Jennifer Laffick
Ph.D., Art History
Jennifer Laffick is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at èßäÊÓƵapp. Laffick’s research focuses on the relationship between empire and French art during 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 (in partnership with the Université Grenoble Alpes), the Institut Français d’Amérique Gilbert Chinard Fellowship from the Society for French Historical Studies, and a Mary Vidal Memorial Award from the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture. During the fall 2025 semester, Laffick will be a Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France. She has presented her research in the United States, France, and Brazil.
Laffick is also interested in museology, both the history of museums from the eighteenth century onward and curatorial practice today. To this end, she has worked and interned at several museums including the National Gallery of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Wallace Collection. She received her M.A. in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her B.A. in Art History from the University of Central Florida.
Email: jlaffick@smu.edu