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CURRENT & RECENT STUDENTS Sarah Abrahams sabraham[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA in English, BA in Multidisciplinary Studies (Feminist Theory) Research Interests: foodways (community cookbooks), matetrial culture, women's domestic culture, museum work and exhibition theory Sarah is Director of Membership and Visitor Resources at UNC's Ackland Art Museum. Jocelyn Rose Arem jarem[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA Ethnomusicology (Self-Determined Major):Skidmore College Website: www.jocelynarem.com (musician/cultural historian website) and, www.caffelenahistory.org (Caffe Lena History Project website) Research Interests: Music and Social Movements, the 1960s American Folk Music Revival, the American coffeehouse/folk venue, Performance Studies, Women's Studies, Oral History/Memory Studies, Biography, Foodways. Other Interests: Hip Hop, Beatboxing, Breakdance, Slam poetry, Quakerism, Jewish Studies, Contact Improv, Cultural Geography Accomplishments: My research at UNC focuses on the social and political impact of the folk revival movement of 1960s America, the interaction of space, artistic performance and political activism, and the interaction between cultural heritage and the contemporary music scene, with a concentration on the country's oldest continually operating coffeehouse, Caffé Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY. Whitney Brown whitney_brown[at]unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA in American Studies, summa cum laude, University of Alabama Research Interests: Southern foodways, sustainable agriculture, slow foods movement, Southern music, coastal tourism and development Other Interests: travel, cooking, museums, photography, running, All Things South Carolina Sarah Bryan sarahbry[at]bellsouth.net Previous Degrees Awarded : MA Folklore, UNC; BA American Studies, George Washington University Research Interests: Folklife and oral history of the Carolinas. Miniature golf and early professional wrestling industries in the Carolinas. Other Interests: Oldtime music (fiddle and banjo player), Tarheel basketball. Katherine Doss kdoss[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA English Sewanee College Research Interests: New Orleans expressive culture, ethnographic methodology, cajun music, visionary art, Mardi gras Other Interests: Javanese Gamelan, photography, documentary work Brendan Greaves greaves[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: Harvard University, AB in Visual & Environmental Studies, 2000 Research Interests: "Vernacular modernism" in 20th-century American art and music Other Interests: letters, banjos, pictures Accomplishments: curation, publication, touration Susan Scott Hester sshester[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College Research Interests: NC string band music and jam sessions, NC history Other Interests: Music festivals, music journalism, radio programming, cultural heritage tourism, and cultural geography Accomplishments: Paper presentation, North Carolina Folklore Society, "Saturdays at Roy's Music: Profile of a North Carolina Jam Session." (Folklife Internship, Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council)* Janet Hoshour jhoshour[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BS in Arts Management Research Interests: Material culture Other Interests: Reading, soapmaking, herbal arts. John Hubbell jhubbell[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Journalism, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, 1996 Website: www.hubbellmania.blogspot.com Research Interests: Southern music, civil rights, narrative journalism, portrayal of American roots culture in popular media Other Interests: Travel, 20th century American literature and photography, American foodways Accomplishments: Before coming to UNC I was a staff writer and editor on the national, foreign and political desks of the San Francisco Chronicle. I was previously a national desk editor at the Associated Press headquarters in New York City. Martha King marthae[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA, Archaeology and Ancient History, Furman University MA, Folklore, UNC-CH Currently a PhD student in Anthropology at UNC-CH Website: http://www.madisoncountyproject.org/beta/ Research Interests: Intersections of expressive culture and modernity in the American South, representation in ethnographic film and photography, issues of history and memory as products of globalism in the southern atlantic states Other Interests: reclamation of vernacular architecture and traditional art forms reframed for a modern ecology, class divisions in American maternal practices, e-communities, green construction, bluegrass and old time, fiber arts Jessica Klinke sica[at]unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded : BA in American Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz Research Interests: Artist-residency programs; Arts in Education; Gestural language through dance forms; Black Mountain College; Muralist movements and Graffiti art. Other Interests: Circus arts - Trapeze, Stiltwalking, Fire Performance; Flamenco dance; Modern and Post-modern dance; Gypsy culture of the Balkan region; Jug-bands and singing old time music; Public Radio. Michael Knoll mknoll[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees: BA, Anthropology, History, African Studies minor, UW-Madison Research Interests: African folklife; the New African Diaspora; identity formation; cultural change; cultural representation; museums; festivals; Ghana and Greensboro, NC Matt Meacham meacham[at]unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: B.A. (music, minor in English), Centre College; M.A. (musicology), UNC-Chapel Hill Research Interests: Generally, culture(s) of the rural South and Midwest, both past and present, and the relationship between economic history and cultural history in those regions. More specifically, religious folklife, agricultural history, and vernacular music of the rural South and Midwest. Other Interests: Rural American social and economic issues (especially pertaining to southern Illinois, where I'm from, and southern West Virginia, where I live); culture-based economic development and issues surrounding it; a wide variety of music, ranging from the symphonies of Bruckner to bluegrass to The Who; American (especially Southern) and British literature; ethics and theology, especially of Lutheran and related traditions; walking/hiking; gardening (not now, but hopefully soon); bowling; and, of