The Melodramatic Nostalgia of Tattoo Reporting
On Saturday I presented a paper at the 2014 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference (on what ended up being quite a solid panel with my fellow tattoo-scholar friends...
View ArticleHappy 2nd Anniversary Tattoo History Daily!
In thinking of what might be a good image for Tattoo History Daily’s second anniversary, I scanned my image database to find something celebratory. This image of two people clinking glasses jumped out...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau Joins the Ranks of the World’s Tattooed Leaders
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 his toned,...
View ArticleTattooing in the Travels of Marco Polo
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 tattoo...
View ArticleCustom Tattoo Work—Historical Improvisation During William Lithgow’s 1612...
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 as...
View ArticleSpectacle Over Scholarship: Three Museum Tattoo Exhibits
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 together by the...
View ArticleTattooed Transculturites–Read My PhD Tattoo-History Dissertation Online
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,...
View ArticleTattoo History and Digital Humanities
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 decided...
View ArticlePredicting Tattoo-Book Popularity
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 in...
View ArticleErasing a Tattoo Mistake
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 change...
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