Kathleen McDermott Employment Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Apparel Design Department, 2005 through 2009; 2011-- Course created: History of Dress. Instructor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Graduate and Continuing Education Division, 1998 to present. Courses created: Fashion and Society: America, 1750 to Present; Fashion and Art in the 20th Century. Freelance Writer, fashion history/interior design, Boston Globe, 1999 to 2001. Partner and Corporate Counsel, The Winthrop Group, Inc., Cambridge, MA: 1986 to 1997. Assistant Attorney General, Government Bureau, Department of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: 1984 to 1986. Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Boston, MA: 1982 to 1984. Education Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA: LL.M. Legal History, 1982. School of Law and Jurisprudence, State University of New York at Buffalo: J.D., 1981. Alfred University, Alfred, NY: Double B.A. in English Literature and European History, magna cum laude, 1978. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; 25 courses in Diploma program, 1989 to present.
Haute History Exhibitions: Fashion History WorkWorkWorkWorkWork: The Art of Charles LeDray. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2010. Gallery Talk. Hats and Fashion History, 1830-1930, Colonial Dames of Eastern MA, William Hickling Prescott House, Boston. May 2006. Lecture/gallery talk. All for One and One for All! Uniforms in Fact and Fantasy, American Museum of Textile History, Lowell, MA: 2002. Design team. Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: 2002. Lecture/gallery tour. À la Mode, 1795 to 1920, Fashion Plates from the Boston Public Library s Department of Rare Books: 2001. Curated exhibition, wrote all exhibition text, and photographed all images for website. A Life in Fashion: 1960-2000, Alfred Fiandaca Retrospective, Massachusetts College of Art: 2000. Wrote all exhibition text and researched images. Oral history video interview with Alfred Fiandaca deposited in MassArt Library Archives. Dressing for Social Change: 1900 to 1925, historical costume exhibit, Boston Public Library: 1999. Curated exhibition, selected garments, and wrote all exhibition text. Fashion and Style Publications/Media Commentary Style for All: Why Fashion, Invented by Kings, Now Belongs to All of Us (Lulu.com, 2010). "Political Threads," interview with Brooke Gladstone. National Public Radio. On the Media, WNYC-NY, Feb. 1, 2008. "Indo-Chic," Urban Update, WHDH-TV Boston, Channel 7, Oct. 28, 2001, commentator.
"Fashion Statements," Boston Sunday Globe, Fifty-Five Plus (April 23, 2000), 12. "Vive la Différence" and "In Her Fashion," Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Your Home (Feb. 27, 2000), 48, 56. "E-Commerce and Kitsch of Christmas Past," Boston Globe (Dec. 23, 1999), 11. "Design Coup," Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, Your Home (Sept. 26, 1999), 58. Hat Art and Design For private hat clients, half purchase price donated to charity of their choice. Visual record, 2003 to present, at http://hautehistory.tumblr.com/. For non-profits, hat-themed fundraisers at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 2004; Boston Center for the Arts, 2003; Gibson House Museum, 2003; City of Boston Parks Department/ParkARTS, 2003 to present. For Boston Lyric Opera General Director, donors, and guests, 2002-2006: design and creation of commissioned hats, masks, and costumes. For Teen Shakespeare program of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston: all costume design for 2000 and 2001 seasons. Publications: Business History and Law Timex: A Company and its Community, 1854-1998 (Middlebury, CT: Timex Corporation), 1998. Buxton: A Century of Innovation, 1898 to 1998 (Springfield, MA:
Buxton, Inc.), 1998. Retail Revolutionary: Kinney Shoe Corporation s First Century in Footwear (New York: Kinney Shoe Corporation), 1994. The MetLife Archives Museum (New York: MetLife), 1994. Brochure and text panels. Underwriting America s Success: 125 Years of Metropolitan Life, 1868-1993 (New York: MetLife), 1993. Accounting for Success: A History of Price Waterhouse in America, 1890-1990 (Boston: Harvard Business School Press), 1993. With D. Allen. The Competitive Advantage of Nations, D. Dyer and A.M. Webber, eds. 40-page magazine accompanying HBS professor Michael Porter s four part video (Boston: Harvard Business School Management Productions), 1993. On writing team. Time-Based Competition, D. Dyer and A.M. Webber, eds. 32-page magazine accompanying three part video (Boston: Harvard Business School Management Productions), 1993. On writing team. America s Paint Company: A History of Sherwin-Williams (Cleveland: Sherwin-Williams Corporation), 1991. With D. Dyer. "Pressure on the Price Waterhouse Partnership: Decisions of the 1960s and Implications for Today," in Business and Economic History, Vol. 22 (Fall 1993), pp. 295-304. "The Development of the Massachusetts District Courts: 1821-1922," 15 Historical Journal of Massachusetts (June 1987). "Massachusetts, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court," 31 Boston Bar Journal (Sept./Oct. 1987). With T. A. Barnico. Exhibitions: Business History Timexpo Museum, Waterbury, CT. Research and conceptualization team, 2001.
MetLife Archives Museum, New York, NY: 1994. Wrote all exhibition text. Video oral histories of four MetLife chief executive officers deposited in MetLife Archives. Kinney Shoe Centennial Exhibit, Disney World, FL: 1995. Wrote all exhibition text. Community Editor, "The Bay Village News," Bay Village Neighborhood Association (Quarterly, 2001 to present): http://www.bayvillage.net/newsletter/. Profiled, The Boston Foundation Annual Report, 2010.