Sydney Maresca is a fashion historian, theater designer, and educator with a strong background in clothing construction and textile crafts. Her research work is grounded in an embodied thinking about the material histories of dress and its makers and wearers along with a commitment to working towards a more equitable telling of American History through a focus on overlooked and under-researched objects of dress and adornment. Sydney’s current research is centered on clothing and textiles in the seventeenth-century American northeast that speak to indigenous and immigrant encounters, craft, labor, and women’s roles in their communities—with a particular interest in Indigenous American featherwork textiles and early-modern European nakedness. Notable costume design projects include the Broadway premieres of The Cottage, The Lightning Thief, and the award-winning play Hand to God. Sydney has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Department of Design for Stage and Film, an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.