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South America
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Flaksman, Catarina, "A Country that Builds: Architecture Exhibitions and the Politics of Culture in Brazil" (Harvard University, P. del Real) 

Kyorlenski, "The Inca Civil War Rediscovered: Architecture, Alliance Building, and Failure in the Terminal Days of the Inca Empire (1527–1532)" (University of California, Los Angeles, Georgi, S.Nair, C. Stanish)

Menéndez, Pereda, "Making and Experiencing Inca Sacredness: The Architecture of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Viceroyalty of Peru" (University of California, Los Angeles, S. Nair)

Plazas, Hugo, "The Depiction of Race in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Costumbrista Painting" (University of Alberta, M. Boone, L. McTavish)

Ramirez, Bolivar, "The idea of Hispanoamérica in the Material and Visual Culture of Mexico and Colombia (1920–1940)" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, G. Juan, E. Sullivan)

Shaikewitz, Joseph, "Incongruent, Incomprehensible: Travesti-Trans Aesthetic Imaginings in Latin America, 1900–1960" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, E. Sullivan)

Wellons, Gabriella, "Sculpting Earthen Architecture: Cupisnique Murals and Monumental Relief in Deep Andean History" (Harvard University, T. Cummins)

Wrightson, Erin, "Cartographies of Wood: Foraging in the visual archive in Colonial Brazil, 1500–1650" (University of Pennsylvania, S. Brisman)