CLAIRE NICHOLAS Curriculum Vitae
Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design [email protected] 203 Home Economics Building Office: (402) 472-5435 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68583
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2014 Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology
L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France 2005 Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) Social Anthropology and Ethnology
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 1999 B.A. Plan II Honors Program (College of Liberal Arts), Minor in French High Honors, Special Honors in Plan II / Theater and Dance, Concentration in Costume Design, High Honors
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2017 – Present Courtesy Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
2016 – Present Assistant Professor of Textiles and Material Culture, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2016 – Present Affiliated Faculty Member, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Human Ecology, Material Culture and Design Studies Area, University of Alberta, Supervisor: Arlene Oak
2013 – 2014 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles 2018 Nicholas, C. & Oak, A. “Building consensus: Design media and multimodality in architecture education.” Discourse & Society 29 (4): 436-454.
2018 “Rationalizing Cooperation: Moroccan Craft, Politics and Education.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 49 (2): 210-223.
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 1 2014 “Of Texts and Textiles: Colonial Ethnography and Contemporary Moroccan Material Heritage.” Journal of North African Studies 19 (3): 390 – 412.
2010 “Moroccan Women Embroiderers: Technical and Ethical Reconfigurations.” Ethnology 49 (2): 105-128.
Refereed Conference Proceedings 2018 Forren, J. & Nicholas, C. “Lap, Twist, Knot: Dichotomies of Intention in the Digital and Analogue.” ACADIA 2018 Conference Proceedings (October 15-20, Mexico City): 336-341.
2018 Nicholas, C. & Oak, A. “Digital, Analog, Discursive: Knowledge Practices and Sense-making in Design-build Architecture.” Proceedings of DRS (Design Research Society), 1 (2018): 61-72.
Book Chapters 2019 “The Building is the Social: Anthropological Perspectives on Design-Build Architecture Education.” In Thinking While Doing: Explorations in Educational Design-Build. Stephen Verderber, Edwin Cavanagh, Arlene Oak (eds.). Birkhauser / De Gruyter. (Forthcoming)
2015 “Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles.” In After Orientalism: Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re- appropriations. François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin, eds. Leiden: Brill, pp. 236-250.
2014 “Au seuil de la recherche ethnologique: initiation au Maroc.” In Pratiquer les sciences sociales au Maghreb. Textes pour Driss Mansouri. Mohamed Almoubaker and François Pouillon, eds. Casablanca: Fondation Abdul Aziz, pp. 39-46.
2012 “Sur les traces des objets anthropologiques: le façonnement du patrimoine vestimentaire marocain.” Maghreb et Sciences Sociales (Fall): 75-83.
2012 “Keeping out of the Kitchen: Cooking and Power in a Moroccan Household.” In Food: Ethnographic Encounters. Leo Coleman, ed. London: Berg, pp. 83-96.
Reviews 2010 Book Review: David Crawford. “Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village.” Journal of North African Studies Vol 15 (2) 2010: 266-269.
2007 Exhibition Review: Co-author (with Dasha Chapman, Mina Ellison, Anne Kwiatt, Tate LeFevre, Sandra Rozental, Susanne Sabolcsi-Boros, April Strickland, and Sabra Thorner). “Indigenous Motivations.” Museum Anthropology Review Vol 1(2) 2007: 93-99.
Manuscripts under Review Forren, J. & Nicholas, C. “Lap, Twist, Knot: Symmetrical Exchange in Socio-technical Practice.” Scroope 28 (2019). Accepted with minor revisions.
“Frames of Reference: Cloth, Community, and Knowledge Ideology in Morocco.” Submitted and sent out to reviewers for Museum Anthropology.
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 2 Manuscripts in Preparation Remastered: Craft, Cloth and Development in Morocco (working title). Book manuscript.
Oak, A. & Nicholas, C. “Drawing Things Together in Architecture Education: Reconsidering the Design Review.” For submission to Journal of Architectural Education.
