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Sophie Kurkdjian
In 2013, Sophie Kurkdjian completed her Ph.D. on the history of the fashion press at the beginning of the twentieth century. Between 2011 and 2014, she was a visiting fellow at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France where she worked on the fashion periodicals collections. Since 2012, she is a research fellow at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), in Paris, where she co-directs a research seminar on history and fashion. In 2017, she co-organized the exhibition Mode & femmes, 14/18 at the Forney Library in Paris (in 2019, this exhibition will be presented in New York at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery). In 2018, she created the French fashion research network Culture(s) de Mode, which gathers researchers, curators, archivists, designers and students who are interested in fashion. Her main lines of research focus on fashion media history, fashion journalists and mediation in the fashion industry. She teaches different courses in communication and marketing for undergraduates, as well as in MAs in fashion at both French and foreign universities.