Amanda Grace Sikarskie

Amanda Grace Sikarskie is a historian of textiles, fashion and needlework. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Design History at Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Previously, she taught in the Frostic School of Art and the Department of History at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sikarskie holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Michigan State University (2011) and is a Research Associate with the Michigan State University Museum's Quilt...See more

Amanda Grace Sikarskie is a historian of textiles, fashion and needlework. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Design History at Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Previously, she taught in the Frostic School of Art and the Department of History at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sikarskie holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Michigan State University (2011) and is a Research Associate with the Michigan State University Museum's Quilt Index project, ... Her current research interests include Spitalfields and French silk, the textile traditions of India, quilt history, clothing and textiles of the 1970s, Native North American dress and textiles, genealogy as research method and the intersection of social media and textiles. Her first scholarly monograph, Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation and Interpretation in a Digital Age, is forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield. See less