About Faith Cooper
Faith Cooper is a fashion historian, writer, and digital humanities practitioner whose work examines the cultural politics of dress, memory, and identity across Asian and Asian diasporic contexts. She is a PhD student in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Her current doctoral research examines dress cultures in mid-twentieth-century Singapore, with attention to gender.
Faith is the founder of the Asian Fashion Archive, a digital humanities project dedicated to documenting and expanding access to Asian and Asian diasporic fashion histories. Her research has been published in Fashion Theory, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, and the International Journal of Fashion Studies. Her work has been featured by WWD, ELLE Korea, and Dressed: The History of Fashion. She has also contributed to the Fashion and Race Database, Fashion & Market, and The Museum at FIT.
Her broader practice brings together academic research, public scholarship, digital media, and cultural education. In addition to her writing and curatorial work, Faith has supported digital and public-facing initiatives with the Costume Society of America, the International Journal of Fashion Studies, and the University of Amsterdam’s China Africa Fashion Power project.
Faith holds two master’s degrees: an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and an MA in Brand and Fashion Management from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, where she studied as a U.S. Fulbright Student and received the Critical Language Enhancement Award for Mandarin Chinese. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in Art History and Museum Professions from FIT, with a minor in Asian Studies. She is a recipient of the National University of Singapore Research Scholarship and has received award recognition from Fu Jen Catholic University, the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, Costume Society of America, and Fashion for All Foundation.
With over a decade of experience across museums, media, and cultural institutions, including roles at the Smithsonian, Vogue, Christie's, and the Committee of 100, Faith is committed to bringing marginalized histories into view and fostering more nuanced understandings of fashion and cultural identity.
She has also served on committees and advisory boards for organizations including Apex for Youth, FIT, the NYC Museum Educators Roundtable, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has volunteered with cultural and educational programs in New York City and Taipei, supporting youth mentorship and public-facing cultural education.