I am a historian who thinks and writes about visual and material culture, notably as it relates to fashion and architecture. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Ghent in the Department of Art History, Music, and Theatre Studies since the fall of 2019. I teach classes on Fashion and Architecture, Heritage, and Exhibition History and Theory. If you are a BA, MA, or PhD student interested in studying any of these fields at the University of Ghent, please feel free to contact me at maude.basskrueger@ugent.be.
I received my BA and MA in History from Wesleyan University and Sciences-Po Paris, respectively, and my PhD in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City (2016). I was the Zvi Yavetz fellow at the University of Tel Aviv from 2015-2016 and a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Leiden, Netherlands in the HERA-funded project “Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe” (PriArc), from 2017 until 2019.
I co-curated the exhibition Mode & Femmes 14/18 at the Bibliothèque Forney in 2017 and the American itiration, French Fashion, Women, and the First World War at the Gallery of the Bard Graduate Center (Sept 2019-January 2020). A book of the same name, designed by Irma Boom, was published by Yale University Press in 2019.
I am currently working on publishing two monographs: one on architectural drawings, tentatively titled The Envois de Rome and the Architectural Imagination in France, 1830-1910, and another on the creation of the discipline of fashion history in France in the nineteenth-century, drawn from my dissertation, “The Culture of Dress History in France: The Past in Fashion, 1814-1900.” My new research project focuses on the intersections between fashion and architecture from 1800 until today.
Between 2015-2019, Sophie Kurkdjian and I co-directed the research seminar “Histoire + Mode” at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHPT) at the CNRS in Paris. In 2017, we co-founded Culture(s) de Mode, a French network for fashion researchers financed by the French Ministry of Culture.
News
_Forthcoming
Fashion, Society, and the First World War, ed. Maude Bass-Krueger, Hayley Dujardin, Amy de la Haye, Sophie Kurkdjian. To be published by Bloomsbury, forthcoming fall 2020.
_Recently
February, 2020: Inaugural lecture at the University of Ghent
February 20, 2019: Lecture on “The Spectacle of Architectural Drawings in nineteenth-century France: the envois de Rome, public display, and print culture” at Cambridge University Art History Research Center.
September 3-10, 2018: Writing fellow at the Villa Medicis Rome, in preparation for October workshop at the Villa on Stylistic Nomeclatures.
September 11-13, 2018: Participant in the Cambridge-PSL joint workshop project “Entangled Histories”
September 28 + October 1, 2018: Culture(s) de Mode inaugural conference.
_Recent Publications
“1914-1918, Les nouvelles françaises,” Revue des Deux Mondes, Special Issue on Fashion, February 2018.
_ Projects
Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe (PriArc)
Culture(s) de Mode. A multi-faceted research project funded by the French Ministry of Culture and Communications.
Séminaire Histoire + Mode, monthly seminar open to the public held at the IHPT/CNRS. Program here. Twitter and Facebook.
Research séminaire “Histoire et théorie de la mode,” monthly research seminar reserved for students. Taught at the Centre d’Histoire Sociale du XXe siècle, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.