Art History Honors Program

2025 Thesis Projects

Box with lid open containing unknown objects

Sebastian Barajas

Invisible Bodies of War: The Guatemalan Civil War in Isabel Ruiz and Regina José Galindo’s Work ▸

Historic stone tablet, possibly of Maya origin

Madeline Cannings

The Road to Texas: Provenance of a Maya Carved Panel ▸

various ceramic objects

Hudson Day

Unearthing Shaft Tombs: Enlivening Ancient West Mexican Ceramics in the UT Art & Art History Collections ▸

embroidery in shape of eye

Sophia Greenberg

As I Lay My Head to Rest: The Last Works of Feliciano Centurión ▸

historic drawing of skeleton engaged in fighting

Mia E. Johnson

A Moment, Not a Movement: A Present Past in Baroque Catafalques ▸

crowd of people in room at fashion show

Sean O’Neill

Echoes of an Exhibition: Reconstructing Experience in Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty ▸

print of people holding rifles

Rachel Salcido

Ecosystems of Resistance: Mexican-American Lesbian Zines as Agents of Transnational Solidarity ▸

painting of three figures

Liz Skalicky

Deliberate Regression: The Italian Primitives and English Taste, 1770–1850 ▸

composite image of ceramic objects and hummingbirds

Julia Greer Testa

Nasca Hummingbirds: Case Studies in Ceramic Iconography and Cultural Ecology ▸