Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
sound in Islamic worship practices; musics of the African and Middle Eastern diasporas; artistic performances under surveillance; feminist ethnomusicology; activist ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
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. Student, Ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Folklore
M.A. Student, Journalism
Research interests
the cross-influence of media and folklore, community-led local arts and media, and rural storytelling
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
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. Student, Folklore
Research interests
narrative construction in museum spaces emphasizing community-based knowledges; heritage processes, material culture; collecting and collections; community museum spaces; narrative authority; embodiment; cultural politics and identity; cultural performance; ethnography of communication; nostalgia
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
US vernacular music; Pacific Northwest; disaster and flood; displacement and migration; race-making and sound; historical ethnomusicology; music and grief
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
U.S. roots music; bluegrass; Japan; identity
Ph.D. Student, Folklore and Anthropology
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
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. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
music scenes and region/place; jam band culture; psychedelia in popular musics; popular music and resistance; postcolonial theories; intersectionality; class and music scene participation
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture: dress and adornment (dissertation focus–Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia); decorative arts; folk and outsider art (Mexican folk art); foodways; traditional music (Ireland, American South, Appalachia); Irish/Celtic studies
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
narrative; supernatural belief traditions; health and illness; science and myth; medical discourse; neurodiversity; disability; women’s folklore; gender
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Ireland; music and health; neurodiversity; applied ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; vernacular architecture in the Caribbean
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
intersections of religion, science, and health; folk belief and medicine; applied medical folkloristics
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Wisconsin bluegrass festivals; genre; identity; place; performance; folklore of the Upper Midwest; applied ethnomusicology; the banjo
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Brazil; African diaspora in Latin America; critical race theory; engaged ethnomusicology; historical ethnomusicology; filmmaking and ethnography
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
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
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
progressive rock; music and social movements; format theory; ludomusicology; organology; Italy
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
women's folklife; recreational folklore; foodways; performance; Iceland; narrative; belief; the supernatural
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
Turkey; storytelling; oral traditions and verbal art; womens folklore; performance studies; folklorization; children's folklore
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
advocacy ethnomusicology; critical ethnography; music and social movements; Indian NGO sector; Himachali folk music; U.S. evangelicalism
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
India
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Music of the African diaspora; American roots music; oral traditions and verbal art; queer performance studies; sound studies; public ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
applied ethnomusicology; music of the African diaspora; music education; sound studies; racialized sound; protest music; hip-hop
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
punk; zines; material culture; popular music; popular culture; gender studies; feminist disability studies; critical pedagogy; applied/activist ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
European folk narrative and fairy tale; modern fairy tale adaptation; gender and narration; the monstrous feminine
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture with an emphasis on fiber arts; the role of craft traditions in national identity; Celtic language revival movements; animism; Shetland; Orkney
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
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
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Colombia
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
calendar customs; folk belief; narrative; proverbs; vernacular architecture; Irish traditional music; folk medicine; folklore and modernity
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
European hip hop; German hip hop; Turkish German diaspora; Afro-German diaspora; transnationalism; identity; gender; ethnicity; performative identity; imagined communities; media representation
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
Research interests
Folk belief and vernacular religion; supernatural traditions; personal narrative; gender; sexuality; power
M.A. Student, Folklore
Research interests
public folklore, museums and archives, collaborative ethnography, material culture, latrinalia, public anthropology, foodways
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
Irish travellers; women's personal narrative; collaborative methodologies; displacement and eviction; rumor and legend; traditionalization of craft moonshine
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
music archives; community archives; archival activism; popular music; heritage; memory; affect; the UK
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
occupational folklife; personal narratives; labor unions; public folklore; the Midwest; material culture; veterans
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
intersectional identities among Nepali musicians (esp. that of caste); ritual music and performance space in Nepali society; formal/non-formal transmission of music; North Indian classical music; South-Asian popular music; music and spirituality
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Vietnamese and Vietnamese American popular music; homeland politics; cultural performance; culture and heritage policy; traditional Vietnamese music genres
Ph.D. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
calendar customs; folk belief; narrative; proverbs; vernacular architecture; Irish traditional music; folk medicine; folklore and modernity
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; folk art; costume; dress; gender studies; burlesque; drag; queer culture; popular culture; monsters; foodways
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
diaspora; mobilities; music and ecology; popular music; performance; Garifuna music; Belize
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
narrative; memory and commemoration; oral history; SE Asia; Thailand; ethnography of religion; Buddhism
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
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; digitgal humanities; sense of place
Ph.D. Candidate. Folklore
M.A. Student, Folklore
Research interests
Latin American folklore, especially Mexican folktales dealing with supernatural elements and beings; intersection of folklore with anthropology of the body; representation of indigenous peoples in museums; folk medicine and folk remedies; vernacular Catholicism; Afro-Latinx religions; belief
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
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
Research interests
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Marxism; post-colonial theories; I/NGOs in the global south; development practices; rock; hip hop and fusion music in Nepal
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
cultural identity; politics of culture; material culture; performance studies; folk music; migration; diaspora studies; ICH; Slavic folklore; Ukraine; Eastern Europe; Ukrainian-Americans
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
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
Research interests
media fandom; material culture; memes; folklore on the internet; lay expertise
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
applied ethnomusicology; state folklife programs in the United States; intangible cultural heritage; American vernacular music; arts administration
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
critical ethnography; social movements; minority rights; Romani culture; transnationalism; identity; Yiddish culture; ethnographic film; audio archives; Eastern Europe
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