Denise N. Green

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Fiber Science & Apparel Design

Human Centered Design

ANTHROPOLOGY

Curriculum vitae

Office

T37 Human Ecology Building (HEB)

dng22@cornell.edu

Biography

Denise Nicole Green is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC). Professor Green's research uses ethnography, video production, archival methods, and curatorial practice to explore production of fashion, textiles, identities, and visual design. She has authored more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews and co-authored (with Dr. Susan B. Kaiser) the second edition of Fashion and Cultural Studies (2022, Bloomsbury Publishing). She is also a faculty member in American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, American Studies Program, South Asia Program, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, as well as a graduate field member in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell.

Professor Green received a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. With the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC and Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations communities, she directed a series of documentary films exploring textiles, identity, and Aboriginal title. Excerpts from her films are on permanent display in the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, and have screened in film festivals internationally. Most recently, she directed the film, Mapping Regalia in Hupacasath Territory, which debuted at the Textile Society of America's Biennial Conference Film Festival. Prior to her work on the Northwest Coast, Professor Green earned a Master of Science in Textiles from the University of California--Davis where she researched fashion and gender expression at the Burning Man Festival. During her undergraduate program at Cornell University she studied fashioned youth subcultures and completed an honors thesis about redesigning 4-H clothing club curriculum for the 21st century.

In her curatorial practice, Professor Green uses fashion to engage with important social, cultural, and political issues. She recently co-curated (with Alison Rittershaus), Fashioning the Bounds of Free Speech as part of the university's 2023-2024 academic theme year on freedom of expression. In 2022, she collaborated with Cornell's Human Sexuality Collection to co-curate Threads of Life, Love, and Loss as part of the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial and Cornell University Library's annual theme year, Threads of History. This exhibition also included an original documentary film directed by Professor Green, Echoes of Enduring Love. She also curated Fashion & Feathers (2019 - 2020) in collaboration with colleagues at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates and the Lab of Ornithology. Professor Green's award-winning exhibitions include The Biggest Little Fashion City: Ithaca and Silent Film Style (2016, recipient of the Richard Martin Award) and Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century (2017, recipient of the Betty Kirke Excellence in Research Award). She was the faculty advisor for WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline (2018), which received international media attention and was part of the Cornell Council for the Arts 2018 Biennial. Professor Green also serves as the faculty advisor for the Charlotte A. Jirousek Research Fellowship in the CF+TC and mentors students curating historical fashion exhibitions. Curatorial, research, and public outreach aspects of the CF+TC are chronicled on social media, including a Facebook, Instagram (@cornellfashioncollection), and the CF+TC blog.

Professor Green is an award-winning filmmaker and previous films include Histakshitl Ts'awaatskwii - We Come from One Root (2010, recipient of the Jean Rouch Award for Ethnographic Filmmaking and Best Documentary at the Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival), Mamuu - To Weave/To Work (2013), Somewhere in Between (2009, recipient of Best Documentary award at the UC Davis Student Film Festival), Fifty-Fifty (2009), and Wash and Reuse: Textiles in the Hospital Setting (2009, funded by the National Science Foundation). Professor Green's graduate students are also active filmmakers, and recent films include #NATURALDYE (2017, directed by Kelsie Doty) and Dedicada a Margarita (2016, directed by Amanda Denham).

In addition to ethnographic, curatorial, and documentary work, Professor Green also engages in creative design practice. In 2015, she founded the Cornell Natural Dye Garden and accompanying Natural Dye Studio, and since then has focused her textile and garment design around the production and use of natural dyes. Her most recent collection, Articles of Displacement, was displayed both locally and internationally. She, along with her students, collaborated with fashion companies Wool & Prince and Sies Marjan to create naturally-dyed collections. Professor Green's innovative work in natural dyes, particularly around activewear applications, have been covered in Women's Wear Daily.

Professor Green's research, creative design scholarship, and teaching focus on social and cultural aspects of fashion and textiles.

