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JONATHAN MICHAEL SQUARE
squaj264@newschool.edu
School of Art and Design History and Theory
Parsons School of Design
2 West 13th Street, Room L510C
New York, NY 10011
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design, 2021-presently
Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, Harvard University, 2017- 2020
Lecturer, History Department, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
EDUCATION
Ph.D., M.Phil., New York University, History, 2017
M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Latin American Studies, 2008
B.A., Cornell University, History and Comparative Literature, 2005
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Black fashion history; material and visual culture
BOOK PROJECT
Negro Cloth: How Slavery Birthed the American Fashion Industry
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
See my “Writing” Page
EXHIBITIONS
Freedom from Truth: Self Portraits of Nell Painter, 2019-2020
Odalisque Atlas: White History as Told Through Art, 2019-2020
Complicated Stories: The Afterlives of Slavery, 2022-2023
Yet-to-be-named forthcoming exhibition at Winterthur, 2025
DIGITAL HUMANTIES PROJECTS
Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, founder and creative director
Rendering Revolution, co-founder
The Fashion and Race Database, advisory board
Fanm Rebèl, advisory board
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Gerald and Mary Ellen Ritter Memorial Fund Fellow, Costume Institute (2021)
Elson Family Arts Initiative (Fall 2019)
Harvard University Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities (Fall 2017)
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University (Fall 2017-Spring 2018) declined
John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
GSAS Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in History (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
NYU Global Research Initiatives Summer Fellowship in Florence (Summer 2014)
MMUF Predoctoral Research Development Grant (Spring 2013)
GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship (Summer 2012)
Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (Summer 2011)
Tinker Field Research Grant (Summer 2010)
Dean’s Fellowship (Fall 2009-Spring 2014)
NYU MacCracken Fellowship (Fall 2009-Spring 2014)
Lozano Long Study Abroad Travel Grant (Fall 2007)
LLILAS Academic Competitive Scholarship (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
See my “Pedagogy” page for examples of my syllabi
EDITORIAL WORK
International Journal of Fashion Studies Advisory Board, member
Fashion Theory Advisory Board, member
Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love, reviewer
Radical History Review, managing editor (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Model Alliance, board member
RECENT CONFERENCES
Si Wi Yah: Sartorial Representations of the African Diaspora, London School of Fashion, May 4, 2018
Community Curating: Stitching Together the History of a People, Weeksville Heritage Center (Sept. 16, 2017)
Fashioning the Black Body in Bondage and Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center (March 4, 2017)
The World of Prison: The History of Confinement in a Global Perspective, Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century, University of Bern (September 1-10, 2016)
Libertés et esclavages dans le monde atlantique (XIVe-XXe siècle), University of Nantes (June 22-26, 2015)
Reworking Freedom: Graduate Student Workshop on Re-Centering the Enslaved in Histories of the Americas, Columbia University (October 17, 2014)
Questioning Spaces of Citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean, Columbia University (April 11-12, 2014)
Transformative Visions: Confronting Change and Creating Opportunity in Africa and the African Diaspora, 7th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (October 30 - November 2, 2013)
Refashioning Blackness: Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas, 2013 Lozano Long Conference, University of Texas at Austin (February 20–22, 2013)
LANGUAGES
Brazilian Portuguese (reading, writing, & speaking)
Haitian Kreyòl (reading, writing, & speaking)
French (reading, writing)
Spanish (reading)