Awarded PhDs and MAs by thesis students
Research completed by our PhD and Master’s by thesis students.
PhDs awarded
Anna Rigg, ''The Mute Who Speaks': Women on Art in Prerevolutionary France', Supervisors: David Maskill & Raymond Spiteri
Annika Sippel, A Matter of Taste: The Fate of the Archdeacon Smythe Collection of British Watercolours in New Zealand (2021), Supervisors: Raymond Spiteri & Rebecca Rice
Anna-Marie White, Contemporary Taonga: The Art Works of Brett Graham (2020), Supervisors: Peter Brunt & Christina Barton
Kristy Baker, Constituting the 'Woman Artist': A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand's Art History 1928 - 1989 (2020), Supervisors: Christina Barton & Geoffrey Batchen
Stella Ramage, Missionaries, modernity and the moving image: Re-presenting the Melanesian Other to Christian communities in the West between the World Wars (2015), Supervisor: Geoffrey Batchen, secondary supervisor: Minette Hillyer
Marcus Moore, Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art, 1965 – 2007 By Means of Duchamp’s Peripheral Vision: Case Studies in a History of Reception (2012), Supervisors: Christina Barton and Dr Raymond Spiteri
Rebecca Rice, The State Collections of Colonial New Zealand Art: Intertwined Histories of Collecting and Display (2010), Supervisor: Roger Blackley
Damian Skinner, Another modernism: Māoritanga and Māori modernism in the 20th Century c.1950 – c.1970 (2005), Supervisor: Dr Peter Brunt
Conal McCarthy, From Curio to Taonga: A Genealogy of Display at New Zealand's National Museum, 1865-2001 (2004, joint degree with Museum and Heritage Studies), Supervisors: Jenny Harper and Michael Volkerling
Jane Clendon, The art of the untrained artist in colonial New Zealand (1992), Supervisor: Tony Bellette
MA by thesis awarded
Taylor, Lachlan Gregory, The Geological Present: A Critique of the Aesthetic Anthropocene (2018)
Supervisor: Roger Blackley
Gennard, Simon, Negative Capability : Documentary and Political Withdrawal (2017)
Supervisor: Christina Barton
Laura Elizabeth Campbell, 'True direction': Aspects of aestheticism in New Zealand (1880-1913) (2016)
Supervisors: Roger Blackley, Geoffrey Batchen
Belinda Cullinan Ricketts, Re-imagining the great masters: translations into print by John Drawbridge (2015)
Supervisor: Christina Barton
Chloe Cull, Mana wahine/mana Māori/mana toi: Māori women's art within a kaupapa Māori art history 1980-1989 (2015)
Supervisor: Peter Brunt
Elizabeth Laing, Isolating Madness: Photographs from Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, 1887-1907 (2014)
Supervisor: Prof Geoffrey Batchen
Shane Jackson, Using Georges Bataille in Art History: Informe, Figuration and Politics (2012)
Supervisor: Dr Raymond Spiteri
Annika Sippel, Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Northern European Prints at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2012)
Supervisor: David Maskill
Marilyn Park, John Elder Moultray (1865-1922) History Painter or Historical Journalist? (2012)
Supervisor: Roger Blackley
Maree Prebensen, A Pictorialist Practice: The Life and Times of Thelma Kent (2011)
Supervisor: Roger Blackley
Matthew Plummer, Legendary Obscurity: the Working Life of Malcolm Ross (2010)
Supervisor: Christina Barton
Thomasin Sleigh, Neither Here nor There: The Writing of Wystan Curnow 1961-1984 (2010)
Supervisor: Christina Barton
Vivienne Morrell,'To the Curious Enquirer': Depictions of Pacific Peoples in Popular Illustrated Books from Paris and London c.1775-1810 (2010)
Supervisor: David Maskill