Recent Dissertations in Quilt History

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Recent dissertations in quilt studies include:

Denise M. Campbell, Quilting a Culture: Theories of Aesthetics, Representation, and Resistance in African American Quiltmaking (2006)

Remi Kouessi-Tanoh Douah, In Her Own Words: Uncovering a Life Experience Woven into the African American Quiltmaking Tradition (Wilma Gary) (2006)

Caroline Fitzpatrick’s Women's Voices, Women's Quilts: A Study of Discourse Practices in a Pennsylvania Quilting Circle (2007)

Yoland Ann Hool, African American Quilt Culture: An Afrocentric Feminist Analysis of African American Art Quilts in the Midwest (2000)

Patricia J. Keller, The Quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, Context, and Meaning, 1750-1884 (2007)

Elizabeth W. McLaughlin, Engendering the Imago Dei: A Rhetorical Study of Quilts and Quiltmaking as Metaphor and Visual Parable in the Anabaptist Peace Tradition (2007)

Colleen Hall-Patton, Quilters Between the Revivals: The Cultural Context of Quilting 1945-1970 (2004)

Valerie Sanders Rake, 'In the Old Days, They Used Scraps': Gender, Leisure, Commodification, and the Mythology of Quiltmaking, Wayne County, Ohio, 1915-1995 (2000)

Amanda Grace Sikarskie, Fiberspace: At the Intersection of Textiles and Digital Technologies (2011)

Yaalieth Adrienne Simpson, African-American Female Identity in the 19th Century: The Individual and Cultural Empowerment of Harriet Powers' Bible quilts (2003)

Janneken Smucker, From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value (2010)

You can find complete bibliographic information for these and other dissertations at State Quilt Documentation & Regional Quilt History: A Selective Bibliography, http://www.booksandoldlace.com/quilting/StateQuiltHistoryBibliography.htm.