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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975.
Director of the Folklore Institute; Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in American Studies.
Narrative; literary theory; the United States, Australia.
Web Site: www.indiana.edu/~firstx
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1967.
Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in African Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Folktale, ballad; psychological approaches; Africa, the Middle East.
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Michael Foster
Assistant Professor
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PhD., Stanford University, 2003.
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
Japanese literature and cultural studies; folklore and popular culture. |
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Jason Jackson
Associate Professor
506 N. Fess 205
812-856-1868
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998.
Associate Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in Anthropology; affiliated faculty inAmerican Studies; affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies. Cultural Endangerment and Revitalization, Material Culture, Belief and Ritual, Cultural History, Verbal Art, Museum Work, American and Native American Studies (Eastern North America)
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Ph.D., University of Texas, 1975.
Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in Chicano-Rique ñ o Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Semiotic Studies. Verbal art, semiotics, narrative song, and speech play; Latin America, the United States.
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987.
Associate Professor of Folklore. Co-director of the graduate program in Mythology Studies. Myth, cosmology and worldview; comparative mythology, history of ideas; Oceania, North America.
Recommended Links: Mythology Studies
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David Delgado Shorter
Assistant Professor
501 N. Park 105
504 N. Fess (Mailing)
812-856-1863
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Ph.D., UCSC-History of Consciousness, 2002.
Assistant Professor of Folklore, affiliated faculty in Anthropology and American Studies. Indigenous religious performance as non-literate inscription, particularly within historiographic and ethnographic contexts. Field research in Potam Pueblo, Sonora (MX). Teaching areas include indigenous religions, religion and colonialism, Indigenous film/video, and critical ethnography.
Research: http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/yoeme/content.html
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Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.
Associate Professor of Folklore; Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2008-2009. Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology, India Studies Program and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Associate Curator, Mathers Museum of World Cultures.
Folk art and material culture; body art; museum studies; India, Brazil.
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Ph.D. Indiana University, 1980.
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Black religious music and aesthetics, music in the African Diaspora. |
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Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002.
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology/Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture.
Music in Jewish life; American music; Musical theater; Popular culture; Caribbean Jewish history; Diaspora; Medical Ethnomusicology. |
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Javier F. Léon
Assistant Professor
jfleon@indiana.edu
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PhD., University of Texas-Austin, 2003.
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
Music of Latin America and Caribbean; Identity; Transnationalism; Music and Nationalism; Performance. |
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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1974.
Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; Director of the Ethnomusicology Institute; Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture; adjunct faculty in the School of Music; affiliated faculty in African Studies, and American Studies.
Popular music, the music industry, African American music.
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David McDonald
Assistant Professor
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PhD., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
Israel/Palestine; performance ethnography; social theory; ethnomusicological study of voilence and socio-cultural trauma. |
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 2005.
Lecturer of Folklore and Ethnomusicology;
Hip hop music and culture; body art; children's folklore; popular culture; pedagogy; United States. |
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999.
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; Director, Archives of Traditional Music; affiliated faculty in African Studies. Music and religion; identity; performance; music and culture in West Africa.
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979.
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; Laura Boulton Professor; affiliated faculty in African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Performance Studies, and the School of Music. Music as culture and performance; theory of ethnomusicology; Africa, the Middle East.
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1988.
Senior Lecturer of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; affiliated faculty in East Asian Languages and Cultures, the East Asian Studies Center, and International Studies.
Ethnomusicology; Film and music; Intellectual history; Music and socio-political transformation; Music and culture in contemporary China; East Asia. |
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Ph.D., University of Texas, 1979 . Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in African Studies, American Studies, Semiotic Studies, and Women's Studies . Ritual and festival; feminist theory; the American West, Ghana, West Africa. |
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Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1975 . Director, Oral History Research Center; Professor of History; affiliated faculty in Folklore and American Studies . Oral and public history; modern United States. |
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997. Adjunct professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Director of the Archives of Traditional Music; Executive Investigator, the EVIA Digital Archive Project.
