Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives (1970) to research and document global women's history. She teaches with images from her collection of some 50,000 photos of female cultural heritages across time and space.

She is internationally known for her expertise on iconography, matricultures, patriarchy and systems of domination; medicine women, shamans, witches, and the witch hunts. Her books include Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, 700-1100 (2016) and Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides (2023). See Videos: https://suppresse https://suppressed-histories.teachable.com/courses/

She has written articles on the Wu and Xi Wangmu, and practices Wild Goose Qigong.