Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies - American University of Paris
Associated Researcher - IHTP-CNRS
Sophie Kurkdjian holds a PhD in history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is an associated researcher at the IHTP-CNRS and an assistant professor at the American University of Paris. In 2021, she published Géopolitique de la mode and coedited Au cœur des maisons de couture. A Social History of Fashion Workers (1880-1950).
Prof. Kurkdjian will give a keynote lecture titled “Fashion and Geopolitics – A Question of Image and Communication” at the FACTUM25 Fashion Communication Conference (June 25-27, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden).