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How Academic Dress Is Mobilized In Degree Ceremonies And To What Effect, Sandra Wearden

Transactions of the Burgon Society

Academic dress is perceived by many to be fixed and unchanging, yet this study illuminated how rich, diverse, dynamic and changeable it can be. Using a socio-material approach called actor-network theory meant that the focus of attention in this study was on how academic dress was mobilized in relation to degree ceremonies and to what effect. By focusing on academic dress in this particular way, the aim was to highlight how academic dress contributed to making and shaping degree ceremonies.

This study found that academic dress generated similar and different effects across degree ceremonies held at different institutions, and concluded …

The Iridescent Web: American Degree Colours (1895–1935), Kenneth L. Suit Jr

Transactions of the Burgon Society

Introduction: The general history of American academic dress has been extensively chronicled in the pages of this journal, but aside from noting that the faculty colours currently in use were added piecemeal during the hundred-odd years the 1895 Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume and the 1935 Academic Costume Code have been in force, a detailed study of these colours has not been made.

The Tradition Of Academic Costume At Acadia University, John N. Grant

Transactions of the Burgon Society

Introduction: In the history of post-secondary education in Canada, the creation of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, might appear to be part of the pattern of denominational colleges in Nova Scotia. More accurately, however, Acadia helped to establish that pattern. In 1838, despite the 1818 founding of Dalhousie University in Halifax, the University of King’s College (est. 1789) in Windsor was the only chartered institution of higher learning that was active in Nova Scotia.