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Displaying And Experiencing Dress Identities In Museums: Case Studies From The Etruscan Period To Modern Times, Karina Grömer, Astrid Fendt, Morten Grymer-Hansen, Anna Zimmermann, Kayleigh Saunderson, Camilla Cziffery Nielsen, Francisco B. Gomes Jan 2024

Displaying And Experiencing Dress Identities In Museums: Case Studies From The Etruscan Period To Modern Times, Karina Grömer, Astrid Fendt, Morten Grymer-Hansen, Anna Zimmermann, Kayleigh Saunderson, Camilla Cziffery Nielsen, Francisco B. Gomes

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Dress, clothes, and accessories receive and give meaning through their nearness to the human body. As P. Stallybrass writes: “Bodies come and go: the clothes that have received those bodies survive.” It is through the close interaction between dress and person that they both receive their meaning. Clothes shape the human body, and we in return shape our clothes. Dress communicates class, gender, nationality, and marital status, and we leave behind parts of us in its smell, wrinkles, wear, and tear: “Clothes receive the human imprint.” Archaeological and historical dress — no matter how ancient — remain intrinsically linked to …


Sellards, Hezekiah, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Sellards, Hezekiah, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Hezekiah Sellards family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Rogers, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Rogers, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Rogers family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Ramsey, John, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Ramsey, John, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the John Ramsey family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Richards, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Richards, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Richards family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Rexroat, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Rexroat, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Rexroat family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Courtright, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Courtright, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Courtright family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Butcher, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Butcher, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Butcher family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Bowen, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Bowen, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Bowen family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Mcdaniel, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Mcdaniel, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the McDaniel family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Logan, Harvey, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Logan, Harvey, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Harvey Logan family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Kitchen, James, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Kitchen, James, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James Kitchen family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Lewis, Thomas, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Lewis, Thomas, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Thomas Lewis family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Dean-Creech, Volume 16, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Dean-Creech, Volume 16, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Dean-Creech family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Wyatt, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Wyatt, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Wyatt family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


The Shocker, Grand Valley State University Jan 2024

The Shocker, Grand Valley State University

The Shocker

Literary publication collecting writings and art from the Thomas Jefferson College "Make-It" program and via student submission.


Alderson, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Alderson, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Alderson family in Rowan County, Kentucky


Henderson, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Henderson, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Henderson family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Dean-Creech, Volume 2-3, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Dean-Creech, Volume 2-3, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Dean-Creech family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Fannin, Hortense, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Fannin, Hortense, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Hortense Fannin, née Whitt, family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Conley/Connelly, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Conley/Connelly, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Conley/Connelly family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Christian, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Christian, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Christian family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Hayes, Rowan County Genealogical Society Jan 2024

Hayes, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Hayes family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Little, Isaac, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Little, Isaac, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Isaac Little family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Hamm, Peter A., Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Hamm, Peter A., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Peter A. Hamm family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Fouch, Rowan County Genealogical Soicety. Jan 2024

Fouch, Rowan County Genealogical Soicety.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Fouch family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Elam, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Elam, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Elam family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


Hinton, Rowan County Genealogical Society. Jan 2024

Hinton, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Hinton family in Rowan County, Kentucky.


“Dome Of The Continent”: Mount Whitney, Continental Expansion, And The Democratization Of The Sierra Nevada, Joseph Esparza Jan 2024

“Dome Of The Continent”: Mount Whitney, Continental Expansion, And The Democratization Of The Sierra Nevada, Joseph Esparza

Eastern Sierra History Journal

This article explores how Tumanguya, the Paiute name for what settler-colonists called Mount Whitney, became a landmark presence in the American environmental culture--and why.


Geologists As Colonial Scouts: The Rogers Expedition To Otavi And Tsumeb, Namibia, 1892–1895, Selby Hearth Jan 2024

Geologists As Colonial Scouts: The Rogers Expedition To Otavi And Tsumeb, Namibia, 1892–1895, Selby Hearth

Geology Faculty Research and Scholarship

From 1892 to 1895, the South West Africa Company (SWACO) expedition led by geologist Matthew Rogers conducted the first geologic mapping in Namibia’s Otavi Mountains, including the now world-famous Tsumeb Mine. This paper uses archival documents from the Rogers expedition to trace his geologic contributions and to illustrate important themes in the relationships between 19th century colonial geologists, Western colonizing governments, Indigenous communities, resource extraction, and corporations. To carry out his mapping, Rogers performed a continuous balancing act between British and German colonial powers and local African leaders. The local leaders and communities he interacted with variously resisted his incursions, …