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Research activities

Research areas: anthropological studies of style and fashion; history of dress and textiles; ethnographic practice; documentary film production; Native American textiles and regalia; history of anthropology; textile printing and dyeing; space and place studies; museum studies and curatorial practice

Professor Green is formally trained in textile and apparel design, anthropology, museum studies and video production. She uses ethnography in combination with archival and museum-based research methods to explore socio-cultural aspects of style, fashion, and dress. She is working on a number of projects at the intersection of anthropology and fashion studies, including research on Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations' ceremonial textiles and fashion design, phenomenology and hot yoga practice, as well as historical research about pop culture icons, including silent film serial queen heroines and singer-songwriters.

Since 2009, Professor Green has studied ceremonial textiles and regalia produced by the Hupacasath First Nation, an Indigenous group from what is now called the Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Her research and documentary film production examines how textiles and dress produce declarations of territorial rights and ceremonial privileges, records of kinship, inter-tribal and colonial histories, and relationships between families, communities, and place. She is currently a consulting scholar for the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society (APS) library, and working to reconnect Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations families more broadly with archival records at the APS.

In her previous research, Professor Green has examined subcultural style and identity negotiation through fashion at the Burning Man Project, 4-H sewing clubs, Northern California roller derby leagues, and small-town communities. She is currently working on an ethnographic project about regular hatha yoga practitioners and how/why yoga practice may transform bodily perceptions and impact clothing choices in everyday life. Professor Green is also interested in histories of fiber, textile and apparel manufacturing in the United States, particularly sericulture and silk production in places like the Auburn Prison and in Northampton, MA. She has recently published a paper about Corticelli Silks and their design collaboration with Irene Castle (1917 - 1927), which is the earliest evidence of a film star developing a self-named fashion brand. In much of her research, Professor Green uses exhibition design, documentary film production, or other forums to make scholarship public and accessible. She directs the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection (CFTC) and works with faculty, students, and visiting scholars to use the collection for exhibitions, research, and classroom teaching. Recent exhibitions include, WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline, TEXTURE, Go Figure: The Fashion Silhouette and the Female Form, Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century, Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and The Biggest Little Fashion City: Ithaca and Silent Film Style.

Teaching and advising statement

In the field of fashion studies, we prepare our students to think critically about the dressed body and to innovate through creative problem solving in order to improve lives. Fashioned bodies are part of cultural, economic, and scientific worlds, which means our students must understand social psychology, anthropology, human behavior, and cultural studies alongside design, aesthetics, textile science, policy, anthropometry, emerging technologies, fit, and technical design. Our field is interdisciplinary and multi-faceted; therefore, the learning environment must challenge students to approach fashion, textiles, accessories, and bodily modifications from multiple perspectives. Students thrive when faced with intellectual and theoretical provocation. In my teaching, I encourage students to question what they take for granted as “natural” or “normal” by embracing diverse perspectives and productive debate. Fashion, technologies, and human behavior in the modern world are rapidly changing; therefore, our students must use both intellect and creativity to keep ahead of the curve. The university setting provides an ideal laboratory for students to embrace intellectual challenge, take risks, and make positive change through design.

Courses taught

Selected publications

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES

Kaiser, Susan B. and Denise N. Green (2022) Fashion and Cultural Studies. 2nd Edition. London: Bloomsbury.

Green, Denise N. and Kelly Reddy-Best (2022) “Curatorial Reflections,” co-edited special issue of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty.

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2017) “Fashion and Appropriation,” co-edited special issue of Journal of Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 2.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Roberts, Kat, Jeffrey Palmer, and Denise N. Green (accepted, expected Feb. 2025) “Sustainable Studio Visit: 3 Women.” Fashion Studies Research Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 2. DOI: 10.38055/FS050204.

