Center for Folklore Studies (CFS)
About
The Center for Folklore Studies (CFS) supports the learning, teaching, research, and outreach of folklorists and students of folklore. With participation from across the university, the center promotes interdisciplinary dialogue about the important role of vernacular knowledge and practice in all areas of human activity, from confronting climate change to battling food insecurity, from understanding aging to transforming urban neighborhoods. Center activities include:
- Coordinating the folklore course offerings across departments and advising students
- Facilitating research and outreach projects of both local and international scope
- Organizing lectures, conferences, and workshops
- Providing organizational and financial support to folklore-related activities across campus
- Maintaining an archives of over 12,000 recordings and projects, a testament to over half a century of folklore research at OSU
- Conducting ethnographic research with Ohio communities and supporting archival collections across the state
If you are interested in learning more, becoming involved, or being on the mailing list for any of the CFS functions, please use this link to subscribe to any of the following (you can subscribe to more than one list without receiving duplicate emails):
- FolkServ (select if you are affiliated with OSU and want to learn more about Center for Folklore Studies activities)
- StudentFolk (select if you are a student and interested in being a part of the Folklore Student Association or learning about student activities)
- Current Grads (select if you are a current OSU graduate student and would like to learn more about graduate activities and opportunities)
- Current Undergrads (select if you are a current OSU undergraduate student and would like to learn more about graduate activities and opportunities)
- Core Faculty (select if you are a core faculty member at the Center for Folklore Studies)
- Affiliated Faculty (select if you are a faculty member affiliated with the Center for Folklore Studies)
- Alumni (select if you are CFS alumni)
- Folk Friends (select if you are NOT an OSU student, faculty, or alumni, but would like to learn more about CFS activities)
Leadership, Faculty, and Affiliates
- Merrill Kaplan (Director)
Faculty
- Adeleke Adeeko
- Daisy Ahlstone
- Georgios Anagnostou
- Dima Arzyutov
- Stephanie Aubry
- Anna Babel
- Jeremy Baker
- Harmony Bench (On Leave)
- Mark Bender
- Cristina Benedetti
- Emily Bianchi
- Leigh Bonds
- Graeme M. Boone
- Katherine Borland
- Christopher Brown
- Jason Buchea
- Lilia Caserta
- Alfonso Cervera
- Jeffrey H. Cohen
- Daniel Collins
- Sarah Craycraft
- Robert Dahlberg-Sears
- Patricia Enciso
- Víctor M. Espinosa
- Zulal Fazlioglu Akin
- Elena Foulis
- Sonia Gollance
- Umut Mert Gurses
- Haley Hart
- Leta Hendricks
- Christopher Highley
- Mary Hufford
- Stewart Jobrack
- Sarah Iles Johnston
- Rhiar Kanouse
- Jessica Kantarovich
- Merrill Kaplan
- Amanda Kennedy
- Dana Carlisle Kletchka
- Miranda Martinez
- Mintzi Martínez-Rivera
- Benjamin McKean
- Kendra McSweeney
- Liz Miller
- Galey Modan
- Luther Nolan
- Dorothy Noyes
- Sue Oakes
- Sharbreon Plummer
- Margaret Price
- Shelley F Quinn (Retired - Active)
- Nicolas Shannon Savard
- Danielle Schoon
- Barry Shank
- Caroline Shipley
- Amy Shuman (Retired - Active)
- Laura Siragusa
- Ryan Skinner
- Lydia Smith
- Lydia Smith
- Binaya Subedi
- Laura Thomas
- Rebecca Turk
- Hugh Urban
- Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth
- Isaac Weiner
- Michelle Wibbelsman
- Leticia Wiggins
- Charlie Wilson (Retired - Active)
- Nathan Young
Staff
- Emelie Bailey
- Burton Bassett
- Puja Batra-Wells
- Brooke Burch
- Emily Carpenter
- Rachael Dorothy
- Sarah Dunlap
- Madeleine Fix
- Moriah Flagler
- Patti Flinn
- Alison Furlong
- Christopher Gecik
- Raven-Serenity Glover
- Esther Gottlieb
- Marlin Hauff
- Bethany Hill (On Leave)
- Stephanie Hnidka
- Davina Huddleston
- Dori Jenks
- Kathryn Kelley
- Valerie Kohlwey
- Kirsten Linsenmeyer
- Jordan Lynton Cox
- Natascha Miller
- Megan Moriarty
- Emma Mullen
- Suder Natesan
- Nicole Nieto
- Hannah Ozello
- Ryann Patrus
- Cassie Patterson
- Laura Pearce
- Sofia Racevskis
- Sharese Resendez
- Ryan Sheehan
- Martha Sims (Retired - Active)
- Joanna Spanos
- Nick Spitulski
- Savannah Stearmer
- Gregory Vaillancourt
Students
- Zahra Abedi
- Faye Aboshahba
- Catherine Adams
- Suhail Ahmed
- Farida Aly
- Sheila Ameri
- Kaasvi Anshu
- Karen Aston
- Rondale Balo
- Paromita Bathija
- Om Prakash Bedant
- Ciara Bernal
- Cass Blair
- Nicholas Booker
- Maggie Brogan
- Cameryn Brothers
- Chloe Brown
- Elisabeth Burns
- Adrielys Calderon Ortiz
- Chloe Carson
- Chengwei Chen
- Dario Chimenti
- Chloe Chung
- Ella Church
- Katie Conner
- Lydia Cornett
- Dylan Crosson
- Manisha Datar
- Mauricio Antonio Dos Santos
- Joelle Edwards
- Sophia Enriquez
- Holly Erickson
- Angel Evans
- Zach Factora
- Amanda Fanale
- Dominique Gedanke Flaksberg
- Andrew George
- Soha Gewaly
- Misha Grifka
- Dana Hamed
- Yuyang Han
- Meretta Hanson
- Matt Hartsfield
- Charles Hausfeld
- Lindsay Hodgens
- Jess Lamp Holler (Private)
- Benchen Hu
- Engine Huang
- Iman Hussein
- Maxwell Jacobs
- Regan Jacoby
- Qurrat Jamal
- Mohit Jangid
- Sarah Jenkins
- Bernadette John
- Martha Johnson
- Brendan Jones
- Arnav Joshi
- Alex Kandakatla
- Nikoo Karimi
- Mia Kivel
- Mikaela Knappstein
- Lee-Lee Knupp
- Jacob Kopcienski
- Aditya Kothawade
- Meli Kristen
- Isabelle Lambert
- Maddox Lee
- Titus Lewis
- Noelle Lin
- Rita Lin
- Wei Liu
- Allison Lumpkin
- Umayna Magsi
- Natalie Majidzadeh
- Molly Marody
- Amelia Mathews-Pett (Private)
- Maryna Matlock
- Jazz Meacham
- Ashley Mendoza Leon
- Brenna Miller
- Nora Ming
- Andrew Mitchel
- Tara Mohan
- Autumn Moore
- Sam Morgan
- Jon Mosley
- Khushboo Mundada
- Fungisai Musoni
- Edwin Nagasawa
- Emma Neer
- Aviva Neff
- Manuel Nunez
- Jonathan O'Dell
- Tinu Oduloye
- Anthony Palmiscno
- Abigail Pierson-Workman
- Shobhana Rajasenan
- Chinmayee Ramaswamy
- Mel Ramp
- Blaise Reader
- Katharine Ritchey
- Cristina Rivera
- Heloisa Rocha Rincon
- Kat Rogers
- Penelope Rupert
- Andreja Ruzic
- Adrian Salgado
- Yukina Sato
- Monica Shah
- Snehi Shah
- Wenyuan Shao
- Summer Shigley
- Aditi Sinha
- Dhakshniy Sivakumaran
- Madeleine Smith
- Jude Snowden
- Arthur Stadlin
- Anna Staun
- Ana Sucaldito
- Harry Suriyachai
- Enes Tastan
- Jessica Tjiu
- İlayda Üstel
- Sydney Varajon
- Ana Velasco
- Maxwell Vore
- Rachel Walch
- Beverly Warner
- Eileen Wassel
- Amelia Webster
- Sacha Wible
- Yingming Wu
- Yujia Xie
- Conrad Yang
- Grace Zhang
- Qian Zhou
- Elvin Zhu
Fellows
- Yuri Belloube
- Noah Bukowski
- Casey Carsel
- Yeliz Cavus
- Emma Cobb
- Evan DeCarlo
- Sophie Delacruz
- Nicholas Hoffman
- Isobel Hooker
- Shurouq Ibrahim
- Lucas Larcomb
- Kaiwen Lin [C]
- Jordan Lovejoy
- Mariah Marsden
- Tashfa Nadeem
- Alexander Nichols
- Nellie Smith
- VAN TRUONG
- Liam Waters
- Stephen Wong
- Menghang Wu
- Sadie Wuertz