Jana Hawley Ph.D.

Jana Hawley, Ph.D.  is the Dean of the College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism. Her prior appointments include Director of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences at University of Arizona, Department Chair of Textiles and Apparel Management at University of Missouri, and Department Head at Kansas State University for Apparel Textiles and Interior Design. She has also been faculty of merchandising at Indiana University, University of North Texas, and University of Missouri.

Hawley is a Fulbright Scholar to India, a HERS Fellow, ITAA Fellow, SEC Administrators Leadership Fellow, a Kemper Fellow for Excellence in Teaching, and a Global Scholar to Thailand, Turkey, and India. She has led Culture and Industry tours of retailing and merchandising faculty to Guatemala and Uzbekistan.  She is trained in the Art of Participatory Leadership and the Art of Hosting. She is past-president of the International Textile and Apparel Association. She serves on the Editorial Board for Fashion, Style and Popular Culture and is chair-elect for the Board on Human Sciences, a sub-group of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.  She has received more than $1.5M in external grants.

Dean Hawley has published or presented more than 110 scholarly works, and her work has been cited more than 1500 times.  She is most moted for her scholarship in textile recycling and sustainability but more recently has worked with folk artisans around the world as they adapt their traditional arts for the global marketplace.

She earned her PhD from University of Missouri. For the past nine years, Dr. Hawley has volunteered as an artist assistant at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This work has inspired her scholarship and drives her volunteerism and global causes.