Dissertation Submission Guidelines
PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies are published each year in caa.reviews and archived in JSTOR. Prior year dissertations were listed annually in the June issue of The Art Bulletin. We are now collecting information on 2008 dissertations for publication in 2009.
Submission Instructions
Please submit two complete, separate lists:- Dissertations Completed (between January 1 and December 31, 2008)
- Dissertations in Progress (all current dissertations in progress)
Please send the lists as email attachments to dissertations@collegeart.org.
Each list must be organized by subject area. The subject areas are listed below. Use only these subject areas. If a dissertation does not fit any of these areas, please make the best choice you can. You may place a dissertation in up to two subject areas. If you do not use the subject names as listed, CAA will alter them using our best judgment.
Within each subject area, the entries must be alphabetical by the author’s surname.
Each entry must include the following information in the following form:
Last name of author, first name of author, “Title of PhD Dissertation in Quotes” (Name of Institution, Advisor’s First Initial and Last Name) [notes concerning any accents or special diacritical marks]Important: If an entry has special accents or diacritical marks that may be lost or scrambled in email, indicate these both in the entry and in square brackets at the end of the entry. For example:
Examples:
Muan, Ingrid, “Citing Angkor: The ‘Cambodian Arts’ in the Age of Restoration, 1918–2000” (Columbia University, K. Moxey)
Jones, Elizabeth, “A Poststructuralist Analysis of Dürer’s Melencholia” (University of Chicago, B. Smith) [in the name Dürer, the “u” has an umlaut]
[in the name Cézanne the first “e” has an acute accent]
or
[in the name Dürer, the “u” has an umlaut]
- Use single spacing. Separate entries with one line space
- In the subject line of your email, please write “Dissertation Listings—Name of School”
- The deadline is December 1, 2008. The lists should include the complete information for your entire department or program
- CAA cannot accept submissions from individual dissertation authors, only from department representatives. We cannot be responsible for typographic errors, late changes to titles, missing information, or other flaws in the data sent to us, including incorrectly named subject areas. Please read your lists carefully before sending them
Subject Areas
- African Art (sub-Saharan)
- Architectural History/Historic Preservation
- Art of the United States
- Art of the Middle East/North Africa
- Chinese Art
- Contemporary Art
- Visual Studies/Critical Theory/Gender Studies
- Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History
- Digital Media/Animation
- Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper
- Early Christian/Byzantine Art
- Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
- Egyptian/Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Eighteenth-Century Art
- Film/Video
- Greek/Roman Art
- Japanese/Korean Art
- Latin American/Caribbean Art
- Native American Art
- Nineteenth-Century Art
- Oceanic/Australian Art
- Outsider/Folk Art
- Performance Studies/Installation/Environmental Art
- Pre-Columbian Art
- Prehistoric Art
- Renaissance/Baroque Art
- South/Southeast Asian Art
- Twentieth-Century Art
- World Art
