Prof. Emanuela Scarpellini
University of Milan, Italy
Biography:
Emanuela Scarpellini is Professor of Modern History at the University of Milan, Ph.D. in History of European Society, Milan.
She was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University, and she was Kratter Professor at Stanford University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at Georgetown University (Washington). She was Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution), Washington DC.
Emanuela Scarpellini has presented papers at many international conferences in Europe, in the USA and Asia.
She is the founder and Director of the Research Centre MIC for Fashion, Image, and Consumer Culture at the University of Milan, an institution promoting scientific studies and initiatives also in connections with fashion companies. She is also Director of the Raffaele Mattioli Library for the History of Economic Thought. In 2022, she won a European-funded project on Sustainable Luxury, Fashion and Design (MUSA), exploring the new frontiers of economic and digital sustainability.
Her interests concern the economic and social aspects of the consumer society, as well as business and economic history. Her last works are about the consumer’s history in the twentieth/twenty-first century: economic and material culture, history of Italian food, new developments of fashion and design.
She wrote more than 150 publications, including:
- The Italian Look, or the Democratization of Fashion, in The Routledge companion to fashion studies, E. Paulicelli, V. Manlow, E. Wissinger eds., London, Routledge, 2022
- The End of Mass Market and the Age of Segmentation, Entreprise & Histoire, 2019
- Italian Fashion since 1945: A Cultural History, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 265
- Material Nation. A Consumer's History of Modern Italy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 276.