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Dr. Anna D. Roberts, Professor, earned a B.S. degree in Home Economics Education from East Tennessee State University in 1974. Following experiences as a high school home economics teacher in Greeneville, Tennessee, she prepared for college teaching by completing a Ph.D. in Clothing and Textiles at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1990. Dr. Roberts teaches apparel and textiles courses in the Family and Consumer Sciences Department and serves as coordinator of the merchandising concentration. Dr. Roberts currently serves as advisor to the Collegiate Merchandising Association, and for twenty years served as advisor to the departmental honor society, Kappa Beta Rho Chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu, a national award winning chapter.
Dr. Roberts' areas of expertise include apparel construction and design, apparel quality analysis, textiles, psychological/sociological aspects of dress, visual merchandising, and advertising and promotion. Research interests include exhibiting original apparel designs in juried competitions and documenting rare examples of outsider textile art (textile designs of the mentally disturbed, or those operating "outside" mainstream society).
Dr. Roberts has served in numerous leadership positions with the International Textiles and Apparel Association and the Tennessee Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She has also served as consultant in Family and Consumer Sciences Education with the Tennessee State Department of Education.
Dr. Roberts' honors include National Kappa Omicron Nu Advisor of the Year, Kappa Omicron Nu Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Applied Science and Technology Foundation Teaching Award, the Tennessee Association of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Distinguished Service Award, and the Tennessee Association of Family and Consumer Sciences District D Award, In 1996, Dr. Roberts was one of only twenty-five designers from around the world invited to exhibit original apparel designs at the International Textiles and Apparel Association by-invitation-only juried design competition held in Lyon, France.