Web-based Publications 2015 “In Search of Convergence, In Search of Consensus: Design Media in a University Architecture Studio.” Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing (CASTAC) Blog. June 23, 2015. http://blog.castac.org/2015/06/convergence-consensus/
GRANT ACTIVITY & HONOURS
2018 Nominated, IANR Omtvedt Innovation Award (Team category; with Surin Kim, Maria de Guzman, Ashu Guru) 2018 IANR Grant for Scholarly Conference Travel 2018 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (PI: James Forren, Dalhousie University) 2018 Layman SEED Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2018 Mari Sandoz Research Award, Mari Sandoz Heritage Society 2018 USDA-AFRI Rural Youth Entrepreneurship (Lead PI: Surin Kim) 2018 Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation (with Surin Kim) 2017 Nebraska Extension, Innovation Funding (with colleagues) 2017 Research Council Special Opportunities Fund (with colleagues) 2017 Humanities Nebraska Mini-Grant (with colleagues) 2017 Sub-award, Thinking While Doing SSHRC Partnership Grant 2017 IANR Grant for Scholarly Conference Travel 2017 Betty Kirke Excellence in Research Award, Costume Society of America 2017 SSHRC Research Development Fund (PI: James Forren, Dalhousie University) 2016 Research Council (University of Nebraska) Visiting Scholar Award 2016 IANR Grant for Scholarly Conference Travel 2016 Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Alberta, Scholarly Travel Award 2015 Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Faculty of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Alberta, Research Award 2012 – 2013 Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies Graduate Fellow, Princeton University 2011 Travel award, Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University 2010 – 2012 Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, Princeton University 2010 Travel award, Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University 2009 – 2010 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant 2009 Travel award, Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University 2009 Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Summer Research Fellowship 2006 – 2009 Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Graduate Fellowship 2008 Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Summer Research Fellowship 2008 Near Eastern Studies Program, Princeton University, Summer Research Fellowship 2008 PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) Summer Research Fellowship 2007 PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies) Summer Research
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 3 Fellowship 2005 – 2006 Research Fellowship, Formation doctorale, Anthropologie sociale et Ethnologie, l’EHESS
2005 Research / Travel Award, Formation doctorale, Anthropologie sociale et Ethnologie, l’EHESS
INVITED CAMPUS TALKS
2017 “Some ‘Points’ on Embroidery and Womanhood in 19th and 20th Century Morocco.” Sponsored by Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design and Humanities Nebraska, January 19. 2016 “Work in Progress: Craft, Heritage and Development in 21st Century Morocco.” 2016-2017 Anthropology Colloquium Series. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 28. 2016 “Dress, Gender and Revolution in 20th Century Morocco.” Fashion Culture Network Annual Lecture. University of Alberta, February 23.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conference Organization 2012 Co-organizer, graduate student colloquium “The Academe and the ‘Arab Spring’: Disciplinary Approaches to Revolution in the Middle East,” Princeton University, March 2
2008 Co-organizer, “Graduate Student Workshop on North Africa and North African Diasporas,” Princeton University, April 4
Panel Organization 2018 Co-organizer (with Arlene Oak), “Space and (In)Stability: Social Lives of the Built Environment,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 14-18
2016 Co-organizer (with Arlene Oak), “Managing Mess: Exploring How to Design and Conduct Research into Design Practice,” Design Research Society Bi-Annual Conference, June 27-30
2015 Co-organizer (with Arlene Oak), “From one Thing to Another: Technologies of Representation in Design and Making,” Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, November 11-14
2012 Co-organizer (with Talia Dan-Cohen), “Blueprints, Models and other Mediating Forms: Towards an Anthropology of Design,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 14-18
2011 “The Ethnography of Work and Play,” round table with Paul Willis, John Borneman and graduate students from Princeton and Rutgers University, February 25
2007 “Seeing Double: Vision, Imagination and Difference,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 28-December 2
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 4 Papers / Posters Presented 2018 Oak, A. & Nicholas, C. “Evaluating Traces: Situating Design for Future Consideration,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 14-18
2018 “In the Loop: Moroccan Embroidery Samplers and Points of Social Attachment,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 14-18
