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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...
Dr. Mark Helmsing is an assistant professor in Mason's College of Education & Human Development's Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE) Ph.D. program; Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning (ASTL) M.Ed. program; and Secondary Education (SEED) M.Ed. program. Dr. Helmsing is also an affiliate fa...
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...
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. ...
Dr. Gabrielle Tayac, a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation, is an activist scholar committed to empowering Indigenous perspectives. She earned her PhD and MA in sociology from Harvard University, and her BS in social work and American Indian studies from Cornell University. Her scholarly research ...
Associate Professor of French and Global Affairs.
Regional interests: West Africa, Central Africa.
Jonathon Repinecz specializes in francophone literatures of West and Central Africa. While he has particular expertise in Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he regularly teaches texts and ...
In 2014, Eric Gary Anderson won a University Teaching Excellence Award with special acknowledgment of his contributions to Mason Core. He has published more than thirty essays in edited volumes and journals, including "Big Indigeneity" (in PMLA), "Native American Horror, Fantasy, and Speculative Fict...
Professional Organizations and Networks
The American Folklore Society (AFS):
The American Folklore Society, founded in 1888, is the professional association for folklorists. The Society produces publications, sponsors meetings, and resources to support their members’ work “to study, understand, ...
“The Flow of Tradition”: Mason’s Folklore Program Visiting Scholars Curate Lunar New Year Exhibit
By Stephanie Aitken
The stage is set, or in this case, Fenwick Gallery is ready to host “The Flow of Tradition–Chinese Folk Art of the Lunar New”
This exhibit will run in Fenwick Gallery in the l...