
• The Impact of Nursing Leadership Styles on Team Performance and Patient Care.
• Strategies for Improving Pain Management in Postoperative Patients.
• The Role of Nurses in Promoting Mental Health Among Adolescents.
• Challenges and Strategies in Providing Nursing Care for Dementia Patients.
• The Impact of Nurse-Patient Ratios on Job Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes.
• Innovations in Nursing Education: Preparing Nurses for Future Healthcare Challenges.
• The Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions in Managing Chronic Heart Failure.
• Nursing Ethics: Decision-Making in End-of-Life Care.

History Dissertation Topics

Below we have prepared ten topics on this theoretical discipline.

• The Role of Propaganda in Shaping Public Opinion During World War II.
• Economic Policies and Their Impact on the Great Depression's Length and Severity.
• The Influence of the Cold War on Space Exploration Initiatives.
• Decolonization and Nationalism: A Comparative Study of African Nations Post-1945.
• The Impact of the Silk Road on Cultural Exchange Between the East and West.
• Women's Suffrage Movements: A Comparative Analysis Between Two Countries.
• The Role of Religion in the Formation of Medieval European Societies.
• The Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Urbanization and Social Class.
• The Evolution of Naval Warfare Tactics From the Napoleonic Wars to World War I.
• The Cultural and Political Impact of the Beatles in the 1960s.

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Computer Science Dissertation Ideas

When choosing a dissertation topic, keep in mind that it is based on physical and mechanical laws that have been studied and proven. The scope for creativity in such disciplines is limited, and it is really difficult to introduce something new. Here is a list of relevant topics for your dissertation.

• Developing a Machine Learning Model to Predict Stock Market Trends.
• Enhancing Cybersecurity Measures Through Blockchain Technology.
• Improving Data Privacy in Social Networks Using Cryptographic Techniques.
• Automated Detection of Fake News Using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Personalized Education.
• Developing Efficient Algorithms for Managing Big Data in Healthcare.
• Augmented Reality (AR) Applications in Enhancing E-commerce Shopping Experience.
• Internet of Things (IoT): Enhancing Smart Home Security.
• Optimizing Cloud Computing Resources for Sustainable Energy Consumption.
• The Impact of Quantum Computing on Cryptography.

Human Resources Thesis Ideas

Here is a thesis topic list in the human resources discipline.

• The Effect of Remote Work on Employee Engagement and Organizational Commitment.
• Analyzing the Impact of Diversity and Inclusion Programs on Corporate Culture.
• The Role of HR in Managing Change During Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Employee Wellness Programs on Job Satisfaction.
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Recruitment and Selection Processes.
• Strategies for Developing Leadership Skills Within an Organization.
• The Influence of Organizational Culture on Talent Retention.
• Assessing the Role of Performance Appraisal Systems in Employee Development.
• The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Employee Productivity.
• Ethical Considerations in Human Resource Management Practices.

Sociology Dissertation Topics

Sociology is a fairly new science, and it opens up opportunities for scientific research. Here are ten dissertation topics for a sociology discipline.

• The Impact of Social Media on Youth Identity Formation.
• Urbanization and Its Effects on Community Social Structures.
• The Role of Education in Social Mobility: A Comparative Study.
• Analyzing the Societal Impact of the Global Refugee Crisis.
• The Influence of Popular Culture on Gender Norms and Expectations.
• Social Implications of Genetic Testing and Personal Privacy.
• The Effect of Economic Inequality on Crime Rates in Urban Areas.
• Cultural Assimilation vs. Cultural Preservation Among Immigrant Communities.
• The Role of Public Spaces in Promoting Social Integration.
• The Impact of Environmental Policies on Community Health and Well-being.

Ecology Dissertation Ideas

Environmental protection is very important these days - due to the constantly growing number of the world's population, the greenhouse effect, environmental pollution, and other problems. Here are ten master-degree topics in this discipline.

• Assessing the Impact of Urbanization on Local Bird Populations.
• The Role of Coral Reefs in Marine Biodiversity and the Effects of Climate Change.
• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Plastic Pollution Reduction Strategies in Coastal Areas.
• The Impact of Invasive Species on Native Plant and Animal Communities in Wetlands.
• Evaluating the Success of Reforestation Projects in Tropical Rainforest Ecosystems.
• The Effects of Agricultural Runoff on Freshwater Ecosystems.
• Climate Change and Its Impact on Arctic Wildlife: Polar Bears and Seals.
• The Role of Bees in Pollination and the Effects of Pesticides on Bee Populations.
• Sustainable Fishing Practices and Their Impact on Marine Life Conservation.
• Analyzing the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Urban Green Spaces.

Biology Thesis Topics

Biology studies all aspects of life, in particular: structure, functioning, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of living organisms on Earth. Below we have prepared ten PhD thesis topics on this discipline.

• The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Plants.
• Studying the Effects of Microplastics on Marine Invertebrates.
• The Role of Gut Microbiota in Human Health and Disease.
• Investigating the Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.
• The Impact of Climate Change on Migratory Patterns of Birds.
• Exploring the Potential of CRISPR-Cas9 for Gene Editing in Disease Treatment.
• The Role of Epigenetics in Cancer Development.
• Analyzing the Biodiversity of Fungi in Forest Ecosystems.
• The Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Wildlife Reproduction.
• Investigating the Role of Venom in Predator-Prey Interactions.

Art Dissertation Titles

Art is one of the general categories of aesthetics, art history, and artistic practice. Let's find out ten dissertation ideas in this discipline.

• The Evolution of Street Art and Its Role in Urban Expression.
• Analyzing the Impact of Digital Media on Traditional Painting Techniques.
• The Role of Art Therapy in Mental Health Treatment.
• Feminist Art Movements: Contributions and Impact on Contemporary Art.
• The Influence of Cultural Heritage on Modern Art Forms in Africa.
• Surrealism and Dreams: Exploring the Unconscious Mind Through Art.
• The Impact of Social Media on Contemporary Art and Artist Visibility.
• Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Art in Digital Installations.
• Art Censorship: A Study of Its Effects on Freedom of Expression.
• The Role of Museums in Preserving and Promoting Indigenous Art.

Architecture Thesis Topics

Architecture is the science of construction, design of buildings, or entire systems of structures that make up the spatial environment necessary for human life and activities. Here are ten thesis topics for this discipline.

• Sustainable Urban Planning: Strategies for Green Infrastructure in Cities.
• The Impact of Architectural Design on Human Psychology in Workspaces.
• Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities.
• Exploring the Role of Public Spaces in Enhancing Community Engagement.
• The Influence of Climate Change on Future Architectural Practices.
• Innovative Materials and Techniques in Energy-Efficient Building Design.
• The Integration of Nature and Architecture in Biophilic Design.
• Affordable Housing Solutions for Growing Urban Populations.
• The Future of Smart Cities: Technology and Urban Development.
• Cultural Identity and Modern Architecture in the Middle East.

Political Science Topics

Political science is the science of a special sphere of people's life associated with power relations, with the state-political organization of society, political institutions, principles, norms, the action of which is designed to ensure the functioning of society, the relationship between people, society and the state. Here are ten master thesis topics for this discipline.

• The Role of Social Media in Modern Political Campaigns.
• Analyzing the Impact of Globalization on National Sovereignty.
• The Effectiveness of International Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool.
• The Rise of Populism in Europe: Causes and Consequences.
• Climate Change Policy: A Comparative Analysis of National Strategies.
• The Role of the United Nations in Resolving Contemporary Conflicts.
• Electoral Systems and Their Impact on Democracy and Political Stability.
• The Influence of Lobbying on Public Policy and Legislation.
• Gender Equality in Politics: Barriers and Opportunities for Women Leaders.
• The Impact of Migration on Domestic Politics in Host Countries.

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Are you unable to find good art dissertation topics.

Don’t panic! The ultimate solution is here! In order to write an A-level art dissertation we must have to go through some of the basic conceptual ideas that how it could be written and how can we make it a successful one.

Encrypting an unbeaten A-level art dissertation is about displaying your vision whilst indicating that you comprehend the key concepts of your study and that you are able to give an authentic product of your sheer academic knowledge and research. In any discipline of art, the mandatory knack that you are looking to display is proof of originality and creativity. Therefore, your art dissertations should fulfill the criteria of inspiration, ingenuity, and resourcefulness.

FORMS OF ART DISSERTATIONS

There are mainly two forms of art dissertation which are:

ART HISTORY DISSERTATION

An Art history dissertation is a representation of the work done on the evolution of art or an artist; because it is related to past experiences, therefore it should be focused and identical to the depth of knowledge of the topic with facts and figures. It is proposed that art history dissertations would be written with vast opinionated criteria.

FINE ARTS DISSERTATION

Usually, the topics in fine art dissertations are not prepared by any other person. A brilliant Fine Arts dissertation should be devoted to an exclusive topic, coming up with thoughts like that is not easy. So, start collecting ideas for your fine art dissertation far before you get down to work. Fine Arts dissertation topics can be focusing on different male or female artists or you may choose a fairytale-like ‘snow white and 7 dwarfs.’

Art Dissertation Topics

If you need to turn into a significant artist, your dissertation can make you stand apart from the rest. It ought to be something crisp through which you can represent your ability to lead a unique and independent study in the field of expressions. Your art dissertation topics, in this manner, assume a vital job in setting your way to progress.

It ought to have the option to mirror your thoughts and developments in your field of study, whether it is visual expressions, music , shows, works of art, structures, or expressive arts. The following are a few fantastic art dissertation topics that can help you in narrowing down your research scope and help you make your art dissertation successful.

Good Art Dissertation Topics

• The role of art in promoting cultural heritage
• The influence of popular culture on art
• The impact of digital media on art creation and distribution
• The role of art in promoting social change
• The impact of the feminist movement on art
• The representation of race and ethnicity in art
• The relationship between art and science
• The impact of environmentalism on art
• The history and evolution of street art
• The influence of the LGBTQ+ community on art
• The impact of postmodernism on art
• The relationship between art and religion
• The role of art in promoting peace and nonviolence
• The influence of the internet and digital technology on art
• The impact of colonialism on art
• The history and evolution of installation art
• The role of art in promoting mental health and well-being
• The representation of the human body in art
• The relationship between art and fashion
• The impact of the #MeToo movement on art
• The representation of animals in art
• The role of art in promoting gender equality
• The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on art
• The relationship between art and technology
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on art
• An exclusive idea regarding your topic showing your clear objective is the way towards initial success
• Set a timetable and obtain relevant material of research for art dissertations to pace up your writing objective
• Reflect on your research and encourage your creativity
• Ensure that you stick to the thread of your central argument
• Paragraphs should be approximately five or six sentences long and should have good linking words and phrases
• An art dissertation should be full of analysis, critical evaluation, and discussion of your subject
• Present a sustained academic argument in clear, logical prose and give evidence to support it
• Results and discussions should be presented in your written art dissertations
• The conclusion is a must property that proposes your views that what have you achieved from the whole study
• Proofreading is an essential part as you are finalizing your dissertation
• Art dissertations should be referenced clearly to avoid plagiarism
• At the End of your art dissertation, there needs to be a bibliography of the sources used

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• The role of social media in contemporary art
• The impact of technology on the art of the 21st century
• Street art and graffiti: A study of its evolution and cultural significance
• The representation of gender and sexuality in modern art
• The influence of political and social movements on art
• The relationship between art and architecture
• The impact of globalization on the art market
• The role of the artist in society
• The influence of Eastern art on Western contemporary art
• The history and evolution of performance art
• The change of images to pictures of Buddha in early Indian artistry
• The impression of Pop Art: The view and American septuagenarians
• The inheritance of craftsmanship charity: a contextual investigation of John Davan Sainsbury, Baron of Preston Candover.
• Balletic impact in the presentation of Jean Antoine Watteau’s figures
• Is the progress of computerized films influencing artistic craftsmanship unfavorably? Is it true that they are genuinely clearing out the joy of watching motion pictures?
• Could video games be viewed as artistic work?
• Neutralizations: Resisting and Embracing Globalization in Contemporary Public Art
• Delineations of Cute Young Women in Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture
• The Spiritual Couple in Art: A Comparative Study of Three Artworks Using Examples from India, Europe, and America

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A List of Unique Art Research Paper Topics

Art is an exciting field of study, and research in this area is fun to do. We have identified the different areas and the possible topics you can research on. Art is a broad area of study but choosing a topic is not as difficult as you think. With the right guide, you can find interesting topics for your thesis. We have some tips to get you on the right path. We also provide you with some tips on how to choose a research topic in the arts.

How to Choose the Right Art Topic

Choosing a project topic in arts requires careful thought. To make things easier for you, we have noted some areas to consider before picking a research topic.

·         Consider Your Interest

Art is a field of study that emphasizes creativity. It is a field that will require you to bring your creativity to bear. What happens if you search your mind and nothing comes out?

This problem can happen if you do not have an interest in the area. Even if you can come up with something, the ideas will not flow if you write about your area of interest.

There are areas of difficulty in every research, but you will be more inclined to find working solutions if it is your area of interest. If you are working on your area of study, you will be better attuned to the research. It also helps the overall look of your research. Your enthusiasm is essential in every project work.

·         Access to Material

Before you decide to take on a topic for research in arts, you should consider the availability of materials and your access to them. Materials may be available, but you may not have access to them.

Essential questions to ask are, are there materials on this topic? Have books been published in this area? Are there articles online on this topic? You may also want to check if your school library has materials on the topic.

Then you have to ask if you have access to these materials. Can you download the material online? Or read them online? Are the books available for sale? If you answer yes, then you are good to go.

·         Identify a Gap

Research is called so because someone else has researched that area before. So, what you are doing is a “re-search.” However, previous research could not have covered every aspect of that field or topic. Therefore, you have to identify that gap and fill it.

Without proper research, you will not come up with a viable topic. In academics, you do not have to repeat what someone has done already.

