Kim de Beaumont, a specialist in European art of the 17th through 19th centuries, has been teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate art history courses at Hunter College since September 2008 (including undergraduate Research Methods, lectures and seminars on Realism through Post-Impressionism, and 18th-century French art and architecture).  She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (September 1998), where she studied under the guidance of the late Professor Donald Posner.  Her doctoral dissertation, “Reconsidering Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780):  the Background for his Scenes of Paris,” led to a three-year position as a full-time guest curator at The Frick Collection for the 2007 Saint-Aubin exhibition that subsequently traveled to the Musée du Louvre (the inaugural collaboration between these two institutions).  She is currently working on a revised and updated version of Émile Dacier’s monumental 1929-1931 Saint-Aubin monograph and catalogue raisonné, and has recently contributed a chapter on the artist to an upcoming volume of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC).