Cross Disciplinary Practices of Teaching Business History
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024 from 9:30 am to 3 pm
Location: Dubinsky Alcove, 8F, Dubinsky Center (A Building)
227 West 27th Street New York NY 10001
Schedule
9:30 am Registration
9:45 am Greetings
Yasemin Jones, Interim Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
Kyunghee Pyun, Primary Investigator; Associate Professor, History of Art
10-11 am Session 1
Shop Girls Show Girls: Project’s Outcomes and Results
Moderator: Brian Fallon, Center for Excellence in Teaching
Speakers:
Susanne Goetz and Students, Textile and Surface Design
Rebecca Bauman, Modern Languages and Cultures
Kyunghee Pyun, History of Art
11-12 Session 2
Assignment Showcases: How to Teach History of Professional Careers
Moderator: Vincent Quan, Fashion Business Management
Speakers:
Subhalakshmi Gooptu, English and Communication Studies
Zaida Godoy Navarro, Modern Languages and Cultures
Su Ku, Fashion Design with Sally Li, Senior (class of 2024), B.S. Textile Development and Marketing and A.A.S. Fashion Design (class of 2022)
12-1 pm Lunch and Visit to the exhibition, Conscience: Commemorating Labor History in Fashion Industry
1-2 pm Session 3
Application of Digital Databases: FIT Special Collections and Beyond
Moderator: Karen Trivette, Gladys Marcus Library, Special Collections & College Archives
Speakers:
Natalie Nudell, History of Art
Joseph Anderson, Gladys Marcus Library, Digital Initiatives
Daniel Levinson Wilk, Social Sciences with students, Jennifer Sze and Keidy Restituyo, from “Queer Work: A Research Seminar in LGBTQ Business and Labor History”
2-3 pm Session 4
Workshop: Takeaway for Pedagogy and Research
Moderator: Helen Lane, Gladys Marcus Library, Instructional Design
Speakers:
Shawn Temple, Modern Languages and Cultures
Kristen Laciste, History of Art
Jennifer Babcock, Pratt Institute
Emma McClendon, St. John’s University
Graduate Students as “Discussants”
Gabriel Tennen, Stony Brook University, Ph.D candidate (ABD)
Kishan Tehara, New School, MA candidate
Kate Sekules, Bard Graduate Center, Ph.D candidate
Speaker Bios
Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the FIT Gladys Marcus Library. At the FIT Library, he has developed a number of exciting digital initiatives, including the Fashion Calendar Research Database.
Zaida Godoy Navarro
Zaida Godoy Navarro is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY. She received her PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at The Graduate Center-CUNY. In her research on contemporary Latin-American/Latinx theatre, she explores representations of violence, social justice, immigration and issues of gender with a special emphasis on masculinities.
Susanne Goetz
Susanne Goetz is the Chairperson of the Textile/Surface Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. She has worked internationally as a textile designer, lecturer, and researcher. Her expertise is in printed textile design, sustainable textiles, and artisanship, with a focus on both digital and traditional approaches to design and production. Her research and teaching practice focuses on global sustainable design, manufacturing and business practices, as well as innovative interdisciplinary work within the overlap of design and science. Susanne holds a MSc in Textile and Apparel Technology Management from North Carolina State University and a BA in Textile Design from Hof University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is a Fulbright Alumna and a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Subhalakshmi Gooptu
Subhalakshmi Gooptu, is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She completed her PhD in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2022. She specializes in Postcolonial and Anglophone literatures with a focus on South Asia and the Caribbean, Asian diasporic studies, histories of labor migration in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, critical race studies, transnational gender/sexuality studies, and postcolonial theory. She has additional teaching strengths in first and junior-year composition as well as writing across curriculum. She is currently revising her dissertation project, titled Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, into a book manuscript. https://www.sgooptu.com/about
Kristen Laciste
Kristen Laciste is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at SUNY FIT. She received her Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to coming to FIT, she served as the 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Smarthistory, The Center for Public Art History, contributing essays on African art and visual culture. Her research and teaching interests include art and visual culture from West and Central Africa, the Congolese fashion subculture, The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons (La SAPE), and Afrofuturism. In Winter 2023, she published in African Arts the article, “Practical Work: Sapeuses (Women Sapeurs) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo,” which reframes membership, participation, and performance with La SAPE as a form of labor.
