Anne Bissonnette | Oral History | Costume Society of America

Oral History: Costume Society of America Fellow Dr. Anne Bissonnette CSA Vice President for Education & Programs Sarah Woodyard interviews CSA Fellow Dr. Anne Bissonnette on her career as a professor, curator, and researcher. Listen in as they “talk shop” and learn what being a member of the Costume Society of America means to Dr. Bissonnette. The text of the interview can be downloaded here: https://costumesocietyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Text-for-Oral-History-with-2020-CSA-Fellow-Dr.-Anne-Bissonnette-1.pdf. Host: Sarah Woodyard, CSA Vice President for Education & Programs; Owner of Sewn, LLC Guest: Anne Bissonnette, Ph.D., CSA Fellow 2020; Associate Professor, Material Culture and Curatorship, and Curator, Clothing and Textiles Collection, University of Alberta Class of 2020 Costume Society of America Fellow Anne Bissonnette is a faculty member in Material Culture and Curatorship at the University of Alberta. In addition to teaching, research, and graduate supervision for master’s and doctoral students, she is Curator of the Anne Lambert Clothing and Textiles Collection. She has worked on numerous exhibitions in North America and in Europe and acted as a consultant for exceptional institutions both small and large. Two of her 53 exhibitions won CSA’s Richard Martin Awards and another received a commendation from the Martin Award Committee. Dr. Bissonnette’s research addresses fashion from the eighteenth century to the present day, with special focuses on cut