Janneken Smucker

Janneken Smucker is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware in the Program in the History of American Civilization. Her dissertation in process, "From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value," explores these objects and the people who loved them during the last forty years. During 2008-09 she was a McNeil Dissertation Fellow at Winterthur Museum and Library, a James Renwick Fellow in American Craft at the Smithsonian Institute, the International Quilt Study Center's Visiting Scholar, and the American Quilt Study Group's Meredith Scholar. Janneken began her academic study of quilts at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, earning her MA in Textile History. She curated the International Quilt Study Center's exhibit, "At the Crossing: Midwestern Amish Crib Quilts and the Intersection of Cultures" and co-authored its catalog, Amish Crib Quilts from the Midwest: The Sara Miller Collection. Her recent publications can be found in Mennonite Quarterly Review, Uncoverings, and Winterthur Portfolio.