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Modern Art Topics

• Themes in 21 st century paintings
• Themes in 20 th century paintings
• The new media and arts
• Filmography in the 21 st century
• Emerging forms in modern arts
• Modern art as a viable tool for activism
• Impact of technology on modern arts
• Themes in modern poetry
• What is the influence of feminism on modern art?
• Gendered roles in modern arts

Media Art History Research Paper Topics

• Art development and the media
• Dynamics of art produced using the media
• Globalization, digital art, and emerging discusses
• Globalization, electronic art, and activism
• Literature and the new media
• Poetic rendition in the new media
• The impact of digital technologies on art
• Advertising in the 21 st century
• Filmic art in the 21 st century
• Computer games as art

Pop Art Research Paper Topics

• Comic books as tools for social criticism
• Advertising and sublimation: a study of the human psyche
• Pop art as a platform for activism
• Popular pop artists in the 21 st century
• Thematic and stylistic trends in pop art
• Technology and ethics in pop art
• Pop art as high and low art
• Pop art as an economy booster
• Principles of pop art
• Interaction and connection between pop art and other art forms

Visual Art Research Topics

• Painting as pedagogy
• Sculpture in the modern age
• The creative works of popular artists
• Aesthetics of painting: a study of an artist’s creations
• A comparison of style of different artists
• Trends in photography in different generations
• Impact of technology on visual art
• Socioeconomic impact of animation
• Impact of visual art on culture
• Visual art and feminism

Art Therapy Research Paper Topics

• The interworking of therapy and art
• The use of art for therapeutic effects
• Technological approaches to art therapy
• The use of virtual reality in art therapy
• Theories of art therapy
• Dance therapy for the treatment of anxiety
• Color therapy for children with learning disabilities
• Music as therapy for depression
• The evolution of art therapy

Art History Research Paper Topics

• Impact of the industrial revolution on art
• Themes and styles of painting in the 20 th and 21 st centuries
• Aesthetics and styles in Francisco de Goya’s works
• The place of art in human civilization
• A comparison of the work of two prominent painters
• Themes and styles of music in the 20 th and 21 st centuries
• Influence of ancient philosophers on art
• The aesthetics and style of Michelangelo’s works
• The place of erotica in the arts
• History of paintings in different cultures

Ancient Art History Research Paper Topics

• Art forms and styles in Greece
• Compare the artworks of different artists
• Biblical motives in the works of Leonardo da Vinci
• Early African arts and history
• The history behind early roman arts
• Chinese arts and lifestyle before the 21 st century
• Ancient Egyptian arts and lifestyle
• History of the pyramid of Egypt
• The contribution of the Greek theatre to dramatic arts
• Early arts and religion

Classical Greek Art Research Paper Topic

Classical Greek art-related topics for a research paper is an intelligent choice. There are several areas you can focus on including:

• The different styles of Greeks pottery
• Myths in classical Greek sculpture
• Aesthetics and style of Greek architecture
• Compare the works of legendary sculptors
• Impact of religion on Greek artworks
• Compare ancient Greek art with the present
• The influence of science in Greek arts
• Styles of Phidias sculptor
• Imagery and symbolism in classical Greek arts
• Relationship between classical Greek arts and Greece lifestyle

Renaissance Art Topics

• A comparison of renaissance art in different parts of Europe
• What was the influence of renaissance art on man’s worldview?
• How is renaissance art different from those of the medieval age?
• What are the aesthetics of the art of the time?
• How is the nobility of man portrayed in the art forms of the age?
• How was the renaissance a revival of classical Roman and Greek art?
• What are the forms and styles of renaissance art?
• History, evolution, and preservation of renaissance arts
• How do the renaissance arts portray humanism and individualism?
• What are the theories of renaissance art?

20th Century Research Paper Topics Art History

• Specific museum and its art collection
• Harlem renaissance as a springboard for art activism
• Aesthetics and styles of Pablo Picasso’s arts
• Influence of Jackson Pollock’s arts
• Influence of religion and science on the 20 th century arts
• Compare earlier art styles with those of the 20 th century
• Artistic movements in the 20 th century
• Political cartoons and their influence in 20 th century politics
• Influence of earlier art style on 20 th art styles
• The prominent art movement of the 20 th century

Great Thai Art Topic for a Research Paper

• The culture and artistic heritage of Thailand
• Influence of religion on Thai arts
• Representation of Thai social life in Thai arts
• Folk heritage of Thailand
• Aesthetic and stylistic import of Thai arts
• Ancient and prehistoric art forms
• A diachronic study of Thai arts from prehistoric times to the present
• Signs and symbols in Thai arts
• The influence of globalization on contemporary Thai arts
• Messages in line, color, and space in Thai art.

Medieval Art History Research Paper Topics

• Aesthetics and style of Raphael’s paintings
• Religious and non-religious art forms that originated from the time
• The evolution and sustenance of art forms
• Compare the artworks of Michelangelo and Raphael
• History of renaissance arts
• Symbols and motif in medieval paintings
• Religious motifs in Leonardo de Vinci’s paintings
• Aesthetics and styles of Byzantine art style
• Evolution of early Christian arts,
• Elements of Gothic arts

Mexican Revolutionary Art Research Paper Topics

• Impact of the Mexican revolution on Mexican lifestyle
• History and effects of revolutionary arts
• Compare the artworks of Frida Kahlo, Diego, Rivera
• Surrealism in Mexican arts
• Mural paintings during the Mexican revolution
• The place of arts in Mexican revolution
• Different phases of the Mexican revolution and the artworks created during that time
• Impact of the Mexican revolution on people’s perception of art
• Compare Mexican revolutionary arts with those created after the revolution
• Aesthetics and style of David Alfaro Siqueiros’s artworks

Argumentative Art Topics

Some art research paper topics in these areas include:

• The most significant artwork in the 20th century
• Is graffiti art or vandalism?
• Which city has the most remarkable art history and why?
• The relevance of medieval art in contemporary times
• How has the museum preserved art culture and enthusiasm
• Modern pop culture does not measure up to earlier times. Argue for or against
• Do ethics limit art?
• Has technology limited creativity in art?
• Is the role of the artist in society relevant?
• Do cartoons fuel or mediate in political issues?

Good South East Asia Art Topics for a Research Paper

• Asia is a place of high artistic creations. Discuss
• Compare ancient and contemporary Asian arts
• History of calligraphy arts in East Asia
• What is the philosophy behind ancient artistic creations of different ages?
• The evolution of Bollywood
• How does Chinese circus art reflect the Chinese tradition?
• Jewelry styles and meaning in India
• Aesthetics and styles in Japanese calligraphy art
• Religious relevance of art in south India
• The evolution of pop culture in India

Researches in art are not difficult if taken the right way. With this guide, picking an area of study and identifying the gap is not tedious. We have helped you out in this regard with the information provided above.

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626 Dissertation Topics for Ph.D. and Thesis Ideas for Master Students

If you are about to go into the world of graduate school, then one of the first things you need to do is choose from all the possible dissertation topics available to you. This is no small task. You are likely to spend many years researching your Master’s or Ph.D. topic and writing the text. This means that choosing a dissertation topic should not be taken lightly.

No worries! Just read this article by our Custom Writing service, and you’ll find:

• a collection of great thesis topics on finance, education, management, law, etc.
• a range of tips on choosing a killing Ph.D. topic.
• 👍 Top 10 Dissertation Topics
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• 🔝 Top 10 Thesis Topics
• 🎓 Thesis Topics List
• ✅ How to Choose a Topic

👍Top 10 Dissertation Topics

• Ethical alternatives to animal testing.
• What’s the future of the Dead Sea?
• Does accent affect singing ability?
• The importance of corporate values.
• How does inflation affect small businesses?
• Is homeschooling the future of education?
• How does Tourette’s syndrome affect one’s daily life?
• How to conduct market analysis for e-commerce.
• Has globalization affected cultural appropriation?

🆚 Dissertation vs. Thesis: Is There a Difference?

People often consider a thesis and a dissertation to be the same thing. Yet, there is an important distinction between them. The key difference is that you need a thesis to complete a master’s degree, while a dissertation is necessary for obtaining a doctorate. Keep in mind that it’s vice versa in European higher education.

Here are some other differences:

	Thesis	Dissertation
	A thesis is usually shorter than a dissertation at approximately 100 pages.	A dissertation is usually 200-300 pages long.
	In a thesis, you build your work on an already existing idea.	In a dissertation, you need to present entirely original hypothesis.
	A thesis involves preliminary research.	A dissertation requires deeper original research.

Despite these differences, theses and dissertations have a lot in common:

• You need them to complete a degree.
• Both require certain levels of expertise and writing skills.
• You defend an argument in both of them.
• Plagiarism is prohibited in both theses and dissertations.

🔝 Top 10 Thesis Topics for 2024

• The consequences of obesity.
• The influence of social media .
• Economic development and happiness.
• Feminism in the United States.
• The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Racism in schools and colleges.
• Overeducation in the labor market.
• DNA evidence in criminal justice.
• Sales forecasting techniques.
• Wage difference among athletes.

🎓 Thesis Topics & Ideas

Below, you’ll find a collection of excellent topics for a thesis. To simplify the task, it’s not a bad idea to use a topic chooser. We’ve also prepared a checklist that will help you make the right choice. If you agree with the following statements, you’ve chosen a good thesis topic:

• You are interested in this subject.  It will be easier for you to work on it if you like your area of research. Remember that you will have to spend long hours looking through various data. You need to stay motivated.
• The topic is helpful in your career path.  Choose a topic that you can apply to further research if you plan to pursue your career in the academic field. Choose something that you can use in your CV if you decided to work in the industry.
• There is enough available research data.  Don’t choose a topic that is too trivial or uncommon. It is essential to find enough relevant information. Consult your supervisor to understand if you can proceed with it.
• The topic isn’t too broad or too narrow.  Otherwise, it will be harder for you to find credible sources and relevant data.
• You already have an understanding of it . Make a list of thesis topics that include the issues you have researched before. It will save you some time and allow you to evaluate your opportunities.
• Your topic is unique.  Make sure there are no other papers that explore exactly the same issue. The value of your work is your original contribution to the research. If somebody has already investigated the topic, there is not much sense in proceeding with it.

Wondering where to find the most current topic for your research? We’ve collected them below.

Computer Science Thesis Topics

Computers surround us everywhere. From hospitals to home offices, it’s impossible to imagine life without them. A doctorate in computer science can allow you many career opportunities!

• The latest developments in AI use for healthcare services . Healthcare in the US is expensive for its citizens. One way to reduce the cost is using computer algorithms. This technology research topic lets you explore how AI helps physicians with their tasks.
• Computer security for public institutions. Several allegations about hackers stealing data from the US government emerged in recent years. With this dissertation idea, study public cybersecurity. Also, discuss ways to improve cybersecurity practices. 
• Visual recognition system architecture: real-time object detection. Discuss a system based on neural networks capable of detecting objects. Focus on the virtual environment. You can alter this trending topic in computer science for real-life settings.
• Blockchain application outside financial technologies. Analyze and discuss the implications of using blockchain systems outside of the fintech sector. For example, study its use for public services and in government agencies. This topic allows exploring ways of applying established algorithms.
• Machine learning and text structures. Discuss ways of visualizing text categorization. Focus on complex hierarchical structures of texts. This topic is suitable for postgraduates. 
• Encrypted search: security, performance, and usage. Discuss the use of encryptions to protect data. Say how we can improve it for effective information search.
• Use of computers in education . Study how algorithms can improve learning. This topic can be altered for other fields. For example, choose AI in business or agriculture.
• Graphics and visual computing: current state and the future. By now, CAD programs are an integral part of every engineer’s tool kit. Your thesis can analyze the potential of those programs. What would improve their performance? Is there a chance that they will become obsolete?
• Multimedia databases parsing and indexing. Netflix and YouTube require technology to search across their multimedia databases. This dissertation can be a survey on best practices. Or, add a company name to the title and focus your research on it.
• AI Marketing: the use of algorithms to improve advertising. In the previous list of research question examples, you can choose a narrow marketing theme. Then, discuss the implications of such algorithms.
• Study computation of models for virtual environments .
• Cybersecurity challenges for automated vehicles.
• AI and vehicle automation: potential safety gaps.
• Computer graphics: perspectives for medical imaging.
• Research the use of computer algorithms for medical analysis.
• Discuss the role of bioinformatics in healthcare improvement.
• How is a computer-aided design used in creating automobile parts?
• Review the best practices for System Level Testing of distributed systems.
• Agile project management for software engineers.
• Software development risks analysis for successful employment. 
• Study the security mechanisms for WLAN networks .
• Malicious botnets and network worms: an overview.
• What are the best practices in ICT systems development?
• Web-based document management systems using XML.
• Best algorithms for cluster generation. 
• Methods for improving Open Web Architecture.
• Analyze software solutions for the increased energy efficiency.
• Protection of systems against terror attacks: a case study and analysis.
• New methods of risk management during software development. 
• Analyze how Web space requirements are changing.
• Analyze how e-publishing is affecting libraries. 
• New methods for studying the behavior of malware, viruses, and worms with the use of secure programming and runtime environments.
• Analyze redundancy and fault recovery in the 4G wireless network. 
• Analyze the implementation and analysis of the optimal algorithm vs the heuristic algorithm for the generation of clusters.
• Analyze how full-text databases affect search engines.

Humanities and Art History Thesis Topics

Do you want to put your passion into words? Would you like to share your ideas with the world? Then pursuing a Ph.D. in the arts or humanities is the right path for you.

• The history of cinema : past and present. With this history dissertation topic, focus on how cinema developed. Explore the period starting from the first short films by the Lumiere brothers. Finish the discussion with modern-day Hollywood examples.
• Art or commerce: a case study of Hollywood films. Discuss the intersection between artistic expression and profit. This exciting arts topic focuses on modern cinema. You can use examples of art-house movies and modern commercially successful ones.
• Hollywood vs. Bollywood . Compare the two distinct film production centers for this art thesis. Next, discuss how local cultures impact Hollywood and Bollywood movies’ direction, genres, and plots.
• The use of visual tools in interior design . This dissertation topic is an intersection between arts and computer science. The focus is on how visualization tools help to create design projects.
• Racism in the 21st-century literature. Focus on how the narratives about racism have changed. Include examples from poetry and prose of this era. Compare it to works published in the past.
• The cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism in literature. This dissertation idea allows you to explore the intersection of arts. Specifically, see how culture, philosophy of science, and history manifest in Afrofuturism. 
• The social value of ecopoetry. Analyze how literature that focuses on ecological problems. Discuss environmental consciousness and environmental issues.
• Graphic novels: the best examples and implications for the development of literature. What does it mean when literary classics are converted into graphic novels? Incorporate the question if graphic novels can become part of the literary canon.
• Theater of the Absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. Discuss this form of theatrical art. Examine how it emerged and why it became influential.
• Post World War II art: cinema and literature. Use examples of films and literary works. Discuss major works of the post-WWII era and their themes.
• Futurism and the Czech avant-garde : the artistic connection between Europe’s East and West.
• Study the phenomenon of the hero archetype.
• Assess dancing as a form of meditation. 
• Review the common elements of various African dances.
• Folk dances across Western Europe.
• Discuss regional dances and dance as a ritual.
• Animation as a modern art form.
• Research the art of glass-making and its prospects for the future.
• Analyze the cultural impact of The Beatles beyond music. 
• Literature censorship in the US.
• Examine the intersection of ecology and arts.
• Heidelberg Project: is it a model for creating art in urban areas?
• Study kinetic sculptures of the 20th century.
• What characterizes social activism in 20 th -century rock music?
• Jazz in the 21st century: a potential for revival. 
• The history of design in various periods of human existence (the ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, etc.). 
• Design as art.
• Philosophy of design.
• Separate branches of design ( interior design , car design, toy design, etc.).
• Stylistic peculiarities of a certain designer.
• Web design as a modern quintessence of design. 
• Social significance of design.
• The birth of Communism as it relates to Stendhal.
• The relationship between politics and literature in the 19 th century.
• An analysis and case study of artists and art during times of war. 
• How contemporary art is related to American suffering.
• Analyze of how racism relates to the family unit.

