Veronica Manlow

Veronica Manlow is a professor in the Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department in Brooklyn College’s Koppelman School of Business. She and Shaun Borstrock are editors of In Pursuit of Luxury’s Luxury Studies journal and are orgnizers of the International In Pursuit of Luxury Conference. 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. 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). 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 is also conducting research on luxury salespersons, their career trajectories, strategies they employ and the challenges they face. She was a guest editor of a Special Issue on luxury production in the Journal of Design, Business & Society published in October 2018. 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.