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FIT Welcomes 23 New Full-Time Faculty Members at Fall 2025 Convocation

August 18, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, School of Graduate Studies, School of Liberal Arts

For fall 2025, FIT welcomed 23 new classroom and non-classroom faculty members. Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Yasemin Jones […]

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‘Sourcing Journal’ Spotlights FIT Materials Scientist’s Biotextile

August 4, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design, School of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor of Science and Math Theanne Schiros’ bioleather is finding broader recognition. Recently, Sourcing Journal’s 2025 Material Innovations Report […]

Hilary Davidson and the Jane Austen pelisse she reconstructed on a dress form

Hilary Davidson’s Jane Austen Expertise on Full Display

July 9, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Graduate Studies

A silk pelisse coat created by Associate Professor Hilary Davidson, chair of FIT’s Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum […]

newly designed Vibrant Health logos and typefaces

Yeh and Shin Win Muse Creative Awards for Rebranding Project

June 23, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design

C.J. Yeh and Christie Shin, both professors of Creative Technology and Design, led a Vibrant Health rebranding project that was […]

Co-director of FIT Dance Company Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson smiles at the camera. She has her black hair in a topknot and wears a black open blazer with a navy blue scoop-neck top underneath.

Dance Team Co-Director Performs in Off-Broadway Musical

May 2, 2025 Kim Masibay Athletics, College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Quiantae Mapenzi Johnson (née Thomas), co-director of the FIT Dance Company team, is a member of the ensemble cast in the […]

Actor Claybourne Elder photographed by FIT Professor Ron Amato.

Ron Amato Photographs Actor Claybourne Elder for ‘Out’

April 21, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Art & Design

Professor Ron Amato’s photos of The Gilded Age star Claybourne Elder ran recently in an Out magazine fashion feature. The […]

Portrait of a child with his pet rabbit.

Adrian Jones’ Photographs Receive Honors at Gallery Shows

March 14, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff

Assistant Professor Adrian Jones, a fine arts and commercial photographer, as well as a counselor in Career and Internship Services, […]

Alexander Nagel; Nagel accepting award from Iranian officials

Nagel Nabs Iran’s World Book Award for Studies on Ancient Pigments

March 10, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Alexander Nagel, chair, Art History and […]

Wilbekin Moderates a Harlem Renaissance Roundtable

February 21, 2025 Kim Masibay Diversity, Faculty/Staff, FIT in the News, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

In honor of the Harlem Renaissance centennial, Assistant Professor Emil Wilbekin, Marketing Communications, moderated a roundtable with four other Black […]

Amy Lemmon Receives Grant for Travel and Research

February 18, 2025 Kim Masibay Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

In January, Professor Amy Lemmon, a poet and the acting assistant chair of English and Communication Studies, received a 2025 […]