Paula Hohti
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
A899 School common, ARTS
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.
Full researcher profile
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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
Innovations and Imitations of Colour: Tradition and Novelty in Early Modern Italian Artisanal dress
Paula Hohti
2022
A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800
Introduction: Refashioning the Renaissance
Paula Hohti
2022
Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650
Knitting History Through Reconstruction: The Making and Meaning of Early Modern Stockings
Paula Hohti
2022
TEXTILE HISTORY
"Monstrous Ruffs" and Elegant Trimmings: Lace and Lacemaking in Early Modern Italy
Paula Hohti
2022
Threads of Power: Lace from Textilmuseum of St. Gallen
Refashioning the Renaissance Database
Paula Hohti, Sophie Pitman, Michele Nicole Robinson, Stefania Montemezzo, Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen, Victoria Bartels, Lena Kingelin, Piia Lempiäinen
2022
Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650
Paula Hohti
2022
Remaking Dress History: Applying Reconstruction Methods to Early Modern Textiles and Clothing
Paula Hohti, Sophie Pitman
2022
TEXTILE HISTORY
Colour in Renaissance Dress
Paula Hohti Erichsen
2022
Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World
Power, Black Clothing, and the Chromatic Politics of textiles in Renaissance Europe
Paula Hohti Erichsen
2022
Burgundian Black: Reworking Early Modern Teechnologies
Exhibition: Stiching History!
Paula Hohti
2021