Taylor Hayes

Taylor Hayes (she/they) is a first-year Master’s student on the Public History track. In addition to Public History, she also studies historical archaeology, twentieth-century radical social movements in the United States, and American material culture: specifically, textile and clothing history, decorative and domestic arts, and crafting culture.

She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Central Connecticut State University in 2024, where she composed a senior thesis based on women in multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes in the United States in the twentieth century. In addition, she also worked in CCSU’s Archaeology Laboratory for the African Diaspora, where she conducted research on an archaeological collection from an 18th-c. plantation context on the island of Montserrat and created a plan to exhibit artifacts from the collection.

Outside of her academic work, Taylor has worked in museum education and event planning at the Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society. In addition, she interned in the Collections, Curation, and Exhibitions department at Old Sturbridge Village, where she completed an exhibit case on quilting in New England in the early 19th century.