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Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies
Nancy J. Nelson Hodges
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Environmental Sciences
Department of Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies
Phone: 256-0291
Email: njnelson@uncg.edu
Education
Ph.D. - The University of MinnesotaProfile
Nancy Nelson Hodges is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Study in the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dr. Nelson Hodges’ research and teaching involve the exploration of dress in history, culture and society. Specifically, her research focuses on issues of gender as related to dress and the experiences of people with dress and textiles across cultures. Current research topics include: the education and employment of women in the textile and apparel industries, the social psychology of the apparel consumption experience, the creation of knowledge within the clothing and textiles field—including its historical development, current methodological issues, and the role of gender in the production of knowledge—and the use of the Internet as a global forum for dress and the social construction of identity. She recently received a UNCG Regular Faculty Grant and Kohler Fund to study the experiences of women enrolled in textile and apparel university programs in Russia.
Nelson Hodges has published her research in several academic journals, including the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, the International Journal of Gender and Sexuality, and the Women’s Studies International Forum. She has presented her findings at many juried national and international conferences in the US and Europe. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and is currently the Vice President for Planning for ITAA. Nelson Hodges has also served on the Editorial Board for the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal.
Nelson 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 social psychology of consumption, consumer research, dress and identity, and qualitative methodology. She was awarded the Mary Francis Stone School of Human Environmental Sciences award for Outstanding Teaching in 2003.