Thesiss

I came from the Islamic republic of Iran where only one of everything has the power of speak (one religion, one political view, one educational system and etc.), I found myself in United States, land of freedom as I heard, a place to express oneself openly. It was here that I fi…

Thousands of designer sketches from the Bergdorf Goodman custom salon dated from the late 1940s through 1969 are housed in the Department of Special Collections and FIT Archives of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The sketches are stored alphabet…

This dissertation presents an ethnographic study of the neo-burlesque scene in New York City, a group of nightlife artists who perform theatrical striptease. Based on fieldwork conducted from 2015 to 2018, this study uses the lens of labor to explore issues of art making, aesthe…

For over four hundred years, Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted from text to the visual realizations on the stage and later the screen. Scholarship has attended to the playscript and the performance, but it has largely neglected the position of the costume as a bridge between…