Sarah Fee

Dr. Sarah Fee is Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum, where she stewards the museum’s renowned collection of ca. 15,000 textiles and fashion that come from greater Asia and Africa, as well as eastern Europe. Her research interests include woven and printed textiles, textile trades, cross-cultural appropriations of cloth and dress, ceremonial exchange, spinning and dye technologies, the history of museum textile collecting. Her research has been supported by grants from the Smithsonian Institution, The Wenner Gren Foundation, The Pasold Fund, and the Social Science and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Dr. Fee is a Chercheuse Affiliée at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), a Research Associate at the Indian Ocean World Centre (McGill University), a Senior Fellow of Massey College, and serves on the editorial board of the Textile Museum Journal.