katie Ibsen
Fashion Archivist | Educator | Content Creator
Katie is an Illinois-based digital content creator and fashion archivist with a BA in Anthropology (honors) from UC Berkeley and an MA in Fashion Studies (honors) from Parsons School of Design.
She is currently the manager of the historic fashion collection at Illinois State University where she is responsible for the management of 2,000+ historic garments and associated artifacts.
Her research focuses on the subcultural phenomenon of vintage fashion as it intersects with social media platforms and political ideologies. She is also undertaking research related to the collection at ISU.
As an educator, Katie has taught a variety of courses in Fashion Studies and History, but is currently focused on teaching the independent researcher’s course at Accepted Society as a part of her mission to make academia accessible to everyone.
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Fashion Studies Scholar
Studying the socio-cultural phenomenon of vintage fashion as a mechanism for belonging, political activism, and digital community formation.
I engage with curatorial projects which focus on sartorial stories.
Content Creator
With my YouTube channel and social media content, I advocate for non-traditional education & neurodivergent access within academic institutions.
Educator
I work with independent researchers to build the skills needed to produce academically sound research.
Through my archival work, I create teaching and learning opportunities using fashion as a lens to learn about historical, anthropological, and sociological concepts.
