The David M. Robb Thesis Prize is awarded to a student (or students) whose senior essay merits special distinction.  The Prize is not awarded every year and is reserved for those theses that represent a substantial contribution of research, exceptional qualities of interpretation and critical reasoning, and the highest standards of composition. 

The Department is proud to acknowledge the accomplishments of the following recent award-winners:

2007 – Jenna MOSS: "The Color of Industry: Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and Andy Warhol" (C. Poggi)

2006 – Jackie Hayward, "Contradictory Treatments of Human Materiality: Yves Klein's Anthropometries and Air Architecture" (C. Poggi)

••••••••••Melissa Shive, awarded the College's Rose Prize for an Outstanding Senior Thesis. (Advisor: M. Cole)

2005 – Maryse Brand, “Thomas Struth: Where a Tradition of German Documentary and Art Photography Converge” (K. Beckman)

Jessica Fain, “Tides of Resistance and Resilience: Changes in Cuban Art in the ‘Periodo Especial’, 1985-1995” (K. Beckman)

2004 – Meredith Gamer, “Imag(in)ing the Capital: Maps and City Views of 17th-century Paris” (L. Silver)

2003 – Erica Hope Fisher, “From Manhattan to Queens and Back Again: Art and Culture in Transit at MoMA QNS” (C. Poggi)

2002 – Naureen Chowdhury, “Spectacle of the Virgins: Regarding Women in Medieval Public Spaces: An Exploration of the Sala dei Novi, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena” (R. Maxwell, S. Campbell)

Julia Wozniak, “Through a Glass Darkly: The Function of the Icon within the Iconostasis” (R. Maxwell)

2001 – Shira Rudavsky

2000 – Anastasia K. Schulze

1999 – Peter S. Maitland

1998 – Adina Leob

1997 – Kristine R. Juncker, “Jan Van de Velde and the Dutch Print” (C. Minott)

1996 – Bett Schumacher, “Mary Cassatt au Louvre: Subversion of the Spectacular” (S. Sidlauskas)

1995 – Elizabeth Steinberg

1994 – Francine Jaxkiewicz, “Mind/Rock: Reflections of Nature and Culture in the Art of Richard Long” (C. Poggi)

1993 – Nancy Kim, “The Aesthetics of Rape in Art: Artemisia Gentileschi and the Female Perspective” (A. Kuttner, M. Campbell)

1992 – Marvin Brown, “Art and the London Underground: The Vision of Frank Pick and the Formation of London Transport, 1908-1933” (C. Poggi)

1991 – Steven A. Melnick, “Brothers on the Cross: The Christian Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Art of Late Medieval Italy”

1990 – Thomas Dilling, “A Study of the Giottesque Allegories over the Crossing of the Lower Church of San Francesco in Assisi.