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    Sara Hume

    Sara Hume, Ph.D.

    Kent State University Museum
    Curator/Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
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    Email:
    shume1@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-0302

    Biography

    Sara Hume is Professor and Curator of Kent State University Museum. Her research in the history of dress has focused on the intersections between fashionable and traditional dress as well as the global reach of the fashion industry. She also studies the relationship between evolving fashionable aesthetics and the underlying forces of economic and political change. She earned her PhD in Modern European History from the University of Chicago. Her book Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity, which examines the development and preservation of traditional or folk dress practices in Alsace in the face of pressure both from political conflict and mainstream fashion, was published by Bloomsbury in June 2022. She holds a BA in Art from Yale University and an MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

    Education

    University of Chicago, PhD in History, 2014
    Fashion Institute of Technology, MA in Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles, 2003
    Yale University, BA in Art, 1998

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