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Christina H. Moon is an anthropologist and fashion studies scholar in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ. Her research looks at the social ties and cultural encounters between design worlds and manufacturing landscapes across Asia and the Americas, exploring the memory, migration, and labor of cultural workers. She writes on fashion, design and labor, material culture, social memory, the ephemeral and everyday, and ways of knowing and representing in ethnographic practice. She is a Social Science Research Council Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellow, fellow of the , and member of the I at Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ, and working group at Parsons. She is the former Director of the program at Parsons and sits on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of , , and .

Degrees Held

PhD, MPhil, Anthropology, Yale University

BA Anthropology, Rutgers University

Professional Affiliation

American Anthropological Association, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Asian American Studies Association, Association for Asian Studies, American Studies Association, American Association of University Professors, International Journal of Fashion Studies

Recent Publications

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2025 In the Backseat of a Car.  On Escape. Issue 6.

2024 An Intimate Dream. Issue 98, February.

2023  Every Day is a Dress. On Everyday Life. Issue 11.

2023  Foreword: I search for mothers in writing and clothing. Edited by Laura Snelgrove. (Bloomsbury).

2023  Closet Feelings. , Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body. Edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins. (Palgrave Macmillan).

2022  Histoire d'armoires. . Les Éditions de Minuit. Juin-Juillet, TOME LXXVIII - No. 901-902, pg 461-471.

2021   Four Decades of Doubt. . Issue 10.

2020ÌýÌý (Routledge).

2020  The Maintenance and Preservation of Life.Issue 9.

2019Ìý co-editers Heijin Lee, Christina Moon, and Thuy Linh Tu (New York University Press).

2019 Ethnographic Entanglements: memory and narrative in the New York fashion industry. In Edited by Brent Luvaas, Joanne B. Eicher. (Bloomsbury).

2019Ìý Made in China: Material-Meanderings of Fast-Fashion Cities. In Edited by H. Jenß and Viola Hofman. (Berg).

2018  Fashion City: diasporic connections and garment industrial histories between the US and Asia. Edited by Jamie Doucette and Bae Gyun Park. Special Issue on Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise. Volume: 44 issue: 3, page(s): 519-532.

2018  To Dwell in Seams: Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory. Special Issue: Fashion. . Volume 58, Issue 5. (September/October).

Performances and Appearances

Research Interests

Fashion, design, labor, fashion culture industries; New York fashion; material culture and cultural studies; fashion and the body; cities and urban ethnography; social and cultural theory.

Awards And Honors

Social Science Research Council, Graduate Institute of Design Ethnography Social Theory, India China Institute, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, Fulbright Program, Korea Foundation

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