Journalism Graduate Student Katarina Kuruc Studies Politics of Fashion
Growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia, Katarina Kuruc learned that fashion statements were in fact “visible forms of self-expression and political discourse” in a country where self-expression was severely curtailed.
As a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Communication, Kuruc now studies the importance of fashion as a form of visual communication in otherwise restrictive societies.
Kuruc produced a video based on her dissertation entitled, “When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Fashion as Communication in Communist Czechoslovakia”.
Kuruc’s video was chosen as one of the 25 finalists in the SHHRC Storytellers contest, sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.