- Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2022
- B.A., Ohio State University, 2013
Sarah Craycraft
Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
she/her
- sabecray@iu.edu
- 800 E. 3rd St., 235
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Education
Research interests
- Neoliberal folklife projects;
- Cultural transmission, intergenerational relations, and youth cultural practices;
- Revival and rural revitalization;
- Space and place;
- Sports and embodied folklore;
- Bulgaria, Contemporary East Europe, and Appalachia
Courses recently taught
- Introduction to Folklore, IU
- Introduction to the Humanities, OSU
- American Identity in the World, OSU
Awards + Distinctions
- Global Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Fellow, 2021-2022
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria, Autumn 2021
- Richard Bjornson Prize Graduate Student Paper Prize, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, for “The Mule as Motif in the Ohio Valley Research Project,” 2019
Publication highlights
- Forthcoming. “Through the Lens of Home: Three Perspectives on the Ohio Field School,” The Ohio Field School: Practicing Collaborative Ethnography in Appalachian Ohio. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, expected 2023.
- “Young in the Village: ‘The Project’ in Rural Revitalization Work.” Bulgarian Ethnology. 1, 123-140. (2022)
- “An Urban Project in Rural Crisis: Responding to Coronavirus in Bulgarian Villages.” FOLKLORICA—Journal of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association. 24, 1-26. (2021)
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