Student Awards and Achievements
Each year, the department awards several prizes, including the J. Carson Webster Prize for best departmental honors thesis, an annual prize for the best paper in a 200-level course, and an annual prize for the most outstanding junior major.
Past recipients include:
2012
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Matthew Kluk, "The Maison Cubiste: Modernist Fantasy and Bourgeois Reality."
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Sophie Jenkins
Best 200-Level Paper Prize
Jessica Bickel-Barlow
2011
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Kristin Leasia, "The Emergence of Nurse and Guardian Images in Ancient Egyptian Royal Funerary Art: Some Connections to Dynasty 18 Pharaonic Legitimacy and the Hathor Cult"
and
Sophia Mancall-Bitel, "In Search of Los Angeles: Myths, Movies and Maps in the Work of Ed Ruscha"
Outstanding Junior Art History Major Prize
Matthew Kluk
Kerry Bickford
Best 200-Level Paper Prize
Ellie (Jennifer) Graham
2010
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Elliot Reichert, "Unretractable Social Marks: The Critical Spatial Practice of Street Art"
and
Jennifer Wong, "Reinventing the Ancient: the Transforming Female Figures of the Twentieth Century Painter Zhang Daqian"
2009
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Jessica Davidson, "Candidates for Admiration: Identity and Display in the Art of London's Public Parks, 1750 - 1800"
and
Viktoriya Kamara, "Extending Discourse on Soviet Art 1920's -1930's: The Career of Ekaterina Zernova"
2007
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Amanda Wasielewski, "From the Urban Dérive to the Internet Drive: Detteritorialized Capitalism in the Guise of a Digital Utopia"
2005
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Darrah Doyle, "HIV/AIDS Is Our Concern: An Examination of a Work by Artists of the Chivirika Self-Help Embroidery Project"
and
Lauren Wright, "Time-based to Time-bearing: Temporality in Recent Film and Video Art"
2004
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Alison Goldstein, "Dürer versus Raimondi: A Claim of Ownership"
2003
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
David Peterson, "National Endowment for the Arts v. Karen Finley: Understanding U.S. Government Arts Funding Amidst Controversy, Political Warfare and Ideological Clashes"
2002
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Dana Atlagic, "Perpetuating Inequalities: A Look at Happenings Through Gendered Criticism"
2001
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Brook Crowley, "Compassionate Orientalism: Théodore Chassériau's Arab Horsemen Carrying away Their Dead, 1850"
1999
J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Anju Shivaram,"'Imagined' Femininities: The Chinese Calendar Woman as National Symbol"
and
David Mullet, "Etats Secondaires in Czech Symbolist and Surrealist Art"
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