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Joanne Eicher

Education[edit]

In 1952 Eicher received an MSinsociology 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[edit]

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[edit]

Source:^[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[edit]

Source:^[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[edit]

Source:^[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[edit]

The Joanne B. Eicher papers are at the University of Minnesota Archives, under Collection Identifier ua2005-0028.^[2][13]

External links[edit]

• The full text of papers written by Eicher is available here.

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