Victoria Hazell

Victoria studies the art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in the French Revolution and Enlightenment thought. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Art History, and holds an MA degree from Columbia University. 

In her research, she has explored the use of aesthetic conventions by painters of the French Artistic Mission. Her thesis at Columbia, advised by Professors Frédérique Baumgartner and Meredith Gamer, addressed the convergence of picturesque aesthetic with depictions of enslaved labor in colonial Brazilian landscapes. She was a recipient of the Caleb Smith Memorial Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Art History and Archaeology, for her work on her thesis project, which incorporated the use of photographic documentation and digital media. Prior to initiating her doctoral studies, she has also been a Teaching Assistant for Professor Anne Higonnet’s course on Clothing at Barnard.