People
2012-2013 First Year Graduate Student Class
Students
The student community in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology comprises American and international students interested in diverse subjects and cultural areas.
There are two student organizations – the Ethnomusicology Student Association (ESA) and the Folklore Student Association (FSA). For more information, please see Student Associations.
Apart from department-based activities, students also participate in Bloomington cultural events such as Lotus World Music Festival, Lotus Blossoms, exhibits at Mather's Museum, and many more.
List of Current Graduate Students
| Name |
Track | Interests | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alley, Matthew | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| andersem @ indiana.edu (Anderson, Elise) | Ethnomusicology Dual degree with Central Eurasian Studies |
Historical ethnomusicology; ethnographic research; comparative methodologies; intellectual histories; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Uyghurs, Xinjiang; Central Asia; Uyghur On Ikki Muqami (Uyghur Twelve Muqams); meshrep; maqam/muqam traditions; Uyghur diaspora. Access her profile here. | PhD Candidate |
| Baer, Kurt | Ethnomusicology | PhD | |
| Barber, Suzanne | Folklore | PhD | |
| gaberlin @ indiana.edu (Berlinger, Gabrielle) | Folklore | Material culture (vernacular architecture); vernacular religion; museums; heritage; Jewish and Native American ritual life | PhD Candidate |
| brberry @ indiana.edu (Berry, Bret) | Ethnomusicology | Traditional musics of east Asia; organology; timbre perception, and music and cognition | MA |
| Berry, Dorothy | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| ebindler @ indiana.edu (Bindler, Eric) | Ethnomusicology | Popular music; globalization and hybridity; identity; Latin America and the Caribbean | PhD |
| Bringerud, Lydia | Folklore | Scandinavian narrative folklore; comparative mythology and religion | MA |
| mbuchbin @ indiana.edu (Buchbinder, Matthew) | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| eburbach @ indiana.edu (Burbach, Elizabeth) | Folklore & Anthro | PhD Candidate | |
| Burke, Emily | Folklore | MA | |
| Buterbaugh, Chad | Folklore | Modern Irish storytelling; culture commemoration | PhD |
| Carrillo, Julián | Folklore | Minority languages and cultures of Latin America; understudied aspects of northern Mexico folklore; cultural representation in public festivals; dynamics between folklore and nationalism | MA |
| cchambli @ indiana.edu (Chambliss, Cassandra) | Folklore | PhD Candidate | |
| Chen, Mei Chen | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| xc2 @ indiana.edu (Chen, Xiaohong) | Folklore | Material culture; folk arts; musuems; tourism; heritage preservation; Chinese cultural tradition and identity | PhD Candidate |
| cclare @ indiana.edu (Clare, Callie) | Folklore | Material culture; automobile cultures; rural United States; Appalachia | PhD Candidate |
| tycooper @ indiana.edu (Cooper, Tyron) | Ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate | |
| ddalphon @ indiana.edu (Dalphond, Denise) | Ethnomusicology | Detroit techno; history and communication | PhD Candidate |
| Dibaba, Assefa | Folklore | Ethnography of resistance poetics, a folkloric, anthropological, and historical inquiry focusing on Salale Oromo folklore and resistance culture; Oromia/Ethiopia | PhD |
| tjdolan @ indiana.edu (Dolan, Tim) | Ethnomusicology | Fiddle tunes; intellectual property; phenomenology; native ethnography; politics of revivalism; Canada | MA |
| kgdowns @ indiana.edu (Downs, Kristina) | Folklore | Native American heroines in the United States and Mexico; immigration; Renaissance Fairs; Latin America | PhD Candidate |
| permey @ indiana.edu (Ermey, Peter) | Ethnomusicology | Musica Caipira; Brazilian popular music (MPB) | PhD Candidate |
| zestrada @ indiana.edu (Estrada, Zilia) | Folklore | Community narratives; animal-people; commemoration; activism; place, space, and display | PhD Candidate |
| ttferdin @ indiana.edu (Ferdinand, Tricia) | Folklore | Intersection between literature and folkore; issues of nostalgia and nationalism; folklore and literature of Anglophone Caribbean | PhD Candidate |
| Fivecoate, Jesse | Folklore | Cultural construction and politics of identity, concerning transnational and transcultural identity formation, particularly Irishness; narrative, belief, memory, and the supernatural in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland | MA |
