To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before.Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections,Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.

Patricia Sawin is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Folklore Program in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author ofListening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories. Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt is Vice President Emerita and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Agnes Scott College. She is author ofAmerican Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent and (with Isaac Jack Lévy)Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits and Healing the Sick.

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Part I: Early Programs1. The Quintessence of the Humanities: Folklore and Mythology at Harvard / Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli2. Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: Folklore at the University of North Carolina / Patricia Sawin3. Teaching and Research at Laval University (Québec, Canada): From Folklore to Ethnology / Laurier Turgeon4. The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg / Simon J. Bronner

Part II : 1960s-70s Efflorescence5. "The Great Team" of American Folklorists: Characters Large in Life and Grand in Plans / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt6. The Jewel in the Crown: Hallmarks of Success in Indiana University's Folklore Program / Jeanne Harrah-Johnson7. Folklore and Mythology Studies at UCLA / Michael Owen Jones8. Of Politics, Disciplines, and Scholars: MacEdward Leach and the Founding of the Folklore Program at the University of Pennsylvania / Rosina S. Miller9. Groundtruthing the Humanities: Penn Folklore and Folklife, 1973-2013 / Mary Hufford10. Toward a Multi-Genealogical Folkloristics: The Berkeley Experiment / Charles L. Briggs11. The Texas School / Richard Bauman12. Memorial University's Folklore Program: Outsiders and Insiders / Lynne S. McNeill13. A Century of Folklore Research and Teaching at Western Kentucky / Michael Ann Williams14. Folklore at the University of Oregon: A History of Tradition, Innovation, and Pushing the Rock Up the Hill / Sharon R. Sherman15. From Ukrainian Studies to the Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta / Natalie Kononenko16. Engagement with Community in Distinctive Folklore Concentrations: University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Marcia Gaudet and Barry Jean Ancelet17. The Fife Legacy: Fifty Years of Folklore at Utah State University / Randy Williams

Part III: Newer Programs and Innovations18. Folklore in the Nation's Capital: The George Washington University Experience / James I. Deutsch19. The University of WisconsinMadison's Folklore Program and the Wisconsin Idea / Christine J. Widmayer and B. Marcus Cederström20. Folklore @ Brigham Young's Universities: Four Generations of Inter(con)textual Studies of Region, Religion, and Beyond / Jill Terry Rudy21. The Mason IDEA / Debra Lattanzi Shutika22. Folklore and Interdisciplinarity at OSU / Patrick B. Mullen and Amy Shuman23. Show Me Folklore: The Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies Program at the University of Missouri / Claire Schmidt24. This is the Right Place for It: The Development of the Folklore Program at Cape Breton University / Jodi McDavid25. Practical Cultural Work: The MA in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College / Amy E. Skillman and Rory Turner26. 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