FACULTY NEWS | September 19, 2017
LS faculty member and author Jessamyn Hatcher, Ph.D., published Treasure Island: The Extraordinary Finds of an Amateur Diving Club in Holland on The New Yorker website. The article traces the story of Dutch scuba enthusiasts who salvaged a seventeenth-century dress from a shipwreck during a leisure dive, and the legal consequences of rescuing this relic.
Dr. Hatcher has written multiple articles on the history of fashion and fashion culture for The New Yorker.