List of Science Topics for Your Thesis

A dissertation in science will probably require you to run numerous experiments. Many of them will probably go wrong. But the one that does work might be the next big breakthrough! Find a suitable research theme in the following list of topics:

• Bacterial injections for the treatment of cancer tumors. Injecting bacteria into tumors is a fairly new approach to treating cancer. Review the mechanism of action and evaluate the potential of this method for curing cancer.
• Computer imagining and AI for cancer detection. Examine how AI-assisted cancer screening improves accuracy. Include early detection implications and usage in hospitals.
• Ethics of organ donations and transplantation. With this dissertation topic in science, examine the ethics of encouraging people to donate their organs. Include the implications for medical research and practice.
• An epidemiological and molecular approach to cancer prevention. This topic idea suggests assessing the current understanding of how cancer develops as well as potential prevention strategies.
• Ways of speeding up vaccine development and testing. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the process of vaccine development is relatively slow. It takes a long time to ensure proper testing. You may discuss these issues in your biochemistry dissertation.
• The current state of research into ultra-fast rechargeable batteries. The topic of batteries and energy attracts lots of attention. With this topic, you can examine how to improve the design of aluminum-ion batteries. Include ways to decrease their charging time.
• Nanotechnologies in drug delivery: electrospraying. Current research shows the great potential of nanotechnologies. In particular, the electrospraying technique makes nanoparticle delivery more efficient.
• Prevalence of various Helicobacter Pylori virulence in a population. Conduct quantitative research and examine a sample of patients to determine the number infected with Helicobacter Pylori.
• The relationship between gut microbiota and the person’s appetite. Your research can explore the theory that the gut microbiome has varied effects on the person’s body. Review the implications for obesity treatment for different gut microbiomes. 
• The age of antibiotics: is it over? Examine the use of antibiotics and the reasons for its decline. Discuss the evolving nature of bacteria that require remedies other than antibiotics. Include quantitative data in this dissertation for a specific type of disease.
• CRISPR method for studying human DNA.
• The study of human evolution: latest discoveries.
• Denisovans from Siberia: a new type of hominid discovered.
• Study the use of AI in archeology. 
• Conduct a study of the Neanderthal genome sequence. 
• What are the ways of improving solar cell efficiency? 
• The carbon footprint of modern production: how do companies damage the environment?
• Research the use of cesium in solar panels. 
• The era of supercapacitors: are we ending the use of batteries?
• Assess the efficiency of Robot Suits for people with permanent paralysis.
• Microscale medial robots: potential applications.
• Look into stem cell mobilization and its mechanisms. 
• Discuss the ethics of automated cars. 
• Space robotics: can we design robots capable of exploring space?
• Evaluate the efficiency and potential of lithium-based rechargeable batteries.
• Morality and ethics of stem cell research. 
• Is behavior controlled or affected by genetics and to what level. 
• A look at methods of improving risk factors post-stroke.
• Analyze of Chinese herbal practice and its relevance to conventional medicine.
• Analyze the effect schools have on childhood obesity.

• New methods of using existing data to gather information that is useful.
• An in-depth look at the factors affecting the decline of the immune system with age.
• Analyze of the potential effect of nanotechnology on health and the environment.
• Analyze of toxicity levels of inhaled nanoparticles.
• The usefulness of nanotechnology in curing some types of cancer.
• An analysis and case study of the treatment of patients who have experienced a loss of memory.
• Analyze the use of DNA typing of remains to identify missing people and the victims of crime.
• The response of immune deficiency diseases to the activation of T-cell subsets.
• The influence and importance of IT in the field of biomedicine.

Architecture Thesis Topics

Architecture is more than just aesthetics. That’s become especially clear ever since the doctrine “form follows function” gained traction. Whether you’re into baroque or Bauhaus, there’s plenty to discover about architecture.

• Religious architecture in the British Empire. Research the transformation of religious buildings and how it affected architecture in general. 
• Modernist architecture in the USSR at the beginning of the 20th century. Compare modernist architecture in the USSR with other countries.
• Urban greening and its influence on buildings’ design. The dissertation proposal can include green roofs as the main point of research.
• Brutalism and its history in New York. Provide historical research of brutalism in New York and discuss how it affects modern architecture.
• Modern-day aboriginal settlements in Australia. Using examples from media and research, indicate how aboriginal settlements are perceived and handled today.
• Transformation of the urban design in the 21st century. Using London, Hong-Kong, and New York as examples, provide an in-depth discussion of changes in the urban design.
• The architectural history of Seattle. Conduct research and write a proposal that will compare different architectural styles seen in Seattle.
• Integration of culture in environmental design. In this proposal, you can use large cities in Asia as primary examples of the synergy between culture and architecture.
• The architecture of residential buildings during the second half of the 20th century. Choose one or several large cities (e.g., Berlin, Miami, Kyoto) as the basis for your research.
• The history of Moscow Avant-Garde. Use both Soviet and modern Russian research on Avant-Garde to present the topic accurately.
• Use of computer visuals in architecture.
• Review the trends in modern furniture design.
• Ecology and architecture: integration of green technologies.
• Discuss the multiculturalism of contemporary urban architecture.
• The history of architecture in urban areas of the US: the study of New York.
• Modern city design case study.
• Research ways of using wood in modern architecture.
• Commercial architecture: aesthetics and usability.
• Evaluate the design of municipal buildings in the US.
• Creativity in postmodernist architecture.
• How do we integrate smart home technology into architecture?
• Small scale homes: a study of growing interest in small housing.
• Discuss the use of lighting in building design. 
• Study innovations in structural design in the digital age.
• What are the implications of inclusive architecture?
• Sustainable architecture: recycling spaces and materials.
• Renewable energy in home design.
• Assess open concept homes for American families.
• Conduct a study of family homes design.
• Research architecture suitable for middle-class families.

Thesis Topics in English Literature & World Literature

Was your New Year’s Resolution to re-read the 100 most influential classical works? Then you might want to consider writing a thesis in advanced higher English. Check out these engaging prompts:

• In-depth stylistic analysis of The Trial by Franz Kafka . Explain what stylistic devices Kafka used in his story.
• The influence of The Hound of the Baskervilles on the development of modern detective stories. Prepare several comparisons of The Hound with modern detective stories to pinpoint its influence.
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : women characters in Heinrich Böll’s fiction. Using the book mentioned in the topic, examine how the German writer depicted women in his prose.
• Analysis of the terrorism portrayal in modern journalism: The New York Times case study. Pick several articles related to terrorism published in NYT and describe in detail how it is portrayed (keywords, images, etc.).
• A formalist approach to Dostoevsky: analysis of The Brothers Karamazov . Provide the reader with an explanation of the formalist approach and use it to analyze the novel.
• The depiction of sexual violence in young adult literature. Pick several YA novels published in the 2010s for your research.
• The use of repetition in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot . Analyze how repetition is used for emphasis and other effects in the play.
• Feminism and gender in Margaret Atwood’s Cats’ Eye . Review the book from a feminist point of view and discuss how gender issues are presented in the book.
• How does Phillip K. Dick use intertextuality in The Man in the High Castle ? Find as many references to other literary and historical sources as you can and elaborate how Dick uses them and for what aims.
• The influence of Steppenwolf on postmodern American literature: the contribution of Herman Hesse. Using Steppenwolf as the primary source, discuss what characteristics common for postmodern literature Hesse uses in this novel. 
• How does racism manifest itself in classical literature?
• Discuss the oppression of women in The Handmaid’s Tale.
• Gender roles in The Miniaturist and A Doll’s House : a comparison.
• Moral ambiguity in David Harrower’s works.
• Literary techniques in the Perks of Being a Wallflower.
• The setting in The Murder in the Rue Morgue and its influence on the detective genre.
• Review the tropes first introduced in The Moonstone.  
• Study the depictions of police’s work in Skinner’s Rule .
• Assess the influence of Victorian Gothic horror on popular culture.
• Social criticism in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
• Analyze cyberpunk elements in Gibson’s Neuromancer.  
• Themes of social equality in modern literature.
• Research the views on Native American writers in Nature’s Poem.  
• Critique of contemporary children’s literature .
• Gothic elements in Charlotte Bronte’s works.
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula : a comparative analysis.
• Terror in The Picture of Dorian Gray .
• Examine the connection of mental health and society in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye . 
• Magical realism and romanticism in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
• How does the cut-up technique contribute to the narration in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch?

Criminal Justice Thesis Topics

Are you a forensic science student who prefers research to actual police work? In that case, a dissertation in criminology is a great idea. This way, you can work on preventing crime from the comfort of your desk.

• Recidivism rates among underage Latino first-time offenders: a quantitative study. Research a group of first-time offenders of a particular age (e.g., 18 to 25 years old).
• A comparative analysis of the incidents of gun violence in the USA during the 2010s. Choose several prominent examples and compare them to each other. 
• Troublesome statements: the role of witnesses in potentially false accusations. In this dissertation, you can write about the unreliability of statements, using documented examples.

• The patterns of drug trafficking in Germany’s largest cities: a case study of Berlin and Hamburg. Analyze the changes in these patterns in the 2010s. 
• Money laundering and corruption in the United States in the 21st century. Using media reports, create dissertation research about corruption schemes.
• Mental health and self-perception of second-time sex offenders. Determine if their self-perception changes.
• School shootings in the USA: causes and risk factors. Using recent and historical data, analyze the cases of mass shootings.
• The influence of cyberbullying on suicide rates among Australian adolescents (13-17 years old). You can base your dissertation report on various research on cyberbullying published in Australian scholarly journals.
• Child abuse and its influence on serial killer’s perception of victims. Discuss interconnections between abuse and potential sadistic behavior. 
• The history of forensic interviewing in the USA. Present research and practices that contributed to its development.
• Use of artificial intelligence for forensic investigations.
• Criminal behavior at a young age and its implications for the future. 
• Drug use: pattern of recurring arrests among American youth.
• Incarcerated parents: the impact on the child’s perception of crime.
• Research the reforms of the US criminal justice system.
• Propose strategies for improving the juvenile detention system.
• Police officer’s abuse of power: analysis of reports.
• Race and criminal justice: the case of War on Drugs.
• What are the possible alternative forms of incarceration? 
• A study of public perception of modern serial killers. 
• Training of sniffer dogs.
• The implications of eyewitness testimony. 
• Abuse in Hollywood: a case study of Harvey Weinstein.
• Bias against African Americans during investigations.
• A study of college violence.
• Legal implications of medical marijuana legalization .
• Ethics of criminal justice: the problem of confidentiality.
• Review the challenges linked with domestic violence investigations. 
• Suggest ways of preventing crimes in schools.
• Gender bias during crime examinations.

Geography Thesis Topics

If you enjoy unveiling Earth’s secrets, this section is for you. Here you’ll find geography dissertation ideas ranging from studies of movement to regional phenomena.

• Species that became extinct in the 20th century: qualitative research. Address the human influence on various species.
• Current issues in the exploration of Arctic. Discuss difficulties and specifics of such explorations.
• A comparison of urban back gardens in the USA and the UK. You can compare their design and other features (for example, vegetation used for decoration).
• The causes and outcomes of floodings in the USA in the 2010s. Address climate change as one of the leading causes.
• Prevention of ecosystem changes with modern technology. Provide various examples of how technology is used to sustain ecosystems.
• Changes in travel destinations in the 2000s: a comparison of the USA and Canada. Demonstrate what changes in preferences were documented in these countries and show what destinations were especially popular.
• The perception of environmentally friendly technologies and their impact on the environment by citizens of large metropolitan areas: a case study of Miami. Explain how various projects based on environmentally friendly technologies are launched in Miami.
• A negative impact of global warming on weather conditions in Iceland. Discuss how tourism in Iceland is affected by these changes.
• The influence of industrialization on climate change. Address the causes of climate change, using industrialization and its consequences as a basis.
• Compare Greenfield and Brownfield land use for construction projects.
• Investigate the significance of red salmon for Kamchatka.
• The social impact of climate change : a study of migration patterns.
• The potential of community gardening in underprivileged neighborhoods.
• Study the link between the strengths of hurricanes and climate change.
• What can be done to stop gentrification in your community?
• Evaluate coastal tourism, its effect, and implications.
• The impact of reservoir locations on water quality.
• How did industrialization affect the development of Chicago?
• Study soil pollution levels in your community area.
• Conduct an analysis of air quality in your city.
• Eco-tourism, its history, and perspectives. 
• Differences in soil chemistry across several locations. 
• The impact of organic farming on water quality in your area.
• Compare the sustainability of organically vs. conventionally farmed tomatoes.
• Research air pollution levels and data on airborne illnesses in your area.
• What’s the relationship between rock climbing and cliff vegetation?
• Study the changes in soil fertility upon volcanic eruption.
• How does the Chernobyl disaster continue to affect the surrounding area? 
• Determine the patterns of floods in a particular area of your choice.

Sociology Thesis Ideas

Sociology studies how humans live together. A dissertation is a great way to dive deeper into a particular subject. You can get as specific as your heart desires! Check out our sociology thesis topics:

• Single parent stigma and its influence on family’s quality of life and parent-child relationships. Present examples from recent research that illustrate how the dynamics of these relationships change over time due to stigma. 
• Women empowerment in Saudi Arabia in 2000s: breakthroughs and challenges. Discuss how this empowerment affected legislation and women’s rights.
• Long-term alcohol addiction and self-perception in young adults. With the help of research, demonstrate whether self-perception of these adults transforms significantly due to their addiction.
• Adoption and its influence on parent-child relationships. Present and discuss challenges that such families face.
• Comparison of traditions related to family dinners in the USA and the UK. What specific differences are there and how can they be explained?
• Influence of the emo culture on suicide rates in high school students. Address the influence of such cultures on adolescents’ behavior. 
• The rates of secularization in elderly individuals living in urban and rural areas. Compare the rates and explain why they are different.
• Influence of forced outing on transgender individuals and concomitant changes in their quality of life. Explain the effects of forced outing and why this impact is dangerous.
• Comparison of anti-nuclear movements in Germany and Japan in the 21st century. Explain in detail what differences and similarities are prominent.
• Performance rates of teenagers in schools in low-income neighborhoods: a case study of Boston schools. When writing your dissertation proposal, consider various factors (poverty, limited access to technology, etc.) that affect performance rates of these teenagers.
• Black Lives Matter movement’s immediate impact on racism.
• Research causes of minority bias in the US.
• Affirmative action and its impact on the perception of varied racial groups.
• The impact of religion on people’s attitudes towards race. 
• Review the challenges of the US LGBT community.
• Bias towards transgender studies.
• Social activism against gender discrimination in the 21st century.
• The impact of social assistance in schools on a child’s future.
• Research the changes in education after WWII.
• Analyze scholarship policies in the US.
• The impact of student debt on youth’s perception of education in the US.
• Outcomes of public vs. private schools: a comparison.
• Research the preservation of culture in American immigrant families. 
• Applying Marx’s conflict theory to social justice movements.
• Assess changing trends in social norms in a country of your choice.
• Attitudes towards prejudice among people of different social backgrounds.
• Comparison of women’s rights in Western and Middle Eastern countries.
• The impact of capitalism on one’s social values.
• How does capitalism benefit society across multiple post-soviet countries? 
• Compare healthcare access in autocracies vs. democracies.

💡 Dissertation Topics for Ph.D. students

Below you’ll find a list of excellent dissertation ideas in different fields of study. They are more difficult than thesis topics and require more research. Jump to the section that interests you and find the topic that suits you best! But first:

What Makes a Good Ph.D. Topic?

Usually, universities would expect your dissertation to be original and relevant in the field of the research. Moreover, it would be worthwhile if it has the potential to make a change.

This checklist will help you see whether you’ve made the right choice. Your dissertation topic is good, if:

• You have an opportunity to research it fully.  You need to know that there is enough data and a theoretical basis. Do some prior research to understand if you will be able to answer all your dissertation questions.
• You can fill the gaps in the existing knowledge.  Your research matters if you can provide some new information that contributes to the field of your studies.
• Your dissertation title is catchy.  Try to make it worth the reader’s attention from the first glance.
• You can evaluate how much time you need.  It is vital to understand all the stages of your research and the challenges you might face to plan your work.
• You know the subject well.  You will need to explore your topic in-depth. It’s good to have some previous knowledge about it. Starting the research from the very basics will take more time and effort.
• You have enough resources to investigate it.  Both time and money matter in this case. You need to do high-quality research and meet your deadlines.

