Dr. Jonathan Michael Square is an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. He earned a PhD from New York University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from Cornell University. Previously, he taught in the Committee on Degree in History and Literature at Harvard University and was a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He curated the exhibition Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery at the Herron School of Art and Design.

Dr. Square is currently preparing for his upcoming show, yet-to-be-named, at the Afric-American Picture Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in 2025. Dr. Square also leads the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom. He is in the process of finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled Negro Cloth: How Slavery Birthed the American Fashion Industry, which is under contract at Duke University Press and is slated to be published at the end of 2025.