Scholarship

Public Talks & Lectures

  • Clyde, W. (2024, October). The Legacy of Black Dolls. BLUE: The Tatter Textile Library, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Clyde, W. (2022, March). Fulton and Fashion: The Sartorial Roots of Downtown Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Clyde, W. (2019, February). Clothing the Black Body in Slavery. BPL Lab Talks, the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York.

Publications

  • Hedayat Munroe, Nazanin. Stories of Immigrant Labor in Global Clothing and Textile Production. Chapter 6 – Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: Stolen Lives and Imported Labor. Date of Publication: February 4, 2024. Publisher: Bloomsbury.
  • Cooney, Cailean, Wanett Clyde, Kel Karpinski, Junior Tidal, and Nanette Johnson. 2023. “When ‘Non-Instructional’ Librarians Teach: Navigating Faculty Status and Teaching Portfolios”. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 9 (December):1-14. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40962.
  • Clyde, W. (2022). In America: A Lexicon of Fashion and In America: An Anthology of Fashion. The Journal of Dress History, Volume 6, Issue 3, Winter 2022. Exhibition Editor: Molenaar, C. 
  • Cho, Grace M., Rose M. Kim, Robin McGinty. Peer Pressure: Embracing Good Influences. The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice. Published: 2022. Publisher: DIO Press.

Web Posts

  • Clyde, W. (2021, January). Creation Story. The Fashion Studies Journal, Fashion and Motherhood special issue. Editor: Snelgrove, L. 
  • Clyde, Wanett. “The (unexpected) emotional impact of archiving.” WITNESS blog (2015).

Zines

  • Clyde, W. (2017, June). Black & Vintage: At the Intersection of Fashion and Black History Vol. 1

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

  • Clyde, W. (2024, November). Regional Chapters: Grounded Engagements in American Studies. Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland.
  •  Clyde, W. (2024, October). Slow is Lux: Staking a (Black) Claim in Slow Fashion. Presented ASAP/15, New York, New York.
  • Clyde, W. (2024, April). My Grandfather’s Closet: Beau Brummell and Black Male Modes of Dress. Paper presented at the Association of Dress Historians Spring 2024 Conference: Beau Brummell and New Masculinities, Central Saint Martins, London. 
  • Clyde, W., Cooney, C., Tidal, J. (2021, April). Opening Teaching Beyond Traditional Instructional Settings: A Teaching Portfolio Program for Non-Instructional Librarians. Panel presented at ACRL Ascending into an Open Future, held virtually.
  • Clyde, W. (2020, October). Clothing the Black Body in Slavery. Individual paper presented at Hidden Stories/Human Lives, the Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium, held virtually.
  • Clyde, W. (2019, October). Object Stories: Handspun Yarn. Lightning talk presented at the American Craft Council’s Present Tense Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Clyde, W. (2018, April). Clothing the Black Body in Slavery in America, 1700-1865. Paper presented at the Association of Dress Historians New Research in Dress History Conference, Bloomsbury, London.

Grants & Awards

  • Portraits of Childhood Research Grant (2024)
  • AACRL Mid-Career Scholarship (2021)
  • Textile Society of America’s 17th Biennial Symposium Financial Aid for Presenters (2020)
  • Institution of Museum and Library Services and Rare Book School (IMLS-RBS) Fellowship (2016)

Board

  • Vice President, NYMASA
    The local chapter of the American Studies Association in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware region.
  • Board Chair, Recess 
    Recess partners with artists, youth, writers, and their chosen publics to create transformative cultural experiences.

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