Romana Mirza
Assistant Professor of Fashion Management and Social Justice
Email
mirzar@newschool.edu
Office Location
Parsons Faculty Hotseat
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Profile
Romana brings over 25 years of experience in the creative industries as a marketing executive and brand strategist. She has overseen multi-million-dollar product launches and supervised the creative direction for branded environment spaces across the United States. Romana has collaborated with world-renowned designers and spearheaded the launch of international design brands in the North American market. Her scholarly work is dedicated to transforming narrow understandings and stereotypes of marginalized bodies to promote inclusion. Currently, she is completing her PhD in CommunicationÌý and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she previously taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the School of Fashion.
Degrees Held
MA, Fashion - Toronto Metropolitian University - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BA, Philosophy - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Recent Publications
PEER REVIEWED
Mirza, R.B. (2024). Women undercover: Exploring the intersectional identities of Muslim women through modest fashion.ÌýInternational Journal of Fashion Studies. https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00112_1
Mirza, R. B. (2019) Contemporizing Modesty. Fashion Studies, 1(2), 1-17. Retrieved from .
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EDITORIAL REVIEWED
2020ÌýÌýÌý Rexhepi, P., Musleh, S., & Mirza, R. (August 14). Bandung Before and After: Islam, the Islamicate and the De/colonial. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies Blog.
2020ÌýÌýÌý Mirza, Romana B. Brothers and Sisters. Barefruit: A Collection of POC Stories, Poems, Art andÌýMore. Story Center.
2010ÌýÌýÌý Mirza, Romana B. Communications and Technology for Modern Practice. What is a Brand? In Maurer, Terri L. (Ed.) and Weeks, Katie (Ed.) Interior Design in Practice: Case Studies of Successful Business Models (pp. 60-62). New York, NY: Wiley.
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Research Interests
fashion diversity, gender studies, inclusion, social justice, fashion studies, arts-engaged research, intersectionality, orientalism, faith and fashion, decolonization
Awards And Honors
2024-25Ìý Ìý Ìý Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Student Fellowship
2021-24 ÌýÌýÌý Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award, Government of Canada.
2019-21Ìý Ìý ÌýOntario Graduate Scholarship and Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Student Fellowship.Ìý
2019 ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý MRP Book Award for academic excellence in the Master of Arts in Fashion Program, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.
2019ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Popular Culture Association Endowment.
2018ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Book Prize for History Theory II for academic excellence in the Master of Arts in Fashion Program, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.
2017-19Ìý Ìý ÌýToronto Metropolitan Graduate Fellowship, Toronto Metropolitan University.Ìý