2018 McPherson, M. & Nicholas, C. “Artifact Analysis: A Petticoat Quilt’s Pedigree,” CEHS Research Showcase, October 18
2018 Francisco, K. & Nicholas, C. “Lingerie and Sexuality: Cultural Influences on the 1920s Woman,” CEHS Research Showcase, October 18
2018 “Textiles, Craft, and Precarity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Morocco,” CEHS Research Showcase, October 18
2018 Francisco, K. & Nicholas, C. “Mari Sandoz: Crafting a Nebraska Character, Fashioning an Exhibition,” Mari Sandoz Annual Symposium, September 20-22
2018 Nicholas, C. & Oak, A. “Digital, Analog, Discursive: Knowledge Practices and Sense-making in Design-build Architecture,” Design Research Society (DRS) Bi-annual Conference, June 25-28
2018 Oak, A. & Nicholas, C. “Creating the Continuous Present: From Extant Buildings to Future Places,” Architecture, Media, Politics, Society Conference, June 13-15
2018 Oak, A. & Nicholas, C. “Discourses of Design-build: Recognizing Complexity in Public Interest Architecture,” Architecture, Media, Politics, Society Conference, February 22-23
2018 McPherson, M. & Nicholas, C. “Survivance of Omaha Tribal Tradition through a Powwow Dance Bustle,” Costume Society of America Annual Symposium, March 13-16
2017 McPherson, M. & Nicholas, C. “Artifact Analysis: A Petticoat Quilt’s Pedigree,” ITAA Annual Conference, November 14-18
2017 Francisco, K. & Nicholas, C. “Lingerie and Sexuality: Cultural Influences on the 1920s Woman,” ITAA Annual Conference, November 14-18
2017 “Textiles, Craft, and Precarity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Morocco,” ITAA Annual Conference, November 14-18
2017 “Hand – Eye – Mouse – Power Tools: Modalities of Sense-Making in Architecture Education,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2
2017 “Dress, Gender, and Revolution in 20th Century Morocco,” Costume Society of America Annual Symposium, May 29-June 4
2017 “The Color of Tradition: Craft, Community, and Textile Expertise in Morocco,” Central
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 5 States Anthropological Association annual conference, April 6-8
2016 “The Color of Tradition: Craft, Community, and Textile Expertise in Morocco,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 16-20
2015 “Work in Progress: Moroccan Textile Craft in a Living Museum,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 18-22
2015 “In Search of Convergence: Making Design Media Analogous in an American University Architecture Studio,” Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, November 11-14
2013 “Crafting Consumers for a Social Economy: Trade Fairs and Fair Trading in Morocco,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 20-24
2012 “Best Laid Plans: Moroccan Textile Design and Speculative Technologies,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 14-18
2011 “The Ebb of Invisible Labor: Moroccan Craftswomen and Converting Productivity,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 16-20
2011 “Sur les traces des objets anthropologiques: le façonnement du patrimoine vestimentaire marocain,” L’Orientalisme et après? Médiations, appropriations, contestations, Institut du Monde Arabe and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, June 15-17
2011 “Authentic Labor and Its Reform: Handicrafts at the Intersection of Competing Utopias,” Material Culture, Craft, and Community, University of Alberta, May 20-21
2010 “Making Markets for Moroccan Feminine Handicrafts and Labor: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘Womanhood’ in Question,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 17-21
2010 “L’Artisanat Marocain: Sur les traces des objets anthropologiques,” L’Orient Créé Par l’Orient, Institut du Monde Arabe and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, November 10
2009 “Tracing Anthropological Objects: Recovering Disciplinary Histories for a Contemporary Approach to Moroccan Craftsmanship,” Research in Contemporary Morocco: New Anthropological Contributions on a Region in Transition, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, June 15
2009 “Tracing Anthropological Objects: Recovering Disciplinary Histories for a Contemporary Approach to Moroccan Craftsmanship,” Middle Eastern Studies Association annual meeting, November 21-24
2008 “Creative Differences: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Tradition,” Graduate Student Workshop on North Africa and North African Diasporas, Princeton University, April 4
2007 “Creative Differences: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Tradition,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 28-December 2
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2005 “Du ma’allem au styliste haute couture: Inégalités de la Mode traditionnelle marocaine,” Les inégalités sociales au Maroc et les implications de la politique de Mise à niveau, workshop, L’IURS (Institut Universitaire de la Recherche Scientifique), Rabat, Morocco, November 10-12
Round Table Presentations 2017 Organizer and Panelist. “Between Allah and Me (And Everyone Else).” Public Film Screening and Discussion, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 18.
