Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Professor Emerita in History at the University of Leeds.  She previously held the position of Professor of Business History and Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society.  In that capacity, she was project leader for The Enterprise of Culture, a three-year EU-funded collaborative research project on the business history of fashion since 1945, between 2013 and 2017. Other funded projects at Leeds included Rethinking Textiles and the Moon Heritage Project, two efforts to re-contexualize the history of British textiles within the broader frameworks of technological change, consumer culture, and the fashion system. She was also a frequent collaborator with the Marks and Spencer Company Archive on the Leeds campus, offering a popular archives-driven research seminar called "History on the High Street."

Reggie's publications focus on business and consumer culture, on the creative industries, and on the chemical industries. Her books include Capitalism and the Senses (co-edited 2023); Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the Creation of British Cloth for the Global Market (Milla Davenport Award from the Costume Society of America, 2019); European Fashion: The Creation of a Global Industry (co-edited 2018); The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction (co-edited 2018); Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture (co-edited 2017); The Color Revolution (Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, 2013); American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV (2009); Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture and Consumers (Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2008); Major Problems in American Business History: Essays and Documents (co-edited 2006); and Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the BHC, 2001).  Her work on the chemical industries includes Partners in Innovation: Science Eduction and the Science Workforce (2005); Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation, which was written for centennial of the Rohm and Haas Company in 2009, and 100 Years of Innovation: A Legacy of Pedagogy and Research. University of Delaware Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2014). 

Blaszczyk received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Delaware, where she was a Hagley Fellow. Her early career was spent one of the curatorial departments at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington.