Information About Contributors

Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University. The principal foci of his research include narrative, oral poetics, performance, genre, and language ideologies. Among his publications are Verbal Art as Performance (1977), Let Your Words Be Few (1983), Story, Performance, and Event (1986), Voices of Modernity (co-authored with Charles L. Briggs, 2003; Sapir Prize 2006), A World of Others’ Words (2004), and A Most Valuable Medium (2023). Bauman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award of the American Folklore Society and the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.Emily Bianchi is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University where she is writing her dissertation on the oral traditions of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community. Her research interests include vernacular expressive culture in the United States, the ethnography of communication and performance studies, and vernacular history and social memory.Lorraine Walsh Cashman is Senior Managing Editor of the Journal of American Folklore. Formerly, she was Associate Director of the American Folklore Society (AFS) 2009–2021, and AFS Special Projects Consultant 2021–2023. She holds degrees in English/Folklore and Information Science from Indiana University. Before coming to AFS, she worked in publishing and nonprofit organizations and as a lecturer at The Ohio State University.JoAnn Conrad is a Professor of Folklore, Cultural History, and Anthropology. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; University of Missouri; University of California, Davis; and University of Iceland; and she currently teaches at Diablo Valley College. Conrad is the Founder and Co-chair of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Working Group on Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore. Her fields of research include narrative, childhood, visual culture, and women's history, with a particular interest in “the North.” She has published in the Journal of American Folklore, Narrative Culture, Fabula, Ethnologia Europaea, and in edited collections.Ann K. Ferrell is Associate Professor of Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University. Her research interests include Kentucky agriculture, gendered knowledge, and history of folklore studies. Her publications include Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century (2016). She previously served as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore (2016–2020).Lisa Gilman is Professor of Folklore at George Mason University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Folklore. Her publications include The Dance of Politics: Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi (2009), My Music, My War: The Listening Habits of U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (2016), and numerous other publications about folklore, performance, gender, power, and ethnographic research methods. She is currently working on a global multi-site project about arts initiatives by refugees for refugees.Rachel V. González-Martin is a Folklorist and Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning book Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities (2019). She is currently working on an ethnographic project on luxury nail art, mujerista ideologies, and social entrepreneurship in East Austin, Texas. Her next book examines the politics of Latinx public affect and women of color feminist interpretations of supernatural Latinx legends, which is tentatively titled Monstras: The Stories That Raised Us.Robert Glenn Howard is the Founder and Director of Digital Studies and DesignLab and Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has published six books including Digital Jesus (2011) and over 40 academic book chapters and articles in fields ranging from folklore and religious studies to communication and information studies. His research seeks to uncover the possibilities and limits of empowerment through everyday expression on the internet by focusing on the intersection of individual human agency and participatory performance. Currently, he is exploring the intersections of digital communication technologies and firearms discourse.Bill Ivey is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Indiana University Center for Cultural Affairs, Senior Advisor to the Nashville-based Mike Curb Foundation, and Past President of the American Folklore Society. He holds degrees in History, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology. Ivey was twice elected National Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and served as the seventh Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of three books about culture and public policy in the United States.Merrill Kaplan has worked toward the establishment of codes of conduct in several professional organizations of which she is a member. As a faculty member at The Ohio State University, she teaches folklore (especially legendry) and Scandinavian topics (especially Old Norse). Her latest book, The Paganesque and The Tale of Vǫlsi (2024), is part of the Studies in Old Norse Literature series.Mariya Lesiv is Associate Professor of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her research interests include folklore and politics, belief and religious folklife, and diaspora studies. Lesiv is the author of The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation (2013). She has also contributed articles to edited volumes and academic journals, including Anthropologica, Journal of American Folklore, Ethnologies, Folklorica, and Western Folklore. She is a recipient of a 2017–2019 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development grant focusing on the study of immigrants from post-Socialist Europe and Asia to Newfoundland.Thomas McKean is Director of the Elphinstone Institute and Lecturer in Ethnology and Folklore, University of Aberdeen. He is a folklorist specializing in song, craft, and customary traditions and especially the role they can play in building community self-esteem and cultural confidence. His work focuses on individual agency and creativity within the wider frameworks of social culture.Elliott Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and a visiting research scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. His recent works include Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor (2016), The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal (2018), and The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays (2023).Beverly J. Stoeltje is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Her research concentrates on gender, ritual and festival, performance, traditional authorities, and legal anthropology. Her research topics include the American West and rodeo as performance, gender and representation, and Queen Mothers in Ghana. Among her publications are Children's Handclaps (1978) and Beauty Queens on the Global Stage (co-edited with Richard Wilk and Colleen Ballerino Cohen, 1996). She has served as editor of special issues of the Journal of Folklore Research and Africa Today and has published articles in the Journal of American Folklore, the Research Review (Ghana), and chapters in multiple volumes. Her current research is focused on the Ashanti people of Ghana, with special attention to Queen Mothers and chieftaincy disputes.Jessica A. Turner is Executive Director of the American Folklore Society, where she advocates for the discipline and nurtures a broad network of folklorists working in universities, public institutions, nonprofit organizations, and beyond. Her work bridges academic and public folklore, ethnomusicology, museums, and heritage studies. Turner previously served as Director of the Smithsonian-affiliated Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia). Her fieldwork-based projects in Appalachia and China have resulted in exhibitions, media productions, workshops, presentations, and a wide variety of community programs.Kay Turner is retired from active folklore duty. She spent much of her career engaged in bringing feminist and queer theory to bear on folkloristics. Her books include Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (1999) and Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (co-edited with Pauline Greenhill, 2012). She taught as an Adjunct Professor for 20 years in the Performance Studies Department at New York University and is a Past President of the American Folklore Society.Anika Wilson is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She earned her doctorate in folklore and folklife studies at the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in informal narratives (gossip, rumor, legend, conspiracy theories, etc.). Her book Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun (2013) was awarded the Elli Kongas Maranda Award for feminist scholarship in folklore in 2014 by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society. She teaches course topics related to African and African diasporic societies, expressive cultures, spirituality, and gender relations. Her current research project focuses on spirituality, sacred sites, and the environment in southern Africa.Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. She is an Executive Board Member (2024–2026) of the American Folklore Society (AFS), and the Senior Convener of the AFS Transnational Asia/Pacific Section. She is the author of Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (2020) and Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (2019) and “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition” (2020) in Asian Ethnology.

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