Xepoleas, Lynda and Denise N. Green (2024) “Native Agency in Creating Clothing and Textiles for the New York State Museum’s Iroquois Indian Groups, 1909 – 1915.” Dress: Journal of the Costume Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2024.2314863

Doty, Kelsie, Denise N. Green, and Sherry Harr (2024) “Natural Dyes in United States Apparel Manufacturing: An Exploration of Natural Dye Use Through the Lens of the Circuit of Style-Fashion-Dress,” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X241229

Stanciel, Ginger, Kelly Reddy-Best, Joshua Simon, Kyra Streck, Dyese Matthews, Denise N. Green, and Jennifer Gordon (2024) “Radical Structural Change in North American Dress and Textile Museums and Collections: Critically Analyzing Social Justice, Oppression, and Empowerment.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X221132009

Reddy-Best, Kelly, Andrew Reilly, Kyra Streck, Denise N. Green, Kristen Morris, and Kelsie Doty (2023) “Chest-Binding Practices for Trans and Nonbinary Individuals within Different Spatiotemporalities: Redefining the Meanings of Space, Place, and Time.” Journal of Fashion Theory. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2023.2196761

Green, Denise N. and Nancy E. Breen (2021) “Silk Mania in the Auburn Prison.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America. Vol. 47, Issue 2, 155-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2021.1877975

Getman, Rachel, Denise N. Green, Kavita Bala, Utkarsh Mall, Nehal Rawat, Sonia Appasamy, and Bharath Hariharan (2021) “Machine Learning (ML) For Tracking Fashion Trends: Documenting the Frequency of the Baseball Cap on Social Media and the Runway.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 4, 281-296. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20931195

Green, Denise N., Blumenkamp, Catherine, and Frances Kozen (2021) “Facemasking Behaviors, Preferences, and Attitudes of Emerging Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Factor Analysis” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Volume 39, Issue 3, 216-231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X211006775

Reddy-Best, Kelly, Denise N. Green, and Kelsie Doty, and (2021). “Fashioned Bodies in Roller Derby League Logos: Critical Analysis of Race, Gender, Body Size and Position, and Aesthetics.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 3, 190-205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20930086

Doty, Kelsie, Denise N. Green, and Dehanza Rodgers (2020) “#NaturalDye.” Fashion Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Article 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.38055/FS030107

Denham, Amanda, and Denise N. Green (2020) “Her Eyes, My Body: Negotiating Embodiment Through Maya Backstrap Weaving.” Journal of Fashion, Style, & Popular Culture, Vol. 7, No. 1, 125-141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc_00008_1

Green, Denise N., Jenny Leigh Du Puis, Lynda Xepoleas, Chris Hesselbein, Katherine Greder, Victoria Pietsch, Rachel Getman, and Jessica Guadalupe Estrada (2019). “Fashion Exhibitions as Scholarship: Evaluation Criteria for Peer Review.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19888018

Green, Denise N. (2019) “An Archival Ethnography of Sapir’s “Nootka” (Nuu-chah-nulth) Texts, Correspondence, and Fieldwork through the Douglas Thomas Drawings.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 66, Issue 2, 353-384. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7299985

Green, Denise N., Susan B. Kaiser, Kelsie Doty, and Kyra Streck (2019) “Both Sides Now: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968 – 1976.” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X19830203

Chapin, Chloe, Denise N. Green, and Samuel Neuberg (2019) “Exhibiting Gender: Exploring the Dynamic Relationships between Fashion, Gender, and Mannequins in Museum Display.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 45, Issue 1: 75-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1551282

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Producing Place and Declaring Rights Through Thliitsapilthim (Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations’ Ceremonial Curtains).” Textile: Cloth and Culture, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 72-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2018.1495349

Green, Denise N. (2017) “The Best Known and Best Dressed Woman in America: Irene Castle and Silent Film Style.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 77-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1352160

Green, Denise N. (2016) Cornell’s Sesquicentennial: An Exhibition of Campus Style. Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 43 – 62.

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2016) “Men, Masculinity, and Style in 2008: A Study of Men’s Clothing Considerations in the Latter Aughts.” Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Vol. 3, Issue 2: 125 – 140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.125_1

Satinsky, Emily and Denise N. Green (2016) “Negotiating Identities in the Furry Fandom Through Costuming.” Joint special issue of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture and Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion Vol. 3, Issue 2: 107 – 124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csmf.3.2.107_1

Green, Denise N. (2014) “A Pair of Hinkiits’am (Serpent Headdresses).” Otsego Institute 2010 Alumni Review. http://www.otsegoinstitute.org/denise-nicole-green.html

Green, Denise N., Van Dyk Lewis, and Charlotte Jirousek (2013) “Fashion Cultures in a Small Town: An Analysis of Fashion- and Place-Making.” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Vol. 4, Issue 1: 71 - 106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb.4.1-2.71_1

Green, Denise N. (2011) “Mamuu—La Pratique du Tissage / Mamuu—The Practice of Weaving.” Cahiers métiers d'art / Craft Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 37 - 59. (Published in French and English, print only.)

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2011) “From Ephemeral to Everyday Costuming: Negotiations in Masculine Identities at the Burning Man Project.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 37, Issue 1: 1 – 22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/036121112X13099651318548

BOOK CHAPTERS

Green, Denise N. (2024) “Articles of Displacement.” In Mardelle Shepley (ed.) Peace by Design. Routledge/Architectural Press.

Kaiser, Susan B. and Denise N. Green (2024) “Face Masks in Context: Ambiguities, Anxieties, and Asymmetries in Covid Times.” In Guowen Song (eds) Designing Advanced Respiratory Protective Devices for Pandemics: performance, mechanism and future perspectives. Springer Publishing. 221 – 237. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95316-0.00009-8

Du Puis, Jenny Leigh, Rachel Getman, Green, Denise N., Christopher Hesselbein, Victoria Pietsch, and Lynda Xepoleas (2023) “Curating Empowerment: Navigating Challenges in Feminism and Fashion Exhibitions.” In Ben Barry and Deborah Christel (eds.) Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution. London: Intellect Publishing.

Green, Denise N. (2020) “Sayach’apis and the Naani (Grizzly Bear) Crest.” In Aldona Jonaitis and Katherine Bunn-Marcuse (eds.) Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 259-273.

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2020) “Taking Offense: A Discussion of Fashion, Appropriation, and Cultural Insensitivity.” In Sara Marcketti and Elena Karpova (eds.) The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions. London: Bloomsbury: 143 – 160.

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on ethnographic practice in the archive of Dr. Susan Golla.” In Regna Darnell and Frederic Gleach (eds.) Histories of Anthropology Annual: Local Knowledge, Global Stage. Vol. X: 273 – 301.

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Fashion(s) from the Northwest Coast: Nuu-chah-nulth Design Iterations.” In Miguel Angel Gardetti and Subramanian Senthikannan (eds.) Ethnic (Aboriginal) Fashion. New York: Springer Publishing: 19 – 46.

Kaiser, Susan B. and Denise N. Green (2016) “Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Fashion Studies: Philosophical Underpinning and Multiple Masculinities.” In Heike Jenss (ed.) Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices. London: Bloomsbury: 160 – 180.

INVITED ESSAYS

Green, Denise N. (2024) “Trendsetters and Trailblazers: Fashion in the Field of Home Economics.” In Howard Zar (ed.) Influencers: 1920s Fashion and the New Woman. Lyndhurst.

Green, Denise N. (2024) “The Castle Craze: Fashion’s Groundbreaking Celebrity Influencer.” In Haward Zar (ed.) Influencers: 1920s Fashion and the New Woman. Lyndhurst.

