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Minh-Ha T. Pham is Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute's School of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges academic research and public discourse, with publications appearing in both scholarly journals and mainstream media outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Republic.
Her research investigates the intersection of gender, race, and labor under global and digital capitalism, with particular focus on the fashion industry. She examines racial and gender patterns in fashion work, social media's influence on fashion ethics, intellectual property, cultural appropriation, and the global fashion supply chain. Her scholarship challenges conventional frameworks for understanding fashion copying, arguing that concepts like 'cultural appropriation' often obscure deeper colonial legacies and racial power dynamics.
Pham's publications reveal a consistent trajectory examining how digital platforms and global capitalism reshape fashion labor, particularly for ethnic women. Her work moves from analyzing Asian fashion bloggers as racialized laborers to investigating how social media users become de facto enforcers of Western fashion property norms. She consistently connects contemporary fashion phenomena to historical patterns of racial capitalism, demonstrating how 'ethical' fashion initiatives often reinforce rather than challenge systemic inequalities.
As an engaged public intellectual, Pham has presented her work at numerous institutions including Stanford University, NYU, and the Smithsonian, and has been featured in major media outlets worldwide. Her digital project Of Another Fashion creates an alternative archive of U.S. women of color's fashion histories, challenging traditional museum displays and fashion scholarship.
