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Education:

• BA (Hons) in Costume Studies and History, ºÃÉ«¹È
• MLitt Art History: Dress and Textile Histories, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
  
• Forthcoming PhD Medieval History, University of St Andrews (Scotland)

Research and creative activity:

Perin is a dress historian with a background in object research and the construction of historical garments. Her doctoral work considered the use of livery and mourning as forms of political and performative dress in late medieval and early Renaissance Scotland, with an element of visual reconstruction. She is also interested in examining developments in the cut and construction of clothing, and the ways in which clothing both shaped and extended the body and identity, from the early medieval period through the early twentieth century. She loves working as an educator, and has experience both in the museum and heritage sector and in teaching at the undergraduate level.  

Selected Publications:

Perin Westerhof Nyman, ‘Mourning for Madeleine and Margaret: dress and meaning in the memorials for two Scottish queens, 1537 and 1541’, The Scottish Historical Review, 100:3 (2021), 359-377.

Morvern French and Perin Westerhof Nyman, ‘Dress, Décor and Identity in Scotland to 1700’, The Scottish Historical Review, 100:3 (2021), 305-313.

Perin Westerhof Nyman, ‘Livery and Dule: Dressing Life and Death in the Late Medieval Scottish Royal Household’ (PhD Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2020).