Tuesday
07 Sep 2010
| Governors |
Director Dr Giorgio Riello Giorgio Riello is Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has written extensively on early modern textiles, dress and fashion, and material culture in Europe and Asia. He is the author of A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (OUP/Pasold, 2006) and has co-edited six books including Shoes (2006); The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles (OUP/Pasold, 2009); How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles (Brill, 2009); and The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2010).
Governors Dr David Jenkins, (Chair of Governors) David Jenkins recently retired from the University of York where he had a distinguished career that included the successful supervision of a large number of PhD students in the textile history field. HIs many publications include his editorship of The Cambridge History of Western Textiles (Cambridge 2003). His research interests cover the British and European wool textile industry, 18th-20th centuries, international competitive performance in textiles, the history of insurance and the history of the modern Yorkshire economy. His work for the Pasold Fund goes back many years.
Dr Rebecca Arnold Dr Arnold was appointed Lecturer in Dress and Textiles at the Courtauld Institue wef September 2009 and succeeds Professor Aileen Ribeiro as a Governor of the Fund from the same date. She was previously Research Fellow at the Royal College aof Art and Visiting Fellow at the V&A. She is a specialist in 20th century fashion. Her first book Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the 20th Century was published in 200, followed by The American Look: Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York in 2009.
Dr Christopher Breward This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Christopher Breward is Head of the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Before working at the V&A he was Head of Research at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, where he still holds a Visiting Professorship. Christopher's personal research interests lie in the field of fashion history and he has published widely on fashion's relation to masculinity, metropolitan cultures and concepts of modernity.
Dr Mary Brooks Mary Brooks recently retired from a Readership at the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton where she led the MA Museums and Galleries programme which included the study and curation of textiles and dress. She has worked as a conservator and exhibition curator in museums in the USA and Europe as well as in the UK. She has a special interest in the contribution that object-based research and conservation approaches can make to the wider interpretation and presentation of cultural artefacts. Research areas include 17th century embroideries, the use of x-radiography for the greater understanding and interpretation of textiles and dress, and regenerated protein fibres.
Ms Clare Browne Clare Browne is Curator of European Textiles 1500-1800 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where she has worked since 1982. Dealing with dress and furnishing textiles across a wide range of techniques including weaving, printing, embroidery, lace and tapestry, she has published and lectured particularly on woven silks and textile design. She is a member of the Directing Council of CIETA (Centre International d'Etude des Textile Anciens).
Professor Pat Hudson Pat Hudson was Director of the Pasold Research Fund between 2006 and 2010 and is Professor Emerita of Economic and Social History at Cardiff University. She has researched and published on industrialisation in Britain, on pre-factory manufacturing, the family economy and demographic change in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as on the role of quantitative analysis in historical work..
Professor Janet Hunter Janet Hunter is Saji Professor of Economic History in the Economic History Department at the London School of Economics, and became an LSE-nominated Governor in 2003. She has written widely on the economic development of modern Japan, and on the history of economic and business relations between Britain and Japan . Her publications include a number of articles on Japan 's textile industries, and a monograph on textile workers during Japan 's industrialisation appeared in 2003, with a Japanese translation published in 2008.
Sir Geoffrey Owen Sir Geoffrey was formerly Editor of the Financial Times. During 1991-1998 he was Director of Business Policy Programmes, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, and is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute of Management , London School of Economics.
Dr Tim Leunig Dr Leunig is a member of the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics. He became an LSE-nominated Governor of the Fund in 2006. He is a specialist in comparative industrial history of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. His research includes study of, and publications on, the international textile sector.
Professor Richard Wilson Richard Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of East Anglia . His connection with Pasold dates from the time when the Fund provided a grant for his first book Gentlemen Merchants: the Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830 (MUP, 1971): a classic, pioneering study of emergence, operations and business culture of city merchants before and during the industrial revolution period. Since then Richard has continued to research various aspects of the textile and well as the brewing industry, mostly in the eighteenth century. |
