Achievements 2012-2013
Welcome to the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Achievements page. This page celebrates the recent achievements (jobs, awards, publications, etc.) of our students, alumni, faculty and staff.
Student Achievements
Jobs
- Ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Anthony Guest-Scott accepted a full-time position as Academic Coordinator for the Student Academic Center on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
Publications
- Ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Langston Colin Wilkins was featured in the Houston Chronicle in an article about SLABs, the car culture that he studied in Houston for his dissertation. Read the article here.
- A number of students from the department had articles featured in the recently publish book, Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. It also includes an article from our own John McDowell. Students are Julian Antonio Carrillo, Tricia Tessa Ferdinand, Rachel Valentina Gonzalez, Eric Cesar Morales, and Juan Sebastian Rojas.
- Barber, Suzanne and Matt Hale. 2013. "Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk." In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Julue Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller, eds. Pp. 165-184. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, INC. Find it here.
Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants
- Folklore PhD Candidate Monica Foote received a 2012-13 College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award.
- Ethnomusicology PhD Candidate Hsin-Wen Hsu received a 2012-13 College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award.
- Dual Folklore and Communication & Culture PhD student Matthew Hale won the Bill Ellis Prize at the 2012 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
Awards and Distinctions
- Folklore PhD student Suzanne Barber won the 2012 Jonathan T.Y. Yeh Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore at the 2012 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.
Alumni Achievements
Jobs
- Ethnomusicology MA Anna Mulé was hired as the Director of Digital and Social Media in the Office of Communications and Marketing at Wagner College on Staten Island, NY. She also freelances through "Mulé Media" - most projects combine multimedia production, folklore, and teaching.
Publications
- Folklore MA Lesley Ham had a chapter in a newly published book, Routes & Roots: Fiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 4 ed. by Ian Russell and Chris Goertzen (Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2012) 241pp, illus., bilbiog., indexes. ISBN 0-9545682-7-3.
Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants
Awards and Distinctions
Faculty Achivements
Publications
- Michael Dylan Foster had a few recent publications:
- "Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan." Asian Ethnology 71, no. 1 (2012): 3-29. Find it here.
- “Yôkai and Yanagita Kunio Viewed from the 21st Century.” In Ronald A. Morse, ed., Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies in the 21st Century, pp. 20-35. Tokyo/San Francisco: Japanime, 2012. Find it here.
- "Photoshop Folklore and the 'Tourist Guy'" Thoughts on the Diamond Format and the Possibilities of Mixed-Media Presentations." New Directions in Folklore 10, no. 1 (2012): 85-91. Find it here.
Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants
Awards and Distinctions
- Portia Maultsby was named to the advisory board of the newly created Institute for Popular Music at the University of Rochester.
Staff Achievements
Awards and Distinctions
