Paula Hohti

Research interests

• Dress and Fashion History
• Material culture and consumer history
• Italian Renaissance and Early Modern art and culture
• Textile history and global trade in Early Modern Europe
• Experimental research and 'hands-on' approaches to historical research

Major on-going project

• Re-fashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe, 1550-1650 (ERC Consolidator Grant 2016)

BACKGROUND

Research fellowships

• Visiting Research Fellow, Bard Graduate Centre, New York, 2016.
• Marie Curie Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.
• Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2013.
• Visiting Research Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2011.
• Ph.D. Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK, 2001–2006.

Previous research projects

Global Encounters: Fashion, Culture and Foreign Trade in Scandinavia, 1500–1630. Funded by FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Programme, placed at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, 2013–2015.

The Dress of an Artisan: Clothing, Identity and Fashion in Renaissance Italy. Funded by the Academy of Finland postdoctoral Research Fellowship, placed at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2010–2012, and the HERA-funded international project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1850, led by Evelyn Welch, 2011–2014.

Publication:

• ‘Dress, Dissemination and Innovation: Artisan Fashions in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy’, in Welch, E. (ed.) Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1800, Oxford University Press, 2016, 143–165.

The Italian Renaissance of Artisans and Shopkeepers: Culture and Experience. Funded by the Research Fellowship of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2006–2009. Publications: - ‘Conspicuous Consumption and Popular Consumers: Material Culture and Social Status in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, Renaissance Studies, 24, 5, 2010, 654–670. - ‘Cheap Magnificence?: Imitation and Low Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy’, in Kovesi, C. (ed.), Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in the Early Modern World, Brepols, Early European Research Series, forthcoming, 2017. - ‘Hospitality and Home’, in Flather, A. (ed.), A Cultural History of the Home: The Renaissance, 1450–1650, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017.

Material Culture, Shopkeepers and Artisans in Sixteenth-century Siena. Funded by the Academy of Finland 4-year Doctoral Studies Grant and the AHRC and Getty-funded international project, The Material Renaissance: Cost and Consumption in Italy, 1450–1600, led by Evelyn Welch, 2001–2004. Publications: - Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Sussex, UK, 2006. - ‘The Innkeeper’s Goods : The Use and Acquisition of Household Property in Sixteenth Century Siena’, in The Material Renaissance, O’Malley, M. and Welch E. (eds.), Manchester University Press, 2007. - ‘Artisans, Pawn-broking and the Circulation of Material Goods in Sixteenth-Century Siena’, in Siena nel Rinascimento, Nevola, F. et al. (eds.), Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 2009, 271–281.