City Tech Assistant Professor of Business & Technology of Fashion and Director of Textile Technology, Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, has been selected as a 2022 Henry Wasser Award recipient for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors at CUNY.

The Henry Wasser Award is named after one of the CUNY Academy’s founding members, Henry Wasser. Every year, a select few award recipients are chosen among a large group of highly qualified, academically impressive Assistant Professors working in the Humanities or Sciences throughout the CUNY system. Each awardee will present their research in a talk, either alone or in conjunction with other awardees, as part of the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series throughout the coming year.

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is an artist and art historian specializing in textiles and fashion, as well as arts from the early modern Persianate world. Her artwork and research focuses on expressions of identity and iconology through clothing, including printed textiles, woven design and smart textiles.

She received her PhD from University of Bern, Switzerland and MA from San Jose State University, with a concentration in historic textiles. From 2011-2016, she worked with The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a textile specialist and educator, where she published several articles on historic dress. She has also worked with the Westchester Arts Council as a curatorial consultant.

Dr. Munroe received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, both in textile design and fiber art. She spent several years in the apparel and automotive industries as a textile designer in Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco. A nationally acclaimed textile artist and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant recipient, she has widely exhibited her textile-based artwork and recently published a book on fashion called A Cultural History of Western Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her portfolio and other publication links can be viewed at https://Nazanin.us.