Paula Hohti

Associate Professor
Associate Professor
A899 School common, ARTS

Paula Hohti is a professor of Art and Culture History at Aalto University. Her research focuses on Italian Renaissance dress and material culture, with a special focus on their role and function within the classes of artisans and shopkeepers. Since she gained her PhD at the University of Sussex in 2006, she has held research positions at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, EUI in Florence, Bard Graduate Centre in New York, and University of Copenhagen. She has been a principal investigator in two major international research projects, The Material Renaissance and Fashioning the Early Modern, led by Evelyn Welch. In 2016, she received the €2 million ERC Consolidator grant.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Phone number
+358504384180

Honors and awards

Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture (tenured)

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Shortlisted for Coleman Prize

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Academy of Finland nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council

Nomination for ERC Scientific Council candidate by Academy of Finland
Sijoittuminen kilpailussa tai osallistuminen kutsukilpailuun Taiteen laitos Jan 2019

UNIFI nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council

Nomination for a candidate for the ERC Scientific Council, 2019
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Academy of Finland Research Fellowship

3-year postdoctoral research fellowhip
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Nomination for Gerda Henkel Prize

Nomination by Department of Art for Gerda Henkel Prize
Sijoittuminen kilpailussa tai osallistuminen kutsukilpailuun Taiteen laitos Jan 2018

EUA nomination for candidate for ERC Scientific Council 2019

Nomination for a candidate for European Scientific Council by EUA
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Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship

EU FP7 Framework
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HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) collaborative grant of 1 million euros, for Fashioning the Early Modern: Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800

Responsible for the sub-theme ‘Social Groups and the circulation of fashion’. Awarded for years 2010-2013
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ERC Consolidator Grant 2016

This 2 million euro grant awarded for my new 5-year research project, titled 'Refashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significance of clothing, 1550-1650'. The aim of the project is to investigate transformations and dissemination of fashion across social groups in the Renaissance period, and develop new, experimental 'hands-on' methods in historical research of dress.
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Publications

Colour

Paula Hohti 2023 Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650

Introduction: Refashioning the Renaissance

Paula Hohti 2023 Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650

Making Silk

Paula Hohti, Pugliese Miriam 2023 Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650

Color in Renaissance Dress

Paula Hohti Erichsen 2023 Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World

"Monstrous Ruffs" and Elegant Trimmings: Lace and Lacemaking in Early Modern Italy

Paula Hohti 2022 Threads of Power: Lace from Textilmuseum of St. Gallen

Refashioning the Renaissance Database

Paula Hohti, Sophie Pitman, Michele Nicole Robinson, Stefania Montemezzo, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Victoria Bartels, Lena Kingelin, Piia Lempiäinen 2022

Power, Black Clothing, and the Chromatic Politics of textiles in Renaissance Europe

Paula Hohti Erichsen 2022 Burgundian Black: Reworking Early Modern Teechnologies

Reconstructing Everyday Fashion, 1550-1650

Sophie Pitman, Paula Hohti Erichsen, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Michele Nicole Robinson, Piia Lempiäinen, Lena Kingelin 2021