Natasha Shoory holds a PhD from the University of Durham in collaboration with ENS Paris-Ulm, under the supervision of Dr Tom Stammers, Dr Charlotte Guichard, and Professor Thomas Wynn. Her thesis, From the Footnotes to the Focus: Reframing Women’s Collections of Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris, explored the notion of ‘gendered taste’ and determined that women’s collections represented the ‘ideal’ previously only attributed to select male amateurs. This research was funded by the Durham Doctoral Studentship, the Leverhulme Travel Abroad Studentship, the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, the Ralph Gibson Bursary, and the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund. She also holds a Master’s in Modern Languages (French) from the University of Oxford, a Master’s in the History of Art and Collecting from IESA Paris/University of Warwick, and a Bachelor of Arts specializing in Art History from the University of Sydney, Australia.
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