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Katherine Borland is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. Her current research focuses on storytelling events, narratives of place and environment, grassroots activism in Ohio, and the aesthetics of solidarity. In addition to scholarly research, she is interested in public humanities research and performance that engages collaboratively with non-university partners. She has published two books: Creating Community: Hispanic Migration to Rural Delaware (2002) and Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival (2006). Most recently, she co-edited, with Abigail E. Adams, a volume of reflective essays entitled International Volunteer Tourism: Critical Reflections on Good Works in Central America (2013).
Simon Lichman, born in London, has lived in Jerusalem since 1971. He has a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Founding Director of the Centre for Creativity in Education and Cultural Heritage (Jerusalem) and a university lecturer currently teaching multiculural education at Kaye Academic College (Beersheva). He is a published poet.
Patricia Sawin holds an MA in Anthropology with a concentration in Folklore (University of Texas at Austin) and a PhD in Folklore (Indiana University). She has published on personal narrative, festival, gender, adoption, and fairy tales. She is the author of Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories (2004). In the Journal of American Folklore, she has published articles on Cajun Mardi Gras (2001) and a gender-based critique of performance theory (2002). From 2008–2017, she served as Director of Graduate Studies and Coordinator of the Folklore MA Program in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Diane Tye is Professor in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University, where she teaches courses in areas including personal narrative, research methods, and material culture. She is the author of Baking as Biography (2010), which examines her mother's recipes as autobiography. With Pauline Greenhill, she is co-editor of Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag (2014) and Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada (1997). [End Page 500]
