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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1975.
Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in American Studies.
Narrative; literary theory; the United States; Australia.
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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; social structure and mental health in traditional cultures; psychological approaches; Africa; the Middle East.
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PhD., Stanford University, 2003.
Assistant Professor of Folklore.
Japanese folklore, literature, and film; monster and supernatural studies; legend; folklore and popular culture; ritual and festival; tourism; Asian folklore.
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Jason Jackson
Associate Professor
508 N. Fess 301 via 206
812-856-1868
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1998.
Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Director of the Folklore Institute; Associate Professor of Folklore; affiliated faculty in Anthropology; affiliated faculty in American 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 Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Latino Studies; Director, Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Program; Editor, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Speech play and verbal art; the corrido of Greater Mexico; music, myth, and cosmology in the Andes; commemoration; folklorization; ethnopoetics; 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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Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.
Associate Professor of Folklore; Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2008-2009; adjunct faculty in 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; dress and costume; museum studies; food art and culture; India; Brazil.
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Ph.D. Indiana University, 1980.
Director of the Ethnomusicology Institute; Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore.
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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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.
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; 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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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; affiliated faculty in African Studies.
Music and religion; identity; ritual performance; popular music; Africa; African immigrants to the U.S.
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Ruth M. Stone
Professor
Vice Provost for Research
508 N. Fess 104
812-855-0398
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979.
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Folklore; Laura Boulton Professor; Vice Provost for Research; 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.
Chancellor's Professor; 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.
Kinship and social organization; ritual and belief systems; oral traditions; material culture; Plains Indians; North America.
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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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Cornelia Fales
Ashton-Weatherly 304
812-856-7282
812-856-3777
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992.
Director, Sound and Video Analysis and Instruction Lab (SAVAIL).
Music cognition; timbre perception; historical concepts of timbre; music of Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1999.
Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture; adjunct faculty in Anthropology, Folklore, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; affiliated with programs in African Studies and Cultural Studies.
Ethnography of texts; performance studies; diasporas; North Africa; France.
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Ph. D., University of Chicago, 2001.
Assistant Professor of Hungarian Studies in Department of Central Eurasian Studies; adjunct faculty in Ethnomusicology and Musicology.
Race, ethnicity, music, and identity in east-central Europe, esp. Hungary and Roma (Gypsies), from the nineteenth century to present; dance and gender; music and writings of Béla Bartók.
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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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M.S., Indiana University, 1974.
Director of the Afro-American Dance Company; Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies.
Modern dance; jazz and ethnic dance; teaching and choreography.
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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.
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Susan Seizer
Adjunct Faculty
800 E. Third
812-856-1986
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PhD, University of Chicago, 1997.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Culture; affiliated faculty with Gender Studies and India Studies.
Live performance; stand-up comedy in the U.S.; popular theater in South India; stigma theory; humor theory; queer theory; ethnographic narrative; ethnographic field methods.
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Stephen Stuempfle
Adjunct Faculty
Morrison 005
812-855-8779
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
Executive Director, Society for Ethnomusicology; adjunct professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
Caribbean music, festivity, and verbal traditions; Caribbean history; colonialism and nationalism; museums. |
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D.M.E., Indiana University, 1992.
Director, African American Arts Institute; 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
Goodbody 153
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 Emeritus 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, and Performance Studies.
Narrative, drama, religion; performance studies, semiotics; Mexico; the United States. |
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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. |
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Linda Dégh
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 Emeritus 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 Emeritus of Classical Studies; Professor Emeritus of Folklore.
Epic; classical mythology; the ancient world.
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Roger Janelli
Faculty Emeritus
janelli@indiana.edu |
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1975.
Professor Emeritus of Folklore; Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Culture; religion; political economy; anthropological approaches; Korea; East Asia. |
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John W. Johnson
Faculty Emeritus
Ashton-Weatherly 302
812-855-0387
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978.
Associate Professor Emeritus of Folklore; affiliated faculty in African Studies.
Computer assisted research; popular culture; epic and oral poetry; Somalia; Mali; Africa. |
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Lewis E. Rowell
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Ph.D., Eastman School of Music, 1955.
Professor Emeritus of the Jacobs School of Music.
Music of India; philosophy of music. |
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William Wiggins Jr.
Faculty Emeritus
Memorial East M-39
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1974.
Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies; Professor Emeritus of Folklore.
Religion; sports; Black America. |
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