Email address: Annette.Becker@unt.edu

Preferred pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Specialty Areas: American fashion history, material culture, oral history, museology

Annette Becker is a part-time PhD student and full-time UNT staff person serving as the director of the Texas Fashion Collection. As an educator and material culture historian, Becker bridges academic and popular understandings of fashion through scholarly writing, museum exhibitions, and public programming. Her publications have highlighted shifting relationships between the body and dress, implications of gender in self-representation, and advocated for the importance of extant artifacts to historical research. Curatorial activities have spanned cultural spaces as varied as history and art museums to shopping centers and connect styles and cultural context of the past and today. Exhibitions include: "Fashion Forward: Neiman-Marcus and the Oscars of Fashion," Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, 2020; "Faux Real: Fashion Inspired by Nature," NorthPark Center, Dallas, 2019; On Bodies," Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, 2018; and "Sportswear to Athleisure: The Creation of Comfortable Clothing," UNT ArtSpace, Dallas, 2017.