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Michael Owen Jones has published on folk art and aesthetics, foodways, folk and alternative medicine, organizational folklore, and methods in fieldwork and folklore studies. Among his books are People Studying People (1980; with Robert A. Georges), Craftsman of the Cumberlands (1989), Studying Organizational Symbolism (1996), and Folkloristics: An Introduction (1995; with Robert A. Georges). His articles published in Journal of American Folklore concern food choice (2007) and dining on death row (2014). He has recently authored an article on Percy Shelley (the “first celebrity vegan”) in Journal of Folklore Research, and he is co-editing a book with Lucy M. Long titled Comfort Food Meanings and Memories. He is also completing a book concerning the history of corn (maize).
Mary Magoulick (PhD Folklore, Indiana University, 2000) is Professor of English, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. She writes and teaches primarily on Native American narratives and literature, women’s studies, mythology, and popular culture. She has traveled extensively, including on a number of study abroad programs, and has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and a Fulbrighter in Croatia.
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt studied under Alan Dundes at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her MA in Folklore (1978) and PhD in Anthropology (1982). She is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1996–1997), a Mellon Resident Research Fellow (1996), and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society (1996 to present). She has published American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent (1988) and, with co-author Isaac Jack Lévy, Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick (2002). [End Page 125]
