Faculty Spotlight
Department Chairs
Faculty
Dana Connell
Instructional Areas
All business aspects of retail and merchandising.
Jenny Du Puis
Instructional Areas
Patternmaking, Garment Construction, Fashion Design, Senior Fashion Studio
Melissa Gamble
Instructional Areas
Law, ethics, and trends in the fashion industry. Experiential learning and professional development.
Audria Green
Instructional Areas
Retail Merchandising, Wholesale and Retail Businesses in the retail environment, Marketing and Branding.
Virginia Heaven
Instructional Areas
History and Theory of Fashion, Design Process, Foundations, First Year Seminar, Curatorial Studies
Lisa Hopkins-Newell
Instructional Areas
Fashion Studies, Merchandising, Product Development, Entrepreneurship
Allison Leahy
Instructional Areas
Fashion business: merchandising, product development, sourcing, math for fashion. Career development, industry connections.
William Makela
Instructional Areas
Pattern Making and Garment Construction, Historical and Modern
Amy Meadows
Instructional Areas
Teaching a variety of Fashion Industry-related courses, I seek to inform students about the context, complications and creative challenges that new professionals will encounter in the field. There are many, many opportunities for innovators and problem-solvers and I enjoy exploring those in the classroom and throughout Chicago.
Kumiko Murakami
Brittany Nakos
Instructional Areas
Fashion Studies: Garment Construction Skills, Textile Design, Apparel Design and Concepts
Melissa Obler
Instructional Areas
Fashion Styling, Fashion Event Production, Fashion Styling for Runway Photography, Contemporary Fashion, Fashion History, Costuming for Live Television Sketch Comedy and Digital Sketch Comedy, Costuming for Advanced Film Practicum
Amy Taylor
Ken Walter
Instructional Areas
Fashion Studies: All Merchandising related courses
Reyes Witt
Instructional Areas
Inclusive Design Practices, Digital Patternmaking, Adaptive Fashion
Noah Zagor