Amanda Grace Sikarskie

Amanda Sikarskie is a fashion and textile historian. Her work investigates the methods and best practices for doing history of dress and textiles in the digital age. Since receiving her Ph.D. in 2011, she has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Art History, Design History, Museum Technology, and many others. Since 2011, she has also been a Research Associate with the Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org, an online archive of images and metadata for over 70,000 quilts.In her spare time, she loves music--rock and roll, blues, and country--thrifting, cats, squirrels, and travel.