Susan J. Torntore
- Courses3
- Reviews4
- School: Colorado State University
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- Department: Apparel Merchandising
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1062 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO - 80523 - Dates at Colorado State University: November 2012 - March 2014
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Biography
Colorado State University - Apparel Merchandising
Textile and Costume Historian, Curator, and Independent Scholar
Susan J.
Torntore
Bellingham, Washington
Education (higher education); textile and clothing collections management, curation, and facilities design; exhibition curation and design; research, writing, and publication; project management.
Specialties: Material culture studies; historic and ethnic textiles and dress; global coral bead/jewelry industry, trade, and species identification; museum and collections management.
Experience
University of Idaho
Academic Faculty
Curator, Leila Old Historic Costume Collection
Colorado State University
Curator and Assistant Professor
Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor
Curator and Facilities Design, Textiles and Clothing Museum, Center for Visual Learning in Clothing and Textiles at Morrill Hall.
Education
University of Minnesota
PhD
Design, Housing, and Apparel
Dissertation title: "Italian Coral Beads: Characterizing their Value and Role in Global Trade and Cross-cultural Exchange."University of Minnesota
MA
Design, Housing and Apparel
Thesis title: "The Italian Coral Horn as an Object of Intimate Cultural Expression and Meaning."
Publications
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Johnson, Kim, Torntore, Susan J., and Eicher, Joanne B, Eds.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Johnson, Kim, Torntore, Susan J., and Eicher, Joanne B, Eds.
"The Process and Meaning of Collecting Ethnographic Textiles."
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (3) 1, pp. 53-74.
Marcketti, Sara B., Jennifer Yurchisin, and Susan J. Torntore.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Johnson, Kim, Torntore, Susan J., and Eicher, Joanne B, Eds.
"The Process and Meaning of Collecting Ethnographic Textiles."
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (3) 1, pp. 53-74.
Marcketti, Sara B., Jennifer Yurchisin, and Susan J. Torntore.
Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives.
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Editor, exhibition catalog.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Johnson, Kim, Torntore, Susan J., and Eicher, Joanne B, Eds.
"The Process and Meaning of Collecting Ethnographic Textiles."
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (3) 1, pp. 53-74.
Marcketti, Sara B., Jennifer Yurchisin, and Susan J. Torntore.
Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives.
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Editor, exhibition catalog.
"Precious Red Coral: Markets and Meanings."
Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers (16), pp. 3-16.
Guide to the Identification of Precious and Semi-precious Corals in Commercial Trade.
Vancouver, Canada: TRAFFIC North America and WWF-Canada.
This publication is the first comprehensive guide to the identification of precious and semi-precious corals in trade. The target audience for this guide is scientific, management and enforcement authorites reposnsible for implementing regulations on the international trade in precious corals and who are involved with conservation of coral resources.
"Precious Corals in a Global Marketplace."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-43 and CRCP-8, Silver Spring, MD (pp. 34-59).
In Bruckner, A., and Roberts, G. (Editors). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade.
“The Center of Many Worlds: Perspectives on Four Nigerian Textiles.”
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Introduction, in Susan J. Torntore (Ed.), Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives, pp. 9-14.
"Coral as Product: Analyzing Production and Market Perspectives."
NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-13, Silver Spring, MD (p. 123).
In Bussoletti, E., Cottingham, D., Bruckner, A. Roberts, G. and Sandulli, R (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Red Coral Science, Management and Trade: Lessons from the Mediterranean.
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers.
Johnson, Kim, Torntore, Susan J., and Eicher, Joanne B, Eds.
"The Process and Meaning of Collecting Ethnographic Textiles."
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (3) 1, pp. 53-74.
Marcketti, Sara B., Jennifer Yurchisin, and Susan J. Torntore.
Cloth is the Center of the World: Nigerian Textiles, Global Perspectives.
St. Paul: Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota.
Editor, exhibition catalog.
"Precious Red Coral: Markets and Meanings."
Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers (16), pp. 3-16.
"From the Collection to the Classroom: Object-based Learning through Material Culture Study."
In Connections (Summer), Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences Alumni Newsletter, Moscow, ID, pp. 2, 5.
