Victoria Rovine

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

09/01/2017-12/31/2017

Victoria L. Rovine is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of African Fashion Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear and Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali (Indiana University Press 2015 and 2008). Her current book project is focused on the exceptional roles of cotton and cotton textiles in colonial French West Africa, where cotton was simultaneously a key economic product and a prominent form of cultural expression. In the form of clothing, cotton was also a tool for cultural influence as well as resistance.