Samantha Happé

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.