I’ve been back to doing some research for an upcoming project and some new things have crossed my screen lately that I hadn’t seen before. As a little kid, I was always a super fan of watchin...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2019/09/13/rose-tattoo-rose-parade-float/
Tattoos are less permanent than they used to be. Advances in laser technology, lightening ointments, and cover-ups have allowed people who made bad decisions about tattoos to remove them or chang...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2017/08/06/erasing-a-tattoo-mistake/
For those of you interested in how my new adventures in data science are intersecting with my old adventures in tattoo history, you can visit my Github to read a long technical report on a work i...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2017/06/16/predicting-tattoo-book-popularity/
I’ve been more than a bit absent from actively publishing tattoo-history related research and news on both this website and its companion social media accounts. If you’re curious as to why, I...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2017/04/26/tattoo-history-and-digital-humanities/
My dear fans and followers, a gift from me to you for the new year: I’ve put my PhD dissertation, Tattooed Transculturites: Western Expatriates Among Amerindian and Pacific Islander Societies, ...
Part 1: A Long Overdue Tattoo-Exhibit Critique I so very much wanted to be able to write a positive review of the Field Museum of Chicago’s version of the tattoo exhibition that was put togethe...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2016/10/20/spectacle-over-scholarship-three-museum-tattoo-exhibits/
Travel narratives about Holy-Land pilgrimage tattoos are one of my go-to evidence banks for demonstrating the significant presence and visibility of tattooing in the early modern period (defined ...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2016/09/24/custom-tattoo-work-historical-improvisation/
I was recently at one of my favorite annual book fairs in Chicago, the Newberry Library’s sale of donated books to support their collections, hunting for volumes I might want to add to the tatt...
https://tattoohistorian.com/2016/08/13/tattooing-in-the-travels-of-marco-polo/
I’ll preface this post by saying I know absolutely nothing about Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, other than the fact that last night my Facebook feed was flooded with images of h...
Attention all who write or might want to write about tattoo history and/or culture! (This includes journalists, bloggers, academics, and more…) Here’s a handy list of a dozen questions to ask...