Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Specialization: Dress and textiles as design artifacts and non-verbal communication systems. Area: focus: Africa/Asia.
External Positions
Keynote Address, London College of Fashion, Symposium on Fashion and the Senses "Dress, the senses and the public, private and secret selves."
2015 → …Editor, Bloomsbury Academic "Dress and Fashion Research Series."
2013 → …Editor, Berg Fashion Library
2011 → …Textile Society of America
2008 → 2012Advisory Council, Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands
2006 → …Editor, Bloomsbury Academic
1994 → …Director, Goldstein Museum of Design
1987 → …Research interests
- Non-verbal Communication
- Dress and Fashion
- Cultural Dress
- Body and Dress
- Cultural Authentication;
- Clothing and dress-African
- Textiles- African
- Textiles - Kalabari
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Research Output
Forward in forthcoming : "Fashion History: A Global View": Fashion History: A Global View
Lillethun, A., Welters, L. & Eicher, J., 2018, Fashion History: A Global View. Oxford, U.K.: Bloomsbury PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader,
Luvaas, B. (ed.) & Eicher, J., 2018, (In preparation) Bloomsbury Publishing.Research output: Book/Report › Book
1 untitled photograph in V. Rovine, Networks of Threads: Textiles and Clothing as Routes of Exchange, Global Africa, Bayfield, J and Hodgson, D
Eicher, J., 2017Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe, Fashion Photography Archive. Valerie Steele (Ed), Bloomsbury Publishing Pictures
Eicher, J., 2016, Fashion Photography Archive. Valerie Steele (Ed), Bloomsbury Publishing Pictures. Oxford, U.K.: Bloomsbury PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Forward in "African Lace-Bark in the Caribbean"
Eicher, J. & Buckridge, S., 2016, African Lace-Bark in the Caribbean. Bloomsbury PublishingResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Activities
- 3 Editorial activity
Dress, Body and Culture Book Series (Journal)
Joanne B. Eicher (Peer reviewer)2013 → …
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
Dress and Fashion Research Book Series (Journal)
Joanne B. Eicher (Peer reviewer)2013 → …
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
Berg Fashion Library (Journal)
Joanne B. Eicher (Peer reviewer)2011 → 2013
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
Fellowships, Honors, and Prizes
Ada Comstock Distinguished Woman's Faculty Award/Lecturer
Joanne B. Eicher (Recipient), Nov 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Award of Merit, Gamma Sigma Delta (Agricultural Honorary Society), 1993.
Joanne B. Eicher (Recipient), 1993
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Bobbin Educator of the Year, International Textiles and Apparel Association, 1994.
Joanne B. Eicher (Recipient), 1994
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Charter Fellow, International Textiles and Apparel Association, 1989.
Joanne B. Eicher (Recipient), 1989
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards, nominated for Design Mind.
Joanne B. Eicher (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)