Pauleena MacDougall, director of The Maine Folklife Center since 2008, received her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maine in 1995. She has worked for MFC since 1989, most recently as associate director. She is also faculty associate in Anthropology, where she teaches courses in linguistics and folklore. Since 1979, MacDougall has published numerous papers on Penobscot Indian language, culture and history. She is editor of Northeast Folklore and author ofThe Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People, University of New England Press, 2004, and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge 1865-1946, Lexington Press, 2013.