Our art history students participate in regional and national research conferences. Seniors regularly present the results of their theses at the National Conferences  on Undergraduate Research, the most competitive gathering of undergraduate scholars in the country.  Students follow a rigorous application process.  Juniors are encouraged to participate in other conferences. Wittenberg rewards the successful candidates with travel and presentation grants.

Recent participants at the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research

2013       Corie Cappelucci, An Artistic Equation for Preservation: Wildlife, Minimal Realism, and the Art of Charley Harper

              Leslie Winter, Body, Identity and Narrative in Titian's Paintings

2012       Hilary Strimple, Space, Function, and Experience in the Museum: The Barnes Foundation

2011       Jessica Thomas, The Shapeshifter in Tokugawa Art

2010       Megan Bixel, Layers: Dissecting the Art of Aminah Robinson

 Kara Blakley, Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century France

2009       Caitlin Hedrick, A Wall of Women

Stacy Kitchen, The Effects of Isabella d’Este on Perugino’s Art

2008       Shiloh Aderhold, Organic Architecture… the Wescott House and

                Casa Batlló.

Recent participants at regional conferences

Rachel Sampson (2010), Kara Blakley (2008 and 2009) 

Recent Art History theses

2013      

Corie Cappelucci, An Artistic Equation for Preservation: Wildlife, Minimal Realism, and the Art of Charley Harper

Leslie Winter, Body, Identity and Narrative in Titian's Paintings

2012      

Hilary Strimple, Space, Function, and Experience in the Museum: The Barnes Foundation

2011

Chelsea Graham.  The Effects of Economic Change on the Residential Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

Jessica Thomas. The Shapeshifter in Tokugawa Art

2010

Kara Blakley. Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century France

Megan Bundy. Between Science and Art: Medical Illustration

Geoffrey Naunheim. Repetitive Imagery for a Tagging Society

Rachel Sampson. Manipulating the Magi: The Medici’s Pursuit of Power and the Adoration Theme

Emily Schroeder. The Proto-American Scene: Toward an American Identity

2009

Megan Bixel. Layers: Dissecting the Art of Aminah Robinson

Krista Borghese. Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Borghese Sculptures

Suzanne Fuhrman. Art and Revolution: The Impact of History and Culture on Nicaraguan Art

Caitlin Hedrick. A Wall of Women

Stacy Kitchen. The Effects of Isabella d’Este on Perugino’s Art

2008

Shiloh Aderhold. Organic Architecture… the Wescott House and Casa Batlló.

Sarah Toms. Caravaggio’s Fidelity to the Real