Sydney Maresca is a theater designer and fashion historian with a strong background in clothing construction and textile crafts. Notable costume design projects include the Broadway premieres of The Cottage directed by Jason Alexander, The Lighting Thief, and the award-winning play Hand to God. Maresca completed her MA at BGC in 2024 and is a visiting assistant professor of theater at Williams College. She has an MFA from NYU and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her research is focused on clothing and textiles in the early American northeast that speak to Indigenous and immigrant encounters, craft, labor, and women’s roles in their communities.

Qualifying Paper: “Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast