About

SOFI THANHAUSER  writes about global history and politics. Her work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and Vox.  She was the recipient of the 2024 Calderwood Journalism Fellowship and has received fellowships and residencies from the Fulbright, Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Millay Arts, Jentel, and VCCA. She is the author of Worn: A People’s History of Clothing (Pantheon 2022). Her second book, Shelter, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

As a multimedia artist Thanhauser works with language, image, song, textile, video, and performance, often exploring how words operate in their different capacities as images, sounds, and conceptual markers. 

Sofi Thanhauser by Beowulf Sheehan