Maeve M. HoganGraduate Studentshe/her/hers

I am a PhD candidate in design history. My research has focused on craft and domestic material culture as they relate to modernity, nostalgia, women’s work, and the formulation of identity. I work closely with the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. A group of understudied new tapestries and fiber art objects made in the 1950s and 1960s I located within the collection forms the jumping off point for my forthcoming dissertation.

I hold an MA in decorative arts, design history, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA in art history and studio art from Clark University. Before coming to UW–Madison, I was (among other things) a curatorial associate at the New-York Historical Society and a teaching assistant at the New York School of Interior Design.

Awards and Recognition

• Robin A. Douthitt Graduate Teaching Fellowship, UW–Madison, 2024-25
• Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Predoctoral Fellow in American Craft and Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellow, 2024-25
• Summer Time Academic Research Award, UW–Madison, 2024
• University Fellowship, UW–Madison, Spring 2024
• Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Conference Presentation Award, UW–Madison, 2023
• Jane Graff Textile Research Fellowship, 2020-21 and 2023-24

Selected Publications & Presentations

Hogan, M. M. “Artistic and Economic Furnishing: Decorating in Early Home Economics”. In Sarah Anne Carter and Marina Moskowitz (Ed.), Material Histories of Home Economics. Delaware: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming.

Discussant with Dr. Kedron Thomas, Dr. Freyja Hartzell, and Ariadna Solís “What We Do (Now)” (Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Van Horn). A Conversation about Material Culture Studies Today hosted by The Center for Material Culture Studies at The University of Delaware, April 26, 2024-April 27, 2024

Material Culture Caucus Sponsored Session: Curation as Care: Gathering and Sorting as Material Culture Methods in Solidarity. (Chair: Shirley Wajda) American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal CA, November 2–5, 2023 (Panelist)

“Ellen Gates Starr and the Hull-House Bookbindery: Design Reform, Social Justice, and Aesthetic Book Covers” Parsons / Cooper-Hewitt Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Graduate Student Symposium, April 28, 2023 (Accepted Paper)

“Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection,” International Organization of Lace, October 17, 2021 (Invited Presenter)

“Printed Patchwork: Industry and Identity,” Colonial Williamsburg Textile Symposium, March 15-17, 2015 (Accepted Paper)