Brooke Bauer (she/her) is a citizen of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, and Co-Director of Native American Studies at USCL. Her research and teaching interests center on Native American history, Early American History, women's history, and Indigenous material culture. Bauer's research concentrates on Catawba women's crucial role in nation-building from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. She examines the ways that Catawba Indian's female ancestors adapted to an evolving geopolitical space, a world shattered by Indian slavery, warfare, disease, and population dislocation and decline. Bauer's work reveals that some Catawba traditions persisted because of those women who helped to build the Catawba Nation that we know today.
Project: “Catawba Women and Nation-building, 1540-1840"