M.A. Student, Folklore
Ph.D. Student, Rhetoric and Composition
Editorial Assistant to the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
he/him
Research interests
examining the intersection of rhetoric and folklore (primarily through narratology/ethnography), zoofolkloristics, ecocriticism, legend studies, folklore in the writing classrooms/education, monster theory, public folklore, and museum studies
M.A. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
queer and femme oral traditions, folk medicine and belief, wise women and cunning folk, birth and death rituals, the supernatural, public folklore, diaspora studies, feminist folklore, race and identity, foodways
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/they
Research interests
music and tourism; Thailand and Southeast Asia; the construction of tradition; popular music; music and nationalism; music and place; online communities; semiotics
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
Turkish traditional music; Alevi music and culture; music and mysticism; identity; performative identity; collective memory; NGOs and cultural preservation; arts administration
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
America, particularly rural American vernacular expressive culture including oral traditions, customs, and material culture; intentional communities and separatist groups; community-constructed sites and resources; vernacular museums and displays; the intersection of material culture and oral narrative; the ethnography of communication; performance studies; collective memory
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
US vernacular music; Pacific Northwest; disaster and flood; displacement and migration; race-making and sound; historical ethnomusicology; music and grief
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
transnationalism; music and identity; music and the imagination; contemporary Japan; bluegrass and old-time string band music; sound and space; public ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore and Anthropology
he/him
Research interests
environmental humanities; space, place, and landscape; belief and religion; traditional ecological knowledge; indigeneity; the Americas; protest; memory and nostalgia; material culture
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
music and healing; medical ethnomusicology; music and addiction; jam band culture; Jamaican music and religion; ecomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
diaspora studies; labor literature; protest texts; narratives of trauma; women's socio-economic development of the 19th and 20th centuries; factory labor conditions; intangible cultural heritage
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
Costa Rican popular music; punk and punk scenes; transnational feminisms; queer ecologies; music and activism; identity and performance
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
narrative; supernatural belief traditions; health and illness; science and myth; medical discourse; neurodiversity; disability; women’s folklore; gender
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
seafaring music of the Persian Gulf; popular culture and cultural history of the Middle East; race and identity, Arabic and Persian pedagogy
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
Ireland; music and health; neurodiversity; applied ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
Black roller skating culture, queer/femme experiences in Black gospel traditions, Chicago’s hip hop/rnb music scene, capoeira
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
Diaspora studies and transnationality, post-soviet communities, material culture, Ukrainian embroidery, ethnicity and identity, public folklore, museum studies, refugee narratives and material culture, Ukrainian Canadian communities
M.A. Student, Folklore
M.A. Student, Library Science
she/her
Research interests
oral history; public libraries; community archives; aging communities; death studies; gender studies; Jewish studies; ritual; Buddhism; Buddhist monastics; homelessness
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
material culture; vernacular architecture in the Caribbean
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
he/him
Research interests
intersections of religion, science, and health; folk belief and medicine; applied medical folkloristics
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
she/her/ella
Research interests
Latinx music research; the sociology of music; postcolonial studies; critical race theory; critical pedagogy; sexism and classism
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
Brazilian traditional music; storytelling; supernatural; viola caipira (brazilian ten-strings guitar); latin american music
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
Brazil; African diaspora in Latin America; critical race theory; engaged ethnomusicology; historical ethnomusicology; filmmaking and ethnography
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
he/him
Research interests
Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, United States, nationalism, belief systems and belief, narrative, legend, conspiracy theory, discourses of the supernatural, supernatural studies, identity politics, politics of culture, cultural imagination, disaster, violent geographies, historical anthropology, history and disciplinarity of sociocultural anthropology and folkloristics
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
recording studio culture; music information retrieval; progressive rock; music and social critique; sound studies; Italy
M.A. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
material culture, textiles, folk art, Atlantic Canada, public folklore, museums, and digital storytelling
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research Interests
ecomusicology; spiritual and sacred scology; environmental justice; ecofeminism; sound studies; cli-fi and nature in media; culture and sustainability; music and technoculture; applied ethnomusicology; anthropocene
M.A. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
UK and Ireland; death and dying; commemoration; legend studies; the supernatural; children's folklore; folk medicine; foodways; gender and sexuality; belief systems; cultural history
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
intersection of urban and memory studies, nostalgia, public folklore, historical preservation, museums, material culture, heritage studies, Turkey
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
they/them
Research interests
music and international development; South Asian feminisms; folksong in Greater Punjab; Indic musicology; sound studies; public folklore and ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
India
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
he/they
Research interests
Music of the African diaspora; American roots music; oral traditions and verbal art; queer performance studies; sound studies; public ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Children's musiking, racialized sound, music of the African diaspora, and rap and hip hop culture, critical pedagogy, and Black girlhood studies
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; fiber arts; wool crafts and ecology; heritage livestock; multispecies ethnography; new materialism; cultural landscapes; folk clothing; rural and maritime folklife; museums and archives; practice-led research; Estonia
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
material culture; dress and adornment; quilts and textiles; material imagination; old-time music; the Upper Midwest; Scandinavia; Appalachia; queer folklife; public folklore; museums
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
