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Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program and the Music Program of the New York State Council on the Arts and teaches in the Goucher College master of arts in Cultural Sustainability program. His research interests include public folklore, creolization, the history of folklore studies, and cultural policy. Baron received a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and has served as a nonresident fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, a Smithsonian fellow in museum practice, and a Fulbright senior research specialist in Finland and the Philippines. His publications include Public Folklore (1992), edited with Nick Spitzer; Creolization as Cultural Creativity (2011), edited with Ana Cara; and articles in the Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, the Journal of Folklore Research, New York Folklore, Voices, Children’s Folklore Review, and Curator.
Timothy Corrigan Correll teaches classes on folk art and material culture, folklife, and oral history for the Department of Continuing Education and the History of Art Program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well as the master’s program in Public History at Northeastern University. He has authored various articles of American and Irish oral narrative traditions and material culture and co-curated exhibitions of folk art for the Fowler Museum and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles.
C. Kurt Dewhurst serves as Director of Arts and Cultural Initiatives and Senior Fellow, University Outreach & Engagement; Director Emeritus & Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Michigan State University Museum; and Professor of English at Michigan State University (MSU). A founder of the folk and traditional arts programs at the museum, he coordinates a variety of folklife research, collection development, and outreach and engagement programs. He is one of the founding directors of the Festival of Michigan Folklife, was a coordinator for the National Folk Festival when it was in East Lansing, and is a founding director for the Great Lakes Folk Festival. He is the author or co-author of variety of books, exhibition catalogs, and scholarly articles. His research interests include folk arts, material culture, ethnicity, occupational folk culture, cultural economic development, and cultural heritage policy. He currently serves as chairperson of the Board of Trustees for the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright grant to work in Thailand with the National Culture Commission of Thailand, participated in a French-American Foundation arts administrators exchange program in France, and he recently received a Fulbright grant at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where he assisted on the re-development of the Museum of Anthropology. He is a co-curator for a new collaborative exhibition on living Native [End Page 360] Hawaiian lauhala hat traditions with the Bishop Museum and MSU Museum, and was the co-curator of the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Program, Campus and Community: Public Universities and the USDA at 150. He is also leading a US-China Folklore and ICH Program that involves US and Chinese ethnographic/folk museums. He was honored with the 2004 Américo Paredes prize by the American Folklore Society for excellence in integrating scholarship with engagement with communities.
Kang Baocheng is Director of the Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the editor-in-chief of Cultural Heritage. His research interests include classic literature of China, opera/drama history of China, the evolution of Chinese classic opera/drama forms and its relationship to folklore and folk belief. He has published five monographs and more than one hundred papers, forty of them in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Literary Review, Literary Heritage, and Social Sciences in China. He has taught at Sun Yat-sen University for about 30 years, since 1984 when he received a Doctoral Degree of Literature. He also taught at Kyushu University from 1994–1997, and then was a visiting fellow and professor successively at Nagoya University, National Museum of Japanese History in Japan, and National Central University in Taiwan. He is Vice-Director at the Chinese Nuo Xi Research Institute, Vice Director of the Association of Classic Opera/Drama of China...
