Brigid M. Boyle is a PhD Candidate in Art History specializing in the art and visual culture of nineteenth-century France. Her dissertation, “Visions of Black Masculinity: Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Orientalist Imaginary,” examines Gérôme’s representations of Black soldiers, musicians, animal handlers, and eunuchs in relation to period discourses on race and gender. She is currently Bloch Family Foundation Doctoral Fellow at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where she contributes research and scholarship to “French Paintings and Pastels, 1600-1945: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” (www.nelson-atkins.org/fpc). She has published peer-reviewed articles in Winterthur Portfolio and “Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art” (forthcoming from Leuven University Press in 2022). Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, she held curatorial positions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Snite Museum of Art and participated in excavations in Mursi, Albania.