Jennifer Laffick

Ph.D. candidate, Art History

Research Interests:
Jennifer Laffick is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Art History Department at SMU. Laffick’s research focuses on the relationship between French art and empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her dissertation, “Neoclassicism’s Atlantic Currents: French Painting and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century,” examines the transatlantic nature and trans-imperial allure of French neoclassical painting through the careers and canvases of four artists. For this project, Laffick has received a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship (Université Grenoble Alpes, France), a Chateaubriand Fellowship (École normale supérieure, Paris), and a Short-Term Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library. She has also received awards from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture.

Road to the Moody School:
Laffick has worked and interned at a range of museums including the National Gallery of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, the Wallace Collection, and the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. She received her B.A. from the University of Central Florida and her M.A from the Courtauld Institute of Art.