Kenna Libes studies the dress of fat women in the long nineteenth century as part of research concerning the dress cultures of marginalized populations in the fashion history canon. She also studies historiography and the composition of collections and exhibitions to understand the production of the past and its influence on the present. She holds an MA in Public Humanities (Brown University), an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies (Fashion Institute of Technology), and received her BA in History (Georgetown University). She has previously published in Dress and Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, and has forthcoming work in Recreative Reflections (Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library) and Fashion’s Missing Masses (Vernon Press).