Amanda StrasikAmanda Strasik is an Associate Professor of Art History at Eastern Kentucky University. She received her Ph.D. in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art history from the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on representations of royalty,childhood and family relationships, and issues of gender identity in French art during the long eighteenth century. Strasik has received numerous grants and fellowships to conduct research in France at the Musée du Louvre, the National Museum of the History of Education in Rouen, the Palace of Versailles, as well as The Frick Collection in New York City. Strasik's scholarly publications explore notions of female agency in eighteenth-century French genre painting and portraiture and have appeared in 'Women and French Studies', 'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century', 'Art Inquiries', and, most recently, 'Eighteenth-Century Life' with Duke University Press. Read More Read Less