Faith Barringer

Faith Barringer is a Doctoral candidate studying under Dr. Melissa Hyde. Her dissertation considers the construction of race in eighteenth-century France. Specifically, she analyzes portraits representing elite Bordeaux merchant families alongside contemporaneous depictions of enslaved people. This project has been funded by the Rothman Doctoral Fellowship and the AESECS Women Caucus’s Intersectional Prize. She has presented her research at several venues, including SECAC, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, and the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Faith received her MA in Art History from the University of Alabama. Her Master’s Thesis, entitled, “Creating a Female History Painter: Vigée-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard, Mongez, and the French Academy,” explored how these three artists represented and elevated themselves as history painters throughout their careers.