Empowering Women in Academia | The Magic of Research Collaboration: Building Local and Global Teams and Networks

Join us for an inspiring lunch as part of the Empowering Women in Academia at TMU speaker series. This session will feature Dr. Alison Matthews David (she/her), Professor and Graduate Program Director of the MA Fashion Program in the School of Fashion, as she explores strategies for creative collaborations across disciplines and career stages.

Hosted by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, the Empowering Women in Academia at TMU series is intended to encourage networking, cultivate pan-university cross-discipline collaboration through the sharing of ideas, and foster mentoring among female-identifying and non-binary academic staff.

The guest speaker presentation will be followed by a Q and A with the speaker and an in-person networking session. Advanced registration is appreciated for catering considerations.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Alison Matthews David (she/her) is Professor and Graduate Program Director of the MA Fashion Program in the School of Fashion. She has a PhD in Art History from Stanford University and has published extensively on nineteenth and early twentieth century dress and material culture.

She is co-founding editor of the open access, multi-media journal Fashion Studies with Dr. Ben Barry. Her most recent research project, Fashion Victims, looked at how clothing physically harmed the health of its makers and wearers in the long nineteenth century. It took the form of a book (2015) and co-curated exhibition (2014-18), as well as a co-authored book for young adults entitled Killer Style (2019).

She is Principal Investigator of the federally funded project, The Fabric of Crime: Forensic Histories of Fashion, which investigates the theme of crime and clothing as weapon, evidence, and disguise. Exhibit A: Investigating Crime and Footwear, the exhibition she is co-curating with Elizabeth Semmelhack at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, opens in April 2024.