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NC FOLKLORISTS DIRECTORY
Compiled by Thomas McGowan

North Carolina is graced with an excellent cohort of folklorists with varied interests and special skills. Talking with these colleagues has made gathering this listing a pleasant task. Another version of this directory will be included in the North Carolina Folklore Society's website. I hope this list will be useful to community groups looking for speakers or folklorists to work on special projects.

Items are arranged in the following order: name, title or position, address, telephone number, e-mail address and Internet homepage if available, educational background, and research interests.

FOLKLORISTS WORKING IN NORTH CAROLINA

Jean Renfro Anspaugh
Independent folklorist and writer.
3112 Northampton Drive, Greensboro, NC 27408
(336) 851-1954
email: janspaugh@triad.rr.com
http://www.fatlikeus.com
M.A., Curriculum in Folklore, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Foodlore and personal narrative.

Karen Baldwin
Director, ECU Folklore Archive, Department of English, East Carolina University; former editor, North Carolina Folklore Journal.
Department of English, 2215 Bate 2215, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252.328.6726
email: baldwink@ecu.edu
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.
Family folklore; folklife of special groups: deaf folk narrative, bikers, birders; women's cultures; folk medicine; foodways and festival; traditional poetry; situating personal identity in group-based cultural forms; folklore and education.

Brenda Gale Beasley
Acting Director, University Archives & Records, Appalachian State University; worked in the University Archives, UNC-CH, and as Archivist, Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies, Penn State Harrisburg.
146 Greenwood Lane, Boone NC, 28607
828.262.6490 or 4040 (w); fax: 828.262.6684
email: beasleybg@appstate.edu
M.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Folklore and Material Culture, Penn State Harrisburg; M.S.L.S. with concentration in Archival Management, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Folk art & material culture, roadside gargantuas and minutiae, Statue of Liberty, Westward Expansion, place names, festivals & fairs, religious iconography, foodways, religious customs, Appalachian Trail lore.

Jack Bernhardt
Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology, Elon University; traditional and country music critic, The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC.
4809 Pleasant Green Rd., Durham, NC 27705
919.382.8711
email: jack.bernhardt@elon.edu
M.A., Anthropology, Kent State University; M.Phil., Anthropology, Columbia University; graduate studies, Curriculum in Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Country and traditional music, gospel music, the South, Native American ethnology and pre-history, cultural anthropology.

Leonidas Betts
Pottery collector and scholar; retired Professor of English, N.C. State University; former editor, North Carolina Folklore Journal.
122 Wagstaff Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
919.552.4845
Ed.D., English, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Southern folk pottery. Willing to arrange loans of collection to responsible exhibitors.

David Brose
Folklorist, John C. Campbell Folk School. Former state folklorist, Colorado; former Director, Community Arts, Cultural Heritage Programs, Iowa.
JCCFC, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902
828.837.2775; 1-800.FOLKSCH; fax 828.837.8637
B.A., Folklore, Ohio State University; M.A., Ethnomusicology, Indiana University.
Fieldwork and collection of traditional instrumental music, ballad and lyric song, folk poetry, narrative, vernacular architecture, exhibits.

Robert Cantwell
Professor of American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill.
5704 Cascade Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.382.1904
email: rcantwell@mindspring.com
Ph.D., English, University of Iowa; extensive teaching and writing.
Representation of culture, postmodern culture and politics, landscape, literature and language.

Cece Conway
Associate Professor of English, Appalachian State University.
Department of English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608
828.262.2350
Ph.D., English with folklore concentration, UNC-Chapel Hill, extensive work with media.
Southern musical exchange and roots, contemporary Appalachian authors.

Sally Council
Independent folklorist.
1804 Billabong Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.942.3549
email: sallyco@mindspring.com
Graduate work, Curriculum in Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Oral narrative, North and South Carolina traditional music and dance, Vietnam veterans' folklore.

