Sophie Kurkdjian received a PhD in 2013. She is currently Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. Since 2012, she has been a Research Fellow at the Institut d’Histoire du temps present (IHTP) at the CNRS where she directs a Research Seminar on History and Fashion. In 2018, Dr. Kurkdjian created the French fashion research network, Culture(s) de Mode, in collaboration with the Ministère de la Culture. This network brings together researchers, curators, archivists, designers and students who are interested in fashion. Dr. Kurkdjian’s main areas of research focus on XIX and XXth century fashion media history, labor and workers in the fashion industry, and circulations and exchanges in fashion.