Mary Klann is a historian of Native American history and women’s history. She received her MA in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College and her PhD in US History from University of California, San Diego. She currently teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. She is the author of Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth Century America (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) and her work on Native history and pedagogy has been published in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Women’s History, Designing for Care, and Native American and Indigenous Studies: Gatherings from the Field. Recently she co-edited with Brianna Theobald, “Songs of Kinship: Indigenous Feminism(s) in the Past and Present” for a 2025 special issue of Women and Social Movements since 1600.