Information about Contributors
- Information about Contributors
Tina Bucuvalas has served as Curator of Arts & Historical Resources/City of Tarpon Springs, State Folklorist and Director of the Florida Folklife Program/Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation, and Curator of Folklife/Historical Museum of Southern Florida. She has conducted research on public folklore as a Fulbright Scholar in Greece, and her publications include Greek Music in America (ed., 2018), Greeks in Tarpon Springs (2016), The Florida Folklife Reader (ed., 2011), Just above the Water: Florida Folk Arts (co-edited with Kristin Congdon, 2004), and South Florida Folklife (co-authored with Peggy A. Bulger and Stetson Kennedy, 1994). She holds a PhD in Folklore from Indiana University and an MA in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA.
Molly Garfinkel directs City Lore's Place Matters program, through which she works on projects related to cultural resource management, public history, museum education, exhibition curation, and traditional arts presentation. Garfinkel's research explores Western and non-Western building traditions, theories of cultural landscapes, and histories of urbanism and city planning. She holds a BA in Art History from Wesleyan University and an MA in Architectural History from the University of Virginia.
Kingston Wm. Heath is Professor and Director Emeritus of the graduate program in Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape (2001; winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award), and Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: Cultural Process and Environmental Response (2009).
David S. Rotenstein is a public history consultant based in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he holds a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. His work includes articles on blues history and heritage tourism, industrial history, and gentrification. He is currently finishing a book on erasure and gentrification in Decatur, Georgia.
Laurie Kay Sommers has over three decades of experience in the fields of public folklore, ethnomusicology, and historic preservation. Her work involving traditions and places important to a variety of cultural communities has resulted in publications, exhibitions, documentary radio programs, websites, festivals, and K–12 education materials. Her recent work seeks to reinvigorate the role of folklorists in historic preservation practice and policy. She is currently based in Okemos, Michigan, where she has her own company, Laurie Kay Sommers Cultural Consulting, LLC. [End Page 478]
