Oladele Ayorinde

Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

• ooayorin@iu.edu
• 800 E. 3rd St., 241

Research Interests
ethnography of African musics and cultures; music and political economy of everyday life; African music: practices and performance cultures, economic ethnomusicology; African popular music and music industries; cultural policy and management; applied ethnomusicology, music and social transformation; sound studies, accoustemology of cities and urban life; music documentation and archive management; belonging and conviviality: festival cultures of the African/black diaspora

K. Brandon Barker

Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Editor, Children’s Folklore Review

he/him

• barkerbr@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-7817
• 800 E. 3rd St., 217

Research Interests
cognitive folkloristics; folk illusions; material culture and embodied cognition; American country music; children's folklore; American foodways; folklore and diversity in the southern United States; science of animal folklore

Ray Cashman

Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

he/him

• rcashman@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-2774
• 800 E. 3rd St., 213

Research Interests
Ireland, UK, North America; oral traditions and verbal art; the ethnography of communication; performance studies; commemoration; collective memory; nostalgia; politics of culture, identity, and tradition; sense of place and place-making; vernacular custom and material culture; theory, methodology, and ethics of fieldwork and ethnography

Tyron Cooper

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director, Archives of African American Music & Culture

• tycooper@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1330
• 800 E. 3rd St., 245

Research Interests
African American music and culture, archival studies, and film music

Sarah Craycraft

Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

she/her

• sabecray@iu.edu
• 800 E. 3rd St., 235

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

Rebecca Dirksen

Laura Boulton Professor

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

she/her/li

• rdirksen@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-4124
• 800 E. 3rd St., 257

Research Interests
Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America; ecomusicology, diverse environmentalisms, sacred ecologies, environmental justice; carnival, protest, revolution, politically engaged music; creative responses to crisis, disaster, poverty, violence, trauma; development discourse, grassroots development; arts activism and international NGOs, aid, and humanitarianism; intangible cultural heritage and cultural policy; archives, archival silences, hidden archives and accidental archivists; Haitian classical/art music; film as ethnography; applied/engaged/activist ethnomusicology

Robert Dobler

Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

he/him

• rdobler@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-2540
• 800 E. 3rd St., 215

Research Interests
folk belief and vernacular religion; contemporary legendry; forms and processes of commemoration; theories of grief and mourning; folklore and the Internet

Jeffrey Dyer

Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

he/him

• jefmdyer@iu.edu
• 800 E. 3rd St., 243

Research Interests
historical ethnomusicology and critiques of historicism, time and temporality, sound studies, trauma studies, music and dance of Southeast Asia, music and religion, Buddhist studies

Julianne Graper

Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

she/her

• jlgraper@iu.edu
• 812-855-2372
• 800 E. 3rd St., 229

Research Interests
multispecies ethnography, rethinking "nature", human and non-human echolocation, sound studies, experimental art music, protest music, music of central Texas, music of southern Mexico

Eduardo Herrera

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director, Ethnomusicology Institute

he/him

• eduherr@indiana.edu
• 812-855-3984
• 800 E. 3rd St.

Research Interests
Latin American and Latinx cultural practices; music and sound in sports and games; sound studies; soccer, masculinity, violence; coloniality/postcoloniality/decoloniality; ethnography of elites; experimental music studies; cultural diplomacy and philanthropy

Barbara Hillers

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

she/ella/sie/sí

• bhillers@iu.edu
• (812) 855-0395
• 800 E. 3rd St., 233

Research Interests
folk narrative in Ireland and Scotland; folklore in medieval Celtic literature; the international Child ballad and Gaelic song tradition; European narrative charms; gender and the articulation of women's space in folk narrative and song; the digitization of traditional folklore archives

Jason Baird Jackson

Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology

Director of Graduate Studies

Editor, Museum Anthropology Review

Director, Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory

he/him

• jbj@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1868
• 800 E. 3rd St., 249

Research Interests
material culture; cultural performance; ethnology; cultural history; museum folklore

Jon Kay

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director, Traditional Arts Indiana

he/him

• jkay@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0418
• 800 E. 3rd St., 219

Research Interests
public folklore; Indiana folklife; folk arts and aging; material culture; museums; occupational folklife; digital humanities

David McDonald

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

he/him

• davmcdon@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0396
• 800 E. 3rd St., 223

Research Interests
Israel/Palestine; performance ethnography; social theory; ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma; activism and critical ethnography; protest songs

Fernando Orejuela

Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

he/him/el

• forejuel@indiana.edu
• (812) 855-0399
• 800 E. 3rd St., 231

Research Interests
hip hop music and culture; popular music; subculture studies; body art; youth cultures; children's folklore; sports; game and play in culture; popular culture; pedagogy; United States

Solimar Otero

Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Professor, Gender Studies

Editor, Journal of Folklore Research

she/her/ella

• solioter@iu.edu
• (812) 855-2732
• 800 E. 3rd St., 239

Research Interests
gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography

Pravina Shukla

Provost Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Chair, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Director, Folklore Institute

• pravina@indiana.edu
• (812) 856-1715
• 800 E. 3rd St., 255

Research Interests
folk art and material culture; body art; dress and costume; museum studies; food art and culture; India; Brazil; United States