Dissertation Topics in Education

Learning is a lifelong experience, and the importance of schools cannot be overestimated. Research in this area is critical to improving education standards. Have a look at these topic ideas to get inspired:

• Gamification as tools for enhancing learning abilities: theory and practice. Many studies have been conducted on different learning approaches. For young learners, engagement is as critical as the outcome. Therefore, this work focuses on gamification and its effect on children’s improvisation and learning. 
• Studying the connection between classroom quality and the learning outcome in kindergarten. Children are strongly affected by their environment, especially when it comes to learning. This dissertation topic example is all about looking into different classroom settings and their effect on kids’ learning outcomes. 
• Evaluating the process of implementation of inclusive education in the US. Professionals argue that inclusive education carries multiple benefits for all students (not just those with limited abilities.) However, it is quite a challenging process to implement all the changes.
• Factors influencing the decision to transfer to the higher education abroad. In this work, you can focus on finding out the reasons for such a decision. Why do undergraduate students choose to leave their home country? What are the most important factors? 
• Online education vs. traditional face-to-face lessons for adult learners: compare and contrast. Online courses have their own benefits. However, would adult learners prefer them to in-person classrooms? How does it affect their learning and motivation?
• How does working as a taxi driver and navigating change a person’s brain?
• To what extent can reality television be disempowering for students?
• The role of homework in the lives of immigrant adolescents.
• The impact of teachers’ shocking behaviors in fostering students’ creativity.
• The determinants of flossing behavior in college students .
• The classification of drinking styles in the college-age population.
• Integrating the computer into the curriculum: why you can’t simply plug it in.
• The preconditions for serious music-making avocation in computer science students.
• Adult graduate difficulties with learning new technologies.
• The effect of academic performance on the health of students. 
• The impact of mathematic coaching on students’ self-esteem .
• The influence of internet on the emotional maturity of students.
• Academic achievements of students who decide to become teachers.
• Is it true that students are more likely to do homework given by good-looking professors?
• Informal learning in rural areas via social networks.
• Educational blogging for professors: the social networks of educationists.
• Does learning existentialism cause suicides?
• Is it possible to reduce summer learning loss without students’ consent?
• Can we reject classical math and do it at the same time? Yes, we can.
• What are major career prospects with a degree in Liberal Arts?
• Using electronic games in museums as an effective education tool.

Business Dissertation Topics

There are many things a business administrator should keep in mind. Finances, marketing, and development are just the tip of the iceberg. So, the choice of topics is practically endless. Check out this selection to narrow down the possibilities:

• How are business strategies adjusted to the globalization process? Small businesses’ perspective. Globalization means huge and profitable opportunities. To seize them, all businesses and companies should make some changes in their strategies. Investigate what would be the best action plan for them.
• Cultural changes and the effect of feedback in an international company: a case study. Choose a multinational company. Study the impact of feedback (both from the employees and customers) on its organizational culture changes. What reaction does it provoke in the company?
• Human resource management approaches in international non-profit organizations. In this study, look into the strategies HR managers apply in non-profit organizations. One of their main responsibilities is to monitor the performance of the employees. However, at the international level it becomes more difficult. 
• Leadership and organizational culture in making decisions about business strategies. In this research, you study the influence of the organizational culture on leaders. In the case of trying to initiate changes in the business strategy, how is a leadership decision taken? 
• The role of “foreign direct investment” in companies in developing countries: a case study of a large business. For this paper, pick a suitable company first. Aim for large companies in developing countries. Then conduct research and find out what strategies they have for foreign direct investments.
• COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on workplace management in small businesses . The COVID-19 pandemic caused many companies to readjust their HR policies. For instance, they allowed their staff to work from home. Research this phenomenon in your thesis.
• Social entrepreneurship for large companies. If you want to make the world a better place, social entrepreneurship is a suitable method. We usually associate it with small start-ups. But what about large companies? With this topic, you can research how the concept works for big firms.
• How innovation affects demand in technology-driven businesses. This MBA dissertation topic combines business studies and technology. Examine how companies create products for establishing markets.
• Management strategies in times of COVID-19: a case study. The pandemic has forced companies to use Zoom , Skype, and messaging instead of regular meetings. Review how executives can apply traditional management models in the digital space. 
• The impact of burnout on employees. Interview staff members and determine how burnout affects performance. Include the name of a company or industry in your dissertation’s title. 
• Tourism management in the Middle East.
• How do natural disasters impact the demand for essentials? 
• Compare and contrast Asian and American leadership styles. 
• How does fluctuation in the stock market impact business operations?
• The art of delegation: how to do it effectively and when to avoid it.
• How can one efficiently lead a company when unforeseen circumstances occur?
• What factors determine employees’ work satisfaction?
• Study the link between a company’s success and innovation.
• What can business managers do to bridge the gap between generations?
• Research the benefits of global and local brand management.
• What causes changes in Chinese business culture?
• Choose a small business and analyze its strategy.
• Organizational changes : what factors impact transformation?
• Internet banking : barriers to usage.
• Create a business plan that is focused on a specific issue. 
• Conditions necessary for quality management in MNCs.
• The role of E-commerce for food retailers.
• Conduct a case study with the purpose to analyze one or several social phenomena.
• Workplace ethics in small businesses.
• The phenomenon of remote working and how it is affecting businesses.
• Comparison of Generation X and the Millennial Generation.
• Managing the Millennial Generation.
• Current trends in consumer behavior in relation to advertising.
• Analyze which countries margin financing is effective and why.
• Analyze the macroeconomic factors affecting exchange rates. 
• An empirical analysis of the impact of organizational performance and leadership .

Law Dissertation Topics for Ph.D. Students

Legal science is not dull as one may think. It’s crucial to evaluate laws at any point in time. Do they fit the current norms? Does something or someone need more protection than before? If you want to garnish your legal education with a Ph.D., here are some topic suggestions:

• Trust law: the circumstances when fully secret and half-secret trusts are necessary. Find out what are the principles that dictate the enforcement of the trusts. There are specific circumstances that determine whether creating trusts would be adequate and relevant. Make sure to take them into consideration.
• Termination of employment in case of employees tested positive for HIV/AIDS. Your task would be to conduct research and see how HIV/AIDS employees are influenced in the workplace. The most common issues are discrimination and termination of employment.
• The influence of the Global War on Terrorism on international criminal law. When the US launched the campaign against terrorism in 2001, international criminal law faced some changes. You can study the most significant changes that have been made.
• The level of effectiveness of the US copyright law in relation to the rights of users. It’s an empirical research topic that would require collecting lots of data. Try to find some cases when the users were left cheated by copyright law. It would bring some diversity to the research and make it more interesting.
• Study the effect that the US immigration policy has on education right now. Educational institutions are also required to adjust to changes connected with immigration. Different requirements and different curriculums are implemented to fit their needs. You are about to look into this issue.
• Select a country and analyze its worker protection laws. Compare the rights and obligations of employees in two countries of your choice. What potential improvements can solidify employee rights? 
• Protection of minorities, legal precedents. Minority rights are becoming more and more relevant. This topic allows you to discuss how laws can be changed to reflect it.
• Regulation of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies allow for anonymity. Besides, they are not regulated by any state. In your thesis, you can analyze cryptocurrency regulations.
• Fake news : legal responsibility. Review how the United States legal system approaches disinformation. Focus on false publications on news resources. Another possible topic is improvements to defamation laws.
• Freedom of expression : a case during a pandemic. This topic is about false information in times of COVID-19. Examine how a state can balance freedom of expression with the spread of false information. Focus on this disease and the fake news about it.
• Legal practices for preventing possible future pandemics.
• Research ways of online journalism protection.
• International law vs. the right to self-determination: comparative case studies of de facto states.
• Review the history of fiscal laws in America.
• Limits to freedom of expression in the US legal system. 
• Enforcing regulations concerning domestic violence.
• Study criminal responsibility for drug possession in the US. 
• Criminalization of violence against women.
• Review the legal framework for addressing foreign involvement in elections.
• What was the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Health standards for immigrant detention centers in the US. 
• Research the loopholes in the US immigration laws.
• Birthright citizenship in the US: pros and cons.
• 1951 Refugee Convention: is it obsolete?
• Illegal immigrants and their rights in the US justice system.
• How criminal laws have been impacted around the world by the war on terror.
• Choose a country and analyze their policies on discrimination.
• Evaluate the protection given to minority shareholders as dictated by company law.
• Provide a critical analysis of the law of omissions liability. 
• Investigate and analyze complaints filed in the criminal justice system.
• A critical analysis of the reform of homicide laws. 
• The morality and impact of euthanasia and how Canada sets a precedent.
• A detailed analysis of gender and race profiling of suspects in the criminal justice system.
• Analyze the right to bear arms relative to the context in which the law was written into The Constitution. 
• Create case studies that represent a review of criminal negligence related to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.

Psychology Dissertation Topics

The mysterious ways of the human mind offer many research opportunities. Psychology encompasses sub-fields such as behavior and cognition. Whatever your area of expertise, you’ll undoubtedly find something interesting in the list below.

• The current effect of the “price ending” method on the consumers’ behavior . Nowadays, everybody knows the most popular trick that shops pull to make customers buy the products. However, does understanding it make it easier to resist it? Is this psychological trap still working?
• Burnout at the executive positions in massive US corporations: is it possible to prevent? The phenomenon of burnout is the most common issue that employees face nowadays. But there are ways to detected it at an early stage. Could they be used to predict and prevent this problem? 
• Mindfulness practices and their influence on students’ learning abilities at the top universities (e.g., Harvard). Mindfulness is proved to be extremely useful in overcoming stress and anxiety issues. However, does it affect the learning outcome of the students who study at the best universities in the world?
• The individual struggles with gender issues and their impact on global gender inequality. Everything always starts with a small thing. For this paper, study the relation between some individual cases and the global issue. How do personal struggles contribute to the worldwide movement for justice? 
• The positive influence of irrational beliefs on mental well-being. In psychology, irrational beliefs are a set of values and opinions that people believe in despite rational evidence against them. However, what positive effect can they bring?
• Ways of raising awareness of mental health problems. Mental health has been discussed more openly in recent years. Review how this open discussion affects views on personal mental health. As another idea for a psychology dissertation topic, research a specific illness. 
• Student burnout and ways to prevent it. Focus on the problems students face and what strategies can reduce their stress.
• Pandemic and mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many people to be in isolation from social contacts. Review the potential effects of this practice on people’s well-being. Discuss possible strategies for supporting mental health during possible future pandemics.
• Weight, self-image, and mental health. A clinical psychology thesis can focus on the psychology behind excess weight. Discuss how weight affects a person’s perception of self. Assess implications for clinical psychologists who work with overweight patients.
• Social media vs. reality: normalizing real people. Review current efforts of social media accounts in normalizing body image. Explain how this can reverse the damage that edited photos have on mental health. 
• How does gender bias affect mental health in America?
• What factors affect women’s self-esteem in the workplace?
• Specifics of transgender mental health.
• Research the effect of immigration on mental well-being.
• Study the psychology of racism and ways to combat it. 
• What distinguishes the mental health of minorities in the US? 
• Research the psychology of dissent in the Soviet Union.
• The connection between stress and overeating: latest developments.
• Assess the role of social support for losing weight. 
• What’s the role of prejudice in politics?
• Assess the role of endurance in combating stress.
• Developing hardiness: strategies and exercises.
• What’s the effect of emotional resilience on mental health?
• Helping teenagers overcome stress via relaxation techniques. 
• Look into the perception of anger and its effect on mental health.
• Understanding the function of the prefrontal cortex in terms of how it is connected to other parts of the brain.
• Understanding how the prefrontal cortex makes us human.
• How emotional and anxiety disorders are connected to social cognition that is impaired.
• Analyze the ability of an MRI to determine brain function.
• Analyze the relationship between emotional and episodic memory.
• A comparison of the plasticity of the child’s brain and the adult brain. 
• Analyze the continued relevance of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.
• An in-depth look at the social intuitionist model and how it relates to the emotion and reason involved in moral judgement.
• How the evolution of the human brain can be understood in terms of children cognitive development. 
• A demonstration of the multi-dimensional nature of schizophrenia. 
• How rational thinking and impulse contribute to decision-making.
• A systematic analysis and review of the psychology of religion.
• How exposure to nature affects happiness.

Nursing Dissertation Topics

A nurse’s work is hard. Unfortunately, they rarely get the credit they deserve. With a Ph.D., you could become an advocate on the problem. Or you could concentrate on optimizing their work environments.

• Exercise, changes in lifestyle , and self-tracking for diabetes prevention and management. Center your research on different lifestyle changes (exercise, reduced smoking and drinking) and explain how and why it prevents diabetes.
• Influence of stigma related to HIV/AIDS on representatives of ethnic minorities: a case study of Native Americans. Using research, provide compelling evidence of how Native Americans are stigmatized and discriminated against.
• Chronic illness management at home: recommended evidence-based practices. Using current nursing and other professional research, discuss how adults and seniors manage chronic and autoimmune diseases.
• Depression and stress and their relation to preterm births in first-time mothers. Collect several articles about the issue and using their conclusions show how depression causes preterm births.
• Burnout in nurses: factors that cause it and practical solutions for prevention. Present outcomes of burnout (decreased performance and concentration, subpar workplace environment) and illustrate how it affects hospitals on a more significant scale. 
• Public health: community-based measures to prevent morbid obesity. In this research, you can list various methods that include exercise and education and explain in detail how they prevent the spread of obesity.
• Risk factors and injury rates in psychiatric nursing. Present statistics on different types of injuries in psychiatric institutions.
• Cultural diversity and inclusion in nursing education. When researching diversity, make sure you are using examples of different minority groups’ perception of education.
• Euthanasia legislation in the USA: ethical issues and debates. Provide a thoughtful discussion of ethical and legal issues surrounding euthanasia.
• Organizational climate and its influence on perceived patient safety. Your study should focus on the importance of positive relationships between staff members, and its influence on the prevention of medical errors.
• Dietary practices and their influence on the quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. SLE is a complex disease that requires a multidisciplinary approach. Describe nutritional research approaches to SLE.
• Fluoride application training in dental nursing.
• Describe the specifics of nursing care for patients with diabetes.
• Assess gender disparity in nursing research.
• Study nurse burnout prevalence in neonatal care in your community.
• Nursing staff advising DASH diet: effects on patients’ blood pressure.
• What are the challenges of asthma management for nurses? 
• Nursing for autistic patients: the best strategies. 
• Racial differences in nursing care: a case study.
• Evaluate nurses’ role in pain management for patients with dementia. 
• Study the connection between nursing staff turnover and burnout.
• How is the role of a nurse changing in the modern healthcare system?
• Review nursing practices for managing elderly patients.
• A holistic approach to obesity management in nursing.
• Describe the specifics of nursing in rural areas.
• Physical activity and mental health: a nursing case study.
• Discuss nursing pain relief strategies for general care. 
• Determine the ethical implications of nursing malpractice.
• Nurses consultations for spinal cord injuries.
• Nursing in an urban setting: challenges and prospects. 
• What are the specifics of pain management in obstetrical nursing?

