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
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Research Output
The Art of Artisan Fashions: Moroni’s Tailor and the Changing Culture of Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Hohti, P., 20 Aug 2020, The Art of the Poor: The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600. Duits, R. (ed.). 1 ed. LondonResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Artisans, Objects, and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy: The Material Culture of the Middling Class
Hohti, P., 30 Oct 2019, (Accepted/In press) 250 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Sixteenth-Century Tailor’s Workshop
Lempiäinen, P. & Hohti Erichsen, P., 7 Jan 2019Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in non-art work › peer-review
Cheap Magnificence? Imitation and Low-Cost Luxuries in Renaissance Italy
Hohti, P., 1 Dec 2018, Luxury and the Ethics of Greed in Early Modern Italy. Kovesi, C. (ed.). p. 277-297 21 p. (Early European Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Dress, dissemination and innovation: Artisan ‘Fashions’ in Renaissance Italy
Hohti, P., 2017, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800. Welch, E. (ed.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
RE-FASHIONING: Re-fashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe, 1550-1650
Robinson, M. N., Larsen, A. S., Hohti Erichsen, P., Pitman, S., Malcolm-Davies, J. & Lempiäinen, P.
01/03/2017 → 31/12/2022
Project: EU: ERC grants
EIT Digital Summer Schools
Turpeinen, M. & Hohti Erichsen, P.
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2018
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding
Prizes
Academy of Finland nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition
Academy of Finland Research Fellowship
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Recipient), May 2010
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture (tenured)
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Recipient), Jul 2019
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
ERC Consolidator Grant 2016
Paula Hohti (Recipient), 1 Apr 2017
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
EUA nomination for candidate for ERC Scientific Council 2019
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Recipient), 14 Jan 2019
Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition
Activities
Fake it ‘til you Make It: Imitation in Early Modern Clothes and Accessories
Sophie Pitman (Organiser), Michele Nicole Robinson (Participant), Paula Hohti Erichsen (Participant), Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen (Participant), Piia Lempiäinen (Participant), Timothy McCall (Participant)10 Mar 2020 → 12 Mar 2020
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participant of a conference, workshop, session or tutorial
File
Puvut ja pukeutuminen Cranachin aikaan
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Speaker)27 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
Course on historical textile technology, weave structures and weaving
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Participant), Sophie Pitman (Participant)21 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participant of a conference, workshop, session or tutorial
Black in European dress
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Speaker)17 Jan 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
Dirty Laundry in Early Modern Italy & Denmark
Paula Hohti Erichsen (Participant)11 Apr 2019 → 12 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participant of a conference, workshop, session or tutorial
Press / Media
"Silkki ei ollut ylhäisön yksinoikeus" – Aalto-yliopiston tutkimus selvittää, miten renessanssiajan muoti levisi myös kansan keskuudessa Italiasta pohjolaan
08/03/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Muoti uuden ajan kynnyksellä | Muoti uuden ajan kynnyksellä, osa 2: Muotivirtaukset liikkuvat - renessanssi vaihtuu barokkiin
10/09/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Muodin suuret muutokset 1500- ja 1600-luvuilla
31/08/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance