Graduate Thesis Collections
We currently hold three collections of Graduate Theses:
- Faculty / Staff Theses and Doctoral Studies
- Rosary College BA / MA History Theses
- Villa Schifanoia Graduate Theses
The largest collection is that of Villa Schifanoia graduate theses, which represent graduates from the years 1960 — 1984, when our graduate program ended. These theses are currently in the process of being cataloged, and are available to the public. Theses from the Rosary College BA / MA History program are not yet cataloged.
Faculty / Staff Theses and Doctoral Studies
| Author | Title | Date of Submission | Additional Materials |
| Kelly, Sister Mary Aquinice | The Ecological Position of Saint Dominic's Parish in Washington D.C. | 1951, Jan. | maps |
| McGrath, Sister Albertus Magnus | [M.A. Thesis - “The relations between Great Britain and Germany during the days of the Weimar Republic...”] | n.d. | [none] |
| Murphy, Sister Marie Magdalen | Ducis: Essai sur l'Influence de Shakespeare en France Jusqu'a l'Epoque Romantique | 1942, Aug. | [none] |
| Mulvey, Sister Mary Doris | French Catholic Missionaries in the Present United States (1604-1791) | 1936 | [none] |
| Rimblas, Sister Mary | Contextual Constraints in a Transformational Grammar of Spanish | 1973, Jun. | [none] |
| Runde, Sister Alberic | The Synthesis of Some Homologues and Analogues of Cinchophen | 1932 | [none] |
| Schnoebelen, Sister Mary Nicole | The Concerted Mass at San Petronio in Bologna: ca. 1660-1730. A Documentary and Analytical Study {2 volumes} | 1966 | sheet music |
| Smith, Jean E. | Moral Reasoning Capability of High School Seniors as Related to Priority of School Goal for Moral Education and Classroom Environment | 1980 | [none] |
| Welsh, Sister Janet Margaret | Where the Spirit Dwells: Catholic and Protestant Women and the Development of Christianity in the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lead Region, 1830-1870 | 1995, Apr. | [none] |
Rosary College BA / MA History Theses
with select Phi Alpha Theta Prize essays
| Author | Title | Date of Submission | Additional Materials |
| Allegra, Karen | Life in the Thirties: Three Depression Novels | 1979, May | [none] |
| Behnke, Jacqueline | Innocent Eyes: The Child's Point of View In Selected Works of O'Connor and Faulkner | 1985, May | [none] |
| Breeding, Kathleen Kober | Polish-German and Polish-Soviet Relations from September, 1938 until September, 1939 | ca. 1972 | [none] |
| Brennan, Margaret | The Image of Man in Three Morality Plays | 1974, May 15 | [none] |
| Cartwright, Mary Martha | Wittgenstein on Grammar as Philosophy | 1973 | [none] |
| Cherney, Ann | Robespierre, the Man: A Bibliographical Study | 1970, Apr. 20 | [none] |
| Dadich, Barbara A. | The Smithfield Muses | 1974, May 20 | [none] |
| Debs, Mary Beth | Of Bryddes and of Bestes: Patterns of Animal Imagery in Piers the Plowman | 1973 | [none] |
| Golden, Mary Susan | Sources and Analogues of Magical Objects in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | 1974, Mar. 4 | [none] |
| Golembiewski, Terri M. | Royalist and Recusant Activity in Covent Garden, London 1640-1660 | 1973 | [none] |
| Golembiewski, Terri M. | Two-Headed Government: Cabinet Opinion and Influence on Anglo-German Relations, 1898 - 1902 | 1973, May 24 | [none] |
| Grunow, Scott | Biblical Landscape Images in Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans I: Structures and Functions | 1984 | [none] |
| Hajduk, Marie-Ange T. | The Austrian Entry Into the Anti-Napoleonic Coalition of 1813 | 1973, May | [none] |
| Hajduk, Marie-Ange T. | The Origins of the Franco-Prussian War: A Bibliographical Essay | 1973, May | [none] |
| Hoefler, Bonita | A Bibliographical Essay: The Treaty of Versailles | 1970, May 20 | [none] |
| Hosey, Cathleen | Saint Augustine the Shepherd Leads His Flock to the City of God | 1962-1963 | [none] |
| Kain, Geoffrey | Time and Place in the Poetry of Sir John Betjeman and Philip Larkin | 1980, May | [none] |
| Kolarik, Barbara | An Examination of Pamphleteer Proposals for the Relief of the Dependent Child Under the Stuarts | 1970 | [none] |