Marketing Dissertation Topics

Good marketing is what made you buy that product you didn’t know you needed. Marketing needs plenty of scientific research for it to be successful. You can contribute to this effort with one of the following topic ideas:

• Compare and contrast the effectiveness of traditional and digital marketing in the last five years. Marketing moves towards digital campaigns more and more every year. Though, traditional marketing still exists, of course. Your task is to compare every aspect of these two types in the span of the previous five years.
• The specifics of the relationship marketing and its influence on the loyalty rates among customers: a case study of fast-food chains. Take a few fast-food chains to conduct this research. Then analyze their relationship marketing strategies. There should be a correlation between the methods they use and the loyalty of their customers.
• Direct marketing and artificial intelligence: how do companies use it? The industry of marketing couldn’t have missed the opportunity to use the latest technologies for their benefit. Artificial intelligence helps some companies gain a competitive advantage. Find out what those benefits are.
• Collectivism and individualism : how does culture influence supermarkets? There are some apparent differences in cultures when it comes to shopping. Each shop owner has to implement a specific marketing strategy for targeting the customers. Work on aspects that make those strategies successful in different cultures.
• The strategies that make personalized products sell effectively. Everybody loves customized products, but it seems like not everybody is willing to share their data to get it. Therefore, businesses are forced to work it out. This research looks into marketing tools and methods they use to sell personalized products.
• Influence of online shopping apps on impulsive buying behavior . Using prominent examples such as Amazon and eBay, elaborate how apps affect customer’s decision to purchase an item through recommendations.
• Product design and its impact on consumer’s purchase decision. When preparing this thesis topic, consider using examples of large corporations such as Apple or IKEA to prove your point. 
• Customer loyalty : the importance of satisfaction and loyalty programs. Conduct research using available surveys on satisfaction and draw conclusions from these statistics.
• Ethnic differences and their impact on brand perception. This research can review the types of products that target White or Black Americans specifically.
• Preferences for green products: analysis of the income’s influence on consumer decisions. Compare what households are more likely to prefer green products.
• Shopping habits of Muslim consumers in the USA: qualitative research. Here, you will need to do research by engaging Muslim Americans in your study; you can use interviews or surveys for this topic.
• Social media and its impact on the promotion of small business. Make sure your reader understands how social media can promote or negatively present small business through customers’ comments.
• Does globalization make preferences of customers from different socioeconomic backgrounds similar? Interview people from lower, middle, and upper class and discuss the preferences of American households.
• Social media usage by international companies: a case study of Electronic Arts. Study the influence of customers’ reviews and opinions on EA’s sales.
• Consumers’ perception of transaction safety in online shopping applications. Discuss how consumers learn to differentiate between reliable and unreliable apps for payments .
• Marketing high tech products: a case study.
• Study changing marketing techniques during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The future of big data uses in marketing.
• Conduct a comparative analysis of offline vs. online advertising .
• Explore the relationship between marketing strategies and sales.
• Holiday marketing strategies in the 21st century.
• Is marketing tailed towards model devices effective?
• Study the rise of influencer marketing. 
• Review the newest trends in digital advertising. 
• Brand management in 2020: an analysis. 
• Assess the effect of advertising on consumer behavior. 
• Targeted ads: are they efficient?
• How did marketing change during the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Assess brand management’s contribution to consumer loyalty. 
• Impact of social media marketing on brand perception.
• Google Analytics insights for marketing campaigns. 
• Marketing for minority populations.
• Youtube marketing: the effectiveness of videos for brand promotion.
• How does partnering with influencers impact brand perception?
• Social influencer marketing for SMEs.

History Dissertation Topics

History is written not only by the victors but also by history students. Your dissertation can shine a light on understudied cultures. Or perhaps you want to focus on how a specific event impacted the world. Find inspiration among the following dissertation questions and ideas:

• The historical context of the creation of Guernica by Pablo Picasso . War wasn’t the only inspiration for Pablo Picasso during the process of making Guernica . In this paper, you would look into the environment of the artist and try to identify what else brought him to the creation of this masterpiece.
• Bismarck and radical nationalism: what influenced the political state? For this research, you would study the underlying reasons for German Nazism before the beginning of World War II. What factors gave it a start when Otto von Bismarck was in charge?
• The rise of Bollywood: historical context. This paper focuses on the success of Indian Bollywood movies in the 1930s. You would need to look into the events that made those movies famous in the whole world. Don’t forget to mention the social views of Bollywood movies.
• The influence of secrecy in the technology intervention during World War II. You would study the role that the US Patent and Trademark Office played in the development of special war technology . Secrecy helped to keep it away from the public and enemies. How did it influence the war?
• Italian prisons in the 19th century: how were they managed after Unification? This paper would require you to study documentation on the management system prison used in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century. You should try to find some practices that might have been socially harmful. 
• Gender perceptions in the Middle Age. When preparing the dissertation, use both historical and literary sources to show how gender was presented.
• Secularization in the American South during the post-war period. Provide a detailed discussion of secular societies forming in the South after the 1940s.
• Representation of Jewish history in contemporary art: a case study of Art Spiegelman’s Maus . Using the comic book as the primary basis, explain how Jewish culture and history are presented there.

• The history of medieval warfare and its influence on Modern Era warfare . When constructing this thesis, make sure you are using both historical and current research to provide details.
• American-British relations during the Cold War Era . Explain how the Cold War Era changes these relations and what has affected it the most.
• Germany’s foreign relations during the 1980s. Present a detailed overview of different foreign relations (e.g., with the USA, the USSR, the UK) Germany had during this period.
• The financial crisis in the USA in 2007-2009. Using research and media sources, explain to the reader how the crisis is still affecting the USA. 
• The development of Austrian identity after World War II. In this case, you can use both historical evidence and Austrian literature that provides personal opinions of writers and artists on the issue.
• The impact of the Great Depression on the American involvement in the World War II. To show your understanding of historical processes, demonstrate how the Great Depression affected the USA’s perception of WWII. 
• How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb: the development of nuclear warfare in the 20th century. Discuss the development of nuclear warfare in the USA and the USSR.
• What was the role of China in the Cold War?
• How did the Spanish Flu affect the pandemics that followed it?
• Determine the influence of the stock market crash in 1929 on the World Wars.
• First Battle of Marne’s impact on the outcomes of WWI.
• Tool usage and creation: Aztecs vs. Mayas.
• How did the enlightenment philosophy impact the development of the natural sciences?
• The effects of Christianization in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Assess the role of slavery in the US civil rights movement. 
• Study the history of LGBT rights establishment in the US.
• What are the origins of slavery in Africa?
• The Moon Landing and its impact on space exploration. 
• Explore the role of the Bible in Jewish history.
• The US’ involvement in WWII.
• The aftermath of WWII: major historical events.
• Research the link between the Mexican-American War and the Gold Rush.
• Cold War insights: lessons from the Suez Crisis.
• Explore the role of democratization in the Soviet Union collapse.
• Global cooperation in early modern Europe.
• Study the legacy of the arms race.
• How did the First Ladies influence life in the 20th century America?

Dissertation Topics in Management

Companies and employees alike benefit from well-thought-out management strategies. So, a thesis in management has the potential to improve work environments even further. Kickstart your research by choosing one of the following topics:

• Ecotourism in Canada: issues and trends in small business. Explain issues that arise in ecotourism with climate change.
• Management ethics: how social media affects employees’ privacy and organizational climate. Present examples of negative and positive influence.
• Leadership styles: a comparison of democratic and autocratic leadership. Discuss what leadership style should be chosen to rule various companies, depending on their business plan.
• Political risk and its influence on emergency management. Explain how political crises affect and shape emergency management.
• Cultural diversity and its impact on employees’ satisfaction and commitment. Show what advantages and disadvantages there are in cultural diversity.
• Economic growth and unemployment rates in Australia during the 1990s: a historical perspective. Explain the causes of economic growth and unemployment.
• Challenges in human resources management working with millennials: qualitative research. Discuss what particular challenges HR managers face and how they can be addressed. 
• The significance of organizational routines in international corporations: a case study of Google. Conduct research on the importance of routine and its impact on performance. 
• Computer skills and management: the effectiveness of computerized management information system in rural areas. Describe how digital management can be effectively applied in companies working in rural areas.
• The history of digital rights management in the USA. Present the changes in the field during the 1990s-2010s. 
• Analyze the best leadership styles for SMEs. 
• Examine the changes entrepreneurship underwent in the past decades.
• How do leadership styles relate to work satisfaction? 
• Overview of business negotiation methods using technology.
• Ways of integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.
• Discuss the specifics of airline companies’ management. 
• Choose a theory of motivation in the workplace and make a case study on it.
• Study change management in SMEs in times of a crisis.
• Managing diverse workforce: a qualitative analysis.
• Use of employee voice in US companies.
• Research the relationship between the organization’s goals and a manager’s behavior.
• What are the best current practices in public administration?
• Applying strategic human capital principles in practice.
• The study of female CEOs in a country of your choice.
• Employees’ perception of change management : a quantitative analysis.
• A study of employees’ resistance to change.
• What’s the correlation between a CEO’s leadership traits and employee motivation ?
• Workplace risk management : a study of psychosocial hazards.
• Conduct a quantitative study of the gender pay gap for CEOs.
• Research the relationship between management style and employee productivity .

Qualitative Dissertation: Ideas for Proposals

If you want your thesis to be more practical, you’ve come to the right section. Common approaches for qualitative dissertations include researching case studies, surveys, or ethnographies. Because of this, fieldwork will be an integral part of your doctorate journey.

• A comparison of teaching techniques that targeted children with autism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Provide a detailed overview of techniques and explain how research affected them.
• The development of cognitive-behavioral therapy and its effectiveness in patients with eating disorders. Present the history of CBT and use recent research to demonstrate its effectiveness. 
• Ageism and sexism in international organizations of the fashion industry. Describe how the fashion industry defines what it means to be “young and beautiful.”
• Addressing sexual harassment at the workplace : the influence of organizational policies on targets’ decision to file a complaint. Explain what policies can support the target and what can prevent such decision.
• Strategies to eliminate bias in self-evaluation reports of employees. Using research in HRM, outline the best strategies that are currently used to avoid bias. 
• Post-cancer therapy: issues and trends. Present and discuss various trends, the research behind them, and the effectiveness of different types of therapy.
• A family history of abuse and its influence on drug use in adults. Explain how abuse can provoke addiction in the future.
• The importance of trusting doctor-patient relationships on patient’s medication adherence and management of a healthy lifestyle. Describe how such relationships negatively or positively affect a patient’s decision to take medicine as prescribed.
• Barriers to the acquisition of social support among young men and women veterans in the USA. Discuss mental and physical disorders as major barriers.
• Single mothers’ perceptions of breastfeeding in public places: qualitative research. Conduct interviews to find out their opinion.
• The impact of online learning on student’s academic performance.
• A study of the youths’ perception of learning smartphone applications.
• Research the issue of gender bias in college education. 
• Student’s perception of the mental health support and impact on campus.
• Perceptions of charter school education in the 21 st century.
• Discuss homeschooling and its effect on a child’s socialization.
• What’s the impact of cyberbullying on teenagers’ mental health?
• How inmates perceive alternative forms of incarceration.
• Gun violence from the perspective of victims.
• Research bias towards video games as an art form.
• In what ways are minorities disadvantaged in America?
• Evaluate cooking as a therapeutic exercise.
• Assess the link between a principal’s leadership style and the school’s rating.
• The effect of online counseling on patients’ mental health. 
• Perception of mental health stigma among students. 
• How does gig economy re-define work?
• The implications of freelancing in the 2020s.
• Opinions about a 6-day work week in your community.
• Assess the process of adaptation to working from home.
• Conduct a research study of views on the BLM movement outside the US. 

Quantitative Dissertation Proposal Topics

Some scholars just love working with data. Are you one of them? Then you’ll probably enjoy quantitative research. If you’re into finding patterns and making predictions, here are some enticing topics:

• A study of a major city’s livability index. Choose a city and assess whether it’s well-designed or not.
• A quantitative study of biofilms in technology. Discuss methods of using biofilms in technology. Include a list of recent advances and new tools.
• A quantitative study of teachers’ perception of online learning. This topic prompts you to use an evaluation scale. 
• An assessment of a link between product reviews and intention to purchase. Study the effect online reviews have on potential customers.
• Immigration and its connection to crime statistics. Analyze data on immigration to the US and the number of violent crimes. Determine the relationship between the two phenomena. 
• The relationship between obesity and occupation. Assess the BMIs of participants of different professions. Then, test the results for a correlation and discuss its implications.
• A relationship between nurses’ knowledge of diabetes management and patient satisfaction. Assess the nurses’ knowledge about diabetes and compare the results with patient satisfaction scores. Thus, you can determine if expertise translates into better care. 
• A study of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMEs financial operations. With this qualitative dissertation proposal in business and management, choose a small company. Analyze its financial data pre- and post-pandemic. Include a discussion of financial management during pandemics.
• A study of millennials’ pet ownership. Determine the percentage of millennials who have pets. Compare these patterns with previous generations. 
• Economic growth and urbanization. Compare the empirical data about the state of economics and the number of people living in cities.
• Determine how urbanization affects bacterial community compositions.
• The economic impact of immigration on SMEs.
• Study the rates of crimes in the US in relation to nonviolent crimes.
• How do various teaching styles affect learning? 
• Compare overconfidence in CEOs of SMEs and corporations.
• How does inclusive language influence social behavior?
• Assess consumers’ satisfaction with online banking in your area. 
• Evaluate crude oil price prediction methods. 
• Is there a link between smartphone use and mental illness?
• Correlation between eyewitness identification and memory.
• What are the attitudes towards AI development among women?
• Determine the rates of cybercrimes since the 1990s.
• A study of the police brutality cases across the US in the last decade.
• Correlation between education level and employment.
• The presence of sleep disorders in mental illnesses.
• Assess the attitudes towards medical care in the US.
• Determine the correlation between eating disorders and physical illness. 
• Study the rates of cyberbullying among minority students. 
• How various religious groups influence politics : a game-theoretical approach.
• Does regular exercise decrease symptoms of depression in adults? 

Dissertation Topics in Educational Leadership

Educational leadership is a science focused on helping students to achieve their academic goals. It includes the motivation of staff and learners, improvement of educational programs, and creation of a healthy, productive environment in institutions. Want to dedicate your research to it? Take a look at these topic samples:

• Fatigue among American medical students. Medical students often need to memorize and analyze big portions of information. That is why many of them don’t sleep enough, get tired quickly, and find it hard to concentrate. What can be done about it?
• How did the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning affect students’ motivation? Online education has multiple benefits and drawbacks. Some students might find it easier to get access to various textbooks online. Others want to return to campus. What is their motivation? 
• Creating better learning conditions on campus: the challenges in 2022. With the increasing speed of technological progress, it is hard to catch up with the latest innovations. Explore them in your dissertation. For instance, you can focus on facilities for students with special needs. 
• How can we enhance discipline among first-year students on campus? For some younger students, it is hard to get used to living on their own. They need to accept new responsibilities, find time to take care of themselves, and organize their lives. How can we help them?
• Development of soft skills among undergraduate students. For future employers, soft skills are as important as hard skills. That is why colleges need to pay attention to soft skills such as time management, communication, and creativity. 
• The efficiency of workshops for enhancing students’ creativity.
• Do nutrition habits influence the studying process?
• The importance of mental health care in high school.
• What leadership styles are the most efficient in college communities? 
• Does the implementation of early childhood education lead to further academic success?
• What is the role of school counseling among teenagers?
• What psychological factors make students drop out of college? 
• Developing leadership qualities among MBA students. 
• How to help college athletes to cope with psychological and physical pressure.
• Ways of reducing anxiety levels among criminology students.
• Helping students to choose their majors and find a career path.
• How to enhance communication between higher education administration and students?
• Motivating students to succeed after graduation .
• Why do we need psychology classes in high school?
• How can we prevent the bullying of Latin American students in middle and high school?

