Jaleesa Reed
Assistant Professor
Human Centered Design
Office
231 Human Ecology Building (HEB)
Biography
Jaleesa Reed, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design. Her research focuses on the intersections of beauty culture, identity, and place informed by human geography, feminist studies, and merchandising in the fashion and beauty industries.
Research interests
Black American beauty; millennial beauty culture; critical & feminist pedagogy; Filipino traditional and cultural dress; beauty retail spaces; experiential retailing
FSAD 2310: Fashion Product Management
FSAD 3330: Retail Buying and Merchandising
- A Scoping Review of Black American Beauty Studies From 1995 to 2022 in the Journal of Black Studies (2023)
- A missing site of Black beauty history: The Black beauty supply store in the Clothing and Textiles Research Journal (2023)
- Board of Directors, Costume Society of America
Ph.D., Polymer, Fiber, and Textile Sciences; Emphasis in International Merchandising, University of Georgia