Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Artistic and research interests
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.
Supervision of post-doc researchers
Dr. Michele Robinson
Dr. Sophie Pitman
Dr. Stefania Montemezzo
Dr. Jacqueline Spicer
Dr. Mattia Viale
Dr. Jane Malcolm-Davis
External positions
Docent, History of Art, University of Helsinki
Sep 2018 → …
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Colour in Renaissance Dress
Hohti Erichsen, P., 15 Oct 2022, (Accepted/In press) Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World. Poole, K. (ed.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia / dictionary › Scientific › peer-review
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Innovations and Imitations of Colour: Tradition and Novelty in Early Modern Italian Artisanal dress
Hohti, P., Oct 2022, (Submitted) A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800. Rublak, U., Riello, G. & Hayward, M. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Introduction: Refashioning the Renaissance
Hohti, P., 28 Nov 2022, (Submitted) Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650. Manchester University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Knitting History Through Reconstruction: The Making and Meaning of Early Modern Stockings
Hohti, P., 15 Oct 2022, (Submitted) In: TEXTILE HISTORY.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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"Monstrous Ruffs" and Elegant Trimmings: Lace and Lacemaking in Early Modern Italy
Hohti, P., 29 Nov 2022, Threads of Power: Lace from Textilmuseum of St. Gallen. Cormack, E. & Majer, M. (eds.). New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, p. 69-87 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Projects
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RE-FASHIONING: Re-fashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe, 1550-1650
Hohti, P., Pitman, S., Bartels, V., Larsen, A. S., Malcolm-Davies, J., Robinson, M. N. & Kingelin, L.
01/03/2017 → 30/09/2022
Project: EU: ERC grants
Datasets
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Refashioning the Renaissance Database
Hohti, P. (Supervisor), Pitman, S. (Creator), Robinson, M. N. (Creator), Montemezzo, S. (Creator), Larsen, A. S. (Creator), Bartels, V. (Creator), Kingelin, L. (Creator) & Lempiäinen, P. (Creator), Aalto University, Nov 2022
https://refashioningdata.eu/home
Dataset
Prizes
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Academy of Finland Doctoral Research Fellowship (4 years, 5 moths)
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), 2001
Prize: Granted funding (personal grants)
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Academy of Finland nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council
Hohti Erichsen, Paula (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition
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Academy of Finland Research Fellowship
Hohti Erichsen, Paula (Recipient), May 2010
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
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Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture (tenured)
Hohti Erichsen, Paula (Recipient), Jul 2019
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
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ERC Consolidator Grant 2016
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), 1 Apr 2017
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
Activities
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Silk Processing Course - cultivating worms, reeling cocoons, and spinning waste silk
Paula Hohti (Organiser)
18 Jun 2022 → 19 Jun 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organization of a workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
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Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550–1650
Paula Hohti (Organiser), Victoria Bartels (Participant), Sophie Pitman (Participant) & Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (Participant)
10 Sep 2021 → 11 Sep 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair or participant of a conference, workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
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Book Launch: Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy
Paula Hohti (Speaker)
3 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
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Social Class and Social Contexts: Defining artisans and traders in Europe, 1550-1650
Paula Hohti (Organiser), Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (Participant), Sophie Pitman (Participant) & Victoria Bartels (Participant)
6 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair or participant of a conference, workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
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Silk Fibre Workshop
Paula Hohti (Member), Sophie Pitman (Member), Victoria Bartels (Member) & Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (Member)
12 Sep 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organization of a workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
Press/Media
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Nuorten lähiopetus täytyy nyt turvata
12/08/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
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Interview, YLE: Silkki ei ollut ylhäisön yksinoikeus
08/03/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
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