Tenure-line Faculty
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Eric Gary Anderson
Associate Professor
American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror and Gothic studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century
 
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Benjamin Gatling
Associate Professor
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
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Lisa Gilman
Director
Professor
Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.
 
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Mark Helmsing
University Affiliate
Assistant Professor
Historical Culture; History Education; Affect & Emotion; Museums; Folklore & Education; Vernacular History
 
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Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Associate Professor
Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
 
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Jonathon Repinecz
University Affiliate
Associate Professor
Modern African literatures and cultures; Modern francophone literatures and cultures; Intersections of literature and anthropology; Genocide studies; Folklore and oral literature; Postcolonial theory; Wolof (advanced reading) and Swahili (beginner).
 
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Gabrielle A Tayac
University Affiliate
Associate Professor
Public History Native American and Indigenous Studies Museum Studies Community Engaged Methodology
 
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Lijun Zhang
Associate Director
Assistant Professor
Material Culture, Folk Art and Crafts, Folklife, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chinese Folklore
 








