Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Camille Blanco ’26 is an undergraduate concentrating in Classics and the History of Art and Architecture. Her thesis, tentatively titled “Caesar and the Gauls: Mapping Roman Provincial Identity Through the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul, 50 BCE to 486 CE,” studies the development of a hybrid “Roman” identity through funerary art produced in Gallia Narbonensis (the South of France) during the period between Caesar’s conquest and the Frankish victory at Soissons. In investigating stylistic and thematic changes in Gallo-Roman funerary art, along with Latin texts and contemporary theoretical frameworks (including viewership, postcolonial theory, and hybridity), Blanco argues that Gallic populations sustained, transformed, and even relinquished their indigenous artistic traditions in response to dominant imperial ones. Her broad academic research interests include the history and influences of the early modern art market (ca. 1750–1950), early modern collecting practices, Imperial Roman funerary art, Late Antique Latin poetry, classical reception in the Baroque era, and European Decorative Arts. An avid art lover, she has written articles for the Brown Art Review as the Art Crimes Columnist. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Art Review and the Brown Classical Journal, and the Department Undergraduate Group (DUG) Leader for the Department of Classics.