Elizabeth Wissinger is a Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies at City University of New York, Graduate Center, and BMCC, where she teaches Liberal Studies, Fashion Studies, and Sociology. Her research focuses on technology, fashion, and embodiment. She has lectured on topics related to gender and race, media, bodies, and work in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe. Her current work takes up the issue of how wearable technology genders bodies, research through which she is affiliated with the think/do tank Data & Society. She is currently working on a monograph about fashion and biodesign.
Elizabeth Wissinger is the author of This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour (NYU Press, 2015), and the editor of Fashioning Models: Image, Text, and Industry (Berg, 2012), and The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (Routledge, 2022). Her research has earned more than a dozen grants and awards, including Mellon Fellowships in both the Humanities and Science Studies, and two highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) federal grants. Wissinger’s writing on cultural, aesthetic, and glamour labor, as well as celebrity culture, wearable technology, and sustainable fashion through biodesign has been published in 8 book chapters, and 16 discipline-spanning papers in academic journals, including Fashion Theory, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, The International Journal of Communication (IJoC), Sociology Compass, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Information, Communication & Society (ICS), and Biodesigned Journal. She peer-reviews for academic journals, associations, and publishers in the US, UK, and Canada, across the fields of fashion studies, communication, media studies, feminism, and sociology. Wissinger has been an invited speaker at the 92nd St Y in NYC, The Museum of the Moving Image, Amsterdam’s Emerce EDay, Cambridge University Open Lab at the Minderoo Center for Technology and Democracy, and 26 other organizations in 13 different cities across the US, Australia, Canada, the UK, and Europe. She can be heard on several podcasts, most recently on Poder, Glamour y Gloria, with Valerie Akl, and Never Post, A Podcast About and For the Internet. Wissigner published these ideas in The Conversation, Cyborgology, Interface, and her arguments have been featured in Vice, Culture Digitally, PETRIe Inventory, Los Angeles Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Business of Fashion (BoF), and The Guardian.