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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhen the volume's intended readers pick it up, they will be certain to turn first to the program where they studied and which shaped them (which this reviewer confesses she did), but they should come away from the volume with a much better sense of their own academic legacy and of the astonishing variety of academic folklore (heritage, popular culture, etc.) programs that exist in North America today. Each has its own emphasis, theoretical profile, ethos, and mission, but together they have the power to be greater thanthe sum of their parts. The volume also reminds readers that, while folkloristics may no longer be an "emerging" discipline, the future health of the field will need constant and careful curation.
-- Maria Carlson * Folklorica *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Part I: Early Programs
1. The Quintessence of the Humanities: Folklore and Mythology at Harvard / Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli
2. Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: Folklore at the University of North Carolina / Patricia Sawin
3. Teaching and Research at Laval University (Québec, Canada): From Folklore to Ethnology / Laurier Turgeon
4. The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg / Simon J. Bronner
Part II : 1960s-70s Efflorescence
5. "The Great Team" of American Folklorists: Characters Large in Life and Grand in Plans / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
6. The Jewel in the Crown: Hallmarks of Success in Indiana University's Folklore Program / Jeanne Harrah-Johnson
7. Folklore and Mythology Studies at UCLA / Michael Owen Jones
8. Of Politics, Disciplines, and Scholars: MacEdward Leach and the Founding of the Folklore Program at the University of Pennsylvania / Rosina S. Miller
9. Groundtruthing the Humanities: Penn Folklore and Folklife, 1973-2013 / Mary Hufford
10. Toward a Multi-Genealogical Folkloristics: The Berkeley Experiment / Charles L. Briggs
11. The Texas School / Richard Bauman
12. Memorial University's Folklore Program: Outsiders and Insiders / Lynne S. McNeill
13. A Century of Folklore Research and Teaching at Western Kentucky / Michael Ann Williams
14. Folklore at the University of Oregon: A History of Tradition, Innovation, and Pushing the Rock Up the Hill / Sharon R. Sherman
15. From Ukrainian Studies to the Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta / Natalie Kononenko
16. Engagement with Community in Distinctive Folklore Concentrations: University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Marcia Gaudet and Barry Jean Ancelet
17. The Fife Legacy: Fifty Years of Folklore at Utah State University / Randy Williams
Part III: Newer Programs and Innovations
18. Folklore in the Nation's Capital: The George Washington University Experience / James I. Deutsch
19. The University of Wisconsin—Madison's Folklore Program and the Wisconsin Idea / Christine J. Widmayer and B. Marcus Cederström
20. Folklore @ Brigham Young's Universities: Four Generations of Inter(con)textual Studies of Region, Religion, and Beyond / Jill Terry Rudy
21. The Mason IDEA / Debra Lattanzi Shutika
22. Folklore and Interdisciplinarity at OSU / Patrick B. Mullen and Amy Shuman
23. Show Me Folklore: The Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies Program at the University of Missouri / Claire Schmidt
24. This is the Right Place for It: The Development of the Folklore Program at Cape Breton University / Jodi McDavid
25. Practical Cultural Work: The MA in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College / Amy E. Skillman and Rory Turner
26. The Future out of the Past: The View from the Conference on the Future of American Folkloristics / Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, and Meredith A. E. McGriff
Conclusion / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