2014 Presenter. “Education and the Arab Uprisings: The End of the Social Contract?” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, December 3-7
2011 “Labor and Levity,” The Ethnography of Work and Play, round table with Paul Willis, John Borneman and graduate students from Princeton and Rutgers University, February 25
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018 Instructor, Clothing & Society: You Are What You Wear, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
2018 Instructor, Museums: Theory and Practice, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
2018 Instructor, Textiles, Technology & Culture, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
2017 Instructor, Gender and Material Culture, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
2017 Instructor, Body, Dress and Identity, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
2017 Instructor, History of Textiles, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Spring)
2016 Instructor, Artifact Analysis / Material Culture Research Methods, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
2016 Instructor, History of Quilts in the Western World, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
2016 Supervising Instructor, History of Costume, Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Fall)
2016 Instructor, Gender and Material Culture, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta (Spring)
2015 - 2016 Instructor, Dress and Culture, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta
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2015 Co-Instructor (with Dr. Arlene Oak), Material Culture, Identities & Interpretations (Qualitative Research Methods Seminar), Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta (Fall 2015)
2014 Co-Instructor, Ethnographic Research Methods, Philadelphia University, Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, Spring
2013 – 2014 Instructor, Junior Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
2013 – 2014 Group Leader, Senior Thesis Writing Group, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
2013 Teaching Assistant, History of Anthropological Theory, Princeton University Professor: Elizabeth Davis (Spring)
2008 Head Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Anthropology, Princeton University Professor: Lawrence Rosen (Fall)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018 – Present Material and People: Social Characterization of New Materials in Architecture (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, PI: James Forren, Co-PIs Claire Nicholas, Letitia Meynell, Ted Cavanagh)
2018 – Present Leveraging Community Connections, Local Issues, and Youth High Tech Entrepreneurship Education to Nurture Rural Economic Opportunities (USDA- AFRI Rural Youth Entrepreneurship, Lead PI: Surin Kim, Co-PIs Maria de Guzman, Ashu Guru, Claire Nicholas)
2017 – Present Therapeutic Textiles: Impacts of Interior Textiles and Clothing on Experiences of Aging and Well-Being in Care Settings (Individual USDA HATCH project, Layman SEED Award)
2017 – Present Crafting Culture in the Middle of Everywhere: An Arts-based Project on Intercultural Empathy Building and Entrepreneurship (with Surin Kim). Research-Extension workshop series on textile craftmaking and entrepreneurship with several community partners.
2014 – Present Thinking while doing: Connecting insight to innovations in the construction sector, SSHRC Partnership Grant (PI Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University). Ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of pedagogy and the design process in architectural design- build education in North American schools of architecture.
2015 – 2016 Health Design Research Studio, Ethnographic and qualitative research in newly formed interdisciplinary network exploring the intersection of design and healthcare.
Claire Nicholas – Curriculum Vitae 8 2015 Preliminary ethnographic research on design and architecture education and community engagement in Morocco. Summer.
2014 – 2015 Understanding innovation in design education. Killam Cornerstones Grant (PI Arlene Oak). Ethnographic research and analysis of pedagogy and innovative design in the context of design for healthcare programs in Canadian higher education.
2009 – 2010 Dissertation research, ethnographic fieldwork in Marrakech and El Jadida regions on textile craft and development policy. Archival research in Nantes (France) and Rabat. June 2009 – September 2010.
2008 Preliminary ethnographic fieldwork for dissertation, Morocco. June –August.
2007 Preliminary ethnographic fieldwork for dissertation, Morocco. June – August.
2006 Preliminary ethnographic fieldwork for dissertation, Morocco. Library and archival research, Paris. October – July.
2004 – 2005 Ethnographic fieldwork and archival research for DEA on Moroccan dress, Nantes, Paris, Morocco. 6 months.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2018 Manuscript reviewer, Dress 2017-18 Costume Society of America Fellow Award Committee 2017 Manuscript reviewer, CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. 2015 Reviewer, Chapter in the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th edition. 2014 Panel Moderator, “Pedagogy: Principles,” “Logistics,” American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Fall Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 16-18
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Design Research Society American Anthropological Association Society for Social Studies of Science Costume Society of America International Textile and Apparel Association
LANGUAGES
English: Native speaker French: Fluency, Written and Oral Moroccan Arabic: Advanced Oral Proficiency Modern Standard Arabic: Beginner, Written and Oral
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RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Research Consultant, Intel Research Labs, Project: “Flux Technologies of Being” (Ethnographic research on American Cosplay), June-September
Film Employment 2003 Wardrobe Supervisor, Frontier Texas, Director: Mark Miks
2003 Key Costumer, Spy Kids III, Director: Robert Rodriguez Costume Designer: Nina Proctor
2002 Costume Designer, Levelland, Director: Clark Walker
Theater Employment 2001 Assistant Costume Designer, Da, The Old Globe, San Diego Director: Rick Seer, Costume Designer: Charlotte Shields
1999 Assistant Costume Designer, Time Again in Oz, Seattle Children’s Theatre Director: Linda Hartzell, Costume Designer: Susan Tsu
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