I would like to thank Rob Fisher, founder of Inter-Disciplinary.Net for the opportunity to participate in The Fashion Project: Exploring Critical Issues, and the fashion project leader Jacque Lynn Foltyn, for her support, expertise and mentorship over the course of my involvement with this project.
Thank you to the authors whose contributions to this volume represent some of the finest, most thoughtful contemplations on the state of fashion studies and interdisciplinary scholarship to date.
I would also like to acknowledge Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi for its support of this research; specifically, Dr. Mark Hartlaub, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Luis A. Cifuentes and Mr. Dan Riechers of the Office of Research, Commercialization and Outreach; and Professor Jennifer Garza-Cuen, for photographing my painting Pink and Red for the cover illustration of this book.
Finally, thank you to my family.