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  • Romana Mirza

    Assistant Professor of Fashion Management and Social Justice

    Email
    mirzar@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    Parsons Faculty Hotseat

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    Romana Mirza

    Profile

    Romana brings over 25 years of experience in the creative industries as a marketing executive and brand strategist. She has overseen multi-million-dollar product launches and supervised the creative direction for branded environment spaces across the United States. Romana has collaborated with world-renowned designers and spearheaded the launch of international design brands in the North American market. Her scholarly work is dedicated to transforming narrow understandings and stereotypes of marginalized bodies to promote inclusion. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Communication  and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she previously taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the School of Fashion.


    Degrees Held

    MA, Fashion - Toronto Metropolitian University - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    BA, Philosophy - University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada


    Recent Publications

    PEER REVIEWED

    Mirza, R.B. (2024). Women undercover: Exploring the intersectional identities of Muslim women through modest fashion. International Journal of Fashion Studies. https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00112_1

    Mirza, R. B. (2019) Contemporizing Modesty. Fashion Studies, 1(2), 1-17. Retrieved from https://www.fashionstudies.ca/contemporizing-modesty.

     

    EDITORIAL REVIEWED

    2020    Rexhepi, P., Musleh, S., & Mirza, R. (August 14). Bandung Before and After: Islam, the Islamicate and the De/colonial. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies Blog. https://www.criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/bandung-before-and-after/

    2020    Mirza, Romana B. Brothers and Sisters. Barefruit: A Collection of POC Stories, Poems, Art and More. Story Center. https://www.storycenter.org/barefruit-stories/3

    2010    Mirza, Romana B. Communications and Technology for Modern Practice. What is a Brand? In Maurer, Terri L. (Ed.) and Weeks, Katie (Ed.) Interior Design in Practice: Case Studies of Successful Business Models (pp. 60-62). New York, NY: Wiley.

     


    Research Interests

    fashion diversity, gender studies, inclusion, social justice, fashion studies, arts-engaged research, intersectionality, orientalism, faith and fashion, decolonization


    Awards And Honors

    2024-25      Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Student Fellowship

    2021-24     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award, Government of Canada.

    2019-21     Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Student Fellowship. 

    2019          MRP Book Award for academic excellence in the Master of Arts in Fashion Program, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.

    2019          Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Popular Culture Association Endowment.

    2018          Book Prize for History Theory II for academic excellence in the Master of Arts in Fashion Program, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University.

    2017-19     Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Fellowship, Toronto Metropolitan University. 


    Future Courses

    Entrepreneurship
    PMFM 5040, Fall 2025

    Global & Local Leadership
    PMFM 5060, Spring 2026

    Individual Research
    PMFM 5010, Fall 2025

    Professional Development
    PMFM 5910, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Entrepreneurship
    PMFM 5040, Fall 2024

    Individual Research
    PMFM 5010, Fall 2024

    Professional Development
    PMFM 5910, Spring 2025

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