course, Monty Python. Accomplishments: Currently a music researcher with the West Virginia Humanities Council, nearing completion of a study of the musical life of southern West Virginia in preparation for development of a proposed regional music interpretive center; thesis (in progress) about High Point Apostolic Lutheran Church, the only church of its denomination in North Carolina; musicology thesis on the 1952 folk opera *Singin' Billy* and its relationship to Nashville Agrarian thought; reviews in several journals; presentations at several academic conferences; performances as a bluegrass musician; former occasional host of "Hell or High Water" on WXYC; former newspaper writer and music instructor. Allyn Meredith allynm[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: MA Folklore, UNC; BA Criminal Justice, Radford University Research Interests: Revealing a belief system about those who bring abandoned items back into the world as sanctified objects and other consequences arising from the creative reuse of trash. Stories and policy related to the repopulating and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Other Interests: Audio production and storytelling Accomplishments: Thesis title: "Resurrecting Refuse: Inspired Notions of Trash." Audio story aired on WUNC's "State of Things"-- The Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, an audio story from the Southern Folklife Collection. Go to the WUNC website; the audio piece starts at 36:00 minutes into the show: http://www.ibiblio.org/wunc_archives/sot/index.php?p=86 Ali Colleen Neff alineff[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA Grinnell College, Political Science Website: www.folkstreams.net/listenright Research Interests: Mississippi Delta expressive culture, including hip-hop; music; African American folklore; collaborative ethnography; visionary art; documentary work Other Interests: Turntablism, visionary art, Javanese gamelan, fire performance Tim Prizer Previous Degrees Awarded: B.A. Georgia Southern University '03, Anthropology Website: http://www.valdosta.edu/turpentine Research Interests: Occupational Culture, Workers' and communities' responses to industrial decline, labor, laborlore, the ethnographic process Accomplishments: Archie Green Student Travel Award recipient; Archie Green Occupational Folklife Fellowship recipient; coordinator of Laborlore Conversations III, an academic conference held in Chapel Hill in fall 2005. He studied Cultural Anthropology and American Studies as an undergraduate at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro before coming to Chapel Hill in 2004. While in Statesboro, he worked for three years for the South Georgia Folklife Project (based at Valdosta State University), conducting fieldwork with former turpentine woodsmen throughout South Georgia. He now lives in Atlanta, where he is completing his thesis on race, nostalgia, and memory in the now-defunct turpentine industry. His academic interests include occupational culture, labor, and laborlore. Prizer has worked for the Georgia Council for the Arts and is currently working for the Southern Arts Federation in Atlanta Rachel Richardson rbjrichardson[at]gmail.com Previous Degrees Awarded: BA, Dartmouth College, English and Creative Writing MFA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Creative Writing (Poetry) Research Interests: Louisiana (western and northern mostly), poetry, oral storytelling and songmaking, prisons, race, law (as related to the above issues and locale), Cajun/zydeco music, blues, worksongs, agriculture, food traditions, local foods movements. Other Interests: Cooking, running, writing, cycling, gardening, sleeping, teaching, singing (badly). Accomplishments: Poems published in several journals. Some of the most recent/upcoming are: "Portrait of Leadbelly in Pinstriped Suit," Shenandoah, fall 2006 "The Waiting Room," Crab Orchard Review, fall 2006 "Field Notes" and "Bayou Horticulture," Ninth Letter, fall 2006 "Nocturne," Fourth River, fall 2006 "Scene" and "Imagine the Hospital," Notre Dame Review, winter 2007 "A Story" and "Night Book," Michigan Quarterly Review, winter 2007 Joy Marie Groves Salyers joievivre[at]juno.com Previous Degrees Awarded : BA English, BA French Southern Illinois University 1994, MA Folklore UNC-Chapel Hill 2003 Research Interests: affecting racism and prejudice through the power of stories, multiple audiences in performance, science fiction costuming Other Interests: anti-racism training, curriculum development, ecological spirituality, using power of art and creativity, consulting and coaching Stephen Taylor sjtayl3[at]email.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA Spanish and History, Indiana State University, 2003. Website: www.sjtaylor-photography.com; http://www.flickr.com/photos/staylor336 Research Interests: Outer Banks folklore and oral history, documentary photography, development issues on the North Carolina coast, landscapes of the American South and West, local agriculture/rural revitalization, shipwreck and captivity narratives, urban spelunking, American folk religion, New Mexican folk art, coyote stories, Pacific Northwest mythology, Delta blues, oysters/BBQ. Tessa Thraves tes[at]unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA; MA, Creative Writing and Literature, Hollins College, VA; (current) Doctoral Candidate in Communication Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill Research Interests: women's community development efforts, environmental studies, queer theory, critical race theory, pedagogy, performance theory Other Interests: sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy systems, Yoga, Women's Shelters, animal rescue work, poverty reduction work Involvement: board member of Chatham Marketplace http://www.chathammarketplace.com/ Stewards of the Land http://www.stewardsoftheland.org/ Piedmont Biofuels http://www.biofuels.coop/ Archie Green occupational folklore research award recipient Jenny Womack jwomack[at]med.unc.edu Previous Degrees Awarded: BA Biology/German: Wake Forest University; MS Occupational Therapy UNC Research Interests : community identity, disability folklore, gerontology (Elderlore), Southern anything, community mobility Other Interests: singing, writing, porch sitting, camping, travel, teaching Accomplishments: Returning to school after many years to recapture some old interests...lots of writing currently going on in both occupational therapy and Folk realms - maybe one day I can call it an accomplishment
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