Marci Muhlestein Clark (Ph.D., Art History, 2017) Dissertation: I.M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal Sean Patrick Gerrity (Ph.D., English, 2017) Dissertation: A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature Timothy M. Griffiths (Ph.D., English, 2017) Dissertation: Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890-1905 Stefanie A. Jones (Ph.D., Theatre, 2017) Dissertation: Acts of Provocation: Popular Antiracisms on/through the Twenty-First Century New York Commercial Stage Cara Michelle Jordan (Ph.D., Art History, 2017) Dissertation: Joseph Beuys and Social Sculpture in the United States Kristin Moriah (Ph.D., English, 2017) Dissertation: Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920 Yair Solan (Ph.D., English, 2017) Dissertation: Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture Whitney Thompson (Ph.D., Art History, 2017) Dissertation: Foreign-Born Artists Making “American” Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819-1893 Biographies of our recent graduates are available here.