Professor Vicki Karaminas
Professor of Fashion and Director of Doctoral Studies
Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at Massey University Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2024 she was awarded the Humanities Aranui Medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi for outstanding and innovative research. In 1997, she was the awarded the University Medal in the Arts and Social Sciences by the University of Technology Sydney where she graduated with a Doctorate of Philosophy (2002).
Karaminas holds an honorary Professorial position at the University of Sydney and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne. She has published over 20 books on fashion, gender and sexuality and her work has been translated and published into several languages other than English.
As the leading scholar in her field, Karaminas attracts many international doctoral students who travel to study under her supervision, many of whom have published their theses on completion and gained employment in the tertiary sector. In 2007, Karaminas established the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (POPCAANZ), and the associated Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, and The Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture, publishing research and providing grants and bursaries to support and promote the study of popular culture in New Zealand and Australia.
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Expertise
Fashion, Media, Masculinities, Gender, Sexualities
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Research Highlights
2024: Awarded the Humanities Aranui Medal, Royal Society Te Apārangi, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
2023: Honorary Adjunct Professor, The University of Sydney.
2021: Individual Award for Distinction in Research from the College of Creative Arts, Massey University.
2021: Honorary Fellow of The University of Melbourne.
1997: University Medal for the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
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Qualifications
Diploma of Photography and Graphic Design (School of Visual Arts)
BA Soc. Sci. (University of Technology, Sydney)
Ph.D (University of Technology, Sydney)
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Professional Affiliations
Member of the Royal Society Te Apãrangi
President and Chair of Fashion, Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand
Editor, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
Associate Editor, Fashion, Style and Popular Culture
Associate Editor, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion
Editorial Board, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress and the Body
Editorial Board, International Journal of Fashion Studies
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Supervision
Vanessa Gerrie
Fashion as Installation in an Age of the Runway Spectacle
In-progress
Primary supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Co-supervisor: Prof. Sally Morgan
Advisor: Catherine Bagnall
Katherine Hardy Bernal
The Lolita Subculture: A Worldwide Phenomenon
In-progress
Primary supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Co-supervisor: Dr. Patricia Thomas
Lundy Alison
In-progress
Primary supervisor: Prof. Sally Morgan
Co-supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Yen Kanh Nguyen
Communication Investigation: Perception and Awareness of Autism in Vietnam
In-progress
Primary Supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Co-supervisor: Lynne Ciochetto
Annette O'Sullivan
Historic stenciling on New Zealand sheep stations
In-progress
Primary supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Co-supervisor: Prof. Claire Robinson
Dinah Vincent
Dressmaking in New Zealand, 1945 to 1965
In-progress
Primary supervisor: Prof. Vicki Karaminas
Co-supervisor: Dr. Bronwyn Labrum
Co-supervisor: Dr. Caroline Campbell
