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Robert Dobler
Robert Dobler
Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
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rdobler@iu.edu
(812) 856-2540
800 E. 3rd St., 215
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Education
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2014
M.A., University of Oregon, 2010
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1999
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Research interests
folk belief and vernacular religion
contemporary legendry
forms and processes of commemoration
theories of grief and mourning
folklore and the Internet
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Urban Legends
Death and Expressive Culture
Forms of Commemoration
The Supernatural and Folklore
Folklore and the Internet
Introduction to Folklore
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Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2020)
Student Vice President, Western States Folklore Society (2012-2014)
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World: A Mellon Scholarly Monograph Initiative (2009)
Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Paper in Folk Art (2008)
Don Yoder Prize for Best Paper in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife (2007)
The Alma Johnson Graduate Folklore Award (2007)
Publication highlights
“Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City Streets.”
Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death
. Eds. Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-Carretero. New York: Berghahn, 2011. 169-187.
“Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead.”
Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
. Ed. Trevor Blank. Logan: University of Utah Press, 2009. 175-93.
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