Victoria Rose Pass is a specialist in visual culture, particularly in areas of design and fashion. Her research considers the history of fashion culture in the 20th century and focuses specifically on issues of gender and race. Most recently her essay “Primitivizing Accessories: Slave Jewelry and the Construction of White Femininity in 1920s America” was published in Fashion in American Life, edited by Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters (Bloomsbury, 2024), and her essay "Racial Masquerades in the Magazines: Defining White Femininity Between the Wars," was published in the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies in 2020. She co-edited the book Design Beyond the Canon with Jennifer Kauffman-Buhler and Christopher Wilson published by Bloomsbury in February 2019. This volume includes her essay, "The Mangbetu Coiffure: A Story of Cars, Hats, Branding, and Appropriation." She also co-edited the volume, Women's Magazines in Print and New Media with Noliwe Rooks and Ayana Weekley, which was published by Routledge in 2016. The volume included her essay, "Encountering Africa in Vogue: Irving Penn's African Essays." Her writing has also appeared in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, TAUKO, Omenka Magazine, Design and Culture, caa.reviews, and BmoreArt. Sharing her research in fashion history with the general public is an important dimension of Vicky’s work. She is a sought-after public speaker and moderator on fashion history in both the Baltimore community and beyond and has been invited to speak at The Maryland Center for History and Culture, The Baltimore Jewelry Center, The Delaware Art Museum, The Jewelry Library in New York, and the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island. She also shares her research on Instagram: @visualsustenance. At MICA she teaches Fashion in the Avant Garde, Queer Dress Codes, History of Modern Design, History of Graphic Design, and Modernisms. She received her BA in Art History from Boston University, her MA in Art History from the Art Institute of Chicago, and her PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester.