Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
PhD Communication and Culture, Indiana University, 2013
MA History of Religions, The University of Chicago, 1998
BA Philosophy, Michigan State University, 1993
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2016-present Assistant Professor and Curator, School of Design and the Costume Museum,
Stephens College, Columbia, MO
2015-2016 Anawalt Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Regional Dress, Fowler Museum,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2014-2015 Exhibit Coordinator and Consultant for Hollywood Costume, curated by Deborah
Nadoolman Landis for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and hosted by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
2013-2014 Project Specialist, Textile Arts Conservation Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2012-2013 Curator of Collections (seasonal), Temple Israel Synagogue and Museum (restored 1884 synagogue),
Leadville, CO
2009-2010 Archival Specialist, The Roy and Sophia Sieber African Art Collection, Bloomington, IN
2007 Catalogue Data Specialist for Costumes, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
2004-2006 Collection Manager for Costumes, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
2002-2004 Collection Technician, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
2001 Exhibition Assistant for "Fashion, Flappers 'n All That Jazz,” Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2016 "Ambivalence and the 'American Dream' on RuPaul's Drag Race" for Film, Fashion and Consumption, 5, no. 2 (December)
2013 "Carmen Miranda and Brasilidade: Hollywood Glamour and Exoticism Reinterpreted" for Film, Fashion and
Consumption, 2, no. 3 (December)
Reviews
2017 Book Review. Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures by Reina Lewis for Museum Anthropology Review vol. 11, no. 1
2015 Book review. Costume: Performing Identities through Dress by Pravina Shukla. Newsletter for the Western Region
of the Costume Society of America, fall
2012 Book review. River of Tears: Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil by Alexander Sebastian
Dent. e-mesférica, vol. 9, no.1
2011 Exhibition catalog review. "Mestre Vitalino e artistas pernambucanos" for Museum Anthropology Review
vol. 5, no.1-2
2010 Journal review. "Fashion Practice" for Museum Anthropology Review vol. 4, no. 2
Other Publications
In press Chapter. “Postwar Cocktail Culture and the Cocktail Dress” for inclusion in The Shaken and the Stirred: This
Year’s Work in Cocktail Studies
2020 Entries for Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design. Editor-in-chief Deborah Nadoolman Landis.
Bloomsbury Publishing, London
2008 Photographs. "Email My Heart: Remediation and Romantic Break-ups" by Ilana Gershon. Anthropology
Today 24, no. 6 (December)
Manuscripts and Exhibitions in Preparation/Under Review
Monograph. The Missing Body from the Carmen Miranda Museum
Article. “City of Angels and Artifacts”
Article. "Pioneer Days and Purim: The High Rockies' Best Party, 1879-1898"
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Curator
Teaching from the Collections, organized by the Costume Museum and Research Library, Stephens College, Columbia, MO,
October 2018 to December 2018
2017 Curator
The Joan Crawford Effect, organized by the Costume Museum and Research Library, Stephens College, Columbia, MO,
September 2017 to December 2017
2017 Curator
Head Over Heels, organized by the Costume Museum and Research Library, Stephens College, Columbia, MO,
February 2017 to April 2017
2014-2015 Exhibition Coordinator and Consultant
Hollywood Costume, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, October 2, 2014 to March 2, 2015
2013 Curator
Minette Miller: A Portrait, organized by Temple Israel Synagogue and Museum, hosted by the Lake County Public
Library, Leadville, CO, October 2013
2012 Curator
Frontier Jewish Leadville, Temple Israel Synagogue and Museum, Leadville, CO, permanent exhibition opened
September 2012
2009 Curator
Clothes, Collections, and Culture . . . What is a Curator?, The Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington, IN,
April 2009 to May 2010
2004 Mount Maker and Installation Specialist
Coming of Age, Chicago Historical Society (re-named Chicago History Museum), Chicago, IL, 2004
2003 Researcher, Mount Maker, and Installation Specialist
¡Flamenco!, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL, 2003
AWARDS AND HONORS
2018 Firestone Baars Grant for Professional Development, Stephens College
2018 Davis Summer Grant for Professional Development, Stephens College
2016 Firestone Baars Grant for Professional Development, Stephens College
2016 Grant for Professional Development, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stephens College
2013 Travel Grant in Support of Conference Participation, Department of Communication and Culture,
Indiana University
2011 Grant to attend the Hemispheric Institute’s “Art and Political Resistance” Summer Program in
Mexico, Department of Ameircan Studies, Indiana University
2011 Grant-in-Aid for Doctoral Research, Graduate School of Indiana University
2010-2011 Latino Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Latino Studies Program, Indiana University
2010-2011 Latin American Fellowship (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Office of International Affairs, Indiana University
2008-2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship for Portuguese/Brazilian
Area Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University
2008 FLAS Summer Fellowship for Language and Culture Program through Duke University in Brazil,
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University
2008 Tinker Field Research Grant for Latin America (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Indiana University
2008 Travel Grant in Support of Conference Participation, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana
University
2007 American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education Graduate Fellow
1997-1998 FLAS Academic Year Fellowship for Portuguese/Latin America Area Studies
at The University of Chicago
1998 Tinker Field Research Grant, The University of Chicago (declined)
1997 FLAS Summer Fellowship for Portuguese/Latin America Area Studies at The University of Chicago
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2017 "Foundations for the Future at the Fashion Resource Center," for the Fashion Design Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, May
2017 "Post-World War II Cocktail Culture in America,” for The Forum Group, Unitarian-Universalist Church, Columbia, MO, April
2016 "Collecting Indigenous Mesoamerican Dress," for the Fowler Textile Council,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, May
2016 "Seventies Fashion, Dress, and Style: Music and Culture Inform the Look," for the Fashion Program at Stephens
College, Columbia, MO, April
2015 "At Home with the Cocktail Dress, 1947-1967," for the Board of Directors of Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum,
Los Angeles, CA, March
2014 "Imagining Carmen Miranda, the Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat," for the Department of Performing
Arts & Visual Culture, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, April
2011 “Carmen Miranda and the Carnivalesque in the Hollywood Musical,” for the “Carmen Miranda: uma latina
em Hollywood?” Conference at Universidad de Puerto Rico, April
2007 “Performing Hillbilly Woman: Why White Trash is Bad for People of Color,” CIC-SROP Conference, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, July
2006 “George Washington’s Corset: From Candy Man’s Curio to Museum Artifact,” Annual Meeting of the
Costume Committee of the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL, June
2004 “Crafting a Design Career,” for “Advanced Theater Design” course, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL,
October
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2018 "Towards an Ethnography of Mediated Celebrity Glamour," presenter and session chair at "Bridging Gaps: Where is
Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture?" organized by the Centre for Celebrity and Media Studies Lisbon, Portugal, July
(awarded conference honors)
2016 "Cultures of Collecting Indigenous Mesoamerican Dress," presenter at TEXTIM, organized by the Textile Museum
of Oaxaca, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico, October
2016 "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat Behind Glass: Explaining Excess at the Carmen Miranda Museum," presenter
at "Costume Colloquium V: Restraint and Excess in Fashion and Dress," Florence, Italy, November
2014 “Cocktail Culture, Idealized Femininity, and the Post-War Cocktail Dress” presenter at “Cocktail
Culture: A Conference,” sponsored by University of Louisville and Drake University, Louisville, KY, April
2013 “Ripe for Imitation” presenter on “Hispanic and Latina/o Performance in US Film and Television:
Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality” panel, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March
2009 “Writing a Museum Narrative with Women’s Zapotec Dress,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference,
Boise, ID, October
2008 “Imagining Carmen Miranda, Imagining Brazil,” American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Louisville,
KY, October
2008 “The Carmen Miranda Look,” Symposium on Dress and Adornment, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN,
April
2006 “George Washington’s Corset: From Candy Man’s Curio to Museum Artifact,” Annual Symposium for the
Costume Society of America, Hartford, CT, June
CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
2016 "Appropriation and Apprecition," School of Interdisciplinary Studies, "Afro Futurism" course, taught by
Monica Hand, Stephens College, Columbia, MO, November
2009 “Dress In Sports,” Department of Communication and Culture, “Sports and the Media” course, taught by
Travis Vogan, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, July
2009 “In Circulation: The Persistence of Carmen Miranda,” Department of Communication and Culture
Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 Postdoctoral Researcher for Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Director of the David C. Copley
Center for Costume Design, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2014-2015 Postdoctoral Research Assistant to Ilana Gershon, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA/Associate Professor at Indiana University
2013 Graduate Research Assistant to Ilana Gershon, Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2013 Volunteer Cataloguer for the Siegfried Strauss Collection (textile component), Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2011 Graduate Research Assistant to Micol Seigel for the Hemispheric Institute in San Cristóbal de las Casas,
Chiapas, México, funded by American Studies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2010-2013 Tour Docent, Paramount Theatre of the Arts (National Historic Landmark), Oakland, CA
2010-2011 Editor/Graduate Assistant, Latino Studies Program Newsletter, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2009 Curator, “Clothes, Collections, and Culture . . . What is a Curator?” (Exhibition dates: April 2009-May 2010),
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2008 Cataloguer for the Royce Collection of Isthmus Zapotec Textiles and Clothing, The Mathers Museum of
World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2007 Graduate Intern for Acquisitions Processing, Chicago History Museum (re-named from the Chicago
Historical Society), Chicago, IL
2007 Graduate Intern for Acquisitions Processing, Chicago History Museum (re-named from the Chicago
Historical Society), Chicago, IL
