Bernice R. Jones

Bernice R. Jones teaches art history at Ringling College of Art and Design and holds a Ph.D. in Greek and Roman art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She specializes in interconnections between the Aegean and the Near East in the Bronze Age, with a focus on dress and textiles. She has published and lectured widely on Minoan and Mycenaean clothes and frescoes, and has displayed her costume replications in exhibitions here and abroad. Her forthcoming book, Ariadne’s Threads: The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age, will be published in the Aegaeum series.