Faculty and Staff for Fashion Studies

Advisor and Administrator

Allison Pfingst is a fashion historian and archivist. She earned her master’s degree in Dress and Textile Histories from the University of Glasgow and her BA in Art History from Fordham University. She also holds a professional designation in Collections Management for Costume and Textiles for which she completed her training at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Her research focuses on the use of dress in constructing and perpetuating female archetypes and stereotypes throughout history.

Sertan Kabadayi
Chair of Marketing, Gabelli School of Business

Jacqueline Reich
Chair of Communications and Media Studies