Michael E. Mamp, Ph.D., is Director & Curator of the Textile & Costume Museum (TCM) and Associate Professor of Textiles, Apparel Design, & Merchandising at Louisiana State University. His research and curatorial practice explore fashion and textiles of the twentieth century. His work has been published in leading journals such as Dress and the Journal of Modern Craft. Recent exhibitions curated for TCM include Women Fashioning Women, Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene, and Woven Louisiana History: Acadian Textiles. At LSU, he teaches courses, including History of Fashion: Ancient World to 1850, History of Modern Fashion, History of Textiles, Queer Fashion, and Fashion Curation and Exhibition. He holds a Ph.D. in dress history from Iowa State University and an M.A. in fashion/textile design from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before his academic career, he worked in the fashion industry for fourteen years for brands such as Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue.