Eighteenth-Century Catawba Women, Pottery-making, Identity, and Nation-building with Brooke Bauer

Presented by the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Institute for Indigenous Studies, Brooke Bauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr. Brooke Bauer will discuss eighteenth-century Catawba women’s role as potters, analyzing the apprentice practice of learning pottery-making skills which positioned women in a male-centered trade economy. Most important to Catawbas, the tradition reinforced identity and nation-building through kinship practices and ties to a homeland.