Green, Denise N. (2022) “Peerless and Fearless: Fashions in Serial Queen Melodramas,” in Making Noise About Silent Film: Conversations About Cinema, Culture, and Social Change. https://www.fingerlakesfilmtrail.org/fearless-peerless-fashions-in-silent-serials

Green, Denise N. and Kelly Reddy-Best (2022) “Introduction: Critical Curatorial Reflections in North American Fashion Collections,” in “Curatorial Reflections” special issue of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty: 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00035_2

Green, Denise N. (2020) “Dykes in the City Tank Top: Archiving Fashion Media.” In Media Objects: Bodies/Intimacies. https://mediastudies.as.cornell.edu/dykes-city-archiving-fashion-media

Green, Denise N. (2019) “Fashion and Fearlessness in the Wharton Studio’s Silent Film Serials, 1914 - 1918.” Framework Vol. 60, issue 1, 83-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.60.1.0083

Mamp, Michael, Ariele Elia, Sara Tatayana Bernstein, Laurie Anne Brewer, and Denise N. Green (2018). “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Engaging Labor, Acknowledging Maker.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 44, Issue 2: 133-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1507345

Mida, Ingrid, Denise N. Green, and Abby Lillethun (2017) “Scholars’ Roundtable Presentation – Technology: Friend or Foe?” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 43, Issue 2: 119 – 138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2017.1357274

Green, Denise N. and Susan B. Kaiser (2017) “Introduction: Fashion and Appropriation.” Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 2: 145-150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc.4.2.145_2

Green, Denise N. (2013) “Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations’ Huulthin (Shawls): Historical and Contemporary Practices.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 39, Issue 2: 153 - 201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/0361211213Z.00000000016

REVIEWS

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion.” DRESS: Journal of the Costume Society of America, Vol. 44, Issue 1: 69-71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03612112.2018.1430711

Green, Denise N. (2017) “Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present.” International Journal of Fashion Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 1: 95-97. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1386/infs.4.1.95_7

Green, Denise N. (2016) “This is Our Life.” Native American Studies and Indigenous Studies Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1: 151-153. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/635776

CURATORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Green, Denise N. and Catherine Blumenkamp (Dec. 1 2023 – Dec. 1, 2025) From Head to Toe: Sparkling Serial Queens. Exhibition collaboration with the Wharton Studio Museum and the Tompkins County Center for History and Culture.

Green, Denise N. and Alison Rittershaus (Sept. 28, 2023 – Jan. 26, 2024) Fashioning the Bounds of Free Speech. Exhibition collaboration between the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art as part of Cornell University’s 2023 – 2024 academic theme year: “The Indispensable Condition: Freedom of Expression at Cornell.”

Green, Denise N. (Oct. 25 – Nov. 16, 2022) Tiger Balm and Other Boxes. Solo exhibition of artist Sabeen Omar’s work, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Green, Denise N. (faculty advisor) and students in FSAD 6451 (Dec. 6, 2022 - Feb. 14, 2023). Sounding Fashion. Rachel Doral '19 Display Cases, Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection.

Green, Denise N., Marston, Brenda, and Michael Mamp (Aug. 15 – Dec. 1, 2022) Threads of Life, Love, and Loss: An HIV/AIDS Story. Exhibition collaboration between Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection and the Human Sexuality Collection as part of the Cornell University Library’s “Year of Textiles” exhibitions in 2022-23.

Green, Denise N. and Diana Riesman (July 2 – Feb. 27, 2021) Serial Style: The Business of Being Irene Castle, Wharton Studio Museum and Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection contribution to Breaking Barriers: Women’s Lives and Livelihoods (curated by Cindy Kjellander-Cantu), Tompkins Center for History and Culture, Ithaca, NY.

Roberts, Kat, Christine McDonald, Mona Maher, Joshua Johnson, Denise N. Green, and Rick Geddes (March 15 - July 31, 2021) Fashion in Transit. Human Ecology Display Cases, Cornell University.

Green, Denise N. and Patrizia Sione (January 15 – December 31, 2020) Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century. American Labor Museum, Patterson, NJ.

Green, Denise N., John Fitzpatrick, and Vanya Rohwer (Oct. 1, 2019 – January 20, 2020). Fashion & Feathers. Human Ecology Display Cases, Cornell University.

