Faith Cooper
Faith Cooper is a fashion historian, scholar, and digital humanities practitioner whose work explores dress, memory, and Asian/Asian diasporic identities. She is a PhD student in History at the National University of Singapore.
Her research and writing have appeared in Fashion Theory, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, and the Fashion and Race Database.
Faith Cooper’s research examines fashion, dress, and visual culture across Asian and Asian diasporic contexts. Her work explores how clothing shapes memory, migration, gender, modernity, cultural identity, and marginalized histories.
Her current doctoral research focuses on fashion and dress cultures in mid-twentieth-century Singapore, while her broader scholarship includes work on Chinese diasporic dress, Taiwanese fashion, Asian fashion histories, and digital humanities approaches to fashion studies.
