Tamara J. Walker

Tamara Walker is currently completing a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation, titled Ladies and Gentlemen, Slaves and Citizens: Dressing the Part in Lima, 1723-1845 , which focuses on the relationship between clothing and status in an ethnically diverse slaveholding society, with particular attention to the meanings given to dress and deportment both by subordinate members of the society and by those who presumed to control them. She is the author of “‘He outfitted his family in notable decency': Slavery, Honor, and Dress in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru,” Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave & Post-Slave Studies 30, No. 3 (September 2009), pp. 383-402.