| Matys, Marie Antoinette | H. L. Mencken's In Defense of Women | 1975, May | [none] |
| McMahon, Joanne | Women Alone: A Study of the Theme of Female Independence in Four Novels by Mrs. Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) | 1974, May 20 | [none] |
| McNamara, Alicia Jayne | Position Was Everything in Their Lives: An Analysis of the Social Position of Women in the Colonial Period | 1975, May | [none] |
| McNamara, Alicia Jayne | The Trials and Tribulations of Witches During the Reigns of Charles II and James II | 1974, Oct. | [none] |
| Perlowski, Michael | John Adams and the Sedition Law: The Problem of Power in Equilibrium | 1978, May | [none] |
| Perlowski, Michael | The Shroud of Nonrecognition: American-Russian Relations, 1917-1932 | 1975, Nov. 25 | [none] |
| Richter, Suzanne | A Case Study of the Italo-Ethiopian War and the Sanctions Against Italy | 1981, May | [none] |
| Richter, Suzanne | English Women and Their Roles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries as Seen by Punch | 1981, May | plates |
| Sellergren, Kristine | Nazi Infiltration in Argentina: Propaganda and Espionage Activities 1933-1943 | 1971, May 19 | [none] |
| Sellergren, Kristine | Raymond Robins and the Soviet-American Experience 1917-1918 | 1971, May 19 | [none] |
| Sidabras, Viktor A. | A Bibliographic Essay of Books and Articles Written About the German Academic Community of Bismarckian and Wilhelmine Germany by American and West German Scholars During the 1960s and 1970s | 1978, Apr. 28 | [none] |
| Sidabras, Viktor A. | The Rise of Lithuanian Dissent: Romas Kalanta and the Kaunas Disturbances of May, 1972 | 1979, Jan. | [none] |
| Snowhook, Katherine E. | British-Chippewa Relations in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783 | 1974, Aug. 2 | [none] |
| Snowhook, Katherine E. | Marriage as an Instrument of Elizabethan Foreign Policy: A Bibliographic Essay | 1974, Jul. 22 | [none] |
| Spethmann, Elizabeth | Joan Didion's Use of Narrator in A Book of Common Prayer | 1983, May | [none] |
| Walker, Debra L. | Accumulation to Speculation: The Careers of Levi and Joseph Leiter 1865&emdash;1932 | 1975, May 22 | [none] |
| Walker, Debra L. | A Bibliographic Essay: Winston S. Churchill and the Dardanelles Expedition in World War I | 1974, Aug. 28 | [none] |
| Ward, Hilary M. | The Play-Within-A-Play in Renaissance and Contemporary Drama: Microcosm of Theater and Life | 1979, May | [none] |
| Zielinski, Katherine | Punch's Portraits of Victorian Women | 1973, May 29 | plates (photocopies) |
Villa Schifanoia Graduate Theses
| Author | Title | Date of Submission | Additional Materials |
| Alexander, Ingrid C. and Prof. Paolo Gori | A Report on the Conservation of a Painting from the Settecento | 1975, May | plates |
| Apostolides, Ipatia | A Personal Symbolism | 1984, Apr. | slides |
| Atkins, Alison | A Detatched Observer | 1984, Apr. | slides and photograph |
| Bonham, Virginia | The Relationship of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Le Corbusier | 1969, Jul. | plates |
| Bonito, Rosalia DiLeone | Study for a Catalogue of Fifteenth-century Italian Silk Textiles with the Pomegranate Design in the Carrand and Franchetti Collections at the Museo Nazionale (Bargello) of Florence, Italy | 1964, Aug. | plates |
| Boyer, Lynne | Conservation Report on an Italian Panel Painting | 1976, Jun. | plates; slides; contact print |
| Bradley, Kathryn R. | Antique Restoration of Ceramics | 1964, Aug. | plates |
| Brewer, Robert | A Study of Lorenzo di Credi | 1970, Mar. | plates |
| Brown, Suzanne A. | The Medici Villa at Artimino | 1970, Aug. | maps, plates and photographs |
| Emily B. Hurt | The Architectural Evolution of the Tower and its Adjoining Curtain seen in the Malaspina Family Castles, on the Magra River {2 volumes} | 1974, Apr. | photographs |
| Cangelose, Andrew C. | Concept and development of art in a contemporary society | 1980, Dec. | slides |
