Assistant Professor, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors Sha’Mira Covington, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Fashion within the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors. Her research explores fashion and dress as cultural, historical, social, and political processes involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization. Her research agenda fuses womanist constructs with embodiment constructs to make a case for increased dialogue between the visual, sensory, and material-based methods of Black liberation.