Max Dashu (1950) founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women’s history and heritages internationally. She has built a collection of over 80,000 digital images, and created scores of videos on female cultural heritages across history.
Her work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies.
She is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female iconography in world archaeology; female spheres of power and matricultures; patriarchies and allied systems of domination; medicine women, female shamans, witches, and witch hunts.
For more than 50 years, she has presented hundreds of slide talks at bookstores, schools, universities, community centers, libraries, prisons, galleries, festivals, and conferences.
Dashu is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100, 2016 (Italian ed. Streghe e pagane. Le donne nella religione popolare europea, 700 – 1100, 2018) and Pythias, Melissae and Pharmakides: Women in Hellenic Culture, 2019, both from Veleda Press.
She has also produced two videos: Woman Shaman: The Ancients, 2013, and Women’s Power in Global Perspective, 2008.

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