| Caputo, Janice | The Study of Conservation of Two Wood Panel Paintings, and a Seventeenth Century Oil Painting on a Canvas Support | 1979 | plates and slides |
| Carlano, Marianne | Four Renaissance Textiles at the Museo del Tessuto in Prato, Italy | 1977, Jan. | plates |
| Carlisle, Patricia | The Transfer of Panel Paintings | 1978, May | plates and slides |
| Carr, Elizabeth | Matteo Coferati's Corona di Sacre Canzoni (1689) and its Travestimento Spirituale (Spiritual Parody) | 1958, Jun. 14 | sheet music |
| Cioppa, Benita Bettina | The Role of Florence in Thomas Patch’s Life of Masaccio, 1970 | 1981, May | plates |
| Cook, Ruth Ellen | Giuseppe Zocchi Vedutista | 1970, Sep. | plates |
| De Cruz, Adele | The Theory and practice of Conservation of Paintings on Canvas {2 volumes} | 1979, May | plates and slides |
| James R. Dell | My Artistic Development in Italy | 1982, Feb. | slides |
| DeLuise, Regina | Portraiture in Landscape: A Project in Special Arts Studies | 1984, May | slides [missing] |
| Devine, Sister Elizabeth O.P. | Commentary on Prints | 1979, May | slides |
| Douglas, Jane L. | A Research Study of Natural Organic Resins and Applied Painting Treatment Reports | 1980, May | slides |
| Dovideo, Daniel G. | Mass/1974 for Mixed Chorus, Wind Instruments and Percussion {2 volumes} | 1974, Dec. | sheet music |
| Dunn, Marilyn and Prof. Stella Rudolph | Art Patronage in Late Baroque Rome | 1973, May | plates |
| Fellico, Arturo Giuseppe Maria II | Commentary On Artistic Development and M.F.A. Exhibition | 1981, May | slides |
| Feniello, Denise A. | A Critical Survey of the Contribution of Maso di Banco to the Trecento | 1974, Jul. | illustrations |
| Fieo, Claudia Rose | Many Threads | 1986, May | slides |
| Garriott, Anita | Fra Serafino Razzi and His Laude Collections of the Sixteenth Century {2 volumes} | 1973, Jun. | plates and sheet music |
| Harnett, Maureen J. | Alberto Giacometti: His Life and Sculptural Works | 1969, Nov. | plates |
| Harris, Hana M. | The Conservation of a Florentine Late Baroque Painting, Christ Healing the Blind | 1981, May | plates and slides |
| Herman, Christy | Foundations | 1986, Oct. | slides, photographs and printed materials |
| Hirschauer, Gretchen A. | Jacopo Da Empoli (1551-1640) {2 volumes} | 1977, Jun. | plates |
| Houshmand, Roshanak L. | Painting From the Inside Out | 1984, Apr. | slides |
| Jean Mary, S.C. | A Study of Landscape Techniques in Six Paintings by Fra Angelico | 1964, Aug. | plates |
| Jones, Suzanne Marie | A Study of the Tuscan Romanesque Facade of the Church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence | 1969, Jun. | plates |
| Jordan, Catherine H. | The Decorations by Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-96) in the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna | 1979, Apr. | plates |
| Katlan, Alexander W. | The Conservation of Three Paintings: A 17th Century Dutch Panel Painting, a Portrait by Harrington Mann, a 19th Century Oil Painting | 1979, May | slides and plates |
| Kelly, Cynthia | Three Theories On Painting | 1979, May | slides |
| Kinney, Susan | Nature's Emancipation From Symbolism in Sienese Painting of the Early Trecento | 1976, Jun. | plates |
| Klinger, Jane Ellen | A Search to Define Patina | 1979, May | slides |
| Kluth, Barbara | Relations of Art and Spirituality to the Development of Western Christianity | 1960, Apr. 4 | plates |
| Kocurek, Mary Ann | The Caritas Figure and the Madonna Lactans Motif | 1968 | plates |
| Kropp, Karen Kivelson | The Restoration and Conservation of the Portrait of Ubaldo Adimari | 1975, Jun. | plates and slides |
| Kubly, Beth | Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Viennese Secession | 1971, Apr. | plates and drawings |
| Landi, Denise | “ And Do Not Call It Fixity ” | 1983, May | [none] |
| Lansing-Toraldo, Frances | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror | 1983, Apr. 30 | slides |
| Lissa, Gary | Commentary On Works in the M.F.A. Show | 1980, May | slides |
| Listi, Anthony Gare | The Restoration of a Fascist Painting and Two Paintings on Metal Supports | 1980, May | slides and plates |
