Information about Contributors
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Bill Ivey is the director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University as well as the center's Washington-based Arts Industries Policy Forum. He is a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a team leader for Arts and Humanities on the Barack Obama Presidential Transition Team, and a former president of the American Folklore Society.
Roger Welsch has served as a professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska and as a correspondent for the award-winning CBS television program Sunday Morning. Welsch is the author of numerous best-selling works of both fiction and nonfiction, and his writings explore rural and local culture as well as issues of Native American patrimony and rights.
Debora Kodish is the founding director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP), a locally based public-interest folklore nonprofit where she has worked since 1987. At PFP, Kodish has led and participated in collaborative efforts to sustain diverse, vital, and significant community-based folk cultural activity in the Philadelphia area; she is working on a book on public-interest folklore reflecting on the implications of these experiences.
Jack Santino is currently the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Professor at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and a professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. He has produced and directed two award-winning documentary films, including Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: The Untold Story of Black Pullman Porters, which won four Emmy Awards. He has conducted research in the United States, Ireland, and Spain; held a Fulbright Research attachment in Northern Ireland; and was an invited lecturer at the University of Alcala, Spain, Kemerovo State University, Siberia, and Reitsumaken University, Kyoto, Japan. He has written seven books on holidays, ritual, festival, and celebration in the United States and in Northern Ireland, and he has edited three volumes of essays. His most recent book is an edited collection called Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death. Santino has been editor of the Journal of American Folklore and president of the American Folklore Society.
Kip Peltoniemi is a Finnish American humorist and musician from the Finnish Triangle region of Minnesota. His performances include button-accordion renditions, humorous songs, and storytelling. He has performed both in the United States and in Finland. [End Page 125]
