Hilary Doda is an Assistant Professor in Costume Studies at the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University, where she teaches global dress history.
She is open to full-time work, looking for positions in academia, museums, archives, public history, public service, and other heritage and research-focused institutions.
She holds an Interdisciplinary PhD from Dalhousie University, with a project that examined the development of new clothing vernaculars and the shaping of colonial identity in pre-deportation Acadia. Her research program focuses on the material culture of dress and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world.
Recent publications include an article in Textile History on traditional weaving in Cape Breton, an article in Acadiensis on Acadian needlework tools, and a chapter on early modern spurs and masculinities in the collection Masculinities in Transition in Premodern Europe, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray.
Current projects include the rejuvenation of the Costume Studies museum collection, and an object biography project on an 18th century gown of Spitalfields silk from that collection.
Her book Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650-1750 is available now, from MQUP. It has been shortlisted for the CHA prize for Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, with the winner to be announced June 18th, 2024.
