Danielle Sensabaugh

Danielle “Dani” Sensabaugh is a Ph.D. candidate under Dr. Melissa Hyde. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Coming of Age in the Enlightenment: Envisioning French Girlhood and Feminine Virtue, c. 1750-1815,” examines cultural constructions of French girlhood, with an emphasis on woman-authored artworks. Her research has been supported by the Rothman Fellowship. Dani has presented her research at various conferences including the Feminist Art History Conference (2025), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting (2025), the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting (2025), and “Children, Dependency, and Emotions in the Early Modern World Conference” hosted by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (2024). Her essay, “(Un)Virtuous Adornment: Mothers and Daughters Before the Toilette,” was awarded the 2025 Graduate Student Essay Prize by the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Prior to her studies at UF, Dani received a BA in Art History with a minor in French from West Virginia University (2013) and an MA in Art History from American University (2015) which culminated in her thesis “Between Painting and Poster: Artistic and Cultural Hybridity in Henri de Toulouse Lautrec’s Panels for ‘La Goulue’” (2015). 

d.sensbaugh@ufl.edu