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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Exhibition: Stiching History!
Hohti, P., 9 Nov 2021Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
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Reconstructing Everyday Fashion, 1550-1650
Pitman, S., Hohti Erichsen, P., Larsen, A-K. S., Robinson, M. N., Lempiäinen, P. & Kingelin, L., 13 Sep 2021Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
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Artisans, Objects, and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy: The Material Culture of the Middling Class
Hohti, P., 25 Nov 2020, Amsterdam. 364 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Hospitality and Home
Hohti, P., 27 Nov 2020, A Cultural History of the Home: : The Renaissance, 1450-1650 . Flather, A. (ed.). London, (Cultural history series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Outré - Encounters with Non/living Things: Imitation Amber & Imitation Leopard Fur
Pitman, S., Lempiäinen, P., Hohti Erichsen, P., Larsen, A-K. S., Robinson, M. N. & McCall, T., 19 Nov 2020Research output: Artistic and non-textual form › Exhibition › Art in coproduction › peer-review
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
Larsen, A. S., Hohti, P., Malcolm-Davies, J., Bartels, V., Kingelin, L., Robinson, M. N. & Pitman, S.
01/03/2017 → 30/09/2022
Project: EU: ERC grants
Prizes
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Academy of Finland nomination for a candidate for ERC Scientific Council
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition
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Academy of Finland Research Fellowship
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), May 2010
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
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Associate Professor, History of Art and Culture (tenured)
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), Jul 2019
Prize: Award or honor granted for academic career
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ERC Consolidator Grant 2016
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), 1 Apr 2017
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
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EUA nomination for candidate for ERC Scientific Council 2019
Hohti, Paula (Recipient), 14 Jan 2019
Prize: Invitation or ranking in competition
Activities
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Faking Fashions: Colour Imitation and Dress in Sixteenth-century Italy
Paula Hohti (Speaker)
2 Apr 2021 → 5 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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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 or tutorial
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Innovations and imitations of colour: Tradition and Novelty in Early Modern artisanal Italian dress
Paula Hohti (Speaker)
10 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
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Book Launch: Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy
Paula Hohti (Speaker)
3 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
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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 of conference, workshop, panel, session or tutorial
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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