Contributors
- Contributors
JANICE ACKERLEY is currently a high school reading development teacher at Ashburton College in New Zealand. She received her Masters of Education, Children’s Literature, from Charles Sturt University, Australia. She was awarded a New Zealand Sciences, Mathematics, and Technology Teaching Fellowship in 2006 to work on creating a digital archive of the playground rhymes of New Zealand children. She continues to follow her passion for children’s folklore on her return to the classroom.
JOHN ARCHER was born in 1941 in a back-country New Zealand village. He taught in Catholic schools as a Marist Brother until 1979. Then he looked for a more indigenous spirituality by singing and writing folk ballads with local content. In 1998 he started putting these songs on the Internet at Folksong.org.nz. He can be reached at John.Archer@xtra.co.nz.
LAURIE BAUER, a graduate of Edinburgh University, is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University. His work has been in morphology and English word-formation and in the description of New Zealand English. His most recent books are Morphological Productivity (Cambridge University Press, 2001), An Introduction to International Varieties of English (Edinburgh University Press, 2002), and A Glossary of Morphology (Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
WINIFRED BAUER, a New Zealander and graduate of Auckland and Edinburgh Universities, is the author of two major reference grammars of Maori: Maori (Routledge, 1993) and The Reed Reference Grammar of Maori (Reed, 1997). She teaches courses on the linguistics of Maori at Victoria University.
MICHAEL BROWN has degrees in fine arts and music. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington, researching the vernacular music of mid-twentieth-century New Zealand.
BRUCE CARPENTER has been the compositor for JFR for over a quarter century. This is his last issue. The journal has benefited from his eagle eye, his patience in training generations of folklore students to be editorial assistants, his skill, professionalism, and good humor. We’ll miss you, Bruce!
[End Page 303] PHIL GARLAND was Chairman of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Folklore Society and was its first and only fulltime collector. Being based in Christchurch gave him easy access to the sparsely populated South Island goldfields and farming high country. He is a music teacher and entertainer, with many award-winning recordings and a seminal songbook to his name. Today he lives in the North Canterbury country town of Culverden, at the foot of the Southern Alps just over an hour’s drive from Christchurch.
KOENRAAD KUIPER is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury. He has published in morphology and formulaic performance and is author or editor of four books: An Introduction to English Language, Smooth Talkers, New Zealand English, and Semantics: A Reader. He edits Te Reo, the journal of the New Zealand Linguistic Society. He was awarded a D.Sc. for his research on the phrasal lexicon in 2001 and the University of Canterbury Teaching Medal in 2004.
MIKE LLOYD teaches sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. He has researched and published on a wide variety of topics—male infertility, gambling, body modification, fire safety—and now risqué humour. These studies are all informed by a desire to understand the practical accomplishment of organised social activities.
MOIRA SMITH is the librarian for the folklore collection at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana. Moira is the author of studies of New Zealand capping festivals, on the social reception of humour, and on the European witch-hunts. She is currently editor of the Journal of Folklore Research.
ALLAN THOMAS lectures in world music, ethnomusicology, and the history of New Zealand music at Victoria University of Wellington. His main fieldwork interests have been in Pacific Islands music, especially the music of the Tokelau Islands, and in taking an ethnographic view of small-town New Zealand music, specifically music in the town of Hawera in 1946. [End Page 304]
