Joanne B. Eicher

Joanne B. Eicher was born in Lansing, Michigan, the daughter of a Lutheran minister and artist/weaver mother. She graduated from Eastern High School and received a B.A., M.A. and PhD from Michigan State University and taught at Boston University, Michigan State University and University of Minnesota. Now Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, she has written extensively about the cultural significance of dress and conducted fieldwork in Nigeria. One of her books, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood (2005), was published by National Geographic. She has traveled widely and lectured in the UK, Europe, India, China, Korea, Australia, and Nigeria.