Joanne Eicher Explained

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

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

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

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

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Collections Online | British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org.
2. Web site: Collection: Joanne B. Eicher papers | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides. archives.lib.umn.edu.
3. Web site: Someone Else | "One Foot After Another": How Joanne Eicher Changed the Meaning of Clothing. someone-else.us.
4. Aronson . Lisa . Joanne Bubolz Eicher: Trailblazer in the Field of African Textiles, Dress, and Fashion . . 50 . 3 . 2017 . 38–47 . 10.1162/AFAR_a_00356 . 48547418 . 57566701 . 7 September 2023.
5. Web site: Fashion has a bright future. The Age, page 16. September 10, 1982. Google Books.
6. Dr. Joanne B. Eicher . Digital Conservancy . . 2014. 11299/155886 .
7. Web site: T-TALK: Volumes of style. Staff Writer. The Tuscaloosa News.
8. Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel. (1986). Goldstein Gallery Collections. St. Paul, MN: Goldstein Gallery, University of Minnesota.
9. Web site: "Clothing expert to talk at UI Friday". . 4C. September 24, 2003. Google Books.
10. Web site: "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.
11. Web site: Joanne B. Eicher | College of Design. design.umn.edu.
12. Web site: Every week should be fashion week!. September 15, 2010. OUPblog.
13. Web site: University Archives | University of Minnesota Libraries. September 7, 2023. www.lib.umn.edu.