Joycelyn Burdett

Assistant Professor

Departments & Academic Units:

• Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design

Contact Info:

323 Justin Hall
(785) 532-1322

Short Biography

Joycelyn Burdett received a B.A. and M. A. from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. focusing on dress history from the Ohio State University where she was also the Collections Manager for The Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection. Having operated a custom historic clothing reproduction company in the San Francisco Bay Area, Joycelyn’s research interests focus on customs, context and construction of historic apparel and how they may be translated to a modern body or inform modern designs. Joycelyn teaches pattern development (manual and computer-aided), apparel construction and computer aided design and pre-production.