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Professor and author
Joanne Eicher , also known as Joanne Bubolz Eicher , born in 1930,
[1] is a retired professor and author who was at one point the leading scholar on
Kalabari textiles.
[2]
[3]
Education
In 1952 Eicher received an
MS in
sociology and
anthropology , and in 1959 she received a
PhD in sociology and anthropology, all from
Michigan State University . She had previously received a
BA from Michigan State University in 1948, having majored in languages and literature and minored in textiles and clothing.
[4]
Career
Eicher was part of the faculty of Michigan State University's Department of Human and Environmental Design beginning in the late 1960s and continuing until 1977.
[4]
That year she became head of the Department of Textiles and Clothing at the
University of Minnesota ;
[5] she held that position until 1983. From 1983 until the end of 1987 she was the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel's head, also at the University of Minnesota.
[2] She taught at that university until her retirement in 2005, and in 1995 she was given a Regents’ Professorship there.
[2]
[6] She eventually became regents professor
emerita .
[7]
She was also director of the
Goldstein Museum of Design from 1983 to 1987.
[8]
She was a speaker as part of the Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker series at the
University of Idaho in 2003.
[9]
[10]
She was a member of the
Textile Research Centre 's Advisory Council beginning in 2006. She was also on the board of the
Textile Society of America from 2008 to 2012.
[11]
She is the editor-in-chief of the
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion , first published in print in 2010.
[7]
Selected Bibliography as Author
[11]
Johnson, K.K.P., Torntore, S.J. and Eicher, J.B., (2003). Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Dress . Oxford, UK,
Berg Publishers .
Eicher, J.B. and Ling, Lisa, (2005). Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood , Washington, D. C.
National Geographic Society .
Eicher, J.B. and Evenson, S.L, (2014). The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture and Society , 4th ed. New York:
Fairchild Publishers .
Eicher, J.B. and Evenson, S.L, (2023). The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture and Society , 5th ed. New York:
Fairchild Publishers .
Selected Bibliography as Editor
[11]
Roach-Higgins, M.E., Eicher, J.B., & Johnson, K.P. (Eds.) (1995). Dress and identity . New York:
Fairchild Books .
Eicher, J.B. (Ed.) (1995). Dress and Ethnicity: Chance Across Space & Time , Berg Publishers.
Sciama, L., Eicher, J.B. (Eds.). (1998) Beads and Beadmakers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning . Oxford/New York. Berg Publishers.
Eicher, J. B. and
Ross, Doran , (Eds.) (2010). Volume 1, Africa,
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion .
[12] New York:
Oxford University Press .
Eicher, J.B. Editor-in-Chief, (2010).
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
[12] (10 vols). New York: Oxford University Press.
Luvaas, B. and Eicher, J.B. (Eds.) (2019). The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader , London and New York:
Bloomsbury .
Eicher, J.B. (Ed.) (2022). Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta , Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press .
Selected Awards and Honors
[11]
1989: Fellow, International Textile and Apparel Association
2003: Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters),
Iowa State University
2004: Leadership Award, Arts Council of
African Studies Association
2007:
Ada Comstock Distinguished Woman's Faculty Award/Lecturer, University of Minnesota
2009: Fellow, Costume Society of America
2012: Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Social Science, Michigan State University
Papers
The Joanne B. Eicher papers are at the University of Minnesota Archives, under Collection Identifier ua2005-0028.
[2]
[13]
External links
References
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"Collections Online | British Museum" . www.britishmuseum.org .
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"Collection: Joanne B. Eicher papers | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides" . archives.lib.umn.edu .
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"Someone Else | "One Foot After Another": How Joanne Eicher Changed the Meaning of Clothing" . someone-else.us .
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b Aronson, Lisa (2017).
"Joanne Bubolz Eicher: Trailblazer in the Field of African Textiles, Dress, and Fashion" .
African Arts . 50 (3): 38–47.
doi :
10.1162/AFAR_a_00356 .
JSTOR
48547418 .
S2CID
57566701 . Retrieved 7 September 2023 .
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"Fashion has a bright future" . The Age, page 16. September 10, 1982 – via Google Books.
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"Dr. Joanne B. Eicher" . Digital Conservancy .
University of Minnesota . 2014.
hdl :
11299/155886 .
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b Staff Writer.
"T-TALK: Volumes of style" .
The Tuscaloosa News .
^ Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel. (1986). Goldstein Gallery Collections . St. Paul, MN: Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota.
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" "Clothing expert to talk at UI Friday" " .
Lewiston Morning Tribune . September 24, 2003. p. 4C – via Google Books.
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" "The Display of Skin from Africa to the Academy Awards," Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker, Family and Consumer Sciences, U of Idaho, September, 2003" . Experts@Minnesota .
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"Joanne B. Eicher | College of Design" . design.umn.edu .
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"Every week should be fashion week!" . OUPblog . September 15, 2010.
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"University Archives | University of Minnesota Libraries" . www.lib.umn.edu . September 7, 2023.