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Stephens College, Columbia, MO, Department of Fashion
History and Culture of Fashion and Dress (upper level course of my own design, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
Basics of Apparel Construction (introductory sewing, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
Dress and Fashion: 1900 to Present (upper level course of my own design, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018)
Fashion Workroom Techniques (introductory sewing, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018)
Art Direction and Photo Styling (museum photography component, upper level course taught by Lisa Lenoir, Spring 2017)
Independent Study Courses: Introduction to Fashion Museum Studies (Fall 2017, Spring 2018), Advanced Fashion Museum
Studies (Fall 2017), Ethnographic Methods for Fashion Studies (Spring 2018)
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Department of World Arts and Culture
Collecting Indigenous Mesoamerican Dress (upper level course of my own design, Spring 2016)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Department of Communication and Culture
Communicating through Clothes (upper level course of my own design, Summer 2010)
Interpersonal Communication (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009; 2 sections each semester)
Public Speaking (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010; 2 sections each semester)
Miami University-Ohio, Miami, OH, Theater Department
Resource Development and Design for Plasticene Physical Theater Company (workshop 2008)
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, Theater Department
Resource Development and Design for Plasticene Physical Theater Company (workshop 2005)
International Academy of Design and Technology-Chicago, Chicago, IL, Design Department
Film and Fashion (Winter 2005)
History of 20th Century American Dress (Fall 2004)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2017 Elected Member, Professional Development Committee, Stephens College, Columbia, MO
2016 Member, University Council-American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO Local 1990,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Steward, UAW Local 5810, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2015-16 Member, UAW Local 5810, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2009-2010 Student Mentor, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2017 Volunteer, The Peace Nook Community Resource Center, Columbia, MO
2017 Volunteer, The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri, Columbia, MO
2013 Volunteer Cataloguer for the Siegfried Strauss Collection (textile component), Magnes Collection of Jewish
Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2010-2013 Tour Docent, Paramount Theatre of the Arts (National Historic Landmark), Oakland, CA
2008-2010 Volunteer Collective Member and Bookseller, Boxcar Books and Community Center, Bloomington, IN
2007-2008 Textile Arts Instructor, Shalom Community Center, Bloomington, IN
2000-2001 Volunteer in the Costume Collection, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
MEDIA COVERAGE
2017 Newspaper exhibition review, “Going ‘Head Over Heels’ for Stephens College exhibition” in Columbia, Missouri’s Columbia Tribune (3/12/2017)
2012 Newspaper interview in Leadville, Colorado’s Herald Democrat discussing curated exhibition at Temple
Israel Museum (9/5/2012)
RELATED TRAINING AND SKILLS
Training
2011 “Art and Resistance” (Latin American political art history) taught by Diana Taylor and Jesusa Rodríguez,
Hemispheric Institute, Chiapas, México. Institutional scholarship to attend
2004 “Textiles Care for Museum Standards” taught by textile conservator Harold Mailand, Campbell Center for
Historic Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, IL. NEH scholarship to attend
2003 Artist’s Apprentice to Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Cat Press, Chicago, IL
1999-2000 Coursework in Costume Design, Film Studies, and Theater, Columbia College Chicago
Non-academic Writing
2012-present The Culture Hustler—essays on popular culture, dress and museums; www.lorihallaraujo.com
2012-2013 Technical writer and editor for in-house instructional documents pertaining to sewing and sewing
machine use, TechShop, San Francisco, CA
2010-2011 Writer for online sewing instructions, ehow.com
Non-academic Teaching Experience
Estrojam Music and Culture Festival, Chicago, IL
D-I-Y Grassroots Political Activism (workshop 2004)
The Dress Doctor, Oakland, CA
Private adult and children’s sewing instruction (2011-2012)
Wee Scotty, San Francisco, CA
Adult and children's sewing instruction (2011)
PROFESSIONAL COSTUME DESIGN AND ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
2015 Contributing artist, "The Bad Seed" (mixed media), "A Horror Story Art Show," The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles,
CA, October
2001-2012 Costume Designer and Ensemble Member (annual performances), Plasticene Physical Theater Company
under artistic direction of Dexter Bullard, Chicago, IL
2009 Contributing Artist (egg tempera painting), Boxcar Books and Community Center Staff Art Show,
Bloomington, IN, May
2007 Performance Artist, Plasticene’s “Clearly,” a sonic/video/live performance installation for John Cage’s
Musicircus, Chicago, IL, October
2005 Contributing Artist (textile-based work), Madhatter’s Ball Benefit for Lookingglass Theatre
Company, Chicago, IL, April
2005 Installation Artist (textile-based work), 3rd Annual PAC/edge Festival, Chicago, IL, April
2004 Curator and Contributing Artist (textile-based), “33 1/3” art exhibition, Chicago, IL, May
LANGUAGES
Brazilian Portuguese (good reading/writing/speaking proficiency)
Spanish (conversational speaking proficiency/reading with dictionary)
French (reading with dictionary)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Alliance of Museums
Costume Society of America
