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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Spending a semester where fashion and technology intertwine
Next up in our series of posts from students in the first-year seminar “From Cotton to Kevlar” is one from Kate Grynkiewicz. Like many students in the course, she enrolled on a whim, but came away with some surprising insights. … Continue reading
From Rudolph Ackermann to Joan Rivers: The Evolution of Fashion News
This post by Katelyn Dube is the last in the series from students in our course “From Cotton to Kevlar.” Her team (which also included Kate Grynkiewicz, another poster here) produced a web exhibit tracing the history of fashion news … Continue reading
A Student’s Perspective
With the semester coming to a close, we’re pleased to introduce a series of guest posts from students in the course Cotton to Kevlar. Thanks to first-year student Andrea Moore for launching these reports from the class! When I was … Continue reading
“Denim Revolutionaries:” The Women of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Politics of Dress
Recently, our “Cotton to Kevlar” class was treated with a visit from Tanisha Ford, an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose research explores “fashion, performance, and women’s rights activism” (http://www.tanishacford.com/). Professor Ford teaches … Continue reading