Joanne B. Eicher — Experts@Minnesota

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 → 2012

Advisory Council, Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands

2006 → …

Editor, Bloomsbury Academic

1994 → …

Director, Goldstein Museum of Design

1987 → …

Keywords

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 1958 2018

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 Publishing

Research 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

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 Publishing

Research 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 Publishing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, In H. Jenss, Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices

Eicher, J. & Jenss, H. 2016 Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practices. Oxford U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 198-214

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Activities 2011 2013

3 Editorial activity

Dress, Body and Culture Book Series (Journal)

Eicher, J. (Peer reviewer)

2013 → …

Activity: Editorial activity

Dress and Fashion Research Book Series (Journal)

Eicher, J. (Peer reviewer)

2013 → …

Activity: Editorial activity

Berg Fashion Library (Journal)

Eicher, J. (Peer reviewer)

2011 → 2013

Activity: Editorial activity