Carol Tulloch

Carol Tulloch is a Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at the University of the Arts London, known for her work on cultural heritage, auto/biography, personal archives and style narratives. Tulloch was born to Jamaican parents in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She studied Fashion and Textile Design at Ravensbourne, and History of Design at the Royal College of Art/V&A. Her curatorial work on black style has resulted in exhibitions at the V&A, articles in academic and popular press, and books that explore style narratives of the African diaspora.

• There’s No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community in the 1940s to 1960s, in: The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking, London: Berg, 1999
• Fashion and Photography (Ed.), special edition of Fashion Theory, 2002
• Entry on Dress, in: The Encyclopaedia of Race and Ethnic Studies, London; New York: Routledge, 2003
• Black Style V&A, 2004
• Picture This: The Black Curator, in: The Politics of Heritage: Legacies of Race, London; New York : Routledge, 2005
• James Van Der Zee: Couple in Raccoon Coats, in: The Folio Society Book of the 100 Greatest Photographs, London: The Folio Society, 2006
• The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
• The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu Routledge, 2018

• Black British Style, V&A, 2004-2005
• The March of the Women: Suffragettes and the State, The National Archives, London, 2003
• Picture This: Representations of Black People in Product Promotion, Archives and Museum of Black Heritage Project, 2002
• Grow Up!: Advice and the Teenage Girl, The Women’s Library, London, 2002-3
• Nails, Weaves and Naturals: Hairstyles and Nail Art of the African Diaspora, A Day of Record, Archives and Museum of Black Heritage Project, 2001
• Jessica Ogden: Still, Church Street, London, 2017