Christine Checinska

Christine Checinska, Untitled, 2006

Christine completed her PhD at the  Centre for Cultural Studies/Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre for Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009. Her research interests include material culture and its relationship to personal, social and cultural histories, dress in the migratory moment, and the subsequent exchanges/changes that occur as cultures collide, co-exist and coalesce.

As a practicing designer for over twenty years, she has a particular interest in fashion, the ritual of dressing and the presentation of self. She has given papers at a number of national and international conferences on related subjects, including The Cat in the Hat, at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference: 'Prospects and Options for the Transformation of the Caribbean', St Kitts and Nevis (2004), and Re-fashioning Identities, at 'Marginal Migrations: Negotiating Borders', Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada (2005).

Christine is a member of the Black Body in Europe Research Group and the African Diaspora Dress Research Network.