Samuel Snodgrass
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B634
Biography
Samuel Snodgrass is a New York City-based artist, educator, and fashion and art historian. His research and writing interests range from eighteenth-century Italian opera to twentieth-century athleticwear to queerness throughout history.
Snodgrass currently teaches fashion history courses at FIT and is a Museum Educator at the Frick Collection. He has presented his research as a panelist with the Chicago Fashion Lyceum and the Association of Dress Historians and has guest lectured at the Saddleback College Emeritus Institute. In addition to his academic work, Snodgrass is a hat maker trained in traditional millinery and textile creation techniques.
Snodgrass earned a Master of Arts in Decorative Art, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. He previously received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Visual and Critical Studies Thesis from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Selected Publications
"'Partonized merely because he ought not to be': Reverberations of Satirical Men-Milliners and Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Charles Frederick Worth." Fashion Studies Volume 4, Issue 1, Article 4. 2022.
Conferences and Presentations
Cheeky: The Swishing History of Jockstraps from Locker Rooms to Gay Bars and Beyond, Association of Dress Historians - Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure: A History of Dress and Textiles, London, 2022
Gentlemen Prefer Robes, Chicago Fashion Lyceum - Fashion at the Periphery, Chicago, 2020
Courses
- HA 237 Global Fashion: Ancient Origins to Modern Styles
- HA 346 Twentieth-Century Fashion & Art
- SXF 340 Menswear: Iconic Milestones in Fashion History