American vernacular music and dance, performance studies, German American singing societies, media and technology. |
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971 . Director, American Indian Studies Research Institute; Professor of Anthropology; Curator of North American Ethnology, William Hammond Mathers Museum; affiliated faculty in Folklore . |
Michael Robert Evans
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999. Assistant Professor of Journalism; affiliated faculty in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Ethnography , material culture, communications . |
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Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1999 . Assistant professor of Communication and Culture; adjunct faculty in Anthropology; Folklore; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; affiliated with programs in African Studies and Cultural Studies . Ethnography of texts; performance studies; diasporas; North Africa and France. |
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Ph. D., University of Chicago, 2001 . Assistant Professor of Hungarian Studies in Department of Central Eurasian Studies; affiliated faculty in Ethnomusicology and Music. Race, ethnicity, music, and identity in east-central Europe, esp. Hungary, from the nineteenth century to present; music and writings of Béla Bartók. |
Stephanie Kane
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Ph.D., University of Texas, 1986 . Associate Professor of Criminal Justice; adjunct faculty in Anthropology; affiliated faculty in Folklore; affiliated with Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies . Popular culture, narrative, feminist theory, shamanic discourse; United States, Central America, Caribbean. |
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Nicole Kousaleos
Adjunct Faculty
501 North Park
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PhD, Indiana University, 2000. Personal narrative and transformation; Violence against women and children; Feminist theory and ethnography; Media and body image; Medical anthropology; Contemporary Amercan "alternative" identities; Applied ethnography and community action.
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Anya Peterson-Royce
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Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1974. Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Music; Professor, affiliated with Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Performance Studies, Women's Studies, and Folklore. Anthropology of dance and performing arts, cultural and ethnic identity, ethnography of Mexico, Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitan; American southwest, Mexico. |
Iris Rosa
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M.S., Indiana University, 1974 . Director of the Afro-American Dance Company; Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies . Dance. |
Susan Seizer
Adjunct Faculty |
812-856-1986
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PhD, University of Chicago. Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Culture. |
Charles Sykes
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B.S. (music education), Florida A&M University; M.M.E. (music education), Indiana University; D.M.E. (music education/ethnomusicology), Indiana University). Director, African American Arts Institute, and adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and Afro-American Studies . African-American popular music, arranging, performance and analysis. |
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Ilhan Basgoz
Faculty Emeritus |
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812-855-2586 turkish@indiana.edu |
Ph.D., University of Ankara, Turkey, 1949 . Professor Emeritus of Central Eurasian Studies; Professor Emeritus of Folklore . Oral literature, epics, romances; Asia, Near East, Turkey. |
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Distinguished Professor of Folklore; Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Communication and Culture; affiliated faculty in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, American Studies, Chicano-Riqueño Studies, Cultural Studies, Performance Studies.
Narrative, drama, religion; performance studies, semiotics; Mexico, the United States. |
Mary Ellen Brown
Faculty Emerita |
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Professor Emerita of Folklore; Professor Emerita of Women's Studies; affiliated faculty in English. Ballad, folksong; historical ethnology and cultural criticism; Scotland, Britain, Europe, the United States. More |
Linda Degh
Faculty Emerita |
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Ph.D., University of Budapest, Hungary, 1943. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Folklore; affiliated faculty in the Russian and East European Institute and in West European Studies . Narrative, mass media, ethnicity; Indiana, the United States, Canada, Hungary, Europe. |
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969.
College Professor of Folklore; Co-Director of Turkish Studies; affiliated faculty in American Studies, Central Eurasian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, India Studies, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Folk art and material culture; historical approaches; the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh.
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William Hansen
Faculty Emeritus |
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Professor of Classical Studies; Professor of Folklore; Chair, Classical Studies . Epic, classical mythology; the ancient world.
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Roger Janelli
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Professor of Folklore; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Culture, religion, political economy; anthropological approaches; Korea, East Asia. |
John Johnson
Faculty Emeritus |
johnsonj@indiana.edu |
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978. Associate Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in African Studies. Computer assisted research; popular culture; epic and oral poetry; Somalia, Mali, Africa. |
George List
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1954 . Professor Emeritus of Folklore . Song, speech and melody; transcription; Hopi Indians; Colombia, Indiana. |
Lewis E. Rowell
Faculty Emeritus |
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Ph.D., Eastman School of Music, 1955, Professor Emeritus at the School of Music. Music of India, philosophy of music. |
William Wiggins Jr.
Faculty Emeritus |
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812-855-2537
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1974. Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Folklore . Religion, sports; Black America. |
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