Ph.D. Student, Rhetoric and Composition
Folklore MA '23
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
Community Health Field Specialist, Univ. of Missouri Extension
Folklore MA ’23
she/her
MA Thesis: ‘She Came Through Me’: Situating Birth Stories and Women’s Embodied Wisdom in Folkloristics
Research interests
personal narrative, birth stories, motherhood, women's rites of passage, foodways, folk medicine
Program Specialist, Society for Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology PhD ’23
he/they
Dissertation: Performing Performances of Culture: Pong Lang Music, Signification, and Meta-Cultural Performance
Research interests
music and tourism; Thailand and Southeast Asia; the construction of tradition; popular music; music and nationalism; music and place; online communities; semiotics
Assistant Professor of Jazz and Applied Jazz Piano
Cal Poly State University
Ethnomusicology PhD '25
Dissertation: Musical Encounters and Interaction in Plurilingual Spaces: Exploring Performances of Versatility and Culture in Aruba’s Curated Soundscape.
Research interests
jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, Caribbean, Brazilian, and other Latin American musics
Horning Assistant Professor of Public History & Ethnomusicology - Contemporary Music Industry
Oregon State University
Ethnomusicology & History PhD ’24
she/her
Dissertation: The Music of Miracle City: Vanport, Oregon and the Sonic Imaginaries of Multiracial Democracy
Research interests
US vernacular music; Pacific Northwest; disaster and flood; displacement and migration; race-making and sound; historical ethnomusicology; music and grief
Assistant Professor of Folklore & Environmental Humanities
University of North Carolina
Folklore & Anthropology PhD '24
he/him
Dissertation: Cedar Arts in a Changing Climate: Weaving Rules, Value, and Tradition in Southeast Alaska
Research interests
environmental humanities; space, place, and landscape; belief and religion; traditional ecological knowledge; indigeneity; the Americas; protest; memory and nostalgia; material culture
Cultural Historian-Special Projects Manager, City of San Antonio, TX
Folklore PhD '24
she/her
Dissertation: From Batey to Marquesina: The History, Form, and Use of the Carport in Puerto Rico
Research interests
material culture; vernacular architecture in the Caribbean
Professor of Ethnomusicology, Universidade do Estado Do Amapá
Ethnomusicology MA '24
he/him
MA Project: “O mundo dá voltas, camará”: The Archive and the Repertoire in the Capoeira Angola Group Estrela do Norte
Research interests
Brazilian traditional music; storytelling; supernatural; viola caipira (brazilian ten-strings guitar); latin american music
Adjunct Faculty, Univ. of North Carolina and Elon University
Folklore PhD ’23
he/him
Dissertation: Haunted Histories: A Historical Ethnographic Study of Ghost Narratives in Ireland and Northern Ireland
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
Studio Manager, NYANDAK Engineering
Folklore MA ’23
she/her
MA project: Weaving Indiana (film)
Research interests
material culture, textiles, folk art, Atlantic Canada, public folklore, museums, and digital storytelling
Kenneth R. Trapp Craft Assistant/Curatorial Fellow, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
Affiliated Research Faculty, Virginia Tech
Folklore PhD ’23
Dissertation: Entangled Wool: Handwork, Heritage, and Ecology in Estonia
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, Appalachian weaving
Lecturer of Irish Mythology and Folklore
University College Cork
Folklore PhD '24
Dissertation: Tradition and the Politics of Culture: Case Studies From Irish 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
Folklife Specialist, Library of Congress
Ethnomusicology PhD '24
he/him
Dissertation: The Afterlives of Africanisms: History, Cultural Heritage, and Musical Performance Among Gullah Geechees in South Carolina
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
Faculty at Naresuan University
Folklore PhD ’22
Dissertation: Home Is Where The Past Is: Constructing Folk History through Landscape and Storytelling in the Karen Community, Thailand
Research interests
narrative; memory and commemoration; oral history; SE Asia; Thailand; ethnography of religion; Buddhism
Ethnomusicology MA '24
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
Managing Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University
Folklore PhD '24
she/her
Dissertation: Memes as Folklore: Toward a Method for Meme Analysis
Research interests
media fandom; material culture; memes; folklore on the internet; lay expertise
Health Science Librarian, Baylor Libraries
MA Folklore & Library Science ’23
she/her
Research interests
community archiving and collective preservation; public folklore; street art; virtual legends; and coming-of-age rituals and rites
The College of Arts