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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Hasan El-ShamyHasan El-Shamy

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A. at Indiana University, 1964, Folklore
  • Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1967, Folklore (Interdisciplinary training in Folklore, Psychology, and Anthropology)

Research Interests

  • Psychological approaches to traditional culture
  • Religion, myth and ritual
  • Narrative folk poetry
  • Kinship and folklore;
  • Typology  and classification

Honors

  • Elected: A Fellow of the American Folklore Society (October 2006)
  • Elected “Consultant” to the Saudi Society for Folklore Studies (October 2006)
  • Senior Scholar Award: from Institute of Advanced Studies in Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. (2002)

Contact Information

elshamy@indiana.edu
506 N. Fess 101
(812) 855-4124

Fall 2009 Courses

  • Tales Women Tell in the Middle East and the Behavioral Patterns the Portray;
  • Folklore and Psychology ;
  • Comparative Approaches in Folklore

Publication Highlights

  • 2008: Religion Among the Folk in Egypt. 428 pp.  (Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger);
  • 2006: A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights.  696 pp. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006);
  • 2005: Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook, Jane Garry and Hasan El-Shamy, Eds. (M.E. Sharpe);
  • 2004: Types of the Folktale in the Arab World: A Demographically Oriented Tale-Type Index (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
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