Ann Wass

2021-2024

Parliamentarian

Dr. Ann Wass has been a member of CSA since 1986, when she began her Ph.D. studies in dress and textile history. Through the years, she has been an adjunct professor, worked in theater costume shops, and was a retail management trainee. Five years ago, she retired after two decades as the history/museum specialist at Riversdale, a Federal era house museum of the Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. She continues to research aspects of Federal/Regency era dress and social history, makes clothing for living history interpretation of that era, and has written a book on the subject.