| Lizza, Gloria E. | Problems of Contemporary Church Architecture | 1966, Aug. | plates |
| Lombardi, Patrice | [A paper and slide portfolio in conjunction with a one-person exhibit] | 1985, May | slides |
| Long, Judith M. | The Iconographical Development of the Legend of Joachim and Anne in Trecento Florentine Painting | 1967, Aug. | plates |
| Lott, Linda | The “Story of Joseph” Series in the Sala Dei Dugento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence | 1976, Jun. | plates and documents |
| Lynch, Diana | The Salviati Chapel | 1979, May | plates |
| MacDonald, Miriam June | M F A Thesis | 1985, May | slides |
| Mangulis, Ingrida Aina | Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Contribution to the Development of Landscape Painting in Central Italy | 1969, Jun. | plates |
| Marozik, Michelle | [A Paper and Slide Portfolio in Conjunction With a One-Person Exhibit] | 1985, May | slides |
| Mazzei, Gino | [M.F.A. Show] | [1983, Apr. 25 - 29] | slides |
| McDonough, Sister M. Fidelis, R.S.M. | Palatino 173 and the Late Sixteenth Century Collections of Laudi Spirituali: A Comparative Study | 1963, Apr. 7 | facsimiles and music |
| McGuire, William F. | Roman Rococo Architecture | 1973, May | plates |
| Miller, Lisa | The Examination and Treatment of Two Wooden Panel Paintings and an Oil Painting on Fabric Support | 1979, May | slides and plates |
| Mochi, Jane Immler | The Intarsie of the Choir and Sacristy in the Cathedral in Modena | 1972, Jun. | plates |
| Moran, Catherine G. | The Conservation of a Seventeenth Century Painting of the Annunciation | 1976, Jun. | plates and slides |
| Mosorjak, Michael Max, Susan Roberts Manganelli and Mary Westerman Bulgarella | A Comparative Study of the Techniques of Painting Conservation {2 volumes} | 1977, May | plates |
| Mundi, Sister Carmelita | Ah, Bright Wings (poems) | [1969] | photographs |
| Nàdas, John Lewis | Il Secondo Libro de Intavolatura di Liuto di Giovanni Antonio Terzi : A Transcription and Commentary {2 volumes} | 1975, May | sheet music |
| Nilson, Joan Lorraine Nonenbacher | Opus 2: Twenty-Seven Responses of Holy Week, 1706 by Giovanni Maria Casini, 1652-1719 {2 volumes} | 1977, May | sheet music |
| Noel, Donald Claude | The Development of a Sculptor : From the Midwest to the Quarries of Monte Altissimo | 1983, Jan. | slides and plates |
| Norwood, Karen | Reflections and Projections of a Printmaker | 1981, May | slides |
| Nutter, David | The Life and Works of Carlo Berti {2 volumes} | 1970, Dec. | sheet music and plates |
| O'Brien, Maureen C. | In Search of an Archetype: An iconological study of the Virgin Mary as a representation of the feminine archetype of the collective unconscious | 1971, Feb. | plates (photocopies) |
| Paqua, Laura A. | The Column of Marcus Aurelius: A Topographical Study of the Antonine Area | 1982, May | maps and plates |
| Parker, Collier | Critical Statement On Work and Development | 1984, May | slides |
| Peltzer, Holly | An Analysis of Roman and Paleo-Christian Painting with Emphasis on Its Historical Background | 1969, Dec. 1 | plates |
| Penserini, Francesca | [Artist Statement] | 1985, May | photocopies and slides |
| Perdomo, Roberta | The Pieve of San Pietro at Gropina | 1983, Jan. | plates |
| Petrillo, Christine | Considerations on the Iconographical Program of the Pulpit of San Leonardo in Arcetri | 1969, Mar. | plates |
| Pilaroscia, Maria Candida | Make-Believe That Hides Reality | 1982, Apr. | slides and swatches of fabric |
| Platt, Susan | Villa Il Riposo, the Concept and the Reality: A study of Giambologna as architect | 1968, Oct. | photographs and plans |
| Potts, Jane | Toward Freedom | 1982, May | slides |
| Puplampu, Albert Buete | Commentary On Artistic Development and M.F.A. Exhibition | 1984, May | slides |
| Rack, Carolyn | The Book as an Attribute in Sixteenth Century Portraiture | 1966, Jul. | plates |
| Radice, Anne-Imelda Marino and Prof. Giovanni Fanelli | Raguzzini and the Piazza Sant'Ignazio: the Rococo Exceptions | 1970, Aug. | photographs |
