Susan WatkinsSusan M. Watkins is a Professor Emeritus of Apparel Design at Cornell University. She is widely considered to be the founder of the discipline of functional apparel design and was the author of the first texbook in the field, Clothing: the Portable Environment. This text was first published in 1984 and revised in 1995 and has been translated into Japanese and Korean. It has been used by academic programs and government research laboratories around the world. She is a Fellow of the International Textiles and Apparel Association; held the Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair at the Florida State University from 1999-2000; is the subject of a biography in the Encyclopedia of Human Ecology and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Minnesota in 2014. She is currently Designer and Manager of Portable Environments, LLC, a consulting company focused on protective clothing design. Read More Read Less