Philip E. "Ted" Coyle
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Western Carolina University.
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723
828.227.3900
email: pcoyle@wcu.edu
http://wcuvax1.wcu.edu/~pcoyle/WWW/index.html
Ph.D. Anthropology, U of Arizona; post-doctoral work at Smithsonian Institution.
Theory (particularly semiotics), regional studies (Appalachia, Mesoamerica, Greater Southwest), teaching.

Jan Davidson
Director, John C. Campbell Folk School.
JCCFS, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 28902
828.837.2775; 1.800.FOLKSCH; fax 828.837.8637
Ph.D., Folklore and History, Boston University.
Crafts Revival, banjo, fiddle, storytelling, trout fishing, photography, humor, Appalachian region.

Amy Davis
Folklife Assistant, Southern Folklore Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill.
109 E. Hammond St., Durham, NC 27704
919.962.1345 (w); 919.220.3304 (h).
email: amy_d@mindspring.com
M.A., Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Folklife and education, traditional dance musics, local country-music oprys, festival and recording production, folklife archives.

Donald E. Dossey
Lecturer; vice-president Outcomes Unlimited Press, Asheville.
75 Cambridge Road, Asheville, NC 28804
828.258.1001
email: drdossey@drdossey.com
http://www.drdossey.com
Ph.D., Psychology (group processes), Heed University; M.A., psychology (superstitions), Pepperdine University.
Western N.C. beliefs and holiday customs, oral narrative, storytelling of N.C. mountains and trails.

Barbara Duncan
Education Director, Museum of the Cherokee Indian.
1024 Lakeside Drive, Franklin, NC 28734
828.369.7439
email: bduncan@cherokeemuseum.org
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.
Cherokee and Appalachian culture; narrative, belief, music; folklore in education.

Wayne Erbsen
President, Native Ground Music.
109 Bell Road, Asheville, NC 28805
828.299.7031
email: banjo@nativeground.com
http://www.nativeground.com
Folklore and music of Appalachia, Civil War, railroads, cowboys.

Fred J. Hay
Professor of Appalachian Studies and Library; Librarian, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University.
Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608
828.262.2887
email: hayfj@appstate.edu
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida; M.L.S., Florida State University.
Appalachian Studies documentation and bibliography; African-American, Caribbean, and Southern folk cultures.

Glenn Hinson
Chair, Curriculum in Folklore, University of North Carolina.
CB #3520, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
919.962.4065; fax 919.962.3520
email: ghinson@unc.edu
Ph.D. Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.
African-American expressive culture, folklife and education, public folklore, ethnography, belief studies, Southern material culture.

Ann Kaplan
Director, Orange County Arts Commission.
110 East King Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278
919.245.2335; fax 919.244.3008
email: akaplan@co.orange.nc.us
M.A., Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill; B.A., Anthropology, Mary Washington College. Public work in community arts organizing, resource and skills development for artists and non-profit organizations, arts in education.
Consumption of culture through sale and collection of traditional arts, cultural and heritage tourism, exhibits and festivals.

James W. Kirkland
Professor of English, East Carolina University.
English Department, ECU, Greenville, NC 27858
252.328.6730
email: kirklandj@ecu.edu
Ph.D., English, University of Tennessee.
Folk medical belief systems, folklore and literature.

Elon Kulii
Professor of English, North Carolina A&T University.
Department of English, NC A&T University, Greensboro, NC 27411
910.334.7754
Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University.
African-American belief systems, foodways, and narrative.

Barbara Lau
Director of Community Documentary Programs, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705
919.660.3676; fax 919.681.7600
email: balau@duke.edu
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
M.A. Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill. Work with Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Wisconsin, Arts Board, Southern Arts Federation, and National Museum of the American Indian.
Music, dance, Southeast Asian communities and traditions and material culture.

William Lewis
111 Walden Drive, Carrboro NC 27510
919.960.4008
email: william_d_lewis@hotmail.com
Pursuing an M.A. in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
African American performance traditions (e.g., music and dance traditions of historically black college and university marching bands); folk architecture of the American South; family folklore and folklife.

