Jaleesa Reed, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design at Cornell University. As a fashion studies scholar with minor areas in Gender Studies and Human Geography, she examines how marginalized communities navigate and resist systems of power through dress and beauty culture, and what resistance reveals about the enduring relationship between commerce, identity, and place.
FSAD 2310
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Fashion Product Management
FSAD 3330
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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