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Elif Kavakci

  • Associate Professor of Practice, Fashion Industry Science and Technology
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  • (520) 621-8143
  • McClelland Park, Rm. 425E
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • kavakci@arizona.edu
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2025-26 Courses

  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Fall 2025)
  • The Business of Fashion
    FITS 375 (Fall 2025)
  • The Influencer Phenomenon
    FITS 400 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Summer I 2025)
  • Independent Study
    HECL 599 (Spring 2025)
  • The Business of Beauty
    FITS 300 (Spring 2025)
  • Topics in FITS
    FITS 496 (Spring 2025)
  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Fall 2024)
  • Honors Independent Study
    HECL 499H (Fall 2024)
  • The Business of Fashion
    FITS 375 (Fall 2024)
  • The Influencer Phenomenon
    FITS 400 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Summer I 2024)
  • The Business of Fashion
    FITS 375 (Summer I 2024)
  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Spring 2024)
  • The Business of Beauty
    FITS 300 (Spring 2024)
  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Fall 2023)
  • Preceptorship
    FITS 491 (Fall 2023)
  • The Business of Fashion
    FITS 375 (Fall 2023)
  • The Influencer Phenomenon
    FITS 400 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Summer I 2023)
  • Preceptorship
    FITS 491 (Summer I 2023)
  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Spring 2023)
  • The Business of Beauty
    FITS 300 (Spring 2023)
  • The Influencer Phenomenon
    FITS 400 (Spring 2023)
  • Fashion and Technology
    FITS 450 (Fall 2022)
  • The Business of Fashion
    FITS 375 (Fall 2022)
  • The Influencer Phenomenon
    FITS 400 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Summer I 2022)
  • Fashion and Technology
    FITS 450 (Spring 2022)
  • The Business of Beauty
    FITS 300 (Spring 2022)
  • Fashion Frcast+Rsch Trnd
    FITS 335 (Fall 2021)
  • Science of Textiles
    FITS 345 (Fall 2021)
  • Topics in FITS
    FITS 496 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Applying Critical Thinking
    FCSC 301 (Spring 2021)
  • Science of Textiles
    FCSC 345 (Spring 2021)
  • Tops Retail+Consumer Sci
    RCSC 496A (Spring 2021)
  • Tops Retail+Consumer Sci
    RCSC 496A (Fall 2020)

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Journals/Publications

  • Kavakci, E., & Kraeplin, C. R. (2017). Religious beings in fashionable bodies: the online identity construction of hijabi social media personalities:. Media, Culture & Society, 39(6), 850-868. doi:10.1177/0163443716679031
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    A ‘hijabista’ – from the terms hijabi and fashionista – is a Muslim woman who dresses ‘stylishly’ while still adhering to the rules governing ‘modest’ apparel that coincides with Islamic dress code...

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