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Research Interests

His research in critical fashion studies is focused on power, coloniality, popular aesthetics, archives, and visual cultures in Latin America from a critical perspective that questions and decentred fashion narratives and history.

His doctoral project engages with the Latin(x) American Fashion Archive from a hemispheric perspective as a scholarly form of decolonial fashion thought in practice.

Biography, Education and Training

Edward is an international student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Cultural Studies. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

UCHRI Multicampus Graduate Working Groups Fellowship - (2023/24)

Chancellor's Fellowship - University of California, Santa Cruz (2022/23)

Research Scholarship in Photographic Patrimony, Ministry of Culture, Colombia (2016-2017)

Master's Excellence Scholarship - Los Andes University, Colombia (2011-2012)

New Generation Young Research, Ministry of Science, Colombia (2011-2012)

Best Sociological Bachelor Dissertation Award, National University of Colombia (2010)

Selected Publications

Books

- Estudios de la moda en Colombia. Recorridos de una pregunta en construcción (Ed), 2022

- Nostalgias y aspiraciones. Vestir, estéticas y tránsitos de las clases medias bogotanas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, 2021

Academic Journal 

- Beauty has no age anymore: Fashion and youth in Colombia (1970‐99). International Journal of Fashion Studies, 2021.

- La ligereza como nueva forma de vida: entrevista con Gilles Lipovetsky para un análisis del presente. Hallazgos en Ciencias Sociales, 2020.

- Estéticas en plural. La moda popular en Bogotá. Cuadernos de Antropología Universidad de Costa Rica, 2016.