Sridevi Gopakumar

Sridevi Gopakumar is a marketing researcher based in Chennai, India, and is in the final stages of completing her PhD at Loyola Institute of Business Administration. Her doctoral research examines how greenwashing tactics in the beauty and personal care industry shape...

Jaina Hunt

    Jaina Hunt is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in early modern women’s history with a particular focus on beauty culture in Tudor England. Her doctoral thesis, Pretty and Privileged: Never-married Women, Beauty and...

Eileen G’Sell

    Eileen G’Sell is a culture critic, poet, and scholar with recent contributions to The Hopkins Review, Reverse Shot, Hyperallergic, and Jacobin. Her first book of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018; her second poetry volume, Francofilaments,...

Introducing the CHMSN (Part Two)

To mark the first full year of the CHMSN co founder Lucy Jane Santos reflects on the inspiration behind setting it up. What inspired you to establish an academic network group specifically focused on cosmetic history? The truth is that the reason we decided to set up...

Introducing James Bennett

In this series we will be chatting to members of CHMSN What initially drew you to join the Cosmetic History and Makeup Studies Network? In 2009, I started the Cosmetics and Skin website which brought me into contact with the wonderful Hillary Belzer who runs...