K. Brandon Barker: Faculty: About: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Indiana University Bloomington

K. Brandon Barker

Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Editor, Children’s Folklore Review

he/him

Iona and Peter Opie Prize for Books on Children’s Folklore, for Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception, 2020
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2019
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2017

An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science

K. Brandon Barker, Daniel J. Povinelli
2021

Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

K. Brandon Barker, Claiborne Rice
2019

2020. “The Tooth Fairy as an Essential Worker in a Child’s World of Wonder.” The Conversation.
2019. “The Animal Question as Folklore in Science.” In Journal of Folklore Research. 56.2/3 Special Issue, Folklore as (Unlikely) Frame for Science, The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm. 15-26.
2019. “Anthropomorphomania and the Rise of the Animal Mind: A Conversation.” (with Daniel J. Povinelli) In Journal of Folklore Research. 56.2/3 Special Issue, Folklore as (Unlikely) Frame for Science, The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm. 71-90.
2018. "Folk Illusions as Emic, Educational Prompt." Journal of Folklore and Education 5(1)
2017. "Folk Illusions: More than Child's Play." The Psychologist (Vol. 30): 52-54. (with Claiborne Rice)
2016. "Searching for Ratzinger." Turnip Trucks 2(2): 94-128. (with Daniel John Povinelli)
2016. Scientific American: Mind "Discover the Science of School Yard Illusions." (by Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik)