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Dina Smith-Glaviana

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management
Dina Smith-Glaviana
295 West Campus Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Dina Smith-Glaviana is an assistant professor of fashion merchandising and design and the director of the Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection.

She first gained experience in historic collections management by working in the University of Georgia Historic Clothing and Textile Collection while pursuing her master’s degree in textiles, merchandising, and interiors.

Smith-Glaviana began her teaching career at the University of Southern Mississippi by serving as an adjunct faculty and volunteer co-curator of the University of Southern Mississippi Historic Garment Collection while earning her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. There she specialized in both historic and cultural aspects of dress and apparel merchandising and assisted the curator of the Louisiana State University Textile and Costume Museum with accessioning artifacts and exhibits.

After graduating in 2016, Smith-Glaviana served two years as a full-time lecturer at Auburn University teaching merchandising classes. She later served at Marymount University for one year as an assistant professor of fashion design and merchandising and collection manager for the Marymount University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection prior to joining the Virginia Tech faculty in August 2019.

Her research interests include dress and popular culture, subcultural dress, and reenactment and historic dress. She has published her research on reenactment dress and historically inspired dress in journal articles, one of which was republished in a textbook as a book chapter. Her most recent scholarship focuses on Female Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans’ dress practices and fashion choices.


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