| mhfoote @ indiana.edu (Foote, Monica) | Folklore | Summer camps; internet folklore; children's folklore; myth; epic; chanson de geste. | PhD Candidate |
| kforgacs @ indiana.edu (Forgacs, Katherine) | Folklore | Vernacular architecture; material culture; the Caribbean | MA |
| Friesen, Carinna | Ethnomusicology | Music and religion; identity; immigration and diaspora; West Africa (Burkina Faso) | PhD |
| frischj @ indiana.edu (Frisch, Janice) | Folklore | Material culture; museum studies; textiles; quilts; dress and adornment; British history; American history | PhD Candidate |
| ndgibson @ indiana.edu (Gibson, Nathan) | Ethnomusicology | Popular music; social movements; recording industry; transnationalism; performance; identity; tradition; representation; nostalgia; audio archives and media preservation; United States and Northern Europe | PhD Candidate |
| fginggin @ indiana.edu (Gingging, Flory) | Folklore | Indigenous politics; tourism; Malaysia (Sabah) | PhD Candidate |
| rvgonzal @ indiana.edu (González, Rachel) | Folklore | Gender and performance; linguistic theory and material culture; transnational and transcultultural identity formation; Mexican American/Mexican/ Latino identity in the United States and Greater Mexico | PhD Candidate |
| gordonsm @ indiana.edu (Gordon, Sarah) | Folklore | Native North American oral traditions, particularly in Canada; ethnopoetics; the politics of ethnography and representation; testimony; cultural preservation and revitalization movements | PhD Candidate |
| Guerrero, Paulina | Folklore | PhD | |
| aguestsc @ indiana.edu (Guest-Scott, Anthony) | Ethnomusicology |
Music teaching and learning; events oriented toward expressive encounters with cultural Others; the organization of musical experience; discursive formations and the history of ideas; an interactive and communication-centered approach to the understanding of culture and metaculture; instrument communities; popular music; dance; U.S. musical culture; the Middle East; the guitar |
PhD Candidate |
| hadleyf @ indiana.edu (Hadley, Fredara M.) | Ethnomusicology | African American popular music; club culture; electronic dance music | PhD Candidate |
| Hale, Matthew | Folklore & CMCL | Sensory ethnography and body adornment; corporeality and cybernetics, post-humanism, and retro-futuristism; ethnographic film theory, history, and production; alternate history and steampunk, hypermodernism and postmodern theory; material culture; narrative; the history of ethnographic craftmanship | PhD |
| jlhemmin @ indiana.edu (Hemming-Austin, Jill) | Folklore | Public folklore; U.S., oral history; folklore as community mediation; material culture | PhD Candidate |
| clhertz @ indiana.edu (Hertz, Carrie) | Folklore | Material culture, with special emphasis on dress and adornment; museum studies; folk art | PhD Candidate |
| Himli, Waleed | Folklore | MA | |
| Hood, Mark | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| hsu7 @ indiana.edu (Hsu, Hsin-wen) | Ethnomusicology | Institutionalization; Hakka studies; social and cultural theory; historical, ethnographic, and comparative methods; applied ethnomusicology; musics in East Asia (emphasis on Taiwan) and Nordic Europe (emphasis on Finland) | PhD Candidate |
| sgodby @ indiana.edu (Ingalsbe, Suzanne) | Folklore | Religion; vernacular architecture; material culture; museums | PhD Candidate |
| Jacob, Christopher | Ethnomusicology | Ritual music; material culture; ethnographic filmmaking; public sector; Latin America | MA |
| Justin, Kaitlin | Ethnomusicology & SLIS | Indigenous dance and eco-tourism in Panama; nueva canción; self-representation and socio-political change; music and cultural heritage archives/special collections | MA |
| tlkaple @ indiana.edu (Kaple, Timon) | Ethnomusicology | Memory; nostalgia; place; traveling musicians in the U.S.; gender; American vernacular music; Nashville, TN | PhD Candidate |
| mkawabat @ indiana.edu (Kawabata, Mitsuko) | Ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate | |
| jkay @ indiana.edu (Kay, Jon) | Folklore | PhD Candidate | |
| kennedme @ indiana.edu (Kennedy, Maria) | Folklore | Ethnography of media; agricultural and food issues; Catskills; rural Britain | PhD Candidate |
