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Damayanthie Eluwawalage, Ph.D.

Damayanthie Eluwawalage

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology

Campus Address: Ag. Annex 102E

Email: deluwawalage [at] desu.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Edith Cowan University, Australia, 2005
  • B.A., Design, First Class Honours, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 1999
  • B.A., Design, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, 1998

Research Interests

Damayanthie Eluwawalage, Ph.D., MPHA is a Professional Historian, Assistant Professor, Private Pilot, Aerospace Education Officer (Civil Air Patrol, United States Air Force Auxiliary), NASA Research Scientist, and Industrial, Product and Fashion Designer. She earned her doctorate in Design/History from Edith Cowan University, Australia. She also holds a B.A. (Honours First-class) in Design from Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

Her multidisciplinary research interests include interdisciplinary design, industrial/product design, design theory, aviation/space history, space/aviation (she holds a Private Pilot License), costume history, fashion/aesthetic theory, space suit design concepts/applications, lunar dust mitigation technologies. oxygen/gas mask design/technologies, and general aviation.

Areas of Expertise

  • Design
  • History
  • Aviation
  • Theory, Philosophy
  • Costume History

Selected Publications

  • History of Costume: Nineteenth-century Western Australia, 2015, ISBN: 978-966-50967-0-6

  • Fashion: Tyranny and Revelation, Edited by Damayanthie Eluwawalage, Year: 2016, Format: eBook (PDF); The Inter-Disciplinary Press, UK., ISBN 978-1-84888-483-0; SKU: 9781848884830.

  • Learning from Memory: Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing Word; Edited by Bianca Maria Pirani and Ivan Varga, ISBN (10): 1-4438-2884-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-2884-0; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom., Chapter 2: Appearance and Gender: The Histories of the Body in the Context of Clothing

  • Encyclopedias, Berg Fashion Library 2019, Publisher: Bloomberg Publishers, Contributing author - “History of Correctional Attire”, Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (10 volumes)

  • “Now and Then: The Fascinating Narrative of Fashion and Clothing Advertisements”; Journal of Textile Science & Fashion Technology (ISSN: 2641-192X) DOI: 10.33552/JTSFT.2019.03.000556; July 2019.

  • Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World (2 volumes) ISBN: 978-0-313-37636-8; eISBN: 978-0-313-37637-5 (2014); Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Contributing author - Volume 1: “Dress in Australia”

  • “Tailors, Seamstresses and Dressmakers in Early Lancaster, Pennsylvania”; The Journal of Lancaster County’s Historical Society (Vol. 119, NO.4 Spring 2019, pp. 204-213).

  • (Editor) Attired: Perspectives on Historical Costume, Contributing Author: Historical Costume: Acknowledging the Distinctiveness Between the Centuries and Epochs, Camera-ready copy submitted to the publisher. Will be published in 2024, Vernon Press

  • “American Whalers and their Impact on Fashion and Clothing in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia”; PHA (WA) Newsletter of the Western Australian Professional Historians’ Association (No. 123 June 2014, pp. 20-23).

  • International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, Taylor & Francis Publishing Group, London UK., DOI:10.1080/17543266.2015.1078848 ; “Exotic Fauna and Flora: Fashion Trends in the Nineteenth Century” Published online: 14 September 2015

Grants

  • NASA EPSCoR Research Grant. 2022. Research Topic: D-SHIELD - A LUNAR DUST MITIGATION TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE SAFE LUNAR EXPLORATION - Principal Investigator