Biography
Dr Lorinda Cramer is a social and cultural historian who explores the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles, and sustainable fashion and waste. With a professional background as a museum curator and collection manager, her research incorporates exhibitions, material culture and a close reading of ‘things’. Lorinda was a National Library of Australia Fellow and Powerhouse Museum Visiting Research Fellow, both for 2023, and Redmond Barry Fellow for the State Library of Victoria’s 2022 Fellowship Program. She has presented and published her work widely in Australia and internationally, including her book Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia (Bloomsbury) in 2020.
Read more on Lorinda's profilePublications
Melissa Bellanta, Lorinda Cramer
(2024), pp. 1-21, Journal of Australian Studies, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
M Bellanta, L Cramer
(2023), pp. 1-28, Fashion Theory, London, Eng., C1-1
The Comfort of Things in White Australia: Male Immigrants, Race and the Three-Piece Suit, c.1901-39
M Bellanta, L Cramer
(2023), Vol. 54, pp. 483-510, Australian Historical Studies, London, Eng., C1-1
In "the Finest Australian Wool": Foy & Gibson's Healthy, Comfortable, Wool-Clad Bodies, 1900-1939
L Cramer
(2023), pp. 1-22, Journal of Australian Studies, London, Eng., C1
'Clothes Shall Mark the Man': Wearing Suits in Wartime Australia, 1939-1945
L Cramer, M Bellanta
(2022), Vol. 19, pp. 57-76, CULTURAL & SOCIAL HISTORY, London, Eng., C1
M Bellanta, L Cramer
(2022), pp. 1-25, Gender and History, London, Eng., C1-1
Rethinking Men's Dress through Material Sources: The Case Study of a Singlet
L Cramer
(2021), Vol. 52, pp. 420-442, Australian Historical Studies, London, Eng., C1
Relaxed Bodies and Comfortable Clothes: Reframing Masculinity in Post-War Australia
L Cramer
(2021), Vol. 33, pp. 390-407, Gender and History, C1
Needlework and women's identity in Colonial Australia
Lorinda Cramer
(2020), London, Eng., A1
Lorinda Cramer
(2020), Vol. 25, pp. 153-170, JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN CULTURE, C1
L Cramer, A Witcomb
(2019), Vol. 25, pp. 128-142, International Journal of Heritage Studies, C1
Remembering and fighting for their own: Vietnam veterans and the Long Tan cross
L Cramer, A Witcomb
(2018), Vol. 49, pp. 83-102, Australian historical studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Diggers' dress and identity on the Victorian Goldfields, Australia, 1851‒1870
L Cramer
(2018), Vol. 22, pp. 85-108, Fashion theory, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Making a home in gold-rush Victoria: plain sewing and the genteel woman
L Cramer
(2017), Vol. 48, pp. 213-226, Australian Historical Studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
L Cramer
(2017), Vol. 15, pp. 48-67, Textile: cloth and culture, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Making 'everything they want but boots': clothing children in Victoria, Australia, 1840-1870
L Cramer
(2017), Vol. 51, pp. 190-209, Costume, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1
Where money is the idol: needlework and genteel identity in gold rush Victoria, 1851-1865
L Cramer
(2013), pp. 8-21, Context, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, C1
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