Green, Denise N. (faculty advisor) and students in FSAD 6415 (Dec. 6, 2018 – March 31, 2019). WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline. Human Ecology Display Cases, Cornell University.

Green, Denise N. and Patrizia Sione (August 31 – November 3, 2017) Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century. Human Ecology Display Cases and Kheel Center Display Cases in Catherwood Library, Cornell University.

Green, Denise N. (September 29 – December 3, 2016) 100 Years of Fashion Studies: Beulah Blackmore and the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection. Human Ecology Display Cases, Cornell University.

Green, Denise N. (April 8, 2016 – August 15, 2016) The Biggest Little (Fashion) City: Ithaca and Silent Film Style. Human Ecology Display Cases, Cornell University.

Green, Denise (October 15 – January 10, 2014) The Media of Design. Fiber Science and Apparel Design lobby galleries, Human Ecology Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Green, Denise N., Jirousek, Charlotte A. and Van Dyk Lewis (November 2006 – May 2007) Street Fashion and Youth Subculture: An Ethnographic Costume Exhibition. Elizabeth Schmeck-Brown Costume and Textile Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Jirousek, Charlotte and Denise N. Green (August – November 2006) Gatsby’s Closet: Dress and Character in The Great Gatsby. Elizabeth Schmeck-Brown Costume and Textile Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Green, Denise N. and Nighat Yousuf (August 4 – 6, 2006) Screen-Printed Textiles Inspired by the Jameel Gallery. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.

CREATIVE DESIGN SCHOLARSHIP (JURIED)

Green, Denise N. (2023) Articles of Displacement. Solo exhibition at The Fashion Gallery, School of Fashion in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Juried by the Fashion Gallery Academic Committee. On display April 4 – 26, 2023.

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Some Like It Hot: Naturally-Dyed Yoga Apparel.” International Textile and Apparel Association 2018 Design Exhibition – Professional Level, Cleveland, Ohio.

Green, Denise N. (2018) “It Gets Better with Age.” International Textile and Apparel Association 2018 Design Exhibition – Professional Level, Cleveland, Ohio.

Green, Denise N. and Haa’yuups (Ron Hamilton) (2018) “Unification of Naasquuisaqs and Tl’aakwakumlth.” International Textile and Apparel Association 2018 Design Exhibition – Professional Level, Cleveland, Ohio.

Green, Denise N. (2018) “Mapping Regalia in Hupacasath Territory.” 13-minute documentary film.

Green, Denise N. (2016) “Resist.” International Textile and Apparel Association 2016 Design Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Green, Denise N. (2016). “Primaries in Square.” International Textile and Apparel Association 2016 Design Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Green, Denise N. (2013) “Mamuu: To Work/To Weave.” 22-minute ethnographic film, produced by the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC.

Green, Denise N., Beza Feleke and Joy Wong (2010) “Misago.” 10-minute ethnographic film, produced by the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC.

Green, Denise N., and Chuuchkamalthnii (Ron Hamilton) (2010) “Histakshitl Ts’awaatskwii (We Come from One Root).” 67-minute ethnographic film, produced by the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC.

Green, Denise N. and Sarah R. McCullough (2009) “Fifty-Fifty.” 8-minute documentary film, produced by the Division of Textiles and Clothing at the University of California—Davis and in collaboration with the Sac City Rollers.

Green, Denise N. (2008) “Somewhere in Between.” 29-minute ethnographic film, produced by the Division of Textiles and Clothing, University of California—Davis.