| tklassen @ indiana.edu (Klassen, Teresa) | Folklore | Material culture studies; historical ethnography in the U.S.; quiltmaking; postcards; Native American tourist dolls | PhD Candidate |
| gklotz @ indiana.edu (Klotz, Gregory) | Ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate | |
| Larson, Shannon | Folklore | MA | |
| alawton @ indiana.edu (Lawton, Arthur) | Folklore | Geometry and arithmetic in a pre-mensural world as the means to lay out and control architectural projects; transition in the Early Modern transatlantic world toward modern culture as played out in continental Europe and specifically in the liberal climate of William Penn's Southeastern Pennsylvania | PhD Candidate |
| lee530 @ indiana.edu (Lee, Michael) | Ethnomusicology | Music, religion, and popular culture; Genre; United States | PhD Candidate |
| weilee @ indiana.edu (Lee, Wei-Ping) | Folklore | Puppetry | PhD Candidate |
| davdalew @ indiana.edu (Lewis, David) | Ethnomusicology | Music and medicine; Caribbean musics; music and gender; timbre | PhD Candidate |
| Lo, Cheikh | Folklore | PhD | |
| Lynn, Denise | Folklore | Applied folklore; medical folklore; folk belief systems; folk narratives in the United States | PhD |
| kmbohann @ indiana.edu (Marshall, Kimberly) | Ethno & Anthro | Identity; performance; aesthetics; Navajo Christian music | PhD Candidate |
| pablmart @ indiana.edu (Martin Dominguez, Pablo) | Folklore | PhD | |
| minmarti @ indiana.edu (Martinez-Rivera, Mintzi) | Folklore/Anthro | Identity; performance; ritual; reciprocity; Indigenous people (P'urhepecha); Mexico, Latin America | PhD Candidate |
| hfmcfadd @ indiana.edu (McFadden, Heather) | Ethnomusicology | Public practice and applied ethnomusicology; gender, health and healing; popular music; Latin America; Andes | PhD |
| McGriff-Miller, Meredith | Folklore | MA | |
| gvmcguir @ indiana.edu (McGuire, Gabriel) | Folklore | Heritage policy; Central Asia | PhD Candidate |
| McRobbie, Josephine | Ethnomusicology | Music collecting culture; representation and canonization; found sound; subculture; popular music; documentary film; archives and museums | MA |
| reemoore @ indiana.edu (Moore, Rebekah) | Ethnomusicology | Music, nationalism, and social politics in Bali; music and indigenous (first nations) politics; Sámi of Northern Finland; popular music |
PhD Candidate |
| ecmorale @ indiana.edu (Morales, Eric) | Folklore | Polynesian culture and heritage, focusing specificially on the Tahitian dance revival occurring in the United States; festivals; Chicano Studies; supernatural; folklore and the media | PhD |
| semorale @ indiana.edu (Morales, Selina) | Folklore | Public interest folklore; community healing; espiritismo; material culture; museums | PhD Candidate |
| jrnguyen @ indiana.edu (Nguyen, Jason) | Ethnomusicology | Vietnamese and Vietnamese American popular music; homeland politics; cultural performance; culture and heritage policy; traditional Vietnamese music genres | PhD |
| Obata, Emma | Folklore | MA | |
| jorakwe @ indiana.edu (Orakwe, Jude) | Ethnomusicology | Church music in African culture; culture in African church music; interplay of religion and culture in African Church Music | PhD Candidate |
| Peach, Doug | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| jodmperk @ indiana.edu (Perkins, Jodine) | Folklore | Material culture; foodways; archives; museums | PhD Candidate |
| Quales, Danielle E. | Folklore | Ghost tales; cemeteries; deathlore; religion; food ways; food festivals; Appalachia | PhD Candidate |
| dmraver @ indiana.edu (Raver, Debra) | Ethnomusicology | Lithuanian polyphonic songs | MA |
| girichar @ indiana.edu (Richards-Greaves, Gillian) | Ethnomusicology | Caribbean studies; migration; diaspora; ritual; ethnicity-identity; linguistic performance; race; religion; gender |
PhD Candidate |
| tgrichar @ indiana.edu (Richardson, Thomas) | Ethnomusicology | American vernacular music; African Americans in country music; old-time; revivals; public sector/applied ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate |
| Rodriguez Ibanez, Maria | Folklore | MA | |
| Rojas, Juan | Ethnomusicology | Applied and public ethnomusicology; processes of folklorization; music festivals; music and politics; traditional musics; Colombian musics; Afro-Latin American musics | PhD |
