Vicki Karaminas is a New Zealand fashion academic, and a full professor at

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. In 2024 the

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awarded Karaminas the Humanities Aronui Medal for her work advancing the discipline of fashion studies.

Academic career

After a 2002

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titled '' 'Interrupted journeys : travelling light : omaographies of space' '' at the

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, Karaminas moved to

, rising to full professor. In November 2024 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded Karaminas the Humanities Aronui Medal for her work advancing the discipline of fashion studies. The award citation noted her work developing a philosophical framewor,k Critical Fashion Practice, and the three book series she has edited.

Selected works

* Geczy, Adam, and Vicki Karaminas. ''Queer style''. A&C Black, 2013. * Geczy, Adam, and Vicki Karaminas, eds. ''Fashion and art''. Berg, 2013. * Wilson, Elizabeth, Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas, and Jonathan D. Katz. A ''queer history of fashion: From the closet to the catwalk''. Edited by Valerie Steele. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. * Geczy, Adam, and Vicki Karaminas. "Fashion and art: Critical crossovers." ''Art Monthly Australia'' 242 (2011): 5. * Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas. ''The Men's Fashion Reader''

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women academics University of Technology Sydney alumni Academic staff of Massey University Fashion historians Fashion editors New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub