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Paula Hohti Erichsen
Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture
Associate professor
Person profile
Research interests
- Dress and Fashion History
- Material culture and consumer history
- Italian Renaissance and Early Modern art and culture
- Textile history in Early Modern Europe
- Experimental research and 'hands-on' approaches to historical research
- Material reconstruction
Major on-going project
Person profile
Tutkimusintressit
- Muodin ja pukeutumisen historia
- Materiaalisen kulttuurin ja kulutuksen historia
- Italian Renessanssin ja varhaisen modernin ajan kulttuuri
- Tekstiilihistoria ja kansainvälinen kaupankäynti varhaisena modernina aikana
- Kokeellinen historian tutkimus, käytännölliset menetelmät historiallisessa tutkimuksessa
Meneillään oleva tutkimusprojekti
Background
- Visiting Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Centre, New York, 2016.
- Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.
- Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2013.
- Visiting Research Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2011.
- Ph.D. Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK, 2001–2006.
Previous research projects
Global Encounters: Fashion, Culture and Foreign Trade in Scandinavia, 1500–1630.
Funded by FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Programme,
placed at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.
Result summary
Research blog of the project
Costumes, Clothing, Consumption, and Culture research programme
The Dress of an Artisan: Clothing, Identity and Fashion in Renaissance Italy.
Funded by the Academy of Finland postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
placed at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010–2012,
and the HERA-funded international project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1850, led by Evelyn Welch, 2011–2014.
HERA project website
Publication:
- ‘Dress, Dissemination and Innovation: Artisan Fashions in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy’, in Welch, E. (ed.) Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1800, Oxford University Press, 2016, 143–165.
The Italian Renaissance of Artisans and Shopkeepers: Culture and Experience.
Funded by the Research Fellowship of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2009.
Publications:
- ‘Conspicuous Consumption and Popular Consumers: Material Culture and Social Status in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, Renaissance Studies, 24, 5, 2010, 654–670.
- ‘Cheap Magnificence?: Imitation and Low Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy’, in Kovesi, C. (ed.), Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World, Brepols, Early European Research Series, forthcoming, 2017.
- ‘Hospitality and Home’, in Flather, A. (ed.), A Cultural History of the Home: The Renaissance, 1450–1650, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017.
Material Culture, Shopkeepers and Artisans in Sixteenth-century Siena.
Funded by the Academy of Finland 4-year Doctoral Studies Grant and the AHRC and Getty-funded international project, The Material Renaissance: Cost and Consumption in Italy, 1450–1600, led by Evelyn Welch, 2001–2004.
Publications:
- Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Sussex, UK, 2006.
- ‘The Innkeeper’s Goods : The Use and Acquisition of Household Property in Sixteenth Century Siena’, in The Material Renaissance, O’Malley, M. and Welch E. (eds.), Manchester University Press, 2007.
- ‘Artisans, Pawn-broking and the Circulation of Material Goods in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, in Siena nel Rinascimento, Nevola, F. et al. (eds.), Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 2009, 271–281.
Background
- Visiting Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Centre, New York, 2016.
- Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.
- Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2013.
- Visiting Research Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2011.
- Ph.D. Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK, 2001–2006.
Current research project
Re-fashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significancce of Clothing, 1550- 1650
This projet is funded by European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 726195.
Website: http://refashioningrenaissance.eu/
Previous research projects
Global Encounters: Fashion, Culture and Foreign Trade in Scandinavia, 1500–1630.
Funded by FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Programme,
placed at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.
Result summary
Research blog of the project
Costumes, Clothing, Consumption, and Culture research programme
The Dress of an Artisan: Clothing, Identity and Fashion in Renaissance Italy.
Funded by the Academy of Finland postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
placed at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010–2012,
and the HERA-funded international project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1850, led by Evelyn Welch, 2011–2014.
Publication:
- ‘Dress, Dissemination and Innovation: Artisan Fashions in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy’, in Welch, E. (ed.) Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1800, Oxford University Press, 2016, 143–165.
The Italian Renaissance of Artisans and Shopkeepers: Culture and Experience.
Funded by the Research Fellowship of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2009.
Publications:
- ‘Conspicuous Consumption and Popular Consumers: Material Culture and Social Status in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, Renaissance Studies, 24, 5, 2010, 654–670.
- ‘Cheap Magnificence?: Imitation and Low Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy’, in Kovesi, C. (ed.), Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World, Brepols, Early European Research Series, forthcoming, pp. 228-275.
- ‘Hospitality and Home’, in Flather, A. (ed.), A Cultural History of the Home: The Renaissance, 1450–1650, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
Material Culture, Shopkeepers and Artisans in Sixteenth-century Siena.
Funded by the Academy of Finland 4-year Doctoral Studies Grant and the AHRC and Getty-funded international project, The Material Renaissance: Cost and Consumption in Italy, 1450–1600, led by Evelyn Welch, 2001–2004.
Publications:
- Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Sussex, UK, 2006.
- ‘The Innkeeper’s Goods : The Use and Acquisition of Household Property in Sixteenth Century Siena’, in The Material Renaissance, O’Malley, M. and Welch E. (eds.), Manchester University Press, 2007.
- ‘Artisans, Pawn-broking and the Circulation of Material Goods in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, in Siena nel Rinascimento, Nevola, F. et al. (eds.), Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 2009, 271–281.