The Florida Folklife Reader

Contributors

291 ‘’ ‘’ Contributors Katherine Borland is associate professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University, where she teaches folklore, international studies, and general humanities classes. She has written several articles on Latin American and Latino folklore as well as two books: Creating Community: Hispanic Migration to Rural Delaware (2001) and Unmasking Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicaraguan Festival (2006). She is currently working on a critical ethnography of international volunteering. Tina Bucuvalas is curator of Arts and Historical Resources for the City of Tarpon Springs and president of the Florida Folklore Society. She worked for the Florida Folklife Program from 1996 to 2009, serving as director and state folklorist (2000–2009). Previously she coordinated the Folklife Program (1986–1990) and was curator of the Object Collection (1990–1991) at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (HMSF). She served as exhibition review editor for Journal of American Folklore (2006–2010) and on the Florida Folklife Council. In 2006–2007, she researched public folklife programs in Greece as a Fulbright Scholar. She coauthored Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Arts (2006) with Kristin Congdon, South Florida Folklife (1994) with Peggy Bulger and Stetson Kennedy, and published numerous articles on Florida folklife. Among the exhibits she curated are The Greek Community of Tarpon Springs (Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, 2010–present), Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition (co-curator, 2008–2011), and Tropical Traditions: Folklife in Southeast Florida (HMSF, 1991). She has a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University and M.A. in folklore and mythology from UCLA. 292 Contributors Brent Cantrell is the executive director of Jubilee Community Arts in Knoxville , Tennessee. Native to rural Warren County on Tennessee’s Highland Rim, Cantrell worked in the Peace Corps in Togo before earning a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University. He has done folklore fieldwork in Togo; in Haitian, African, and other ethnic communities in Miami while working for the Historical Museum of Southern Florida; and in Tennessee. His unusual perspective on culture reflects both academic training and intense social experiences near and far from home. Martha Ellen Davis, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist (Ph.D., University of Illinois), has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Spain (Madrid, León, and la Gomera/Canary Islands), Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Trinidad, New York City, Miami, and north Florida. Her many publications and audiovisual productions include La otra ciencia: el vodú dominicano como religión y medicina populares (The other science: Dominican vodú as folk religion and medicine), 1987, which received the National Nonfiction Award of the Dominican Republic. She currently serves as advisor and researcher in oral history for the National Archive of the Dominican Republic and is affiliate faculty in anthropology and music at the University of Florida. The article in this volume was generated by a Historical Museum of Southern Florida project that documented the Peruvian, Colombian, and Venezuelan communities in Miami-Dade County. Anthropologist Stavros K. Frangos is an independent scholar who has worked on museum exhibitions, archival collections and oral history projects over the last thirty years. Frangos’s writings include The Greeks in Michigan (2004); “The Greek Slave” in Founded on Freedom and Virtue (2002); Stavros Frangos and Alexandros K. Kyrou, “Diaspora Studies: Hellenic Diaspora” in Greece in Modern Times (2000); articles in the Journal of Modern Hellenism, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, and others; and over 500 newspaper and magazine articles on the Greek experience in North America. In 2010, Frangos received the American Hellenic and Progressive Association’s Academic Achievement Award. Joyce M. Jackson is director of the African and African American Studies Program and associate professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Both a folklorist and ethnomusicologist, she does performance-centered research on rituals in Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently completing a book on the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians and she is the author of Life in the Village : A Cultural Memory of the Fazendeville Community. 293 Contributors Gregory Hansen is an associate professor of folklore and English at Arkansas State University, where he also teaches in the Heritage Studies doctoral program. Hansen specializes in the folklife of America’s southern states and teaches courses on folklore and public heritage programming. He is the author of A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman and various scholarly articles, instructional resources, and program guides. Hansen has completed public folklore projects for a...