Author: Shaun Borstrock

Veronica Manlow is an associate professor in the Business Management Department in Brooklyn College’s Koppelman School of Business. She is the academic director of the Innovation + Entrepreneurship Lab at Brooklyn College where she is working with a variety of community and City University of New York (CUNY) partners to create an internship programme in minority and women-owned businesses for Brooklyn College students interested in becoming entrepreneurs. Along with Shaun Borstrock, Mark Bloomfield and Silvio Carta, she is the author of Crafting Luxury: Craftsmanship, Manufacture, Technology and the Retail Environment (Intellect, 2022) released this summer. She is editor, along with fellow CUNY colleagues Eugenia Paulicelli and Elizabeth Wissinger, of The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (Routledge, 2021). Her current research investigates luxury labour performed by artisans in a variety of settings ranging from independent workshops to the factory floors of large conglomerates. She was guest editor of a Special Issue on luxury production in the Journal of Design, Business & Society published in October 2018. She and Shaun Borstrock are editors of this journal and are organizers of the International In Pursuit of Luxury Conference. Her Ph.D. is in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Contact: Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.