Nancy J. Perkins
General Information
Occupation: Industrial Designer, Educator
Birth Country: United States
Resident Country: United States
Notes: great-niece of Anna Keichline, Pennsylvania's first registered female architect
Sources: Doering, Erika, Rachel Sivitzky, and Rebecca Welz. Goddess in the Details: Product Design by Women: an Exhibition Organized by the Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions At Pratt Institute. New York City: Association of Women Industrial Designers, 1994.
Specialties
Jobs
Employer: Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Title: Design Consultant
Notes: holds four patents for Sears designs
Employer: Perkins Design Ltd.
Employer: Illinois Institute for Design in Chicago
Title: Lecturer
Employer: Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Lecturer
Employer: University of Illinois, Chicago
Title: Lecturer
Collaborators
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
No awards on record
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
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Education
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree: B.S. in Industrial Design
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
Role: Fellow
Organization: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)
Role: Member
Publications By
Title: Design and feminism: re-visioning spaces, places, and everyday things
Co-author: also edited by Joan Rothschild, Victoria Rosner, Dolores Hayden, Ellen Lupton, Alice T. Friedman, Barbara Knecht, Cheryl Buckley, Amelia Amon, Wendy E. Brawer, Roberta M. Feldman, Lynne Walker, Sue Cavanaugh
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
City: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Date Published: January 01, 1999
Publications About
Title: Goddess in the Details: product design by women
Author: Erika Doering, Rachel Sivitzky, Rebecca Welz
Publisher: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)
City: New York City
Date Published: January 01, 1994