Teaching
SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology
Adjunct professor (2025-present)
HA344 - European Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles Spring 2025, 2026 A comprehensive fashion history survey course covering from approximately 30,000 years ago to 1910. -- This course surveys the history of fashion in Europe from antiquity to the early twentieth century in the context of the history of art and design. The historical evolution of fashionable dress for men and women since the Renaissance is emphasized, by means of illustrated lectures, readings and visits to the Museum at FIT and other institutions with costume collections and exhibitions. Prerequisite(s): HA 112 or HA 115 or HA 118.
HA 118 - Introduction to Fashion History: Materials, Motifs, & Meanings Spring 2026 A thematic survey course designed to provide an understanding of global styles and cultural appropriation. -- This course explores the history of trade, inspiration, and appropriation between cultures through case studies. It examines how fashion shapes identity and the complex intersection of materials, motifs, and meanings. It teaches how to ethically study global fashion, factoring in existing and historic power structures and cultural values. No prerequisites.
Barnard College, Columbia University
Teaching Assistant (2021-23); Lead TA (2025)
Fresco Arts Team, 2025
AHIS BC3667 - Clothing Fall 2021-23, 2025 A thematic survey course studying how and why we wear clothing and the modern issues surrounding fashion today. -- Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Issues include gender roles, local traditions, world-wide trade patterns, dress codes, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today. No prerequisites.