Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design

Susan Hannel, Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2002.
Quinn 309C, (401) 874-2882. susanhannel@uri.edu

Susan teaches the Department's apparel courses: TMD 222 Apparel Production, TMD 325 Apparel I and TMD 335 Apparel II.  Her research interests include dress and textile history, particularly twentieth century dress.  Her dissertation, The Africana Craze During the Jazz Age: A Comparison of French and American Fashion, 1920-1940, investigated the influence of African-American music and African art and textiles on Western fashion in the 1920s and 1930s.

Before going to graduate school, Susan studied fashion design at The Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University) and the Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio.  While a graduate student at The Ohio State University, she taught courses in apparel pattern making and draping, and the aesthetics of dress, as well as advising students in University College.  She also taught pattern making at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Her "real-life" work experience in the apparel industry included work as a pattern maker for a custom-design clothing boutique and as a production manager for a design studio.  In addition, she had a short stint as a sewing machine operator for an activewear apparel manufacturer.  Susan has also worked in fabric retailing for JoAnn's Fabrics, and in apparel retailing at Lazarus and Marshall Fields.

Publications:

• Hannel, Susan. " ‘Africana’ Textiles: Imitation, Adaptation, and Transformation During the Jazz Age" Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Spring 2006, 68-103.
• Matthew D. Phaneuf, Martin J. Bide, Susan L. Hannel, Michael J. Platek, Thomas Monahan, Mauricio A. Contreras, Tina M. Phaneuf, Frank W. LoGerfo “Development of an Infection-Resistant, Bioactive Wound Dressing Surface”.  Journal of Biomaterials Research Vol 74A (2005) 666 – 676
  
  Invited Chapters
• Hannel, Susan. "The Influence of Jazz on Fashion During the 1920s" in Twentieth Century American Fashion, Linda Welters and Trish Cunningham, Eds. Berg Publications, 2005, 57-77.
  
  Juried Creative Work
• Hannel, Susan. "Gifts of Silver and Gold" Silk brocade jacket and silk velvet pants. Accepted for the annual design competition for The International Textiles and Apparel Association. Exhibited at the national meeting, November 4, 2005, Alexandria, Virginia.
  
  Papers Read at Professional Meetings
  
• Hannel, Susan.  "'Africana' Textiles in the Jazz age:  The Imitation, Adaptation, and Transformation of African textiles" in the proceedings for the International Textiles and Apparel Association, Annual Meeting August 2002, New York City, New York, www.itaaonline.org/index2.html  
• Hannel, Susan. "Wild African Animals and Exotic Fashion, 1920-1940"  in the proceedings for the International Textiles and Apparel Association, annual meeting November 2001, Kansas City, Kansas, www.itaaonline.org/index2.html
• Hannel, Susan. African-inspired Motifs in American Textiles and Fashion During the Early Twentieth Century. In the proceedings of Confluences:  Fashioning Intercultural Perspectives (Lyon, France, International Textiles and Apparel Association and the Université de la Mode, June 1997).  
• Hannel, Susan, Sibley, Lucy & Jakes, Kathryn.  “The Acquisition of Menswear in an American Frontier Town” in the proceedings for the International Textiles and Apparel Association, annual meeting October 1994, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 83

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