Class of 2012 Senior Majors
Jamie Burchfield, from Locust Valley, NY, is a senior art history major, minoring in history and political science. Interested in combining her minors with her major for her senior thesis project, Jamie is exploring the relationship between art and politics in 1968 Chicago.
Hunter Chamberlain is a senior double major in Art History and Economics from Kansas City. For his thesis, he will be investigating the politically charged 15th century commission of the Porta della Carta in Venice by doge Francesco Foscari, (1373-1457).
Elizabeth Garry of Maramoneck, New York is a History of Art and Architecture major with a minor in Sociology .
Alexandra Guynn is a senior art history major from Chicago, IL. Countless visits to the Art Institute of Chicago growing up sparked her interest in art history and caused her to pursue it at Middlebury. She has always been drawn to expressionist art movements, recently German Expressionism. Having been deeply moved by Otto Dix's War Series depicting the horrors of combat in World War I, Alexandra has decided to delve into the meaning of these prints, in addition to Dix's other works focused on war, for her senior thesis project
Rob Johnson ’12 from Braintree, MA, is researching Alexander Gardner's photographs of the American West
Zachary Karst is a senior art history major from Phoenix, AZ. His senior thesis project is entitled "Artist as Entrepreneur: Bernini at St. Peter's.
Nerissa Khan is a senior Art History major who is writing her thesis on Donald Judd's design practice. If you have a chair, send it her way.
Lilah Leopold is a joint art history and studio art major from Montclair, NJ. Her senior thesis project examining site-specific works at gateways to the arctic emerged from a synthesis of studying abroad in Iceland and Norway and her time at Middlebury.
Leann Li is a senior from New York double majoring in History of Art and French. She will be writing her thesis on the twentieth century photographer, Richard Avedon, and his interest in the performance of portraiture, present in both his iconic images of notable cultural figures and the misfits and social pariahs of his series, In the American West.
Avery McNiff is an Art History (studio art minor?) from Gloucester, MA. She is greatly influenced by her experience studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa and will be writing her thesis on the contemporary South African artist William Kentridge.
Cameron Poole grew up within the beach community of Duxbury, MA. She is writing her senior thesis on fellow coastal dweller and lithographer Odilon Redon and how his relationship to his childhood home of Bordeaux shaped his famous Noirs.
Clémence Revuz is an art history major exchange student from La Sorbonne. Interested in cross-cultural issues, she is studying the North American reception of Chinese contemporary art for her senior thesis.
Clare Vance is a senior Art History and French Major from New York. She became interested in René Magritte after spending her junior year in Paris and will be writing her thesis on the role of text in his work.
