Her commitment to cross-cultural studies and the global nature of the textile and apparel industry led to the development of the first FSAD international field trip to India in January 2011, in partnership with UDG, and repeated in years to follow. Former Associate Professor and Curator at the school of Human Ecology at Cornell University, Charlotte joined the Cornell faculty in 1992. Her academic focus was the history of dress and textile technologies and the influence of Asian dress and textiles on the evolution of European fashion. Teaching and mentoring were as important to her as research and writing. She created the first full-blown online course textbook at Cornell for FSAD: Art Design and Visual Thinking and also introduced the teaching of Photoshop to the FSAD curriculum. As Curator of the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, she incorporated the collection in all of her teaching. UDG acknowledges her priceless contribution in initiating the FSAD field trips to India and hopes to carry her legacy forward.
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