The author or editor of two previous books, as well as a prize-winning dressmaker, she earned a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and is also a skilled dressmaker from a long line of sewing women. Trained in legal history, she may be the only historian to lecture at the U.S. Supreme Court in a suit that won a ribbon at a county fair. Professor Przybyszewski recently turned to exploring how Americans learned to dress for the 20th Century. The result is The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish (Basic Books, 2014) which was featured in the Wall Street Journal, on WSJ Live, and on NPR’s the Diane Rehm Show, and Here and Now. Professor Przybyszewski has also talked about the history of fashion on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN.com, and the CBC’s The Current.