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
Jewish community folklore; ritual in social movements; Jamaican dancehall; the cross-influence of media and folklore
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. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
music and grieving; American vernacular music; emotional labor; applied and activist ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
U.S. roots music; bluegrass; Japan; identity
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
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. Student, 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
vernacular dance; diaspora studies; Celtic studies; Atlantic Canada; the Appalachian region; Irish folklore; maritime folklore
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
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; vernacular architecture in the Caribbean
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Ireland; music and health; neurodiversity; applied ethnomusicology
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
intersections of religion, science, and health; folk belief and medicine; applied medical folkloristics
M.A. 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
Brazil; African diaspora in Latin America; critical race theory; engaged ethnomusicology; historical ethnomusicology; filmmaking and ethnography
Ph.D. Candidate, Folklore
Research interests
cultural construction and politics of identity; concerning transnational and transcultural identity formation; particularly Irishness; narrative, belief, memory, and the supernatural in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
popular music; social movements; recording industry; transnationalism; performance; identity; tradition; representation; nostalgia; audio archives and media preservation; United States and Northern Europe
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
M.A. 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
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. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
applied ethnomusicology; intangible cultural heritage; psychology of music; archives; intellectual and cultural property rights; music and technology; video game music and fandom; Central Asia; Mongolia; tourism; gender and fieldwork
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
M.A. Student, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
Colombia
M.A. 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. Student, 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. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
African-American popular music; go-go music
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Research interests
popular music; gender; Latin America
M.A. Student, Folklore
Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
M.A. Student, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; museums; religious art; Tibetan Buddhism; tourism; diaspora communities
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
social dance; ethnographic research; performance studies; festival; transculturation; embodiment; gender; American South; critical heritage studies
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. Student, Folklore
Research interests
occupational folklife; personal narratives; labor unions; public folklore; the Midwest
M.A. 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. 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. Student, 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. 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
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. Student, 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
Ph.D. Student, Folklore
Research interests
material culture; dress and adornment; ethnic minorities in China; traditional Mongolian music; museum; public folklore; ICH
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