Professional activities

Director, Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection

Chair, Curatorial Exhibition Scholarship Committee, International Textile and Apparel Association

Faculty and Graduate Field Member, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell University

Faculty and Graduate Field Member, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell University

Graduate Field Member, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Faculty and Graduate Field Member, American Studies Program, Cornell University

Associate Faculty Member, South Asia Program, Cornell University

Faculty Member, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program, Cornell University

Editorial Board, Fashion Studies

Faculty Advisory Committee, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Consulting Scholar, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, American Philosophical Society

Faculty Fellow, Cornell Institute of Fashion and Fiber Innovation

Faculty Fellow, Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts

Reviewer, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal

Reviewer, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

Reviewer, Dress: Journal of the Costume Society of America

Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Public engagement activities

As Director of the Cornell Fashion & Textile Collection Professor Green curates, advises, and oversees the production of fashion exhibitions in the Human Ecology Building Terrace Level Display Cases, which are free and open to the public. In 2019, we mounted three exhibitions: WOMEN EMPOWERED: Fashions from the Frontline (December 2018 - March 2019, curated by students in Professor Green's class, FSAD 6415 Anthropology of the Fashioned Body), Revolution and Restraint: Reconstructing Masculinity Through Menswear (May 10 - Sept. 10, 2019, curated by Victoria Pietsch '19 and supervised by Dr. Green), and Fashion & Feathers (Oct. 1, 2019 - Jan. 20, 2020, curated by Denise N. Green, John Fitzpatrick and Vanya Rohwer). In 2018 we mounted Go Figure: The Fashion Silhouette and the Female Form (November 2017 - July 2018, curated by Rachel Doran '19 and supervised by Dr. Green), TEXTURE (August 2018 - October 2018, curated by Amanda Denham MA '17 and supervised by Dr. Green). Our current exhibition on display is Black Excellence: Fashion that Prevails, curated by Sian Brown '20 and funded by the Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship.

In addition to the Cornell Fashion & Textile Collection's public engagement on campus, Professor Green and the CFTC team have worked with local historical societies, archives, and museums through collaborative projects and loans. These include the New York Historical Society Museum and Library, Olana State Historic Site, Lyndhurst National Historic Site, Mark Twain House & Museum, Seward House Museum and the Yates County History Center.

Professor Green has also given interviews and been featured in the national and international media for her exhibitions and research about fashion and social issues. She has been featured on National Public Radio, Vice.com, Elle Canada, and The Washington Times, Her exhibitions have been covered by CNN, Teen Vogue, Fox News, CBS News, Hollywood Reporter, and Quartzy, among other media outlets.

In addition to our galleries, the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection engages the public through various social media platforms that I maintain and update. We publish content to our Instagram - @cornellcostumecollection - and Facebook pages. Professor Green serves as the primary editor for these pages, as well as the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection blog. In 2018, the CCTC blog included 25 posts: 7 authored by undergraduate students, 7 authored by faculty/staff, 3 authored by alumni, and 8 interviews with undergraduate research assistants.

Professor Green also participates in public engagement by giving lectures and organizing educational programs. She frequently tours current CFTC exhibitions with local community groups and schools. In October 2019, for example, nearly 200 6th graders toured the Fashion & Feathers exhibition over a two-day period. Professor Green also gives lectures to local interest groups, which in 2019 included the Finger Lakes Antiques Club, the Ithaca Garden Club, and the Cornell Club of Ithaca. Her extension work includes youth development, and in February 2019 she traveled to NYC to give the keynote for the GOALS for Girls program at the Intrepid Museum. Her educational work beyond that classroom also included a collaboration with the Cornell Prison Education Program in 2019: Professor Green and students organized a guest lecture and musical performance by Ani DiFranco at a nearby medium security prison.

In addition to educational lectures and exhibitions, Professor Green engages in creative design scholarship that has a local, community impact. Since 2016, Professor Green has coordinated the Cornell Natural Dye Studio and Cornell Natural Dye Garden, both of which are entities that serve students, local artists, fashion designers, and the broader community through public exhibitions and gardens. In 2019, the Cornell Natural Dye Studio collaborated with New York label Sies Marjan on textiles for their F/W 2020 collection, which were contact-dyed with fresh foliage from the Natural Dye Garden and local farmers.

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