| yasay @ indiana.edu (Say, Yasar Ozan) | Folklore | Religious festivals and rituals; memory and identity; nostalgia; migration; tourism; dance; performance of multi-culturalism in and between societies; minorities; ethnic and religious boundaries; Balkan and Middle Eastern Cultures and Languages, especially Turkey & Greece | PhD Candidate |
| ascharfe @ indiana.edu (Scharfenberger, Angela) | Ethnomusicology | West African music; Zimbabwean music; women musicians; advocacy; community | PhD Candidate |
| schmadel @ indiana.edu (Schmadel, Fredericka) | Folklore | Ethnopoetics; intellectual history; medieval legends; folktales and legends; myth; migration of peoples; fieldwork; mysticism; American summer camp culture; Latin American folklore | PhD Candidate |
| katschra @ indiana.edu (Schramm, Katharine) | Folklore | Community ritual; intangible cultural heritage; vernacular religion; chidren's folklore; Okinawa Japan | PhD Candidate |
| Shao, Oliver | Ethnomusicology | PhD | |
| Shepherd, Elizabeth | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| Shibagaki, Arisa | Folklore | PhD | |
| slsingle @ indiana.edu (Singleton, Stephanie) | Folklore | Conspiracy theory; 9/11 Truth Movement; "9/11 was an inside job!" | PhD Candidate |
| sstanzak @ indiana.edu (Stanzak, Steven) | Folklore | Children's folklore; internet culture; medieval culture; saints' legends; vernacular religion | PhD Candidate |
| shastock @ indiana.edu (Stockton, Shayna) | Folklore | MA | |
| melstric @ indiana.edu (Strickland, Melissa) | Folklore | Mythology and worldview; comparative mythology; myth and ritual; classical culture; Native North America | MA |
| Taborn, Karen |
Ethnomusicology | Hymns; cross-cultural phenomenon; representations of Black jazz vocalists; race and gender stigma management; performance theory; Native America | PhD |
| Tartaglia, Dominick | Folklore | MA | |
| jeftolbe @ indiana.edu (Tolbert, Jeff) | Folklore | PhD Candidate | |
| Totten, Kelley | Folklore | Material culture; creative learning communities - folk schools and DIY collectives; craft as social justice and public dialogue; experimental ethnography | PhD |
| rdwalter @ indiana.edu (Walter, Richard) | Ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate | |
| Wattanagun, Kanya | Folklore | MA | |
| wei2 @ indiana.edu (Wei, Xiaoshi Andrew) | Ethnomusicology | Digital preservation of intangible cultural heritage | PhD Candidate |
| rmwiggin @ indiana.edu (Wiggins, Raynetta) | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| wilkinsl @ indiana.edu (Wilkins, Langston) | Ethnomusicology | PhD Candidate | |
| Williams, Shaun | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| kmwillse @ indiana.edu (Willsey, Kristiana) | Folklore | Narrative and oral performance; fairy tales and feminist folklore; intertextuality; folklore and nationalism; theories of collection and consumption | PhD Candidate |
| brwohang @ indiana.edu (Wohangara, Bernardus) | Folklore | PhD Candidate | |
| jewolf @ indiana.edu (Wolf, Juan) | Ethnomusicology | Style; performance; digital ethnography; Latin America; Quechua and Aymara languages | PhD Candidate |
| Woma, Bernard | Ethnomusicology | MA | |
| Woods, Miriam | Folklore | Material culture; body art and adornment; clothing; tourism; intangible cultural heritage; Central Asia; Turkey; Iran; Tajikistan | MA |
| piwu @ indiana.edu (Wu, Piin-shiuan) | Ethnomusicology | Music, place, and history; genre and aesthetics; memory culture and nostalgia; film and music; travel writing; historiography | PhD Candidate |
| syetgin @ indiana.edu (Yetgin, Sultan) | Folklore | PhD Candidate | |
| Yonezu, Masatomo | Ethnomusicology | Cultural change; rituals; censorship; East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania); Swahili; Mijikenda | MA |
| youngmia @ indiana.edu (Young, Michael) | Ethnomusicology | Nationalism; gender; popular cultures; representations of national and minority identities in Russia/Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Scandinavia | MA |
| lijzhang @ indiana.edu (Zhang, Lijun) | Folklore | Heritage tourism at UNESCO heritage site Yongding Hakka Earth Building Folk Cultural Village; complex relationship between vernacular culture and heritage tourism; modernization of Hakka people through negotiation of traditional folklife in wake of cultural change | PhD Candidate |
| azolkove @ indiana.edu (Zolkover, Adam) | Folklore | Folk narrative; race and gender theories; history of folklore; 19th century U.S.; Medieval Europe | PhD Candidate |
