CURRICULUM VITAE
Pauleena MacDougall
247 Phillips Road Glenburn, Maine 04401-0003
(207) 884-7902 (Home); (207)581-1848 (work)
e-mail: pauleena@maine.edu
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Education
Ph.D. in History, Department of History, University of Maine Orono, Maine. August, 1995.
Dissertation Title: “Indian Island, Maine 1780-1930.”
MS in Quaternary Science (archaeology) University of Maine, Orono, 1987. Thesis title: “Lithic
Procurement at Munsungun Lake, Maine.”
B. A. in Anthropology with Highest Honors, with Linguistics Course Cluster. University of Maine,
Orono, 1980. Honors thesis: “Algonquian Archaeology and Linguistics.”
Professional experience
Director, Maine Folklife Center, So. Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, April, 2008 to
present.
Associate Director, Maine Folklife Center November, 1992 to 2008.
Faculty Associate in Anthropology, Courses taught: Introduction to Linguistics, Native American
Folklore, Folklore, the Environment, and Public Policy, Folklore of Maine and the Maritimes,
Interviewing Techniques.
Adjunct instructor of History, University of Maine May, 1996-2004. Courses taught: U.S.
History I and II, History of Maine, Public history.
Editor, Northeast Folklore, Journal of the Maine Folklife Center, So. Stevens Hall, University of
Maine, 2000 to present.
Examiner: “What is a Brickmaker?:An Occupational Folklife Study” submitted by Heather Gillett
for the degree of Master of Arts at Memorial University
Examiner: “The Significance of Place in Textual and Graphical Representation: The Mi’kmaq on
Lennox Island, Prince Edward Island, and the Penobscot on Indian Island, Maine,” submitted by
Patrick Augustine for the degree of Masters of Arts Island Studies Program, Faculty of Arts,
University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Member of the graduate faculty of the University of Maine
University and Public Service
Member Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Committee, 2012-2013
Member Academic Council College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2007-2010
Co-Chair of President’s Council on Women 2005-2006
Native American Academic Council 2003-2010
Vice chair, Board of Directors American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront 2006-2010
Board of Directors Bangor Regional Arts and Cultural Council 2001-2004
Board of Directors National Folk Festival Bangor 2001-2004
President, Professional Employees Advisory Council 1998-1999
Advisory Board for University of Maine Humanities Initiative 2011-2013
Books
The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People. University Press of
New England, 2004.
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm (1865-1946) and Her Quest for Local Knowledge. Lexington Press, in
press (expected August, 2013).
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Selected Publications
“Oral History, Working Class Culture, and Local Control: A Case Study from Brewer,
Maine.” Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 33 (2013) “Working Lives: Special Issue on
Oral History and Working-Class History.”
“The Life and Career of Bangor’s Frederick Wellington Ayer (1855-1936),”49-52;
“Something in Common: Eastern Manufacturing Company, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s School of Chemical Engineering Practice, and the University of Maine,”31-48;
with Amy L. Stevens, “The Power of Place in Memory: An Oral History of Eastern Corporation in
Brewer, Maine” 5-14; Maine History Volume 45 December, 2009.
“The Historian’s Dilemma: Choosing, Weighing, and Interpreting Sources,” Maine History
Volume 43 Number 2 August, 2007.
“Weaving a Basketful of tradition: the role of Penobscot Women in their own culture” in, Marli
Weiner, ed., Of Place and Gender: Women in Maine History. Orono: University of Maine Press,
2004.
“Variations in Style in Eastern Abenaki Narratives.” Papers from the Annual Meetings of the
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (PAMAPLA) Volume 28:55-72, 2004.
“Virgin Soil Epidemics in North America ,” “Native American Resistance Movements,” and “
Cold, Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric Northeast,” World History Encyclopedia, CLIO
publishers, 2005.
“’Understanding the Hearts of the People’”: Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Philips Barry,” The
Folklore Historian Volume 18, 2001, 17-28.
Editor, Molly Spotted Elk, Katahdin: Wigwam’s Tales of the Abnaki Tribe, Northeast Folklore
Volume XXXVII: 2002.
----- and David Taylor, eds. Northeast Folklore: Essays in Honor of Edward D. Ives University of
Maine Press and Northeast Folklore Volume XXXV: 2000.
Editor and Introduction, Tales of the Maine Woods: Two Forest and Stream Articles (1891) by
Fannie Pearson Hardy. Northeast Folklore Volume XXXIV: 1999.
“Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980,” and “Andrew Jackson,” in Encyclopedia of
American Indian Civil Rights, ed. by James S. Olson Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
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“Native American Industry: Wabanaki Basket Weavers from Maine” in, American Indian
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues. Edited by Dane Morrison, Peter
Lang Publishing, New York, 1997.
“Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980,” and “Andrew Jackson,” in Encyclopedia of
American Indian Civil Rights, ed. by James S. Olson Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
1994.“Grandmother, Daughter, Princess, Squaw: Native American Women’s stereotypes in
Historical Perspective,” The Maine Historical Society Quarterly, fall issue.
1987. “Penobscot Indian Guides,” Maine History News, published by the Maine Historical
Society, Portland.
1986. “Language Preservation Efforts: the Case of Penobscot,” Paper presented at the
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
1985. “Dialect Symbols in Aubery’s Dictionary,” Papers of the 17th Algonquian Conference, ed.
William Cowan, Carleton University, Ottawa
1984. “The Bird Names of Aubery and Rasles,” Papers of the 16th Algonquian Conference, Ed.
William Cowan, Carleton University, Ottawa.
1983. “The European Influence on Abenaki Economics before 1615,” Papers of the 15th
Algonquian Conference, ed. William Cowan, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Book Reviews
1996. Review of American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of
2008. Norumbega in, Northeast Anthropology, Spring.
2010 Review of Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Northeast.
Frederick Matthew Wiseman. Hanover, New Hampshire and London: University Press of
New England, 2005 Oral History Review 35(1):90-91.
2011 Review of Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective. Cambridge, 2009. Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2011.
2012 Review of We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances. By David
Delgado Shorter (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Western Folklore Volume 70,
Number 3-4, Summer/Fall: 402-403.
2012 Review of Lisa Gabbert, Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, change, and the
Good of the Community. In Western Folklore Volume 71, Number 3-4, Summer and Fall.
Presented Papers
“Lessons Learned in Bangor, Maine: The folk festival’s role in community transformation and
the importance of maintaining economic sustainability.” American Folklore Society Annual
Meeting Nashville October, 2010.
Panel: American Folklore Society Panel: “Examining the Ethics of Place in Maine,”
“Narratives of Place from the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History” American
Folklore Society Annual Meetings, October, 2009, Boise, Idaho
“American Anthropology and Native Peoples: Early twentieth century ethnographic methods
and practices examined.” 49th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Anthropological Association,
March 14, 2009 Rhode Island College.
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“The Writing on the Wall”: Traditional Knowledge and the Culture of Frustration in a Paper Mill
in Maine. Presented at the American Folklore Society Annual Meetings October, 2007
Louisville, KY.
Panel Chair and Commentator: “Maine’s Immigrant Voices of Hope and Dissent” Oral History
Conference Boston, November 4, 2005.
“Frontier or Homeland? Contested knowledge of the history of colonial Maine,” part of a panel
entitled: “Native Americans and the Frontier: Explorations.” American Historical Association
Conference in San Francisco, January, 2004.
“Oral Tradition in the 21st Century Roundtable,” Ethnohistory conference, Quebec City,
October 19, 2002.
“Traditions in Transition: Native American Issues Across the Centuries,” History and Education
Conference, October 17, 2001, Orono, ME
“Every Man a Poet”: the Folk Song collecting of Fanny Hardy Eckstorm 1925-1937. American
Folklore Society Annual Meetings, October, 2001.
“Some observations on the Penobscot writing of Joseph Polis (1809-1884),” 32 Algonquian
Conference, Montreal, Canada. October 27-29, 2000.
Recent Grants and Contracts
2012 “Maine Ballads Workshop.” Community Arts and Humanities grant. Maine Arts
Commission.
2011 Stinson Sardine Cannery Oral History Project. Maine Humanities Council.
2010 National Endowment for the Arts: “Maine Song and Story Sampler for the Web.”
2009 Maine Arts Commission: “Story Bank Summer Training Institute for Teachers and
Community Scholars”
2008 Maine Humanities Council: “Maine Stories of Place” narrative stage program at
the American Folk Festival
2007 Support from Cianbro Corp to create a Video for Cianbro Corporation to publicize
their new module manufacturing facility on the site of Eastern Corporation.
2006 “Save Our History” from the History Channel, to work with Brewer Middle School
seventh graders on historic preservation of Eastern Fine Paper Mill.
2005 Maine Humanities Council, for “The Writing on the Wall” oral history project and
DVD.
2005 Women in Curriculum summer research grant to document women’s experience
in paper industry.
References
Jeffrey Hecker Dean College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 100 Stevens Hall College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Maine 207 581-1954
Paul Roscoe, Chair, Department of Anthropology, 228B So. Stevens Hall, University of
Maine 207 581-1896
Richard Judd, Chair, Department of History, 345 Stevens Hall University of Maine 207
581-1910
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