Amy Skillman is an American folklorist. She has served as the academic director of the M.A. in cultural sustainability at Goucher College since 2012. [1] In 2023, she was elected president of the American Folklore Society (AFS). [1] [2] She became involved with the AFS in 1978 and served on its executive board from 2009 to 2011. [2] She is an AFS fellow and a recipient of the Botkin Prize. [2]
Skillman completed a self-designed B.A. in cultural minorities and the immigrant experience from St. Lawrence University. [2] She earned a M.A. in folklore from University of California, Los Angeles. [2]
Margaret Anne "Peggy" Bulger is a folklorist and served as the director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress from 1999 to 2011, when she moved to Florida to continue work on personal projects.
Rebecca S. Skillman is an American politician who served as the 49th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, from 2005 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Laplace transform. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
Margaret Ann Mills is an American folklorist, and educator. She is a professor emerita of the Department of Near East Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University.
Michael Atwood Mason is an American folklorist and museum professional. He currently serves as CEO and Executive Director of President Lincoln's Cottage and was, up to February 2021, the Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Linda Dégh was a folklorist and professor of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, USA.
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Kay Turner is an artist and scholar working across disciplines including performance, writing, music, exhibition curation, and public and academic folklore. She is noted for her feminist writings and performances on subjects such as women’s home altars, fairy tale witches, and historical goddess figures. She co-founded “Girls in the Nose,” a lesbian feminist rock punk band that anticipated riot grrl.
Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond was an American dancer, choreographer, dance historian, and author. Bond was the founding chair of the dance department at Goucher College. She was the co-founder and director of Chorégraphie Antique, the dance history ensemble at Goucher. Bond was a dance critic for The Baltimore Sun.
Marta Weigle was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
Kelly Delaine Brown Douglas is an African-American Episcopal priest, womanist theologian, and the inaugural Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and is slated to be the interim president of Episcopal Divinity School upon its departure from Union in 2023. She is also the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral. She has written six books, including The Black Christ (1994), Black Bodies and Black Church: A Blues Slant (2012) and Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015) and Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter (2021). Her book Sexuality in the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (1999) was groundbreaking for openly addressing homophobia within the black church.
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Hope Skillman Schary was an American textile designer and business executive. She founded the textile manufacturing company Skillmill. She was a women's rights leader, heading organizations devoted to women. She served as president of The Fashion Group and the National Council of Women of the United States and as vice president of the International Council of Women.
Elaine J Lawless is an American folklorist. She is Curators' Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies at the University of Missouri. In 2008 she was elected president of the American Folklore Society.
Henry Wood (1849–1925) was an American Professor of German Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Jane C. Beck is an American folklorist and oral historian. She is Executive Director Emeritus and founder of the Vermont Folklife Center and has published research on the folklore of Vermont and on African American belief systems.
Joan Newlon Radner is an American folklorist, storyteller and oral historian. She is Professor Emerita at American University in Washington, DC.
Michael Ann Williams is an American Folklorist, recognised for her research into vernacular architecture, particularly in Appalachia.
John W. Roberts is an academic who specialises in Folklore, African-American Studies and English Literature. His work has argued for the "integrity, authenticity, and authority" of African-American vernacular traditions.
C. Kurt Dewhurst is an American curator and folklorist. Dewhurst is Director for Arts and Cultural Partnerships at Michigan State University (MSU) and also a Senior Fellow in University Outreach and Engagement. At MSU, he is also Director Emeritus of the Michigan State University Museum and a Professor of English and Museum Studies.