Hey there! I’m Brontë Hebdon Patterson, Ph.D.
I’m an art and fashion historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France and Britain.
Education
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2018-2025)
Dissertation: “Clothing the Empire: Court Dress, Fashion, and Embroidery in Napoleonic France”
M.A./M. Phil., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2016-2018)
Master’s Thesis: “Cockades, Cravats, and Hot Pants: Aesthetic Politics and the Visual Language of Citizenship during the French Directory”
Recent Publications
“Un homme à l’antique: the Visual Vocabulary of Antiquity in Men’s Fashion and Democratic Uniforms in Revolutionary France,” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 54 (2025): 133-157
“Embroidered Hierarchies: French Civil Uniforms and the décret du 29 messidor in Napoleonic Paris and Milan,” in Costume: The Journal of the Costume Society 58 no. 2 (September 2023), 173-197
“Civil Uniforms in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Biopic,” Edinburgh University Press Blog
Courses Taught
Fashion Institute of Technology
Adjunct Instructor of Record
HA118, HA215, HA237, HA 344
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