✅ How to Choose a Thesis Topic: Main Steps

In case you have no idea where to start from, here is a quick guideline on how to choose a Ph.D. thesis topic:

	Check every tiny detail. Sometimes the only restrictions would be time and word count. Some universities might restrict your topic choice within your field of study.
	In case you don’t have to stick to a specific area, feel free to play around and find what you like. However, it is better if it’s something you’re familiar with. Starting your dissertation from scratch is not the best idea.
	It will give you a boost of inspiration. Don’t forget to take notes! You might come across some unsolved issues that can interest you.
	Adjust your topic so that it would be specific enough. However, be careful and don’t overdo it! Otherwise, you won’t have enough data to work with.
	Consider the methods of data collection, as well as approaches for analyzing it. It’s not unusual to combine different types, so don’t worry if you can’t decide on just one.
	What change can your work bring into this world? Perhaps it can contribute to the academic field or is practical enough to help with real-life issues. Or, maybe, it carries a social relevance and can change our society for the better.
	Before deciding on the topic, make sure it meets your requirements. It means that you should be 100% sure you have enough time, resources, and knowledge to finish the research on the chosen topic.
	Seeking some advice from your supervisor is always a good idea. You can discuss your ideas together. After that, go ahead and start the writing process!

We hope this article helped you to choose a suitable topic for your dissertation. We wish you good luck with your research!

Learn more on this topic:

• Dissertation Critique: Examples, How-to Guide
• The Ultimate Guide to Writing an Outstanding Dissertation
• How to Write an Abstract: Brief Steps and Structure Example

✏️ Dissertation FAQ

While working on a dissertation, you might deal with several types of research. The main research types are primary, qualitative, quantitative, and legal. In any case, it’s the way in which a researcher studies the subject using a particular methodology.

First of all, make sure that you are personally fascinated by the subject. This is essential for any thesis, be it master’s or an undergraduate dissertation. Besides, make sure the topic is feasible and hasn’t been studies much.

A good dissertation title is the one that represents the subject under study. To state which aspect is being studied is also important. The title should include neither a hypothesis nor a conclusion: think about it as “spoilers”—nobody likes them.

Just like any paper, a great dissertation is the one that is well-organized. The topic of the paper should correspond to the title. The text should have a cohesive structure with a definite introduction, argumentative main part, and a logical conclusion.

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Index

                       

1920s-30s

1929

Koch, Berthe C.
Advisor: Hopkins, et al
Dissertation Title: The Creation of a Series of Landscape Paintings, Original in Conception and Execution

1936

Davis, Emily H.
Advisor: Payant
Dissertation Title: The Design of the House and Its Furnishings as Based on New Materials and Constructions

1939

Grimes, James W.
Advisor: Hopkins
Dissertation Title: Historic Techniques of Portrait Painting

Osburn, B. N.
Advisor: Alberti
Dissertation Title: Adult Education in Handcrafts in U.S.

1940s

1941

Bostwick, Prudence
Advisor: Alberti
Dissertation Title: Providing for Esthetic Experience in Certain Aspects of Secondary Education

1942

Batchelder, Marjorie Hope
Advisor: Hopkins
Dissertation Title: Rod Puppets: History and Technic

Brown, Kenneth William
Advisor: Smith, et al
Dissertation Title: The Visual Arts in Secondary Education

Neuenschwander, Milo Hugo
Advisor: Good
Dissertation Title: Johann Georg Sulzer: Philosopher-Educator and Aesthetician

Reitzel, Marques Edwin
Advisor: Hopkins
Dissertation Title: The Technique of Landscape Painting

Wood, Harry Emsley, Jr.
Advisor: Hopkins
Dissertation Title: The Accepted American Meanings of Color

1945

Dietrich, John F.
Advisor: Hopkins
Dissertation Title: Design in the Minor Arts, the Use of Materials in Teaching Basic Design

1947

McFarland, Eugene, J.
Dissertation Title: Subject Matter in Painting

1949

Bassiouny, Mahmoud Youssef
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: World Unity and Child Education with Special Reference to the Function of the Schema

Miller, Marion G.
Advisor: Fanning
Dissertation Title: An Account of the Development of the Creative Project of Reredos Decoration in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, El Paso, Illinois

Schlicher, Karl T.
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: The Significance of Portrait in Contemporary Culture

1950s

1951

Barkan, Manuel
Advisor: Mooney
Dissertation Title: Toward a Foundation for Art Education

El-Shibiny, Mohamed E.M.M.
Advisor: Zirbes
Dissertation Title: A Proposition for Redesigning the Functional Role of the Modern Laboratory School: A Study of the Implications of the Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Esthetic Factors for the Curriculum Organization

Howeishy, Mohamed H.K.
Advisor: Grimes & Mooney
Dissertation Title: The Discipline of the Creative Disposition as Means of Integration in Art Appreciation, Teaching and Living

Lewis, Samella A.
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Painting as Instrument for Portrayal of Individual and Group Relationships

Sanders, Herbert H.
Dissertation Title: Selected Decorating Processes in Pottery with Original Examples Illustrating the Processes

Stewart, Jarvis A.
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: Art in General Education in the Liberal Arts College

Walker, Lester C.
Advisor: Fanning
Dissertation Title: Art in Average Amersica, the Cultural Pattern of Des Moines, Iowa

Weismann, Donald L.
Dissertation Title: An Experiment with Language and Visual Form as Complementary Media for Communication and Expression

1952

Delafield, David D.
Dissertation Title: Painting and the Nature of the Painter’s Research

Simoni, John Peter
Advisor: Danes
Dissertation Title: Art Critics and Criticism in Nineteenth Century America

1953

Andrews, Michael F
Advisor: Frey
Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Sculpture as a Creative and Religious Symbol

Breithaupt, Erwin Millard
Dissertation Title: A Study and Specification of Art Appreciation in Terms of the Structure of Visual Perception

Orr, Jeanne Elizabeth
Advisor: Zirbes) The Arts as an Integral Part of the Value-Centered Curriculum

1955

Conover, Donald William
Dissertation Title: The Amount of Information in the Absolute Judgment of Munsell Hues

Knorr, Lester A.
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Pictorial Content (a theory of symbolic functions, transactions, and transformations applied to art and the embodiment of the theory in an exhibition of paintings)

Wilson, James B
Advisor: Fanning
Dissertation Title: The Significance of Thomas Moran as an American Landscape Painter

1956

Baird, Josiah Landis M.
Dissertation Title: A Studio Project in Sculpture

Dietz, Charles
Advisor: Grimes & Gatrell
Dissertation Title: Conception, Technical Development & Execution of a Transparent Glass Mosaic in the Baptistry of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Douglas, Murray Alanson
Dissertation Title: The Synthesis of Decoration with Other Design Elements: A Presentation of Ceramic Pieces

Ketner, David Dalrymple
Dissertation Title: Abstract Form in Pictorial Expression with a Statement of the Artist’s Formal Development

Knorr, Jeanne Boardman
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: An Exhibition of Paintings: Accompanied by a Journal of the Creative Process and the Act of Painting

Perkins, Dorothy Wilson
Dissertation Title: Education in Ceramic Art in the United States

Perkins, Lyle Nathaniel
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Experimentalism as Applied to Creativity and Ceramic Media

Richards, Karl Frederick
Dissertation Title: Non-Descriptive Painting: An Artist’s Point of View

1957

Casanova, Alco John
Dissertation Title: A Sculptural Interpretation of ‘Don Quixote’

Mitchell, Coretta Waring
Advisor: Barkan
Dissertation Title: A Study of Relationships Between Attitudes about Art Experience and Behavior in Art Activity

Schwarz, Joseph Edmund
Dissertation Title: Subject-Matter Content and the Primacy of Form

1958

Kuhn, Mary Louise
Advisor: Barkan
Dissertation Title: Creative Potential in the Visual Arts for the American Adult

1959

Ramsey, Robert Ward
Dissertation Title: Experiments in the Decorative Use of Vitreous Engobes

Shackson, Lucius Lee
Advisor: Kirchner
Dissertation Title: A Study of Specific Course Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Arts Colleges

1960s

1960

Brown, Maurice Woodrow
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: Evolutionary Aspects of My Work in Collage

Casey, Warren Vale
Advisor: Frey
Dissertation Title: Traditional and Abstract Backgrounds of Contemporary Sculpture

Ebersole, Barbara Warren
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: An Investigation into the Nature and Problems of Decorative Painting

Gregor, Harold Laurence
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: Clarification of an Artistic Position with Reference to Gestalt Perceptual Principles

Klenk, William Charles
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: Image and Material in Collage Technique

Mack, Martin Palmer
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Accompanied by an Autobiographical Statement Regarding the Painting Act

Mackenzie, Donald Ralph
Advisor: Kaplan
Dissertation Title: Painters in Ohio, 1788-1860, with a Biographical Index

1961

Campbell, David Marshall
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: The Figure-Field Relationship in My Painting

Edmonston, Paul
Advisor: Barkan
Dissertation Title: A Methodology for Inquiry into One’s Own Studio Processes

Johnson, Darrell Marvin
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: The Development of Painting from Conceptual Unity to Visual Unity

Neidhardt, Carl Richard
Advisor: Grimes
Dissertation Title: A Painter’s Approach to the Role of Theory in the Creative Act of Painting

1962

Trank, Lynn Edgar
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: An Exhibition of Paintings Accompanied by a Commentary on Painting Instruction in Five Institutions of Higher Learning

1963

Beard, Richard Elliott
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: Aspects of Structure in Twentieth Century Painting and the Novel as Related to My Approach in Painting

Youry, Leon Ward
Dissertation Title: A Synthesis in the Decorative Use of Texture: A Presentation of Ceramic Pieces

1964

Kottler, Howard William
Advisor: Bogatay
Dissertation Title: An Exhibition of Pottery in Support of Three Processes in Ceramics

Persick, William Thomas
Advisor: Atherton
Dissertation Title: Three Concepts on Pottery

1965

Sida, Youssef Mohamed Ali
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: Arabic Calligraphy in Contemporary Egyptian Murals with an Essay on Arab Tradition and Art

1966

Chapman, Laura Hill
Advisor: Hausman
Dissertation Title: Game Theory as an Analytical Tool for Inquiry in Art Education

Kindt, Joann
Advisor: Sherman & Ludden
Dissertation Title: Compositional Forms in the Landscape Genre and Their Persistence in Twentieth-Century Abstract Paintings, with an Exhibition of Paintings

Krutza, June Marie
Advisor: Littlefield
Dissertation Title: Lithium in Stoneware Glazes

Wilson, Brent Guy
Advisor: Barkan
Dissertation Title: The Development and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Aspective Perception of Paintings

1968

Ball, Walter Neil
Advisor: Sherman
Dissertation Title: The Development of a Visual Philosophy of Structure in the Practice of Painting, with an Exhibition of Paintings

Stumbo, Hugh Winston
Advisor: Ecker
Dissertation Title: Aesthetic Experience in the Teaching of Art: An Aspect of Method

1969

Evan Kern
Advisor: Manuel Barkan
Dissertation Title: Three Dimensions of Experience: A Curriculum Model for Art Education

1970s

1971

Sudjoko
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Art Education for Economic Development

David Hysell
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Anxiety Toward Art and Specific Curricular Strategies Upon Aesthetic Perception

Nancy MacGregor
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Use of Selected Concepts of Art in the Preparation of Pre-Service Art Teachers

Gene Mittler
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Utilizing Counterattitudinal Role Playing and Inconsistency as an Instructional Strategy in Art Criticism

1973

Emmanuel Asihene
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Art Education Development and Curriculum Planning for National Development in Ghana

Harry Aidron Duckworth
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Dialectic as Necessary to Performance, Under-standing, and Teaching in the Visual Arts with Particular Reference to Studio Practices at the College and University Level in an Egalitarian Society

William Green
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Some Curriculum Consequences of Two Theories of Aesthetic Criticism

1974

Albert Anderson
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Film Study as Aesthetic Education: A Foundation for Curriculum

Mary Erickson
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Art History: An Art Education Analysis

Emmanuel Glover
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Rationale for Radical Innovation in the Ghanaian Educational System in General and Art Education in Particular

Robert Reeser
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of a Method for Teaching Drawing and Its Effects on the Cognitive Ability of Inner-City Third Grade Children

Salihu Suleiman
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Role and Relevance of Art in the Educational Development in Developing Nigeria

1975

Margaret Klempay DiBlasio
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Proposals for the Critical Examination of Belief Claims in Art Education: A Conceptual Analysis of Belief Applied to Foundational Issues in Art Education

Jon Sharer
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Two Perceptual Sets Upon the Subsequent Perception of Pictures: An Application of the Perceptual Theories of James and Eleanor Gibson and Jerome Bruner

1976

Adele Chafetz
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Value of Art Education for Adults

Ralph Cook
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Investigation Into Color, Its Nature, Historicity and Application to Art and Art Education with a Content Analysis of Color Sections in Visual Art Textbooks

Billy Denney
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Programmed Instruction on the Teaching of Ceramics

Winter 1977

Krishnamoorthy Bhat
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Art in the Home Science Curriculum of the Agricultural Universities in India: Prototype for Theory into Practice

Spring 1977

Jon Duff
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Identification of Technical Illustrator Job Requirements

Lana Henderson
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Effect of an Inservice Workshop About Skin Colors on Fifth Graders' Visual Responses in Art Classes in the Durham City Schools

Summer 1977

Donn Evans
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Piagetian Perspective on Art Education

Jacquelyn Kibbey
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Curriculum and Art Education: An Extrapolation from the Montessori Doctrine

Joseph LaChapelle
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Professionalization of the Contemporary Artist: Limits, Potentials, and Educational Implications

Abdullah Taqui
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Aesthetic Vision and Education

Autumn 1977

Maurice Sevigny
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Study of Instructional Interaction and Performance Appraisal in a University Studio Art Setting: A Multiple Perspective

Winter 1978

Dorothy Bergamo
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Environment-Centered Art Instruction on the Development of Aesthetic and Creative Responses in High School Art Students

Barbara Robinson
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Study of the Self-Concept: Implications for the Training of Teachers in Art Education and Implications for the Disadvantaged

Spring 1978

Renee Sandell
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Feminist Art Education: Definition, Assessment and Application to Contemporary Art Education

Summer 1978

Georgia Collins
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: The Sex-Appropriateness of Art Activity for the Female

Samuel Olawuyi
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Toward an Integrated Arts Program for Prospective Teachers of Art in the Universal Primary Education in Nigeria

Stephen Oru
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Use of the "Observational System for Instructional Analysis" and Some Ethnographic Methods to Describe an Artists-in-Schools Program Model

Louise Poirier
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Art Attitude Investigation at the Junior High School Level in the Quebec Area

Winter 1979

Emmanuel Nyarkoh
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Towards Innovating Education for National Developments in Ghana: Implications for Art Education and Cultural Advancement

Summer 1979

Howard Bossen
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Dialogue of Differences: Henry Holmes Smith Photographer, Critic, and Educator

Mary Ann Stankiewicz
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Art Teacher Preparation at Syracuse University, The First Century

