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Goldsmiths College, University of London  - PhD Sociology

Previously Reader, Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London

• the sociology of fashion
• dress and embodiment
• cultural work
• cultural workers and processes of cultural mediation
• aesthetic labour
• gender

Books

In print

(2010) The Aesthetic Economy: Markets in Clothing and Fashion Modelling (2010), Berg

(2001) Body Dressing (co-editor, with Professor Elizabeth Wilson) Berg

(2000) The Fashioned Body: Fashion and Dress in Modern Social Theory (2000), Polity (published as El cuerpo y la moda in Spanish, 2002; Chinese and Japanese editions, 2005, 2006) 

Forthcoming

Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry (co-edited with Elizabeth Wissinger, CUNY) (Berg) Manuscript submission December 2010, publication in 2011

The Fashioned Body: Fashion and Dress in Modern Social Theory (second edition), Polity. Manuscript submission, August 2011, publication in 2012.

The Fashion Reader (co-editor with Sandy Black, Amy de la Haye, Agnes Rocamora, Helen Thomas, Regina Root,) Berg (scheduled for 2013) 

Journal Publications

In print

(2010) 'Global flows, local encounters: spatalizing tacit aesthetic knowledge in high fashion' SPACES online, Vol 6, Issue 2006-02. Toronton and Hidelberg: www.spaces-online.com

(2006) 'Keeping up Appearances: aesthetic labour and identity in the fashion modelling industries of London and New York' (with Elizabeth Wissinger) Sociological Review 54 (4) pp 773-793.

(2006) 'The field of fashion realized: a case study of London Fashion Week' (with Agnes Rocamora) Sociology 40 (4) (2006) pp 735-750

(2006) 'The cultural economy of fashion buying' Special Issue, Encounters in the Global Fashion Industry Current Sociology 54(5) pp 704-724

(2002) 'The aesthetic economy: the production of value in the field of fashion modelling' Journal of Consumer Culture, 2 (3) pp 317-340

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Editorial advisory Board Member, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty.

Virtual Advisory Board Member ESRC project, 'If the Shoe Fits: Footwear, Identification and Transition' (University of Sheffield).

Invited Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School 'Creative Encounters' Research Centre (1 April - 30 June, 2009).

This was a fully-funded position in the Faculty under the auspices of the Otto Mønsted Fund.

Adjunct Professor University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (appointed in June 2006).