Information about Contributors
- Information about Contributors
Robert Baron directs the Folk Arts Program at the New York State Council on the Arts and teaches in the master's program in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College. He has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Finland, the Philippines, and Slovenia, a Smithsonian Museum Practice fellow, and a non-resident fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Baron is a fellow of the American Folklore Society and received its Benjamin A. Botkin award for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore. His research interests include public folklore, cultural policy, heritage studies, creolization, and museum studies.
John Dorst is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Wyoming. Before retiring in 2016, John Dorst served for 33 years on the University of Wyoming faculty, first in the English Department and then in the American Studies Program. He continues to do occasional teaching in folklore and related areas. He also continues scholarly work on issues regarding the nature of artisanship and its relation to the representation of non-human animals.
Valentina Kuznetsova is a candidate of Philological Sciences and a researcher of Russian folklore. She has been working in the Folklore Department of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILLH KarRC RAS) since 1974. From 1989 to 2016, she worked as the chief of the Department of Ethnology and the Phonogram Archive of ILLH KarRC RAS. She is the author of numerous publications on Russian lamentations and epic songs and on intercultural communications between Baltic-Finnish peoples and Russians.
Elena Markovskaja is a candidate of Philological Sciences. She has been working in the Folklore Department of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILLH KarRC RAS) since 2001. She works on collecting, studying, and archiving folklore. She has published research on the systemizing of folklore archives, the history of science, and biographies of researchers.
Dorothy Noyes is Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies, a faculty associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and a past director of the Center for Folklore Studies, all at the Ohio State University. Her latest books are Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life (2016) and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy (co-authored with Regina F. Bendix and Kilian Bizer, 2017). A fellow of the American Folklore Society, she is serving as the Society's president in 2018 and 2019.
Elliott Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. He writes about folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. His most recent books are Joking Asides: The Teory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor (2016) and The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal (2018).
Timothy Turston is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, where he researches and teaches on traditional cultures and contemporary Tibetan experience in China. His previous research on Tibetan comedy in China has been published in Asian Ethnology, Journal of Asian Studies, and Asian Ethnicity. His current research focuses on the work of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding in Tibetan areas of China. He also co-hosts the New Books in Folklore podcast.