Kyunghee Pyun
Kyunghee Pyun is associate professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, and intersectionality of art and technology, and industrial history. She wrote Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art: Fluidity and Fragmentation (Routledge, 2022); and Dress History of Korea: Critical Perspectives of Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2023). As an art critic, activist, and curator of contemporary art, she published American Art from Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge 2022) with Michelle Lim; and Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) with Gillian Hannum.
Dan Levinson Wilk
Daniel Levinson Wilk is Professor of American History at SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology. He writes about waiters, elevators and the modern service sector. He serves on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which recently unveiled a work of memorial art that spans the base and rises up the spine of the building where the 1911 fire took place.
Kishan Tehara
Raised just outside London by an ancestor of tailors and textile makers from India, Teraha started his fashion journey at Central Saint Martins in Fashion Design with Print and was awarded the Swarovski Foundation Scholarship and a nomination for the LVMH Maison 0 Green Trail Prize. He spent some time at the Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp and The Essential School of Painting in London. From Paris to London, he has worked with brands like Communs, Wales Bonner, and Ranra. A year and a half back, Tehara is completing an MFA at The New School: Parsons School of Design, exploring Fashion Design and Society with Anthropology and Design in New York. Balancing studies, he shares insights with undergrads in Fashion Studies and previously fashion history. His work focuses on research of objects and apparel and looks at future solutions regarding sustainability and zero waste pattern cutting.
Gabriel Tennen
Gabe S. Tennen is a Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University, where his research focuses on twentieth century politics and culture in the urban U.S. His forthcoming dissertation, New York City, The 51st State: Norman Mailer, Jimmy Breslin, and the Greatest Campaign Never Won, explores the 1969 Democratic primary campaign of writers Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin for New York City mayor and city council president. Gabe also works as a Museum Scholar at the Museum of the City of New York, and recently served as a Curatorial Researcher on the museum’s centennial exhibition, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.
Karen Trivette
Karen is Head of (Library) Special Collections and College Archives at the Fashion Institute of Technology-State University of New York (FIT), USA. At FIT, she oversees the care and provision of over 6000 linear feet of special collections and archives materials. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (BA Art History) and the University at Albany-State University of New York (MLS Library Science/Archives Management). She currently is pursuing her PhD in Archival Science from Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor, Slovenia (expected 2024). She has presented at many international, national, and local archives conferences and has written and/or edited many publications on topics ranging from fashion forecasting history to archives facility renovation. She has been a member of professional organizations since 2003 including the International Council on Archives, the Society of American Archivists, and the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. For a complete curriculum vitae, please visit www.karenjtrivette.net.
Kate Sekules
Kate Sekules is a PhD candidate at Bard Graduate Center, completing her dissertation A History and Theory of Mending. She is Assistant Professor of Fashion History at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, teaches the new course “Mending Fashion” at Parsons, and lectures frequently on the methodologies and contexts of textile repair (NYU, Columbia College, New School, and Tufts, among others). She has presented research at symposia including Textile Society of America, the British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art World Congress, American Studies Association, and Association of Dress Historians, and, as a mending practitioner, teaches workshops, and exhibits her work (RISD Museum, Winterthur, Cornell Biennial, etc). Her book MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto was published by Penguin in 2020.
Shawn (Walter S.) Temple
Dr. Walter S. Temple is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies. His research resides at the intersection of contemporary literary and cultural studies. In his scholarship, he examines questions of identity as they relate to the marginalized traveler-writer. He also specializes in French and North African queer cinema. In addition to his work in literary and cultural studies, he examines trends and practices in L2 pedagogy at the post-secondary level. His work has been presented at conferences in Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. His work has been published in the United States, France, and Italy.