Norman Yakel
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Total Reflective Theory: A Comprehensive View of the Continuum of Development in Visual Image-Making and the Implications for Art Education

Autumn 1979

Hubert George Geahigan
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: An Analytic Study of Art Criticism in Curriculum Contexts (Vols. I and II)

1980s

Winter 1980

Arne Ludvigsen
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Confrontationalism: A Foundation of Intellect in Art, Education and Art Education

Luisa Owen
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Expression and Art Education: A Study Based on the Aesthetic Theories of Collingwood and Dewey

Summer 1980

Phyllis Kozlowski
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Articulation Agreements Between Two-Year and Four-Year Post Secondary Institutions and Their Effect on the Visual Arts Curricula and Students of Selected Community and Junior Colleges with a Special Focus on Illinois

Olumide Makinde
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Role of Paraprofessional Artists in Contemporary Society: A Survey Study Conducted in Central Ohio

Christy Park
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Toward a Theory of Video Art

Vivian Varney
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Study of Art Appreciation and Art History Literature for the Younger Reader: How the Literature Relates to Educational Goals and Considerations

Autumn 1980

Nnah Udosen
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Cultural Characteristics and Humanistic Excellence: Some Dilemmas of the Foreign Student of Art Education in America

Spring 1981

Beverly Baer
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Exploration of Creative Expression and Relaxation as Stress-Resolving Experiences: Some Special Implications for Chronically Ill and Severely Disabled Populations

Thomas Linehan
Advisor: Charles Csuri
Dissertation Title: A Computer-Mediated Model for Visual Preference Research and Implications for Instruction in Art Criticism

Doris Pfeuffer
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Study of Instruction and Curriculum in the Arts in Four Elementary Classrooms

Summer 1981

Alma Adams
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Multicultural Attitudes and Teacher Performance in Art Classrooms in the Southwestern City Schools of Franklin County

Donna Bristol
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Self-Analysis as a Method of Supervision and Evaluation in Art Education: A Field Study 

Sukitti Klangvhisai
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Graduate Industrial Design Education for Thailand: A Descriptive Study of Curriculum Planning and Development

Chusak Prescott
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Proposed Guideline for the Development/ Improvement of Art Education Curriculum for Thirty-Six Teacher Training Colleges in Thailand

Georgia Tangi
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Liberal Arts Ideal as a Rationale for Planning Curriculum for the Undergraduate Visual Arts Major

Ray Thorburn
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: The Place of Teacher Attitude in Curriculum Design: A Case Study of How Art Teachers in New Zealand and Primary and Secondary Schools View Their Role

Spring 1982

Ernest McNealey
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Attitude-Behavior Relationship of School Principals with Regard to Including Art in the Curriculum When Some Subjects Have to be Omitted: A Test of the Fishbein Behavioral Intentions Model

Joseph Streb
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Prolegomenon to a Phenomenology of Film

Autumn 1982

James Hogg
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: A Study of the Influences on the Attitude Formation of Fine Arts Majors

Winter 1983

Lee Ekleberry
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Study of Spatial Resources as Nonverbal Dimensions in a Secondary Art Education Setting 

Phillip Mason
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Cultural Influences on the Arts and Crafts of Early Black American Artisans (1649-1865) Towards Implications for Art Education

Spring 1983

Terry Barrett
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Photographs

Erik Forrest
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Harry Thubron: His Contribution to Foundation Studies in Art Education

Pamela Gimenez
Advisor: Ross Norris
Dissertation Title: Theories of Imagination in Art Education Philosophies

Kenneth Prater
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Status of Art Education Programs in Ohio's Public Schools

Frank Susi
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Improving the Proxemic Knowledge and Behaviors of Student Art Teachers Through Specific Curriculum Inter-vention

Summer 1983

Steve Barker
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Fame: A Content Analysis Study of the American Film Biography

Douglas Blandy
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Printing Poetry in Blissymbolics: The Apprenticeship of Four So-Called Moderately Mentally Retarded Persons at O.S.U. Logan Elm Press and Paper Mill

Summer 1984

Clyda Petitte
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Attitudes of Selected Art Museum Docents Toward Role Socializaton and Performance

Cassandra Tellier
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Significance of the History Museum as a Resource for Art Appreciation

Autumn 1984

Graeme Sullivan
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Covariance Structure Model of Symbolic Functioning: A Study of Children's Cognitive Style, Drawing, Clay Modeling and Storytelling

Winter 1985

Dvora Krueger
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Window to the Worlds: The Reflection of Late-Life Issues on the Narrative Pictograms of Older Adult Art Students Which Emerged From an Intervening Visualization and Imagery Training Workshop

Ampai Tiranasar
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Art Education for Elementary School Teachers: A Study of Educational Needs in Thailand

Autumn 1985

Gertrude Paulette Fleming
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Praxiological Analysis of the Environmental Dimension in Aesthetic Learning

Arthur Smith
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Retrospective Description and Analysis of an Aboriginal Teacher Education Development, The University of Wollongong, 1982-1985

Winter 1986

Karen Kakas
Advisor: Judith Koroscik
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Teacher Feedback and Peer Interaction on 5th Grade Students' Drawing Performance

Chalay Kunawong
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Study of Responses to Architectural Exteriors by Architectural and Non-Architectural Students

Spring 1986

David Nateman
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Historical Examination of Some Factors Which Have Affected the Development and Revision of Art Teacher Education and Certification Standards in Ohio Between 1802 and 1974

Philip Stewart
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Development of a Uniquely Photographic Category of the Nude in Fine Art Photography: A Study of the Transference of the New Genre Nude from Non-Art Sources to Fine Art Through Mass Media

Summer 1986

Laurie Baxter
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Cross-Provincial Policy Study in Canadian Art Education

Autumn 1986

Ahmed A.G. Alghamedy
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Investigation of Conditions Affecting Art Teacher Preparation and Art Education Curriculum Implementation in Saudi Arabia

Mary Hammond
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Camera Obscura: A Chapter in the Pre-History of Photography

Penelope Hanstein
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: On the Nature of Art Making in Dance: An Artistic Process Skills Model for the Teaching of Choreography

Maria Nobre
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Inner Speech as the Basis for Artistic Conceptualization: Soviet Psychology and Semiotics of Art

Winter 1987

John Pettibone
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Deconstructing the Deconstructors: The Politics of Anti-Photographic Criticism (A Metacritical Analysis)

Spring 1987

Judith Ann Fuller
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: A Comparative Analysis of Two Television Reading Programs

Bonnie Kelm
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Art Openings as Celebratory Tribal Rituals

Penelope Semrau
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Cognitive Theories in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology in Relation to the Qualitative Process of Emotion

Mary Zahner
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: Manuel Barkan: Twentieth-Century Art Educator

Summer 1987

Rene Carpentier
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Concepts of Empathy and the Nature of Aesthetic Response Applied to Visual Art Appreciation

Autumn 1987

Pamela Gill
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Identifying Factors Related to Guidance Counselors' Attitudes Toward Visual Arts Programs in Public Schools

Jane Rhoades
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The History of the Origin and Development of the International Society for Education through Art

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Winter 1988

Ali Al-Zahrani
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: How Policy Stakeholders Perceive the Value and Importance of Art Education in Saudi Arabia's Schools 

Spring 1988

Ziyad Haddad
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: The Jordanian Contemporary Art Criticism: A Methodological Analysis of Critical Practices

Khalil Tabaza
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Theoretical Model for Preserving the Jordanian Traditional Folk Handicrafts through Art Education

Summer 1988

Katherine Danko-McGee
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Identifying the Kindergarten Parent Art Advocate Through an Assessment of Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions

Autunn 1988

Francis Eguaroje
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Assessment of the Impact of Political Change and Art Leadership Orientation on Arts Policy Implementation in Nigeria

Sun-Young Lee
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Metacritical Analysis of Contemporary Art Critics' Practices: Lawrence Alloway, Donald Kuspit and Pincus-Witten for Developing a Unit for Teaching Art Criticism

Susan Spero
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: Perspectives on Amateur Photography

Winter 1989

Craig Caldwell
Advisor: Thomas Linehan
Dissertation Title: A Physically-Based Simulation Approach to Three Dimensional Computer Animation

Mohammed Resayes
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Significance of the Development and Emergence of Art and Crafts Museums in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

Spring 1989

Abdul Shukor Hashim
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: A Balanced Art Education Curriculum for the Secondary Schools of Malaysia

Summer 1989

Kim Finley
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Cultural Monitors: Clubwomen and Public Art Instruction in Chicago 1890-1920

Elizabeth Garber
Advisor: Kathleen Desmond Easter
Dissertation Title: Feminist Polyphony: A Conceptual Framework for Feminist Art Criticism in the 1980s

Sharon Minor King
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Anthropological Framework for Interpreting Contemporary Artists from Diverse Cultures

Autumn 1989

Ralph Clark Magruder
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Examining the Functions of Graphics/Art Work in Literary Magazines

Jamil Molaeb
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Artists and Art Education in Time of War

1990s

Winter 1990

Jill Reiling Markey
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: A Qualitative Exploration of Discipline-Based Art Education and the Ohio Partnership

Rosalie Politsky
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Comparative Analysis of Interpretive Strategies and its Implications to Discipline-Based Art Education 

Spring 1990

Paul Sproll
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Utilitarian Object as Appropriate Study for Art Education: An Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Grounded in American and British Contexts

Summer 1990

Laurel Lampela
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Use of the Art Textbook by Selected Elementary Classroom Teachers and Selected Elementary, Middle and High School Art Teachers

Autumn 1990

Pongpun Anuntavoranich
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Undergraduate Ceramic Design Curriculum Model for Thailand: Based on Needs Assessment from the Country's Ceramic Industry

Spring 1991

Yousef Alamoud
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Study of Verbal Statements Made by Saudi Arabian Students About Islamic and Western Art Objects

Lorrie Blair
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: A New Look at an Old Barn: A Field Study of Twenty Appalachian Painters

William Sadler
Advisor: Thomas Linehan
Dissertation Title: A Conceptual Model for a Software Interface Between Designers and Computers

Summer 1991

Robert Dalton
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Gender and Genre: A Study of Children's War Drawing

Autumn 1991

Angela Baker
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Perceptions of Object Making as Art in an Extended Community in Western Newfoundland Volume I & II

Nadine Scott
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Fine Art as an Expression of Religion in the Jamaican Culture: Implications for Art Education

Susan Witten
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: A Study and Analysis of Art Education in Ohio for K-8 Children Experiencing Disabilities

Winter 1992

Mary Louise Poling
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: The Perspectives of Three Art Teachers Participating in a DBAE Intervention Program

Spring 1992

Mary Leigh Morbey
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: From Canvas to Computer: Harold Cohen's Artificial Intelligence Paradigm for Art Making

Summer 1992

Dixie Durr
Advisor: James Hutchens
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Analysis of Five Self-Study Documents of Education Programs in Dance Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Dance

J. Donald Glenn
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: The Relationship Between Endowment Funds and the Support of Selected Non-Economic Goals in the Arts

Elizabeth Kowalchuck
Advisor: Judith Koroscik
Dissertation Title: Effects of Art Knowledge, Pedagogical Experience and Contextual Information on Art Teaching

David Pankratz
Advisor: James Hutchens
Dissertation Title: Multiculturalism and the Arts: An Analysis of Conceptual Foundations and Policy Issues 

Carol Stavropoulos
Advisor: Judith Koroscik
Dissertation Title: A Diagnostic Profile of Art Understandings Based on Verbal Responses to Works of Art

Spring 1993

Brenda Chappell
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: The Consciousness of African American Women Artists: Rage, Activism and Spiritualism, 1860-1930. Implications for Art Education

Paul Hooge
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Preserving the Ancient Past in Licking County, Ohio: A Case Study

Marsha McDevitt-Stredney
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Case Study of Student Perceptions in an Introductory Computer Art Course

Diana Sharpless
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Therapeutic Arts Education on the Emotional Responses of an Emotionally/Behaviorally Disordered Preadolescent

Summer 1993

Debra Ambush
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: The Inclusion of the African Centered Aesthetic within the Tradition of Aesthetic Inquiry as a Tool for Promoting Inter and Intra Cultural Understanding

Carol Gigliotti
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: Aesthetics of a Virtual World: Ethical Issues in Interactive Technological Design

Autumn 1993

Hamza Bajouda
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: Analysis of Three Islamic Art Historians' Explanations of the Characteristics and Formation of Islamic Art: Implication for Model Development

Winter 1994

Xi-He Chen
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Major Developments and Their Ideological Implications of Chinese Film and Film Education Since the Cultural Revolution

Spring 1994

Yina Chang
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Transferring Prior Art Knowledge and Skills to Computer Graphics Image-Making

Jean Ippolito
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: A Critical Analysis of the Computer Graphic Art of Japan Using Six Case Studies

Summer 1994

Salem E.A. Al-Eid
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Role of Traditional Material Culture in Contemporary Saudi Culture Using Traditional Courtyard Houses as an Example

Mohammed Aldoyhi
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Children's Drawings in Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study Between the Drawings of Saudi Children Who Have Lived in the United States and Saudi Children Who Have Never Resided Outside Saudi Arabia

Hanneke Homan
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Multicultural and Intercultural Education: A Cross-Cultural Analysis With Implications for Art Education

Autumn 1994

Cassandra Broadus
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: Telecommunication Technologies and Art Education: Making Connections for Inservice Staff Development

Jay Hanes
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Collaborative Activists Art: A Case Study 

Camille Miranda
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Art of the Picturebook: An Interpretation of Indian Cultures

Eleanor Weisman
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: A Dance and Movement Residency at Takini: Personal Research

Winter 1995

Janet Montgomery
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Women Contemporary Western-Style Artists in Japan: Ethnographic Case Studies

Spring 1995

Elizabeth Ament
Advisor: Louis Lankford
Dissertation Title: Implications of Feminist Aesthetics for Art Education

Jinwon Choi
Advisor: Wayne Carlson & Tony Scott
Dissertation Title: The Design of a Multimedia Authoring System for Teaching and Learning Architectural History and Theory

Summer 1995

Hazel Bradshaw Beaumont
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: Effects of Contextual Information on Elementary Students’ Ability to Recall, Interpret and Give Meaning to Jamaican Works of Art

Erika Galvao
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The Need to Develop a Framework for Understanding Computer Generated Imagery

Garth Gardner
Advisor: Noel Mayo & Tony Scott
Dissertation Title: Informal Computer-Art Education: A Focus on The Art and Historical Impact of Computer Generated Special Visual Effects and the Pedagogy of the Artists Who Create Them Professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area Production Companies 

Georgianna Short
Advisor: Judith Koroscik
Dissertation Title: Problems of Advanced Learning in the Visual Arts: The Role of Reductive Bias in Pre-Service Teachers’ Understanding of Domain Knowledge

Sally Shumard
Advisor: Michael Parsons
Dissertation Title: A Collaborative PDS Project About Computer Networking in Art Education

William Wightman
Advisor: Terry Barrett & Douglas MacBeth
Dissertation Title: Talking Through Controversy: Controversial Imagery in the Classroom

Autumn 1995

Jennifer Cross
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Picturebooks and Christopher Columbus: A Cultural Analysis

Brenda Faison
Advisor: Noel Mayo
Dissertation Title: Graphic Design Educators and Practitioners in Transition: From Traditional Tools and Applications to the Computer-Based Tools of Interactive Multimedia Design

Withenia Moore
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: Multicultural Preservice Art Education at Historically Black Public Colleges and Universities in North Carolina and the White Prospective Art Teacher

Winter 1996

William Harris
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: A Qualitative Study of Elementary Teachers Implementing Multi-Cultural Content With Discipline-Based Art Education

Spring 1996

Afif Arabi
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: The History of Lebanese Cinema 1929-1979: An Analytical Study of the Evolution and the Development of Lebanese Cinema 

Jeanie Auseon
Advisor: Judith Koroscik
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Content and Pedagogical Knowledge, Knowledge-Seeking Strategies, and Dispositions on the Lesson Planning of Student Art Teachers

Janet Fedorenko
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Integrating Art in the Special Education Curriculum through University and Community School Collaboration: Implication for Teacher Preparation

Autumn 1996

Jacqueline Alkire
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: The Development of the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University

Bryan Grove
Advisor: Nancy MacGregor
Dissertation Title: Assessing Student Achievement in the Visual Arts: Collaborative Inquiry as a Model for Professional Development

Susan Myers
Advisor: Vesta Daniel & Don Krug
Dissertation Title: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson: An Analysis and Interpretation of Multiple Viewpoints

A. J. Olson
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: What Does A Visual Arts’ Curriculum Look Like After It Meets Post Structuralism?

