EDUCATION

2013

School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons School of Design.

M.A. in Fashion Studies with an emphasis on fashion as a practice facilitating agentive identity construction. Thesis: “That Was My Veil”: Sartorial and Cometic Constructions of Resilience in Divorced Women. Advisor: Christina Moon, Ph.D.

• Areas of specialization: Contemporary fashion, fashion and race, design and resilience, adversity and innovation
• Honors: Student award, “Outstanding Contribution to the MA Fashion Studies Program”
• Awards: Merit Scholarship, Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, Diane von Furstenberg Scholarship
• MA Fashion Studies Program Assistant, School of Art and Design History and Theory; founded the program’s MAFS Digest newsletter

2008

Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Texas at Arlington. B.A. in Anthropology and minor in Art History.

• Honor: Student award, “Outstanding Service in Anthropology”

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & TEACHING

2023

Dean of School of Design and Technology, London College of Fashion.

Invited by the institution to apply.

2021

Fashion Curator, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston.

Invited by the institution to apply and interview.

2019 - 2022

Assistant Professor, School of Fashion, Faculty of Communication & Design, Ryerson University.

• FSN 203 History of Design
• FSN 223 Fashion Concepts and Theory
• FSN 224 Refashioning History
• FS 8111 Fashion and Race
• FS 8110 Diversity in Fashion

2013 - 2019

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Fashion, Pratt Institute.

• FASD 345 Contextualizing Fashion
• HD 368 Contemporary Fashion
• ADE 617 The Performance of Fashion (guest lecturer)
• Served on design student critique panels (various courses)

2013 - 2019

Part-time lecturer, Department of Art and Design History and Theory and School of Fashion, Parsons School of Design.

• APFY 1011 Integrative Seminar 2: Fashion

• PLFS 1050 NYC: Fashion

• PLFS 1432 Fashion History: Survey

• PUFD 2050 Fashion Culture

• PLFS 3015 Fashion and Race

• PLFS 3147 Fashion and Violence

• PLFS 3500 Advanced Research Seminar

• PGHT 5562 Fashion and Justice

• Served on design student critique panels (various courses)

• Honors: The faculty award for “Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Social Justice Teaching,” (recipient, May 2018) “The Distinguished University Teaching Award,” (nominee, February 2018).

• Awards: Innovation in Education Fund (Proposal: “The Fashion and Race Syllabus: Mapping a Decentralized Approach to Fashion History and Design Practice”), Part-Time Faculty Development Fund (2017).

Workshops & Intensives

2020

Workshop: Building a Fashion Curriculum Based on Liberation, The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education, Department of Global Communications, The American University of Paris.

2017 - 2019

Instructor and Co-Organizer with Dr. Jonathan M. Square, The Fashion & Justice Workshop

Locations and dates: Bard Graduate Center, November 9, 2019; Columbia College Chicago, April 19-20, 2019; The Phluid Project, New York, June 2, 2018; The Contemporary Museum of Austin, Texas, February 3, 2018; Parsons School of Design, New York, July 15, 2017.

2014

Enrichment Course Instructor, Fashion and Design, Summer Study Programs, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, July 2014.

Assistant Teaching

2012 - 2013

Teaching Assistant, Parsons School of Design.

• PLFS 2040 History of Fashion (survey)

ACADEMIC SERVICE