History in the Making: Reconstructing Early Modern Textiles and Clothing
Dr. Sophie Pitman
The Glasscock Short-Term Visiting Fellowships program allows Texas A&M faculty to bring distinguished scholars, artists, and performers to campus for a period of five days, wherein the fellow will engage with faculty and students and deliver a public presentation.
History in the Making: Reconstructing Early Modern Textiles and Clothing
Sophie Pitman is Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A specialist in the Early Modern period, she now researches and teaches widely using the collection of over 13,000 historic global textiles. Pitman was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL (London) where she researched the connection between weather, the environment, and clothing. She has also held postdoctoral research positions on two major early modern reconstruction-based projects: Making and Knowing (Columbia University, New York) and Refashioning the Renaissance (Aalto University, Finland) and has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.
Event details:
- 12:00–12:45 - Presentation (with light lunch)
- 12:45–1:00 - Q&A
- 1:00–1:30 - textile handling & hands-on experimentation
Faculty host: Dr. Tianna Uchacz thu@tamu.edu and the Early Modern Studies Working Group
