Michael Mamp

Michael Mamp

Director and Curator 海角社区 Textile and Costume Museum
Associate Professor 

141 Human Ecology Building
225-578-1087
mmamp@lsu.edu

Select Honors and Awards

2024 SEMC Silver Exhibition Award

2021 Paper of Distinction Historic Track: 鈥淓thel Wallace: Forgotten Histories of Batik and Fashion,鈥� International Textile and Apparel Association

2019 International Textile and Apparel Association Excellence in Teaching Award

2018 Scholars鈥� Roundtable, Costume Society of America 

Education

PhD, History of Dress 鈥� Iowa State University, 2014

MA, Fashion and Textile Design 鈥� University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998

BA, Apparel, Merchandising, and Design 鈥� Central Michigan University, 1996

Professional Memberships

Costume Society of America
International Textile & Apparel Association

Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC)

Louisiana Historical Association

Historic New Orleans Collection

Costume Society UK

 

Research Statement

Material culture and archival materials inform my exploration of fashion and textiles as historical and cultural phenomena. My primary interests include twentieth-century American fashion and textiles, woman designers, Queer fashion, and Acadian textile traditions. Objects are central to my analysis of the fashioned body across time as a historian, curator, and designer. I disseminate knowledge through publication, curatorial practice, and applied design scholarship.  

Research Interests

  • Fashion and textile history
  • Acadian and Louisiana fashion/textile history
  • Queer theory and fashion
  • Material culture
  • Curatorial practice
  • Surface design

Courses Taught

  • TAM 2080 Queer Fashion

  • TAM 4041 History of Textiles

  • TAM 4071 History of Fashion: Ancient World to 1850

  • TAM 4072 History of Modern Fashion

  • TAM 7071 Fashion Curation & Exhibition

Publications

Stryzynski, Morgan and Michael Mamp. "In Search of Irish Crochet Lace: An Object Based Inquiry." Clothing Cultures (in press).

Johnson, Alicia, Michael Mamp, Alexis Quinney, Austin Reeves, and Joshua Simon. 鈥淨ueering the Fashion Classroom: Intersectional Student Perspectives.鈥� In Fashion and Education: The Systemic Revolution, edited by Ben Barry and Deborah Christel. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.  

Mamp, Michael. 鈥淓thel Wallace: Fashioning Batik.鈥� In Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel, edited by Tara Kauffman, 59-69. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 

Mamp, Michael. 鈥淓thel Wallace: Forgotten Histories of Batik and Fashion.鈥� The Journal of Modern Craft 14, no. 3 (2021): 253-273.

Mamp, Michael. 鈥淔ashioning a 鈥楳ale Actress鈥�: Charles Pierce.鈥� Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America 47, no. 2 (2021): 121-137.  

Simon, Joshua, and Michael Mamp. 鈥溾�楴ostalgic Elegance鈥�: The Enduring Style of the Gibson Girl.鈥� Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America 47, no. 1 (2021): 61鈥�77.

Quinney, Alexis, and Michael Mamp. 鈥淩esistance and Resilience: An Afrocentric Collection of 3D Printed Jewelry and Digitally Printed Head Wraps.鈥� International Journal of Home Economics 13, no. 1 (2020): 107鈥�118.

Mamp, Michael. 鈥淭he People鈥檚 Countess: Fira Benenson.鈥� In The Hidden History of American Fashion: Women Designers in the 20th Century, edited by Nancy Deihl, 89鈥�104. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. 

Strifler, Jennise, and Michael Mamp. 鈥溾�楲et Prudence Plain-Dress Be Your Companion鈥�: Clothing of Female Preachers During the Second Great Awakening (1790鈥�1865).鈥� Clothing Cultures 4, no. 2 (2017): 117鈥�133.

Vanderploeg, Alyson, Seung-Eun Lee, and Michael Mamp. 鈥淭he Application of 3D Printing Technology in the Fashion Industry.鈥� International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education 10, no. 2 (2017): 170鈥�179.

Mamp, Michael, and Sara B. Marcketti. 鈥淐reating a Woman鈥檚 Place: The Bonwit Teller Presidency of  Hortense Odlum, 1934 to 1940.鈥� Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 2, no. 3 (2015): 301鈥�319.

Mamp, Michael, and Sara B. Marcketti. 鈥淢ildred Custin: Bonwit Teller鈥檚 Man of the Year.鈥� Clothing Cultures 2, no. 1 (2015): 9鈥�26.

Curated Exhibitions

Color Me Fashion, 海角社区 Textile & Costume Museum, March 23 - August 15, 2025.

Woven Louisiana History: Acadian Textiles, co-curated with Leah Jewett, 海角社区 Hill Memorial Library, September 13 - December 13, 2024. 
 
Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene, 海角社区 Textile & Costume Museum, May 5, 2024 - January 24, 2025. 
 
Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene - Southern Reflections, 海角社区 Museum of Art, April 26, 2024 - July 3, 2024.
 
Women Fashioning Women, 海角社区 Textile & Costume Museum, October 1, 2023 - March 28, 2024

Threads of Life, Love, and Loss: An HIV/AIDS Story. Co-curators:  Dr. Denise Green of the Department of Human Centered Design and Brenda Marston, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Human Ecology Building. August 15-December 2, 2022. Accepted to International Textile and Apparel Association Curatorial Exhibition Scholarship, Baltimore, MD, November 2023. 

Fashion Future. Fashion designed by students, alumni, and faculty of Central Michigan University in partnership with Detroit Month of Design at the CMU Detroit Outreach Center, Detroit, MI. September 7-30, 2021.

May I Take Your Hat? Hats of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the collection of the department of Textiles, Clothing, & Design at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery November 2-December 5, 1996.