folklore and literature, memoir, storytelling, collective memory, gender and sexuality
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
Intersections of sound and race; feminisms; postcolonial studies; digital humanities; decolonial approaches; archives; violin making/playing; human rights; Latin American studies; understanding some of the multiple forms of ethnomusicology in the Americas
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
Folklore and folklife of Ireland and Scotland; tradition, genre, intertextuality; memory studies and ethnohistory; folklore archives; the ethnography of communication and performance studies; intellectual history of folklore studies
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
German hip hop, social activism, performance, gender, feminism, identity, diaspora, multiculturalism, (im)mobility
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Ph.D. Student, Complex Networks and Systems
Research interests
computational methods in folklore; folktales; modern American folklore; narrative structure; comparative; Internet folklore; digital archives
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
folk belief and vernacular religion; supernatural traditions; legend studies; personal narrative; gender, sexuality, and class studies
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
Irish travellers; women's personal narrative; collaborative methodologies; displacement and eviction; rumor and legend; traditionalization of craft moonshine
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her & him/his
Research interests
first-generation college students; personal experience narratives; applied folklore; education; identity; trauma
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
IU Food Institute Student Affiliate
Research interests
popular and traditional musics in Nepal/South Asia/Asia; intersection of sound studies and food anthropology; sensory ethnography; synthwave (aesthetics and nostalgia); public digital scholarship
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
supernatural folklore, psychoanalytical study of folklore, horror culture, magic rituals, media studies, foodways
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
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Research interests
Irish traditional music; composition in vernacular music; diaspora; nationalism; An Ghaeilge/Irish language
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
they/them
Research interests
material culture; folk art; costume; dress; gender studies; burlesque; drag; queer culture; popular culture; monsters; foodways
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research Interests
Music in the African Diaspora; memory, heritage, and archives; cultural sustainabilities; ecomusicology; applied ethnomusicology/public folklore; collaborative ethnography; United States and Sierra Leone
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
Irish traditional song, Scottish traditional song, Appalachian music, and songs inspired by folk tales
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
Indian indigenous communities, indigeneity, festivals and identity, performance studies, death and fertility, sexuality and communal identity formation
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
media geographies; community radio; music and place; performance; popular music; mobilities
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
music festivals; musics of the Levantine Arab world; music and nationalism; culture-as-resource; applied/public ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
Latinx vernacular Catholicism in the United States; festivals for the Virgin of Guadalupe; fairy tale studies; digital humanities; sense of place
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
they/them & she/her
Research interests
music and devotion, poetics, trauma studies, music and grief, sound studies, activist ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
music as storytelling, edumedia, applied ethnomusicology, public facing presentation, critical listening, music and memory, music and ritual, decolonial curation, accessible public scholarship, music and trance, classical music communities, contemporary folk music arrangements
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
material culture; narratives; belief system; nomadism; faith; worldview; Rajasthan; nomadic blacksmiths; cultural heritage; traditional knowledge; communal legacy
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
ancestor veneration in Black music, African cultural retentions, cultural memory, the Black diaspora, Yoruba cosmology
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
material culture, identity discourse and heritage, feminist folklore, belief system, digital folklore
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
Ireland; Ulster; Armagh; mumming and masking traditions; mythology; Celtic spirituality; sacred sites; legends; rhyming and poetry traditions; ritual; visual arts; Irish language; Baltic folklore; Lithuania
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
holiday lore; festivals; parades; European winter holidays; Dutch culture; colonialism; transatlantic slave trade; Dutch history; social justice movements
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
folk belief; vernacular theologies; American religion; Mormon feminisms
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
she/her
Research interests
nationalism; politics of culture; migration and diaspora studies; UNESCO and ICH; archives and museums; material culture; performance studies; folk arts; Ukrainian traditional music; Slavic folklore; Ukraine; Eastern Europe; Ukrainian Americans
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
she/her
Research Interests
folksong and ballad; local songs; songmakers/writers; sense of place; tourism and heritage; communal identity; traditionalization; northeastern North America (esp. Maine)
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
she/her
Research interests
music of the African Diaspora; Black protest music; music of Trinidad and Tobago; Caribbean music scene; music and healing; critical race theory; oral traditions; activist ethnomusicology; women and gender studies; intersectionality between music education and ethnomusicology; decolonial approaches
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
he/him
Research interests
critical ethnography; folklore and the politics of identity; health and illness; human rights; internet folklore; narrative; popular culture; public folklore
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Managing Editor for the Journal of Folklore Research
she/her
Research interests
media fandom; material culture; memes; folklore on the internet; lay expertise
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
applied ethnomusicology; folk and traditional arts programs in the United States; community music in Southern Indiana; intangible cultural heritage; American vernacular music; arts administration
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
he/him
Research interests
critical ethnography; social movements; minority rights; Romani culture; transnationalism; identity; Yiddish culture; ethnographic film; audio archives; Eastern Europe
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
Material culture, dress and adornment, folk art, museums, Mongolian music, Mongolia and ethnic groups in China
M.A. Student, Folklore
M.A. Student, Library Science
she/her
Research interests
community archiving and collective preservation; public folklore; street art; virtual legends; and coming-of-age rituals and rites
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