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Samantha Happé

Graduate researcher in art history and material culture studies, The University of Melbourne

Graduate researcher in art history and material culture studies, The University of Melbourne Samantha Happé (she/her) is a graduate researcher and sessional tutor at the University of Melbourne, and a research officer at the Australian National University. Samantha’s current research project studies the role of the gift in negotiating diplomatic relationships between France and non-European nations during the reign of Louis XIV. Her doctoral thesis examines the diplomatic gifts and material culture surrounding the Persian embassy to Versailles in 1715.