Information About Contributors

Wanda G. Addison is a folklorist, Professor of English, and chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at National University in San Diego, California. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses with a focus that includes African American literature and culture and concepts of home, place, and identity. She contributed essays on Arthur Huff Fauset, Charlotte Forten Grimké, and Ernest J. Gaines to the digital exhibition Notable Folklorists of Color: Expanding the Frames. In addition, her works include “Standing with Others: Folklorists in the Midst of Home” in Advancing Folkloristics (ed. Fivecoate, Downs, and McGriff, 2021); “Mentoring” in What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies (ed. Lloyd, 2021); and “Black History Month Programs: Performance and Heritage” in Material Culture Review (2015).Anastasiya Astapova is Associate Professor of Folkloristics (University of Tartu, Estonia) and a member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences. She has researched post-socialist humor and genres of political self-expression under authoritarianism (which, along with other publications, resulted in her monograph Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State, 2021). She is a previous board member of the Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories project, within which she published a co-edited work with Onoriu Colacel, Corneliu Pintilescu, and Tamás Scheibner, Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends (2020), and a co-authored work with Eirikur Bergmann, Asbjørn Dyrendal, Annika Rabo, Kasper Grotle Rasmussen, Hulda Thórisdóttir, and Andreas Önnerfors, Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries (2020), among other works. She is currently a principal investigator in the Estonian Science Foundation project “COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories: Contents, Channels, and Target Groups.”Tayshu Bommelyn (Tolowa Dee-ni, Karuk, Wintu) is a culture bearer, creative, and former educator currently working as a senior program officer with the Native Cultures Fund at Humboldt Area Foundation. She has committed her life to revitalizing culture and strengthening community, increasing the joy and excellence of Native peoples and her local communities.Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Harrisburg, and serves as director of the PSU's Center for Folklore and coordinator of its Graduate Certificate in Folklore and Ethnography. His research centers on vernacular culture and communication in connection with digital technology, memory, narrative, space and place, and race and ethnicity. He is the author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston (2016) and editor of Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture: Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World (2017). He has published numerous research articles and scholarly book chapters, which have appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, Oral History, Culture and Religion, Cultural Analysis, and Western Folklore, among other venues.Timothy Corrigan Correll teaches classes on ethnography and oral history, folk art and material culture, art of rituals and festivals, and the connections between oral narrative traditions and visual culture. His research focuses on how traditional forms of cultural expression address themes related to emigration/immigration. He taught Irish Folklife for Harvard University's Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures in 2005, and a class on Ethnography and Fieldwork for the Folklore and Mythology Program in 2023. He is currently a visiting lecturer for the History of Art Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.Martha Gonzalez is a Chicana artivista from East Los Angeles and Associate Professor at Scripps/Claremont College. She holds a PhD in Feminism from the University of Washington, Seattle. A Fulbright and Ford and McArthur Fellow, her academic work has been fueled by her musical work with Grammy Award winning Quetzal.Lily Kharrazi is the director of special initiatives at the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. She has worked with community-based artists to promote living cultural heritage for over three decades. Trained in dance ethnology and ethnic arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, she has worked in the fields of refugee resettlement, arts production and education, and arts philanthropy. She has served as a consultant and advisor to local, regional, and national funders.Mirae Kim is Associate Professor of Nonprofit Studies and Master's of Public Administration program director at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. She is a co-editor of the Nonprofit Policy Forum, a visiting scholar at Independent Sector, and serves as a board member at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).Amy Kitchener is co-founder and executive director of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA). Trained as a public folklorist with an MA from the University of California, Los Angeles, she has piloted participatory cultural asset mapping in neglected and rural areas of the state and consults with other organizations and across sectors on this method of discovery and inclusion of community voices. She serves as a consultant for national organizations and has taken part in two US-China Intangible Cultural Heritage exchanges. She has published about California folklife, including immigrant arts training and transmission and Asian American folk arts. She served on the board of the national Grantmakers in the Arts and on the Board of Trustees (as a member and as chair) of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.Debora Kodish is a public interest folklorist in Philadelphia. Founding director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, co-founder and board member of the Folk Arts–Cultural Treasures Charter School (2005–2014), she has co-produced publications, films, and many collaborative projects with Philadelphia cultural and social movement workers. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas and an MA from Memorial University of Newfoundland.Enrique R. Lamadrid, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico (UNM), is a literary folklorist and cultural historian who edits the Querencias Series at UNM Press and writes on ethnopoetics, Chicano literature, folklore, ballads, and music. His collaborative projects include the Genízaros chapter in the Handbook of North American Indians (ed. Brown, 2023), the anthologies Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in Global Context (2022) and Nación Genízara: Ethnogenesis, Place, and Cultural Identity in New Mexico (2020). His monograph Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption (2003) garnered the Chicago Folklore Prize. Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española awarded him its Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert,” recognizing his advocacy for the Spanish language and folk traditions of Nuevo México (2019). The American Folklore Society's Américo Paredes Prize acknowledged his cultural activism, curatorial, and festival projects. He co-curated “Corridos sin Fronteras/Ballads without Borders” traveling Smithsonian exhibit and co-designed the Camino Real International Heritage Center in central New Mexico.Margaret Magat is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Folklore Program and earned a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. She has published on the transcultural practices of Filipina domestic workers in Italy, foodways and intangible cultural heritage, and Asian American folklore. An independent scholar, she works in the field of cultural resource management and historic preservation and is an affiliate of the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis.Mark Y. Miyake teaches and advises students at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University in his capacity as Associate Professor of Music and Society, and directs the Fairhaven College program in Audio Technology, Music, and Society. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Humanities Washington, Advisory Board of the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions, Board of Directors of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and continues to and has previously served with numerous other regional, state, and national humanities and arts organizations in Washington and New York. He has conducted research into cultural discourse on race, gender, community, and identity, primarily focusing on intersectional approaches to traditional Appalachian music and local punk, heavy metal, and bluegrass music scenes.Selina Morales, a Philadelphia-based folklife strategist, consults nationally on projects that connect community aesthetics, heritage, and social justice. She is the lead folklorist for the Southwest Folklife Alliance's Folklife PAR Network. Selina is the former director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project and serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School and on the Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.Elizabeth Peterson is the former director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Previously, she was director of the Fund for Folk Culture. She is the author/editor of The Changing Faces of Tradition: A Report on the Folk and Traditional Arts in the United States (1996) and received her PhD in folklore from Indiana University.Carole Rosenstein is Professor of Arts Management and affiliated Professor of Folklore at George Mason University. She studies cultural policy and the social life of the arts and culture, focusing on cultural democracy and cultural equity. Her research portfolio includes commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Understanding Cultural Policy (2018).Shweta Saraswat-Sullivan is a principal dancer and faculty member at the Indian Performing Art Center. She received her PhD in Culture and Performance from the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at University of California, Los Angeles, where her ethnographic research focused on the relationship between diasporic identity and Kathak dance in Los Angeles and London. She started learning Kathak in 1998 in Guru Rachana Upadhyay's and has since presented both her dance work and academic work at venues such as the Getty Museum, the School for Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Academia Sinica in Taipei, the Dance Studies Association annual conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, and California Institute of the Arts.Raymond Summerville is Professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He earned an MA in English and African American literature at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a PhD in English with a Folklore concentration at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of “Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty”: How Proverb Masters Shaped the Civil Rights Movement (forthcoming).Neville Vakharia is Associate Dean for Research & Planning and Associate Professor in Drexel's graduate Arts Administration & Museum Leadership program. He teaches management, strategic planning, entrepreneurship, and related subjects while undertaking research and development projects to strengthen the arts, cultural, and creative sectors. His research centers on the role that technology, innovation, and knowledge management play in building sustainable, resilient, and relevant organizations. Neville previously held leadership roles in the corporate, nonprofit, and foundation sectors. He serves on the boards of Social Impact Commons and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and is on the editorial board of Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts.Langston Collin Wilkins is Assistant Professor of Folklore and African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD from Indiana University's Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology. Previously, he was the state folklorist of Washington State and served as a traditional arts specialist with the Tennessee Arts Commission. He is the author of Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town (2023).Juwen Zhang is Professor of Chinese Studies and Global Cultural Studies at Willamette University. His research interests include folkloristic theories, rites de passage, folk narratives, folk music, Asian/Chinese American folklore, filmic folklore, and folkloric identity. His recent publications include “Folkloric Identity Is the Thing” (Western Folklore, 2020), “Rediscovering the Brothers Grimm of China: Lin Lan” (Journal of American Folklore, 2020), Oral Traditions in Contemporary China (2021), The Magic Love: Fairy Tales from Twenty-First Century China (2021), Epidemics in Folk Memory: Tales and Poems from Chinese History (2021), and The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales (2022).Andrew Zitcer is Associate Professor at Drexel University, where he leads the Urban Strategy graduate program and teaches in the Arts Administration & Museum Leadership graduate program. Andrew has published extensively on arts and culture, including on creative placemaking, public art, artist livelihoods, naturally occurring cultural districts, and more. He is the author of many publications in journals, including the Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Planning Education and Research, and Antipode, and author of Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism (2021). He earned his PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University, and his undergraduate and master's degrees in Urban Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

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