What are the traditional goals and practices of Interior Design? To provide shelter, comfort, spatial orientation and promote efficiency through the acts of space planning, programmatic organization, and material selection; and to respond to existing or proposed architecture. Or…
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Damnatio Memoriae terimi, 17. yüzyılda Roma İmparatorluğu'nda uygulanan hafızadan silme yöntemi için kullanılmıştır. Bu uygulamanın, Roma İmparatorluğu'nun kültürel hafızasına etkisi de oldukça önemlidir. Olumsuz etkileri bir yana aslında hafızadan silinmek istenen kişinin süreç…
This dissertation contextualizes Roman sculpture within its local environment, giving particular attention to the honorific statue groups of the imperial family in the first and second centuries CE. Previous studies focus primarily on issues of style and typology, whereas this p…
This dissertation pinpoints the origins of a diversity of approaches to the study of 'Islamic archaeology' in Egypt by examining attitudes of self-defined practitioners of 'Islamic archaeology' from the 1880s to the 1980s. Towards this goal, the dissertation examines how the cur…
The thesis examines the monuments of Seti I. Various epigraphic, art historical, iconographical and historical criteria are used to analyze his art and architecture, especially monumental reliefs, to elucidate a number of chronological and historical issues, including the proble…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the central Black Sea region in Turkey (ancient Pontus) during the Hellenistic period. It examines the environmental, archaeological, literary, and numismatic data in individual chapters. The focus of this examination is the …
In this study, I develop an integrative approach by which archaeologists can analyze the relationship between the built environment and human behaviour in ancient societies. I then apply it to an investigation of how elites employed monumental architecture as a means of advancin…
Zhaoling is one of the very few imperial mausolea that has received considerable attention in its 1,400-year history. This attention has largely been confined to general description and limited individual subjects. This dissertation launches an effort to comprehensively investig…
This dissertation focuses on wall painting in the thirteenth-century lordship of Athens, an area roughly corresponding to modern-day Attica, Boeotia and the Argolid in southern Greece. The lordship was established as part of the Latin Principality of Morea in 1205 when, in the a…
Since the Roman arch monument came into use some 2,200 years ago, it has been subject to an increasingly narrow range of interpretations. This dissertation aims to reveal the monument's original significance, which has become obscured by a steadfast triumphalist reading. Most an…
This dissertation represents the first thorough investigation of the innovative use of faience, a glazed material, and other substances as architectural inlays in certain royal cult monuments of the Egyptian New Kingdom dating mainly from Amenhotep III to Akhenaten. These purpos…
The subject of 'ribāts' in the field of Early Islamic Archaeology has long been connected to North Africa (modern-day Tunisia), partially because of the archaeological remains of the two 'Abbāsid ribāts ("coastal fortresses") at Munastīr and Sūsa. Recently, however, two fortress…
How do different types of monuments and different monumental forms express social realities and inform larger social patterns? This dissertation research adds to this discussion from the perspective of the region best known for its ancient monuments: the Middle East. Known to it…
Throughout history there have been numerous horrific events including war, famine and natural disaster. Two events in particular, the Irish Famine (c. 1845–1852) and the Holocaust (c. 1933–1945), had a tremendous impact not only on the victims and survivors but on the countries …
Memorials and the Cult of Apology examines how contemporary memorials have come to embody more than memory. It begins with a simple observation of the growing demand for apologies across the globe and the related proliferation of memorials that aim to atone for past injustices. …
This thesis uses the Christopher Columbus monument by Moses Ezekiel that previously stood at Arrigo Park to interrogate the whiteness of Italians in Chicago. By exploring the monument's provenance from the 1893 Columbian Exposition all the way to the summer of 2020, this thesis …
“Between Myth and Memory: The Case of Italian Fascist World War I Monuments” examines the relationship between Italian soldiers’ testimonies from the First World War and later Italian Fascist monuments that commemorated their sacrifices. During the First World War, soldiers’ dia…
This project examines the influence of the Institutions of Higher Learning in the monuments dedicated to the Lost and Won Cause present on Mississippi’s public college campuses. Monuments and memorials stand as representations of public history, and the IHL’s interpretations of …
The meaning of Confederate monuments and memorials, following the violent, high-profile events such as the Charleston church shooting in 2015, the Unite the Right rally in 2017, and the killing of George Floyd in 2020, has been at the center of the ongoing debate about how to pr…