Faculty Profiles

JOANNE B. EICHER Emeritus Regents Professor Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel 207 McNeal Hall 1985 Buford Ave. St. Paul, MN 55108-6136 (612) 624-7710 jeicher@umn.edu

      Specialties & Expertise:

• Non-verbal Communication
• Cultural Dress
• Dress and Fashion
• India to Africa textile trade
• Nigeria
• Africa
• Kalabari
• Cultural Authentication
• Body and Dress

      Course Titles (resident and outreach teaching):

• DHA 4212 Dress, Culture, and Society
• TexC/DHA 5680 Field Research Methods
• DHA 8103 Qualitative Research Methods
• DHA 8265 Dress, Race, Class, and Gender
• DHA 8267 Dress and Culture

    Selected Scholarship:

• Eicher, J.B. and Ling, Lisa, (2005). Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood, Washington, D. C. National Geographic Society.
• Eicher, J.B., (2005). Kalabari Identity and Indian Textiles in the Niger Delta, in Crill, Rosemary, ed. Indian Trade Textiles, New Delhi.
• Eicher, Joanne B. (2004), Kalabari Splendor: Indian Gold-embroidery Velvets in Nigeria., In Asian Embroidery, by Dhamija, J (Ed.), pp. 234-248 New Delhi: Abhinav Publications.
• 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. Evenson, S.L, & Lutz, H.A. (2000). The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture and Society, 2nd ed. New York: Fairchild Publishers.
• Sciama, L., Eicher, J.B. (1998) Beads and beadmakers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning. Oxford/New York. Berg Publishers.
• Eicher, J.B. (ed) (1995). Dress and Ethnicity: Chance Across Space & Time, Berg Publishing.
• Eicher, J.B. (2001) The Anthropology of Dress. Dress. 28, 50-79.
• Winge, T.M. and Eicher, J.B. (2003), The American Groom Wore a Celtic Kilt: Theme Weddings as Carnivalesque Events, In, Donald C. Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster, Wedding Dress Across Cultures, Oxford, UK. Berg Publishers.
• Eicher, J.B. and Erekosima, T.V. (2002) Fitting Farewells, In Martha Anderson and Philip Peek, (eds) Ways of the Rivers: Arts of the Niger Delta, Los Angeles, CA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA.      

Professional, Institutional, and Community Leadership and Service:

• Bead Museum, Glendale, AZ, Member, Scholarly Advisory Board 2006-
• Textile Research Center, Ethnographic Museum, Leiden, Netherlands, Member, Advisory Council, 2006-
• International Scholarship Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota 2006
• Science and Scholarly Advisory Board, University of Minnesota, 2002-2004
• McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota, 2000-2002
• 1978-present (ex-officio) Friends of the Goldstein Gallery Board
• 1996-1997, 1998-199, Chair-All University Honors Committee

      Awards:

• Bill Blass Lecturer, Apparel, Merchandising, and Design, Indiana University, April, 2007
• Van Zante Visiting Scholar, South Dakota State University, September, 2005
• Leadership Award, Arts Council of African Studies Association, April, 2004
• Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters), Iowa State University, December, 2003
• Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker, Family and Consumer Sciences, U of Idaho, September, 2003