Archival inquiry & material culture

Historiography, dress codes, and labor

Examining how garments serve as primary archival texts of political struggle, colonial expansion, and contested identity across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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University Monographs

18

Peer-Reviewed Essays

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Archival Collections

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Major publications

Published monographs

Colonial Archive / Sartorial Proof

Published by Columbia University Press. Traces the bureaucratic deployment of dress codes across colonial administration and the subversion tactics enacted through indigenous cloth production.

The Seam and the State: Labor Politics in Nineteenth-Century Textiles

Published by Oxford University Press. An investigation into factory floor organization, gendered labor, and the material evidence of resistance embedded in industrial weaving processes.

Chronological index

Key journal articles

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Material Memory in the Post-Colonial Wardrobe

The Bureaucracy of the Hemline

Unstitched Histories: Forensic Garment Analysis

Published in Journal of Material Culture. Archival evidence of sumptuary laws and gender regulation in early industrial European urban centers.

Published in Critical Inquiry. Re-evaluating museum collection taxonomies through the lens of displaced textile circulation and domestic reclamation.

Published in Textile History. Methodological frameworks for reading altered garments as primary historical witnesses of undocumented migration.

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