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Information about Contributors
- Information about Contributors
Alexandra Arkhipova is a specialist in folklore studies and social anthropology. She is author of four books about Soviet and post-Soviet folklore and more than 120 academic papers. Her current position is senior research fellow and head of the “contemporary folklore monitoring” research group at the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow, Russia. She is also Associate Professor at the Center for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications and the director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is the author of City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston (2016), editor of Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture: Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World (2017), and author of numerous scholarly articles and essays. His research centers on vernacular culture and communication in connection with digital technology, memory, narrative, space and place, and race and ethnicity.
Rachel González-Martin is a folklorist and Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas. She researches race, cultural practice, and the performance of Latinx culture citizenship(s) in the United States. She is the author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities (2019), winner of the 2020 Emily Toth Award for best book in women’s studies from the Popular Culture/American Culture Association.
Anna Kirzyuk is a specialist in folklore studies and social anthropology. She is the author of works on Soviet and post-Soviet rumors, urban legends, and conspiracy theories. Her current position is research fellow at the Laboratory of Theoretical Folkloristics at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow.
James P. Leary is Emeritus Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he directed the Folklore Program from 1999–2010. His fieldwork since the 1970s with diverse peoples in America’s Upper Midwest has resulted in numerous museum exhibits, media productions, and publications.
David A. McDonald is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. A recipient of both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Jaap Kunst Prize, he is author of My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance (2013) and co-editor of Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900 (2013).
Margaret A. Mills is Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. Her dissertation (Harvard, 1978) concerns the tale repertoire, story learning, and invention of an Afghan woman master storyteller. Her 1991 book Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling explores implicit political and moral messages in a night of men’s storytelling in Afghanistan in 1975 that foreshadowed the troubled times to come. She taught general folkloristics at the University of Pennsylvania (1983–1998) and general folkloristics and Persian language and culture at The Ohio State University (1998–2012). She continues to write on narrative subjects for a variety of audiences.
Daria Radchenko is senior research fellow at the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow, Russia and director of the Centre for Urban Folklore and Anthropology Research at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. She is also vice editor-in-chief of the academic journal Urban Folklore and Anthropology. She has a particular interest in digital anthropology and internet folklore studies and is the author of over 70 papers on these topics.
