Katie Baker Jones

Vice President for Internal Relations, 2022-2024

This Vice President is responsible for encouraging networking among our members and for improving member services.

Katie Baker Jones, PhD is an associate professor and serves as the program coordinator in the Fashion, Dress and Merchandising department in the School of Design and Community Development at West Virginia University. As a teacher-scholar, she delights in her role in the classroom to challenge students’ preconceived notions of fashion shaped by popular culture representations of the industry. Her core responsibilities have included teaching fashion history, sustainability, and culture courses. She has worked to decolonize the narrative often taught in these spaces to expand students’ comprehension of the vast scale of cultural exchange that has shaped what we put on, do to, and think about our bodies and the bodies of others. Her work has been published in journals such as Fashion Theory, Fashion Practices, Fashion and Popular Culture, CTRJ, and Dress. She has also contributed chapters to collected works on sustainability in luxury fashion and fashion journalism.