Doctoral Students

Todd Nicewonger

Program: Applied Anthropology

Degree: Ph.D.

Previous Graduate Education: M.A. Adult Education, M.Ed. Anthropology and Education

Research Interests: Design Socialization and Education, Fashion, Innovation, Hope, and Social Linguistics

Geographical Interests: Northern Europe and North America

Publications:
Author, The Socialization of Cultural Production: an ethnographic perspective on studying the acquisition of design practices in Flemish fashion.  Edited volume. Flanders FashionMuseum: Belgium (forthcoming)

Author, Introduction. In Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp Fashion Department Catalogue, 2007

Author, Essay: Worlds within Worlds. In Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp Fashion Department Catalogue, 2007

Presentations:
Co-Panel Organizer/Chair, Revisiting the Beauty/Justice Debate and Anthropology's Place In It: New Ethnographies of Aesthetic Practices and Industries. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 2008

Paper Presenter, Socializing Design as an Ethical Practice: Beauty and Object-Love among Apprenticing Fashion Designers. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 2008

Lecture, The Socialization of Cultural Production an ethnographic perspective on studying the acquisition of design practices in Flemish fashion, Modus Operandi Symposium. Antwerp, Belgium October 2007

Poster Presenter, Design Socialization: an exploration into the relationship between language and innovation among apprenticing fashion designers, International Pragmatics Association. Gotenburg, Sweden July 2007

Paper Presenter, Imaginary Horizons and Temporality: Queries and Reflections on the Acquisition of Fashion Design Practices. University of Antwerp IPrA Research Center Department of Linguistics Working Group.  Antwerp, Belgium May 2007

Paper Presenter, Understanding Practice: an ethnographic investigation into the acquisition of design skills and the production of knowledge in Flemish fashion. University of Antwerp IPrA Research Center Department of Linguistics Working Group.  Antwerp, Belgium Oct. 2006

Co-Panel Chair, Fashion Reality TV: Fashion as Product, Fashion as Process. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. Nov. 2005

Paper Presenter, Converging Mediations: Framing the Fashion Narrative. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. Nov. 2005

Paper Presenter, Bodies by Design: Cultural Production in Design Education. Teachers College Culture Matters: Cultural Studies and Education Conference. New York, NY Apr. 2005

Paper Presenter, African student experiences in a Midwestern college community. National Association of Ethnic Studies. Vancouver, Canada Nov. 2002

Co-presenter, Multicultural Competencies & the Kansas State University Tilford Group. Professional and Organizational Development Association. Vancouver, Canada Nov. 2000

Co-presenter, On Multicultural Competency Development. Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity & Multiculturalism. Kansas City, Mo. Oct. 2000

Co-presenter, Business and Industry, Multicultural Competencies and Higher Education. Association of American Colleges & Universities & National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Diversity: A Catalyst for Institutional Collaboration Wheaton College, Mass. July 1999

Awards and Research Fellowships:
RTG Spencer Research Grant, Teachers College, 2008

Wenner-Gren Foundation Individual Research Grant, 2007

Fulbright Scholar, US-Belgium Commission, 2006

Dean’s Grant, Teachers College, Columbia University 2006

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellow, 2002

Flemish Community Fellowship (declined), Belgium Government, 2006

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Kansas State University, 1999