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Nancy Nelson Hodges is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dr. Hodges’ areas of interest are the contextual factors of dress, including dress in culture, society, and history, the social psychology of dress and apparel consumption, and the production of knowledge within the clothing and textiles field. Dr. Hodges’ research focuses on gender as related to dress and the experiences of women. She is currently working on a second, five-year project funded by the NC Agricultural Research Service on the changing workforce of North Carolina’s textile sector, and specifically the link between women, employment and education for the apparel and textile industries. She is also the Project Director and Co-PI of a three year USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant. The project will result in the creation of learning modules designed to introduce global industry-based issues and opportunities in the undergraduate consumer, apparel and retail classroom.
Hodges has published her research in several top academic journals in the field, including the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal and the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. She has also published in the Women’s Studies International Forum and the International Journal of Gender and Sexuality. She has presented her research at numerous juried national and international conferences in the US and Europe where she has received awards for her research. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and served as the Vice President for Planning for ITAA from 2005-2007. Hodges has also served on the Editorial Board for the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal and is presently on the Advisory Board of the new journal Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry.
Dr. Hodges earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has been at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro since 1998. She teaches undergraduate courses on the cultural, historical, and social psychological factors of dress, and graduate courses on qualitative methodology, literature and thought, consumer research, and dress and identity. She was awarded the Mary Francis Stone School of Human Environmental Sciences award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003.