Paula Hohti
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
A806 Department of Art and Media
Paula Hohti is a professor of Art and Culture History at Aalto University. Her research focuses on Italian Renaissance dress and material culture, with a special focus on their role and function within the classes of artisans and shopkeepers. Since she gained her PhD at the University of Sussex in 2006, she has held research positions at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, EUI in Florence, Bard Graduate Centre in New York, and University of Copenhagen. She has been a principal investigator in two major international research projects, The Material Renaissance and Fashioning the Early Modern, led by Evelyn Welch. In 2016, she received the €2 million ERC Consolidator grant.
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Honors and awards
ERC Consolidator Grant 2016
This 2 million euro grant awarded for my new 5-year research project, titled 'Refashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significance of clothing, 1550-1650'. The aim of the project is to investigate transformations and dissemination of fashion across social groups in the Renaissance period, and develop new, experimental 'hands-on' methods in historical research of dress.
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Art
Apr 2017
HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) collaborative grant of 1 million euros, for Fashioning the Early Modern: Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800
Responsible for the sub-theme ‘Social Groups and the circulation of fashion’. Awarded for years 2010-2013
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Art
Jan 2010
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
EU FP7 Framework
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Art
Feb 2013
EUA nomination for candidate for ERC Scientific Council 2019
Nomination for a candidate for European Scientific Council by EUA
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Art
Jan 2019
Nomination for Gerda Henkel Prize
Nomination by Department of Art for Gerda Henkel Prize
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Art
Jan 2018
Academy of Finland Research Fellowship
3-year postdoctoral research fellowhip
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Department of Art
May 2010
UNIFI nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council
Nomination for a candidate for the ERC Scientific Council, 2019
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Art
Jan 2019
Academy of Finland nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council
Nomination for ERC Scientific Council candidate by Academy of Finland
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Art
Jan 2019
Shortlisted for Coleman Prize
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Art
Jan 2007
Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture (tenured)
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Department of Art
Jul 2019
Publications
Exhibition: Stiching History!
Paula Hohti
2021
Reconstructing Everyday Fashion, 1550-1650
Sophie Pitman, Paula Hohti Erichsen, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Michele Nicole Robinson, Piia Lempiäinen, Lena Kingelin
2021
Artisans, Objects, and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy
Paula Hohti
2020
Hospitality and Home
Paula Hohti
2020
A Cultural History of the Home:
The Art of Artisan Fashions
Paula Hohti
2020
The Art of the Poor
Outré - Encounters with Non/living Things
Sophie Pitman, Piia Lempiäinen, Paula Hohti Erichsen, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Michele Nicole Robinson, Timothy McCall
2020
Sixteenth-Century Tailor’s Workshop
Piia Lempiäinen, Paula Hohti Erichsen
2019
Cheap Magnificence? Imitation and Low-Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy
Paula Hohti
2018
Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy
Dress, dissemination and innovation
Paula Hohti
2017
Fashioning the Early Modern
Pukeutumisen historiaa
Paula Hohti
2017
Pirta