| Real, William A. | A Landscape With Figures Attributed to Pandolfo Reschi: Treatment and Examination Report | 1981, May 4 | plates and slides |
| Reboli, Nicholas L. | Giotto and His Commissioners | 1969, Jun. 14 | plates |
| Redman, Brian | Giuliano da Sangallo and the San Lorenzo Facade Project ( c. 1515 ) | 1980, Mar. | plates |
| Reed, Berenice Anne | Studies On Italian Sinopie and Frescoes | 1964, Mar. 19 | photographs |
| Role, Raymond E. | The Villa at Mammoli: An Historical Study of the Evolution of a Lucchese Villa--Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries | 1978, Mar. | plates |
| Russo, Adriana | L'Ossessione | 1985, May | slides |
| Sanz, Rodrigo | Artistic Development: Influences in My Quest for Realism | 1985, May | slides |
| Saunders, Robert | Commentary On Works in the M.F.A. Show | 1979, Sep. | slides |
| Sawyer, Carol Woods | Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Conserving a Painting | 1980, Dec. 1 | slides |
| Schaffer, Sister Mary Lois, O.P. | Considerations of the Four Causes of a Work of Art and the Four Functions in Art | 1957, Jun. 15 | [none] |
| Shaman, Sanford | The Conserving of a XIX Century Scottish Portrait: Analyses, Operations, and Procedures | 1974, May | plates |
| Sherman, Jonathan | The Conservation and the Technical Analysis of a Painting by George Loring Brown | 1981, May | slides |
| Shortridge, Lee C. | The Birth, Loss, and Regaining of a Vision | 1982, May | slides |
| Silver, Constance S. | Ippolitus Matteinus Pinxit Anno 1745: The Conservation and Restoration of a Recently Discovered Painting by the Pistoian Artist Ippolito Matteini | 1976, Aug. | plates and slides |
| Spadafore, Anita | A Study of Art Patronage and its Relation to Piero de'Medici and His Collection | 1966, Jun. | plates |
| Spohn, Jennifer Elizabeth | Pictoral Restoration the History, Ethics, Materials, and Techniques | 1978, May | plates and slides |
| Strazzulla, Jr., Frank | Nature and Painting | 1982, Apr. | slides |
| Sullivan, Sister M. Trinitas, O.P. | A Brief Study of the Development of the Dominican Rite and Dominican Liturgical Song Through a Comparison of the Parasceve Tracts as Used in the Dominican and Roman Rites | 1973, May | sheet music |
| Toohey, Sister M. Julianne, O.P. | The Office of Saint Sebastian in the Scriptoria of Central Italy and in Codex Hartker 390-391 | 1967, Aug. | music and plates |
| Torello, Gina | [A Paper and Slide Portfolio] | 1985, May | slides |
| Tosi, Pamela Maria | Studies for the Attribution of a “Madonna and Child” to Domenico Puligo | 1966, Jun. | plates |
| Trenta, Ursula R. | A Study of a Teruel Ceiling in Italy | 1964, Jun. | drawings and photographs |
| Uccello, Vincenza Agatha | An Investigation of the Drawings of David Ghirlandaio at the Uffizi and Their Relation to His Other Works of Art | 1963, Aug. | plates |
| Vanacore, Thomas | [A Paper and Slide Portfolio] | 1985, May | slides |
| White, Eileen | [A Paper and Slide Portfolio] | 1985, May | slides |
| Wicks, Elizabeth | The Conservation and Technical Analysis of a Seventeenth Century Painting: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas | 1981, May 25 | plates and slides |
| Wilson, Cynthia R. | [A Paper and Slide Portfolio] | 1985, May | slides |
| Wolfe, Karin Elizabeth | Madonna dei Monti: A Roman Church of 1580 | 1982, Apr. | plates (photocopies) |
| ZeLeVas, Sharon Rose | Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's Divertimenti Per Li Regazzi | 1981, Mar. | plates |
| Zietz, Stephen J. | An Introduction to and Analysis of the Seventeenth Century Tract Trattato della Pittura, e Scultura, Uso, et Abuso Loro | 1973 | facsimile |
| Zimmer, Sister Augusta, S.C. | The Frescoes in the Subterranean Basilica of San Clemente | 1957, Jun. 15 | plates |
Our Archive is a work in progress, and if you check back with us periodically you will find updated information for each of these categories. Our goal is to provide a digital finding aid for every one of our collections, as well as relevant links to holdings in outside institutions that complement what we currently collect.