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Robert D. DeCaroli

Robert D. DeCaroli

Robert DeCaroli received his Ph.D. in the field South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. He is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formatio...

Benjamin Gatling

Benjamin Gatling

Benjamin Gatling is a folklorist, Associate Professor in the English Department, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program (MAIS). He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from The Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...

Folklore and Mythology concentration in the BA in English

The Folklore and Mythology concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes and material culture items as they are performed within...

Minor in Folklore and Mythology

The minor in Folklore and Mythology is interdisciplinary and offers students tools to explore the compelling meanings within these seemingly simple, everyday cultural texts, and helps them become more aware of the ways these texts are used by individuals and institutions for various goals. Students s...

Lijun Zhang

Lijun Zhang

Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore in George Mason University’s English Department. Her research interests include material culture, heritage (tangible and intangible), museums and curatorship, institutionalization of culture, tourism, oral narrative, and folklore of China and East Asia. ...

About Our Program

Mason’s Folklore Program offers the only masters-level degree in folklore in the mid-Atlantic region, with a robust slate of course offerings and strong ties to local institutions such as the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, t...