Macdougall, Pauleena

PAULEENA MACDOUGALL, Associate Director of the Maine Folklife Center (MFC), received her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maine in 1995. She has worked for MFC since 1989 and is also faculty associate at the University of Maine in Anthropology, where she teaches courses in linguistics and Native American folklore. Since 1979, MacDougall has published numerous papers on the Penobscot Indian language, culture, and history. She is editor of Northeast Folklore and is currently writing a biography of Maine folklorist and historian Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.