Marina Moskowitz

About

Marina Moskowitz is the Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture & Design and a Professor of Design Studies at the School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her academic interest centers on the 'stuff' of human life, with a focus on material culture and its role in shaping communities and identities. Moskowitz earned her PhD in American Studies from Yale University, where she researched the role of material culture in building national communities of American consumers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has also worked in curatorial roles in history museums, engaging communities with local histories through artifacts. After her doctoral studies, she worked in Scotland at the University of Glasgow in History and American Studies, gaining new perspectives on her research. Since joining the Design Studies department at the School of Human Ecology in 2018, she has integrated her historical research with contemporary design and material culture, working closely with the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. Moskowitz's work explores the intersections of textiles, fashion, and American history, contributing to the understanding of how household objects and textiles preserve and reflect American politics and culture.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Security
• Machine Learning
• Environmental planning
• Engineering
• Ecology
• History

Selected publications

• Beyond CAGE: Investigating Generalization of Learned Autonomous Network Defense Policies

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022 · 7 citations

  Advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have inspired new directions in intelligent automation of network defense. However, many of these advancements have either outpaced their application to network security or have not considered the challenges associated with implementing them in the real-world. To understand these problems, this work evaluates several RL approaches implemented in the second edition of the CAGE Challenge, a public competition to build an autonomous network defender agent…

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• History, Sustainability and Communities of Practice

  Scottish historical review/˜The œScottish historical review · 2023 · 1 citations

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• "Terrain of Every Hue"

  2020-10-15 · 1 citations

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  As the knitting industry in Scotland has dwindled over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, the products made have also shifted from prosaic (eg, hosiery) to high-end luxury goods (eg, hand-knit fair isle sweaters, machine-made cashmere sweaters, etc). The marketing of these goods—to international audiences—uses digital storytelling to make use of two conflicting images of the national heritage of Scotland. The first is the long tradition of knitwear production in the nation, and the secon…

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• ‘‘Aren’t we all?’’: aspiration, acquisition, and the American middle class

  2020-10-08 · 1 citations

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• American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

  Journal of American History · 2019-02-18 · 1 citations

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  Much of the scholarship on the emergence and history of the American middle class focuses on commonalities. Although scholars have explored a wide range of elements at the core of this amorphous group—including education, occupation, financial standing, family structure, morality, consumer behavior, and material culture—they often have asked two key questions. What do people who self-identify (or are identified through other means) as members of the middle class share? What are the mechanisms by…

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Frequent coauthors

• Elspeth H. Brown

  University of Toronto

  3 shared

• Catherine Gudis

  University of California, Riverside

  3 shared

• Marlis Schweitzer

  York University

  3 shared

• Adrian Webster

  Apple (United States)

  2 shared

• Patrick C. Dwyer

  2 shared

• Harold Nguyen

  Apple (United States)

  2 shared

• M. Wolk

  2 shared

• Nicole Park

  Apple (United States)

  2 shared

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