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Cover of books Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora and Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflection in Art, Literature, and Film

New Anthologies Explore the Ideas of Home and Homeland

January 14, 2025 Kim Masibay Diversity, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Jean Amato, professor of English and Communication Studies, and Kyunghee Pyun, professor of Art History and Museum Professions, have co-edited […]

Praveen Chaudhry Exhibits in Major Group Show in India

February 12, 2024 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Praveen Chaudhry, Social Sciences, was recently selected to exhibit his photographs in Luminous Reveries, a new show in Haryana, India. […]

A woman squats, modeling traditional Korean clothing in a red and white color scheme

Kyunghee Pyun Describes How Korean Fashion Went Global at GWU Colloquium

January 16, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

History of Art Associate Professor Kyunghee Pyun delivered a talk about modern Korean fashion as part of a daylong symposium […]

Kyunghee Pyun and poster for V&A's Fashion Masculinities exhibition

Kyunghee Pyun’s Research on Dandyism Receives Recognition at Symposium

October 27, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Professor Kyunghee Pyun’s research into hybrid dandyism across history is finding broad recognition in academia and museums around the world. […]

Kyunghee Pyun alongside a flyer for her talk

A Uniform Style

May 22, 2022 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Kyunghee Pyun, History of Art, gave a talk at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson on April 5. Titled “Identity Building […]

Textbook on Mannequins Features Two FIT Educators

November 22, 2021 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Graduate Studies, School of Liberal Arts

In fashion exhibitions, one usually focuses on the clothes, not the stiff figures wearing them. But a recent new book, […]

mannequins wearing Korean school uniforms

Do Uniforms Signal Conformity? A Faculty Member Says No

February 23, 2021 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

When children wear school uniforms, how much do they forfeit their individual identities? On Feb. 4, Kyunghee Pyun, associate professor, […]

A Faculty Member’s Images of Vanishing Nomadic Tribes

February 28, 2020 Alex Joseph College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Featured, School of Liberal Arts

In the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, Yörük nomads live largely according to the needs of their livestock, sometimes traveling hundreds […]

Kyunghee Pyun to Speak in Taiwan About Sustainable Fashion

November 14, 2019 Laura Hatmaker Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Liberal Arts

Kyunghee Pyun, History of Art, will speak at the 2019 Orange Beneficence–International Conference at the College of Fashion and Textiles, Fu […]

Exhibition Documenting Lives of Nomads and Weavers by Chaudhry and Pyun Begins Tour

October 11, 2019 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Liberal Arts

In September, the continuing work of Praveen Chaudhry, Social Sciences, was on view in an exhibition titled Vanishing Community, Vanishing Cultures: The […]