Anne Wood
Lecturer / Internship Director
Consumer Apparel-Retail Studies
Email Address: acmitch2@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.256.0272
Areas of Expertise
Fashion and Retail Merchandising, Professional Development, Textile & Color Science, Color Forecasting, Trend Forecasting
Biography
Anne Mitchell Wood is a Lecturer and Internship Director in the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies (CARS) at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). She earned her master’s degree in Retail Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
Professor Wood joined the CARS Department in Spring 2017 after 30+ years as an apparel industry executive. She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including Introduction to Textile Science, Textile Apparel Analysis, Visual Merchandising, Trend Forecasting and Data Analytics, Professional Development and the Summer Internship course. In 2020, Wood received the Bryan School Teaching Excellence Award for Professional Faculty Track and the Eloise Hassell Teaching Excellence Award in 2023.
While research is not part of her appointment, Wood has presented on topics of pedagogy at the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) international conferences and has co-authored several publications on the topic of sustainability in apparel. She has also served as a reviewer for the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Abstracts and Paper of Distinction Award for ITAA’s Pedagogy (PED) tracks. In the realm of service to the profession, Wood has served as a member of the oldest color forecasting organization in the US, Color Association of the US (CAUS) since 2017.
Education
- M.S. in Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2014
- A.A.S. in Fashion Buying and Merchandising, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, 1984
- B.A. in German Studies, University of the South, Sewanee, 1983
Research/Publications
1. Su, Jin, Anne Mitchell Wood & Gargeya, Vidyaranga (2021). Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Apparel Industry: Passion and Challenges. Journal of the Textile Institute, 1-7, 1-7.
2. Su, Jin, & Wood, Anne (2019). Applying a Supply Chain Perspective to Understand Sustainability in the Apparel & Textiles Discipline. International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Meeting, October 25-29, 2019, Las Vegas, Nevada, www.itaaonline.org/index2.html.
3. Su, Jin, Wood, Anne & Gargeya, Vidyaranga (2019). Sustainable Sourcing in the Apparel Industry: The Small Business Owner’s Perspective. Production and Operations Management Annual Conference, May 3-6, 2019, Washington, D.C. www.pomsmeetings.org/conf-2019/
4. Williams, Miranda, Wood, Anne, & Hodges, Nancy. (2015). The American Lolita Subculture: An Exploration of Self-Authentication, Postmodernism, and Social Belonging. International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Meeting Proceedings, November 11, 2015, Santa Fe, NM, www.itaaonline.org/index2.html.
5. Williams, Miranda, Mitchell, Anne, & Hodges, Nancy. (2014). Exploring the dichotomies of the American Lolita: Consumption, hierarchy and postmodernism. Popular Culture Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2014.
6. Ghassemi, Miriam, Mitchell, Anne, & Williams, Miranda (2013). “Why People Pay Starbucks Prices” Presented at Southeastern Graduate Consortium, April 18-19, 2013, Greensboro, North Carolina.