With the end of the semester wrapping up, we like to look back and congratulate faculty and students for all their hard work!
JSU’s own Sarah Faulkner Best Panel Presentation at this year’s Faculty Research Symposium for her work using Lepcha textiles, a craftsmanship created by the Lepcha people of Sikkim. Ms. Faulkner’s work focused on how these textiles were shaped and changed by the Silk Road trade networks throughout the region. Ms. Faulkner’s research also had her exploring religious impact that these people and their work experienced, as well as the cross-cultural impact.
Ms. Faulkner had the opportunity to travel aboard to Sikkim, India and further her research in person. By using what she had already gathered, Ms. Faulkner explored the area picking up on Lepcha traditions, oral histories, and examining textiles in person while in Dzongu.
Ms. Faulkner’s presentation presented the idea that, “Lepcha stripes work as an adaptive political technology: they let weavers hold onto a visible, legible claim to place and identity even as their materials, tools, and economic realities keep shifting along old Silk Road routes and new global ones.”
We congratulate you and thank you for all your hard work!
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