Ohio State University Department of Comparative Studies
Dissertation: Monastic Memories at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Research interests
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; vernacular history; social memory; tradition and traditionalization; vernacular religion
The College of Arts