Dawn is currently working on her MFA in Design and her MFA in Art History and will graduate in 2000 with both. As a costume historian, Dawn primarily researches the 19th century, and her MA thesis is on the aesthetic movement in England and its portrayal in Queen magazine between 1875 and 1885. Her research has led her to become somewhat of an expert on the Orientalists. Dawn has been creating a series of booklets on various parts of Middle Eastern dance costumes which are inexpensive and full of illustrations and designs. She has already finished Pants For The Dance and Veils Un-Veiled.
Additional ones are in progress.
In between dancing at Renaissance Faires, finishing her masters' degrees, and writing books, Dawn also teaches workshops on belly dance costuming, makes custom patterns, and specializes in fit.