Lorinda Cramer

Dr Lorinda Cramer is a social and cultural historian whose work explores the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles. She is currently Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. In 2023, she held fellowships at the National Library of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum, and in 2022 was the Redmond Barry Fellow for the State Library of Victoria's Fellowships Program, searching for insights into the worn experiences of Australian wool. Previously she was a research fellow in the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and a postdoctoral researcher in the National School of Arts at the Australian Catholic University, working on a project that examined the social and cultural history of men's clothing in twentieth-century Australia.