John Waters: Pope of Trash

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Isabelle Held

Isabelle Held (she/they) is an interdisciplinary design historian and curator. Employing an intersectional approach, she focuses on fashion, the body, materiality and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Held is a Research Associate in the Division of Science and Medicine at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Currently, she is completing her forthcoming book, under contract with Duke University Press, which focuses on plastics, design, and the body in the postwar US. Previously she lectured at design institutions including London College of Fashion and the Royal College of Art. Held has curated exhibitions for the Science History Institute and Google Arts & Culture.