Kate Sekules conducts research at the intersections of material culture, archaeological anthropology, and dress history, focusing on the history and theory of textile mending—the subect of her doctoral dissertation. She is assistant professor of fashion history at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and lectures at institutions both academic and corporate, from FIT and Columbia to JP Morgan Chase and the Omega Institute. She has presented research at symposia including Textile Society of America, the British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), American Studies Association, and Association of Dress Historians, and frequently teaches practical workshops. Her mending work has been widely featured in exhibitions (Winterthur Museum, RISD Museum, Cornell Biennial) and media (the New York Times, Le Monde, NHK News, Japan). She holds an MA in Costume Studies from New York University, with a thesis uncovering the practice and contexts of stocking darning in NYC, 1870-1900, and a BA in English and Drama from Manchester and Middlesex Universities, UK. Her book MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto was published by Penguin in 2020.