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


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Exhibitions


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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