Employment

Instructor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Graduate and Continuing Education Division, 1998 to present. Courses created: Fashion and Society: America, 1750 to Present; Fashion and Art in the 20th Century.

Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Apparel Design Department, 2005 through 2009. Course created: History of Dress.

Freelance Writer, fashion history/interior design, Boston Globe, 1999 to 2001.

Partner and Corporate Counsel, The Winthrop Group, Inc., Cambridge, MA: 1986 to 1997.

Assistant Attorney General, Government Bureau, Department of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: 1984 to 1986.

Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Boston, MA: 1982 to 1984.

 

Education

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: LL.M. Legal History, 1982.

School of Law and Jurisprudence, State University of New York at Buffalo: J.D., 1981.

Alfred University, Alfred, NY: Double B.A. in English Literature and European History, magna cum laude, 1978.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; 25 courses in Diploma program, 1989 to present.

 

Books and Scholarly Articles

Timex: A Company and its Community, 1854-1998 (Middlebury, CT: Timex Corporation), 1998.

Buxton: A Century of Innovation, 1898 to 1998 (Springfield, MA: Buxton, Inc.), 1998.

Retail Revolutionary: Kinney Shoe Corporation’s First Century in Footwear (New York: Kinney Shoe Corporation), 1994.

The MetLife Archives Museum (New York: MetLife), 1994. Brochure and text panels. Underwriting America’s Success: 125 Years of Metropolitan Life, 1868-1993 (New York: MetLife), 1993.

Accounting for Success: A History of Price Waterhouse in America, 1890-1990 (Boston: Harvard Business School Press), 1993. With D. Allen.

The Competitive Advantage of Nations, D. Dyer and A.M. Webber, eds. 40-page magazine accompanying HBS professor Michael Porter’s four part video (Boston: Harvard Business School Management Productions), 1993. On writing team.

Time-Based Competition, D. Dyer and A.M. Webber, eds. 32-page magazine accompanying three part video (Boston: Harvard Business School Management Productions), 1993. On writing team.

America’s Paint Company: A History of Sherwin-Williams (Cleveland: Sherwin-Williams Corporation), 1991. With D. Dyer.

"Pressure on the Price Waterhouse Partnership: Decisions of the 1960s and Implications for Today," in Business and Economic History, Vol. 22 (Fall 1993), pp. 295-304.

"The Development of the Massachusetts District Courts: 1821-1922," 15 Historical Journal of Massachusetts (June 1987).

"Massachusetts, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court," 31 Boston Bar Journal (Sept./Oct. 1987). With T. A. Barnico.

 

Exhibitions/Gallery Talks

Hats and Fashion History, 1830-1930, Colonial Dames of Eastern MA, William Hickling Prescott House, Boston. May 2006. Lecture/gallery tour.

All for One and One for All! Uniforms in Fact and Fantasy, American Museum of Textile History, Lowell, MA: 2002. Design team.

Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: 2002. Lecture/gallery tour.

À la Mode, 1795 to 1920, Fashion Plates from the Boston Public Library’s Department of Rare Books: 2001. Curated exhibition, wrote all exhibition text, and photographed all images for website: http://www.bpl.org/research/rb/fashion/index.htm.

Timexpo Museum, Waterbury, CT. Research and conceptualization team, 2001.

A Life in Fashion: 1960-2000, Alfred Fiandaca Retrospective, Massachusetts College of Art: 2000. Wrote all exhibition text and researched images. Oral history video interview with Alfred Fiandaca deposited in MassArt Library Archives.

Dressing for Social Change: 1900 to 1925, historical costume exhibit, Boston Public Library: 1999. Curated exhibition, selected garments, and wrote all exhibition text.

MetLife Archives Museum, New York, NY: 1994. Wrote all exhibition text. Video oral histories of four MetLife chief executive officers deposited in MetLife Archives.

Kinney Shoe Centennial Exhibit, Disney World, FL: 1995. Wrote all exhibition text.

 

Haute History

Art and Design

Private hat clients: half of each hat price donated to charity of their choice. 2003 to present: http://www.hautehistory.com/fashmus/index.html

Hat-themed fundraisers for Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 2004; Boston Center for the Arts, 2003; Gibson House Museum, 2003; City of Boston Parks Department/ParkARTS, 2003 to present.

Design and creation of commissioned hats, masks, and costumes for Boston Lyric Opera General Director, donors, and guests, 2002-2006.

Costume Design, Teen Shakespeare program of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston (2000-2001).

 

Radio and TV Commentary/Style Writing

"Political Threads," interview with Brooke Gladstone. National Public Radio. On the Media, WNYC-NY, Feb. 1, 2008: www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/02/01/08.

"Indo-Chic," Urban Update, WHDH-TV Boston, Channel 7, Oct. 28, 2001, commentator.

"Fashion Statements," Boston Sunday Globe, Fifty-Five Plus (April 23, 2000), 12.

"Vive la Différence" and "In Her Fashion," Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Your Home (Feb. 27, 2000), 48, 56.

"E-Commerce and Kitsch of Christmas Past," Boston Globe (Dec. 23, 1999), 11.

"Design Coup," Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Your Home (Sept. 26, 1999), 58.

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