The Otey Scruggs Memorial Lecture Featuring Maeve E. Kane

“Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Women's Sovereignty Work,” presented by Maeve E. Kane

Maeve E. Kane is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University at Albany, where she has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UAlbany President's Award for Excellence in publicly engaged research. Her first book, “Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade and Exchange Across Three Centuries” with Cornell University Press, uses digital social network analysis, material culture, and Indigenous studies methods to argue that Haudenosaunee women used clothing to protect their nations’ sovereignty.

She is the co-author of a new textbook on American women’s history in addition to several articles on material culture and Indigenous history, and her current project examines how objects are used to construct race, gender and nationhood in commemorations of the American Revolution.

Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Historical Society, and the American Philosophical Society, and she is a member of the Organization for American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Program.