William Lightfoot
Independent folklorist.
1786 U.S. Hwy. 421 North, Boone, NC 28607
828.262.1050
Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University.
Folk beliefs, folk music, Appalachian folk culture.

Emily Lower
Folklife Specialist, Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts and Educational Center, Inc.
121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville, NC 28771
828.479.4384 or 828.479.3364
loweremily@hotmail.com
M.A., American Studies/Folklore, Utah State University.
Hispanic folklife, mountain music, natural history, children's folklore.

Mary Anne McDonald
Ethnographer, Department of Occupational Medicine, Duke University.
215 Monmouth Ave., Durham, NC 27701
919/683-3113
email: MaryAnne.McDonald@mindspring.com
Dr.P.H., Public Health, and M.A., Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Occupational traditions, material culture, narrative, women's folklore, immigrant communities, documentary photography.

Thomas McGowan
Professor of English; Speaker, Humanities Forum, N.C. Humanities Council.
Department of English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608
828.262.2323
email: mcgowanta@appstate.edu
http://www1.appstate.edu/~mcgowant/
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia.
Oral narrative, North Carolina namelore, Watauga County folk arts.

Roger Manley
Exhibit curator and writer.
c/o ADR Productions, Escalier Avril; 2, rue de la Roquette; F-75011 Paris FRANCE
011-33-1-4314-3434
email: rmanley@aol.com, Adr.Productions@wanadoo.fr
M.A., Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Outsider art, folk art, gardens, photography, vernacular architecture, contemporary art.

Wayne Martin
Director, Folklife Program, N.C. Arts Council.
NCAC, Mail Service Center 4632, Raleigh, NC 27699-4632
919.733.7877
email: wayne.martin@ncmail.net
Southern traditional fiddle music and recording production.

Connie Mason
Collections Manager & Historian, N.C. Maritime Museum.
North Carolina Maritime Museum, 315 Front St., Beaufort, NC 28516
252.728.7317
email: connie.mason@ncmail.net
B.S. Education, East Carolina University with training in oral history, collecting, and archival processes, National Park Service.
Coastal folklife, regional music traditions, exhibits.

Joyce Joines Newman
Instructional Consultant, Center for Faculty Development, East Carolina University
P.O. Box 726, Fountain, NC 27829
252.328.5429 (w)
email: newmanj@ecu.edu
http://core.ecu.edu/hist/cecelskid/
M.F.A., East Carolina University; M.A. Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill. Curator, North Carolina Country Quilts: Regional Variations; co-author, North Carolina Quilts and Being A Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains--Background, Transcription, and Commentary.
Narratives, quiltmaking, folk art, construction of cultural and aesthetic images.

Cheryl Oxford
Coordinator of Performing Arts, Western Piedmont Community College.
1001 Burkemont Ave., Morganton, NC 28655
828.438.6093; fax 828.438.6015
email: coxford@wp.cc.nc.us
Ph.D., Performance Studies, Northwestern University.
Jack Tales.

Bett Padgett
Adjunct faculty and Guitar Instructor at NC State University; private instructor of guitar, mandolin, keyboard; board member of the Triangle Folk Music Society, the North Carolina Songwriters' Co-op, the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society.
P.O. Box 12972, Raleigh, NC 27605
252.328.2297 (w)
email: bett_padgett@mindspring.com
http://www.bettpadgett.com
Singer/songwriter/folk musician. Hatteras Lighthouse history, stories and debate in folksongs (on compact disc). Other areas of North Carolina's history in music.

Beverly Patterson
Folklife Specialist, North Carolina Arts Council.
NCAC, Mail Service Center #4632, Raleigh, NC 27699-4632
919.733.7878; fax 919.715.5406
email: beverly.patterson@ncmail.net
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology (minor in Folklore), UNC-Chapel Hill; and M. A., Ethnomusicology, SUNY-Binghampton. Grants administration, writing, and consulting on a wide range of folklore-related projects including cultural tourism, films, exhibits, field research, and publications.
Southern folklore and folksong, Shaker culture, N.C. traditional grave markers, folklife films.

