Jo Turney

Dr Jo Turney is professor of fashion and textiles at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is a design historian specializing in post-war everyday dress and textiles practices, primarily engaging with primary sources and using ethnographic techniques. She is particularly interested in wardrobe studies and clothing behaviours and practices. The majority of her research has focused on this, considering dress as deviant or frightening, embodying objects that make solid, social perception, fear and prejudice, outlining their persistence as necessities in understanding difference and sameness. She is the co-founder and editor of the journal Clothing Cultures (Intellect) and sits on the editorial board of Textiles: The Journal of Cloth and Culture (Taylor and Francis).

Angela Nurse

Dr Angela Nurse holds a doctorate degree in Sociology from Michigan State University. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology department at University of San Diego, where she teaches courses in social psychology, race, and gender. Her research explores how racialized femininities shape daily body modification and supplementation practices among young women. Her work de-centers ideal white femininity from body and dress discourse and shifts us toward a plural hierarchy of beauty.  

Vicki Karaminas

Dr Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Director of Doctoral Studies for the Wellington School of Design at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand. She is the President of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (POPCAANZ) founding editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture and the  Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. Karaminas is on the advisory board of the book series Dress, Body, Culture (Bloomsbury) and numerous journal editorial boards including: Fashion Theory  (Routledge), Film, Fashion and Consumption  (Intellect), The  International Journal of Fashion Studies (Intellect), Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion (Intellect), and Sexualities, Bodies and Masculinities (Berghan). She is the book series editor for Fashion, Dress and Visual Cultures (Anthem, UK) and Style Discourses, Fashion, Art and Culture (Rutgers University Press).