Michelle Finamore (BGC PhD 2010) is a fashion and design historian, curator, and author. She is cocurator of Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film (Bard Graduate Center, 2026) and Shoe Stories: Past, Present, Future (Historic New England, 2026). She is also curator of Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour (New Orleans Museum of Art, 2023; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2022) as well as Gender Bending Fashion (2019), #techstyle (2016), Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen (2014–15), and Think Pink (2013–14) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is passionate about silent film and her Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film (2013) was the first in-depth publication on the subject. She has written numerous books and articles for both the scholarly and popular press on topics as varied as American fashion, menswear, contemporary fashion, sustainability, studio jewelry, and food history and has taught courses on fashion, design, and film history at various colleges in the Northeast.