Daniel W. Patterson
Kenan Professor Emeritus, UNC-Chapel Hill.
1828 Rolling Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.929.5180
email: daniel_patterson@mindspring.com
Ph.D., English, UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of The Shaker Spiritual, A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver, and other works.
North Carolina folk and traditional culture, religious folksong, cultural and heritage tourism.

Sally Peterson
Curator of Folklife, North Carolina Museum of History.
N.C. Museum of History, Mail Service Center #4650, Raleigh, NC 27699-4650
919.715.0200
email: speterson@moh.dcr.state.nc.us
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.
Regional ethnic folklife in North Carolina, Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants, folk and popular medicine, belief studies, occupational folklife, material culture.

Carmine Prioli
Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of English, N.C. State University.
English Department, Box 8105, N.C. State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
919.515.4112 or 919.515.1836
email: prioli@social.chass.ncsu.edu
Ph.D., American literature, SUNY-Stony Brook.
N.C. coastal folklife.

Tom Rankin
Director and Associate Professor of the Practice of Art , Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
1317 West Pettigrew, Durham NC 27705
919.660.3613; fax 919.681.7600
email: tsr2@duke.edu
http://cds.aas.duke.edu
MFA, Photography, Georgia State University; MA, Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Photography, documentary fieldwork.

Kara Rogers
Adjunct Instructor in the Humanities, University of North Carolina-Asheville.
39 Robindale Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
828.253.1340
email: cyclefolk@aol.com
Ph.D. candidate, Folklore and American Studies, and M.A., Folklore, Indiana University; B.A., Religious Studies and Anthropology, University of Missouri.
Folklorist work in traditional music venue, newspaper writing, and historical association.
Southern Appalachia, mountain music, stories of Great Smoky Mountain National Park removals, folklore in humanities curriculum.

Lynn Moss Sanders
Associate Professor of English, Appalachian State University.
Dept. of English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608
828.262.2336
email: sanderslm@appstate.edu
Ph.D., English with folklore minor, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Southern folklore, Scottish folklore, folklore and literature.

Patricia Sawin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill.
CB#3115, Dept. of Anthropology, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
919.962.1572
email: sawin@unc.edu
Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University.
Narrative, women's folklore, feminist theory.

C.W. "Chip" Sullivan III
Professor of English, East Carolina University; member, Welsh Academy; Editor, Children's Folklore Review.
English Department, ECU, Greenville, NC 27858
252.328.6672
email: sullivanc@ecu.edu
Ph.D., English, University of Oregon.
Welsh Celtic myth and legend, children's folklore, fantasy literature.

David E. Whisnant
Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (retired).
9115 Laurel Springs Drive, Chapel Hill NC 27516
919.968.2459
email: whisnant@email.unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/~whisnant/ Ph.D., English, Duke University; M.S.W., UNC-Chapel Hill.
Cultural history, politics of culture, cultural policy, documentary film, traditional music.

Jim White
Owner, Folk Media Online.
P.O. Box 1207, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1207
919.933.6545; fax 919.933.6545
email: jimwhite@folkmediaonline.com
http://www.folkmediaonline.com
Contextual documentation of state folklife; folk art/artists, folk belief systems and traditional music/musicians.

Lisa Yarger
Independent Folklorist/Writer.
1025 Alabama Avenue, Durham, NC 27705
919.286.7534
email: lisa@stormingheaven.com
MA, Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill. Exhibit research and curation; oral history and life review. interview projects; grantwriting; audio and video productions; consulting; editing.
Writing, oral history, life review.

Charles "Terry" Zug III
Professor of English and Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Curriculum in Folklore, 228 Greenlaw, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
919.843.8153
email: czug@email.unc.edu
Ph.D., Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania; author of Turners and Burners
Southern material culture, folk pottery, folklore and literature.

Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Paul B. Freeland Professor of Anthropology, Davidson College.
Box 1619, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036
704.894.2035; fax 704.894.2842
email: rozumwalt@davidson.edu
M.A., Folklore, and Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley.
History of anthropology and folklore; Sephardic folklore.