William Woodard
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Analysis of Computer Based Arts Using Content Analysis and Artists’ Statements

Winter 1997

Ronald Claxton
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: The Infusion of African American Art from Eighteen-Eighty to the Early Nineteen Nineties for Middle and High School Art Education

Nancy House
Advisor: E. Louis Lankford
Dissertation Title: Teaching Art History to Adult Students: A Teaching Model and Pilot Study 

Summer 1997

Ann Burkhart
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: A Feminist Studio Art Critique: A Classroom Study

Jane Gooding (Brown)
Advisor: Michael Parsons & Sydney Walker
Dissertation Title: Text, Discourse, Deconstruction and an Exploration of Self: A Disruptive Model for Postmodern Art Education

Don Killeen
Advisor: Louis Lankford
Dissertation Title: The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network: The Story of a National Arts Education Initiative

Birgit (Lennertz) Sarrimanolis
Advisor: Louis Lankford
Dissertation Title: Rules for Reading: A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Art Interpretation

Rina Wayanti
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Interactive Multimedia Instruction for Teaching Western Animation

Cheryl Williams
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: Mapping the Art Historical Landscape: Genres of Art History Appearing in Art History Literature and the Journal Art Education

Autumn 1997

Christopher Adejumo
Advisor: Jacqueline Chanda
Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Case Study on Youth Development Through A Community Art Program

Janette Knowles
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Out of the Hands of Orators: Mary Louise McLaughlin, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, the American Art Pottery Movement and the Art Education of Women

Penelope Miller
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Tearing Down Racist Images: A Cognitive Understanding

Winter 1998

Deanna Dennis
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Study of Six Ecuadorian Indigena Women Who Make Shigras

Markus Kruse
Advisor: Robert Arnold
Dissertation Title: Museums, Galleries, Art Sites, Virtual Curating and the World Wide Web

Spring 1998

Aldo Aguirre-Caceres
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: Interpretation of Locker Decorations of Hispanic, Spanish-Speaking Immigrant Adolescents

Motepele Malebana
Advisor: Kenneth Marantz
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Contemporary Black Art Teacher Training Programs in South Africa

Summer 1998

Keum-Hee Ahn
Advisor: Vesta Daniel & Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Study of Mediating Factors Influencing An Art Teacher’s Instructional Practice: A Social Constructivist Perspective

Jane Cera
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Development of Teacher Leadership: An Autobiographical Case Study of an Art Educator

Autumn 1998

Herminia Din
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: A History of Children’s Museums in the United States, 1899-1997: Implications for Art Education and Museum Education in Art Museums

Spring 1999

Mohammed Al-Sadoun
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: A Contextual Analysis of Contemporary Iraqi Art Using Six Case Studies 

Hyungsook Kim
Advisor: Jacqueline Chanda
Dissertation Title: Objects and Knowledge: A Historical Perspective on American Art Museums

J. Dawn Mercedes
Advisor: Terry Barrett & Carol Gigliotti
Dissertation Title: Feminist Aesthetic Theory as an Alternative Aesthetic Paradigm for Computer-Mediated Art

Summer 1999

Joyce Alesandrini
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Integrating the Arts: A Nationwide Survey of Current Practices in K-8 Visual Art Education

Sun-Ok Moon
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: Critical Discourse of Postmodern Aesthetics in Contemporary Furniture: An Examination on Art and Everyday Life in Art Education

Autumn 1999

Maria Anzoategui
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Nicaragua’s Curricular Transformation from Socialism to Democracy

Connie Schalinske
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Home Schooling and Art Education in Ohio: A Case Study

2000s

Spring 2000

Wanda Knight
Advisor: Vesta Daniel
Dissertation Title: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Art Teacher Education

Baharudin Ujang
Advisor: Sydney Walker
Dissertation Title: A Study of Collaboration Between University Industrial Design Departments and Corporate Firms

Summer 2000

Li-Yan Wang
Advisor: Michael Parsons
Dissertation Title: Teaching Art in an Age of Technological Change

Guey-Meei Yang
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Exploration of Chinese Art Using a Multimedia CD-ROM: Design, Mediated Experience, and Knowledge Construction

Si-Hyun Yoo
Advisor: Don Krug
Dissertation Title: Contemporary Interpretations of the Practice of a Traditional Korean Dance Han Young-Sook’s Salp’uri Ch’um”

Autumn 2000

Mila Parrish
Advisor: Michael Parsons
Dissertation Title: Discover Dance CD-ROM for Dance Education: Digital Improvisation And Interactive Multimedia

Spring 2001

Lin Jiang Evans
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: A History of Art Education in the Elementary and Middle Schools of The People’s Republic of China 1949-1989: Political Currents and Influences in Visual Arts Education

Summer 2001

Nurit Cohen-Evron
Advisor: Michael Parsons
Dissertation Title: Beginning Art Teachers’ Negotiation of Their Beliefs and Identity Within the Reality of the Public Schools

Autumn 2001

Shang-Ying Chen
Advisor: Margaret Wyszomirski
Dissertation Title: From Arts Administration to Creative Versatility: Adapting the Taiwanese Arts Administration Training System for the Twenty-First Century

Cheng-Cheng Chuang
Advisor: James Hutchens
Dissertation Title: A Case Study of Web-Based Learning Project: Cyber Museum of Chinese Art

Ruth Sherman
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Case Study Investigation of Laptop Technology for Art Education/Visual Culture in an Integrated/Interdisciplinary Curriculum

Winter 2002

Ming-Hsien Cheng
Advisor: Michael Parsons
Dissertation Title: Culture and Interpretation: A Study of Taiwanese Children’s Response to Visual Images

Spring 2002

Paula DiMarco
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Educational Theories and Strategies in a Reflective Practice Case Study on Teaching Computers in the Visual Arts

Ahmet Feyzi Korur
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: Democratic Education, The Village Institutes System in Turkey and Its Art Education Component

Shu-Ju Alice Lai
Advisor: Don Krug
Dissertation Title: Virtualizing Art Education: An Educational Ethnographic Case Study of A Distance Art Education Course

Elizabeth Pitri
Advisor: Sydney Walker
Dissertation Title: Educational Context and Early Childhood Art-Related Problem Solving

Summer 2002

Bongsung Bac
Advisor: James Hutchens
Dissertation Title: A Case Study of Implementing Computer Graphics Technology for the Visual Arts Program in a Small College: A Descriptive Record of Historical Developments and Procedure from Initiation to Realization

Sue Anne Lafferty
Advisor: James Hutchens
Dissertation Title: Adults Art Education: A Delphi Study Forecasting the Role of the Arts in a Lifelong Learning Society

Autumn 2002

Candace Feck
Advisor: Terry Barrett
Dissertation Title: Understandings About Dance: An Analysis of Student Writings With Pedagogical Implications

Mary Ann Sheridan
Advisor: Don Krug
Dissertation Title: A Descriptive Analysis of A Case Study: Integrated Curriculum Through Filmmaking

Winter 2003

Gabrielle Fennmore
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Electronic Media and University Curricula: A Case Study of An Associate Degree Program’s Development Within A Rural Town Community

Patricia Kahn
Advisor: Arthur Efland
Dissertation Title: How The Social Reform Movement Impacted Handiwork At Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky During 1902-1920

Spring 2003

Lauri Reidmiller
Advisor: Patricia Stuhr
Dissertation Title: Art for the Visually Impaired and Blind: A Case Study of One Artist’s Solution

 

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As the only Master of Arts in Art Therapy program in Northern California, Dominican University of California offers an intimate on-campus learning environment designed to prepare students for successful careers in art therapy while encouraging the artistic and therapeutic process.

This site brings together a collection of master's theses and doctoral dissertations from the students of the Art Therapy program.

Theses/Capstones from 2024 2024

An Integrative Somatic Art Therapy Approach: EMDR & Body-Based Practices for Traumatic Stress , Alexis Sorbara

Art Therapy Assessment and Sense of Safety , Sophie C. Restall

Chosen Family in LGBTQ+ Community: Creating Feeling of Safety Through Collage in Art Therapy , Zaina Berger

Fantasia on a Theme of Purpose: Using a Music-Guided Scribble Technique to Support Meaning-Making in Older Adult Retiree Musicians , Sophia R. Smith

Mental Health Stigma and Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Eastern Asian/Eastern Asian American College Students and Their Parents: A Mix-Method and Art Therapy Intervention Study , Carmen Tham

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: Attuning skills in self-awareness to promote self-care for Art Therapy practitioners a mixed-methods study using a Mandala art directive and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) , Janeth Arcila Padilla

My Body as a Journey Accessing Pre-colonial Identity for Healing Intergenerational Transgender Shame , Jennifer Lagman

Online Friendships and the Bird’s Nest Drawing in the Age of the Internet , Ian Wong

Theses/Capstones from 2023 2023

Altered Stories, Altered Lives: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Growth from A Narrative Perspective with a Strengths Based Focus , Andrea Jones

Clay Use as Mindfulness for Women in Early Substance Use Recovery , Cheryl Feldman

Complex Narratives of Individuals Living with Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS). A mixed-methods investigation: examined through self-reported data, in-person interviews, and a group body mapping art therapy intervention , Sylvan Streightiff

Cultural Identity of And Implications for Later Generational Hispanic and Latino Populations In The United States , Tara Bustamante

Evoking the Art of Nature , Tessa R. Evans Keime

Exploring the Connection between Social Media & Body-Image and the Impact of Art Therapy Interventions on a Woman’s Self-Esteem , Courtney Engelhardt

Exploring Whether a Collage Art Intervention Enhances Levels of Resilience in Asian Americans Who Have Experienced Emotional Suppression , Casey Galaura

In-Between Space: Latinas Sharing their Stories of Cultural Integration , Maria Elena Fuster

Memes to Cope and Communicate , Priscilla (Nox) Ngo

The Course of COVID: How Has the Pandemic Changed the Ways Therapists Use Art in Their Therapeutic Practice? , Deborah Sharpe

Theses/Capstones from 2022 2022

Art Making To Reduce Stress in First-Generation and Second-Generation Hispanic Immigrant Parents , Maria Zepeda

A Survey Measuring the Impact of a Silk-Screen Printing Art Therapy Session on Psychological Aspects in Mothers of Children with Cancer: A Pilot Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , Maha Rashed

Does Attachment Predict Coping Strategies? An In-Depth Look At Millennials During COVID-19 , Clinton Johnson

Doodling as Self-Expression: Building Self-Efficacy in Normally Functioning Adults , Journey Coward

Failure: A Heuristic Inquiry of the Experience of Failure Through a Nature Based Art Therapy Process , Lisa Manthe

Healing Racial Trauma and Reframing the Miseducation of U.S. America: Altering Exclusionary Textbooks as a Therapeutic Experiential , Kamaria Erin Wells

Illuminating the Increase of Intentional Dating in the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Connection to Relationship Satisfaction through the Lens of Photography. , Caitlin Carnegie

Improving Cognitive Decline for Persons Living with Dementia: Art Therapy Assessment and Interventions Based on the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) Framework , Jinnie Jeon

Putting the Pieces Back Together: Using a Kintsugi-Influenced Directive to Promote Self-Forgiveness and Resiliency in Young Adults with Shame and Guilt , Marieev Krista Princer

The Therapeutic Benefits of Children’s Literature: Responding Through Making Art and Writing Stories , Janae Dueck

ZAP: Zoom Art Program with Adults Living with Acquired Brain Injury The Effect of Using Videoconferencing to Deliver ACT Art Therapy Intervention , Shari Weiser

Theses/Capstones from 2021 2021

An Art-Based Heuristic Study: How a Male Student with Asperger’s Syndrome Completed an Art Therapy Master’s Program , Stephen David Robertson

COVID-19: Our Hopes and Dreams , Anna Bazis Christie

Individual versus Sequential: The Potential of Comic Creation in Art Therapy , Christine Phang

Perspectives of a Diasporan: A Heuristic, Arts-Based Inquiry of the Importance of Therapy in Armenia , Anna Nairi Muradyan

The Meeting of Two Minds in the Intermediate State: The Art Therapist as a Guide in the In-Between, Immersed and Assisted by Contemplative and Transpersonal Theory , Samantha Mach

Where the Glass Glows: Unpacking the Therapeutic Experiences of Adult Students in a Community-Based Open Glass Studio During a Pandemic , Shelly A. Palmer

Theses/Capstones from 2020 2020

Ambiguous Loss of Dementia: Identity Exploration through Narrative Inquiry and Collage , Kayla Ormandy

Exploring Pathways Toward Psychobiological Safety through Mindful Body-centered Art Making with Sheltered Homeless Women , Alicia L. Dabney

Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy and Connectedness: Art as a Means to Spiritual Care for Asian Seniors , Chia-Yun Chiang

Seeing Resilience: A Qualitative and Arts-Based Research Study to Understand Images Made in a Photography-Based Mentoring Program , Sarah E. Kremer

Theses/Capstones from 2019 2019

Art and Drumming: A Study on Affect, Attachment and Self-Esteem within the Older Adult Population , Deanna Mank

Art Based Communication for Individuals with Dissociative Spectrum Disorders , Cynthia Wilson

Cultural Wellness Trends Assessed with Art Therapy , Lara Juhasz

Empowering Korean Adolescent Girls Using Smartphones as a Stimulus for Creative Expression: Response Art and Dialogue , Jee Hyun Kim

Theses/Capstones from 2018 2018

Yoga, Flow and Art Therapy: An Investigation Into Yoga's Effects on the Creative Process , Megan E. Lear

Theses/Capstones from 2017 2017

A Heuristic and Qualitative Study Investigating the Mechanisms of Change in Art Therapy , Brooke J. Sevin

A Study of Art Therapy in Identity Exploration and Self-Efficacy , Christine Cavasinni

Theses/Capstones from 2016 2016

Acquiring New Knowledge Through Art Self-Exploration and Collective Journaling to Enhance Cultural Humility in Art Therapy , Louvenia Jackson

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Chinese American Women Cancer Survivors Through Art Therapy , Judy Thai

Amplified Voices: Art-Based Inquiry Into Elder Communication , Erin Partridge

An art therapy approach to increase the self-esteem of Latina pre-adolescent girls using narrative therapy , Amy Barron

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