Alexandra Palmer

Associate Professor, Status Only, Department of Art History, University of Toronto; Senior Curator, Nora Vaughan Curatorship, Royal Ontario Museum

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Art and culture
  • Textiles and fashions

Biography

Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator and Chair of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles & Costume at the ROM, and a Co-curator of BIG, the latest exhibit in the Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume. She is cross appointed and teaches in Fine Art History at the University of Toronto, and the Graduate Programme in Art History at York University, and the School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University.

Education

PhD, University of Brighton, Design History, 1995
MA, New York University, History of Costume and Textiles (in conjunction with the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1981
BA, University of Toronto, Art History, 1979