Curriculum Vitae
  
John Brenton Wolford, Ph.D.

RECENT POSITIONS

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri

2003 -             Manager, Center for Oral History Programs
   Director, Internship Program, MHS

2002 - 2003    Director, Research and Publications, MHS

1993 - 2002    Urban Anthropologist

University of Missouri-St. Louis

2002 -             Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology

1999 -             Faculty, Pierre Laclede Honors College

1993 - 2002    Museum Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

ACADEMIC DEGREES

1992        Ph.D., Folklore and American Studies (Minor in Public History), Indiana
                          University-Bloomington [IU]
Dissertation:    The South Union, Kentucky, Shakers and Tradition: A Study of Business, Work, and Commerce
1982        M.A., Folklore, with Distinction: Indiana University
1979        B.A., English, magna cum laude: University of Louisville

ARTICLES, NOTES, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Review essay (Eskimo books): Eskimo drawings, ed. by Suzi Jones; and Upside down: seasons among the Nunamiut, by Margaret B. Blackman, for Western Folklore (submitted January 2005).

“Travel on western waters,” article under consideration, Indiana Magazine of History (2004).

“A moving experience,” Gateway Heritage 23:4 (January 2003): 64.
o Note: Memoir written as inaugural Back Story feature, requested by editor

“St. Louis,” in S. Bronner, ed., Encyclopedia of Folklore (NY: Sharpe, 2004 ); submitted 2003.

“The future of urban ecosystem education from a social scientist's perspective.” Article solicited for inclusion in book, Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education, eds. A. R. Berkowitz, C. Nilon, K. Hollweg (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003).

Review essay (Oral History books): In our own words: stories of North Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1900-1960 and Crossroads: stories of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1912-2000, compiled by Sarah Boyer, Oral History Review (2002).

“People and place in Twentieth-Century St. Louis,” Gateway Heritage 19:4 (Spring 1999): 56-62.

(Co-author with Van Reidhead) “Context, conditioning, and meaning of time-consciousness in a Trappist monastery.” In S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak, and A. Scott, eds., Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussion and Debates. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1998: 657-665.

“Creve Coeur Lake Legend,” within the article: “The Legend of the Lake,” Gateway Heritage, 18: 3 (Winter 1997/1998): 41.

Review essay (Shakers) : Thrasher, Kindred Spirits; Pearson & Neal, The Shaker Image; Nicoletta, The Architecture of the Shakers; in Material Culture 28:3 (Fall 1996): 43-50.

General editor, “Experiences in the Voluntary Integration Programs at St. Louis Cultural and Educational Institutions: A Missouri Historical Society Oral History Research Project,” by Dr. Seena Kohl, Dr. Kathleen Cook, Dr. Sharon Lee, Alfreda Bady, and Alyssa Royse; 1995.

“Dorson, Richard Mercer,” in Encyclopedia U.S.A. Vol. 22. Donald W. Whisenhunt, ed. Gulfbreeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1995: 203-204.

Review essay (Shaker folklife): Emlen, Shaker Village Views and Grant & Allen, Shaker Furniture Makers, in Communal Studies 11 (1991): 94-99.

"Shaker Studies and Folklore: An Overview," Folklore Forum 22:1/2 (1989): 78-107.

"Folklore Institute Slide Archives Established," AFS Archiving Section Newsletter 7 (1989): 1.

"Memories, Dreams, Recollections: A Sampler from Studebaker Oral Histories," Indiana Folklore and Oral History 14:2 (1985).

Progress report: "Indianapolis Blacks: An Oral History Research Center Project," Black History News & Notes no. 12 (1983).

MUSEUM EXHIBITS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROJECTS

Researcher and oral historian, The 1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward, Missouri Historical Society [project: Jan 2003 - Apr 2004; open: Apr 30, 2003 – 2008.

Community Partners director for Filipino exhibit connected to this exhibit
Project supervisor, In the Voice of a Child [Rockefeller Grant-funded school/museum project] MHS; project: 2001 - 2003; Presentation: May 2003.

Exhibit director, Memory, local component for the Exploratorium's traveling exhibit, MHS; project: May 2002 - February 2003; open: February 14, 2003 - April 17, 2003.
Oral History Advisor, Through the Eyes of a Child, MHS; research: 1995-2002; exhibit: opened March 16, 2003.

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Oral Historian and Researcher, Prezivjet Cemo/We Will Survive [Bosnian Refugees in St. Louis], Missouri Historical Society; research: 1999-2000; exhibit: 2000-2001.

Oral Historian, Meet Me at the Fair Memory and History of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, Missouri Historical Society; research: 1993-1996; exhibit: 1996-1999.

Principal Investigator: Pilot Project for People and Place in 20th-Century St. Louis, Oral History project on the Grand/Oak Hill (aka Tower Grove South) neighborhood. Project duration: May - September 1995; 8 interviews; MHS project, 4 member team

General editor, Experiences in the Voluntary Integration Programs at St. Louis Cultural and Educational Institutions: A Missouri Historical Society Oral History Research Project , by Dr. Seena Kohl, Dr. Kathleen Cook, Dr. Sharon Lee, Alfreda Bady, and Alyssa Royse; 1995 

BOOK REVIEWS and REVIEW ESSAYS SINCE 1991

BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS, by Publication

American Anthropologist
Arkansas Review
Choice
The Courier-Journal & Times
The Filson Club History Quarterly
Folklore Forum
Gateway (Pre-2004: Gateway Heritage)
History of Education Quarterly
Journal of American Folklore
Material Culture
New York Folklore 
Oral History Review
Utopian Studies
Western Folklore

Book Review Essays

Eskimo books: Eskimo drawings, ed. by Suzi Jones; and Upside down: seasons among the Nunamiut, by Margaret B. Blackman, for Western Folklore (submitted January 2005).

Oral History books: In our own words: stories of North Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1900-1960 and Crossroads: stories of Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1912-2000, compiled by Sarah Boyer; in Oral History Review (2002).

Shaker books: Thrasher, Kindred Spirits; Pearson & Neal, The Shaker Image; Nicoletta, The Architecture of the Shakers; in Material Culture 28:3 (Fall 1996): 43-50.

Shaker books: Emlen, Shaker Village Views and Grant & Allen, Shaker Furniture Makers, in Communal Studies 11 (1991): 94-99

Book Reviews

Frozen in time: the fate of the Franklin expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, in Gateway (submitted January 2005).

Tobacco harvest: an elegy, by Wendell Berry, in Journal of American Folklore (submitted January 2005).

In a hungry country: essays by Simon Paneak, ed. by John Martin Campbell with contributions by Grant Spearman, Robert L. Rausch, and Stephen C. Porter. Choice 42:7 (March 2005): [no page number assigned yet].

Witching culture: folklore and neo-paganism in America, by Sabina Magliocco, in Choice 42:7 (March 2005): [no page number assigned yet].

The Shaker spiritual, edited by Daniel Patterson (Second, corrected edition), in Journal of American Folklore (submitted July 2004).

Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse, in Choice 42:2 (October 2004): 377.

Solicited review of The order has been carried out: history, memory, and meaning of a Nazi massacre in Rome, by Alessandro Portelli, in Oral History Review 2004.

Narratives of Mexican American women: emergent identities of the second generation, by Alma M. García, in Choice 41:10 (June 2004): 921.

Eight words for the study of expressive culture, ed. by Burt Feintuch, in Choice 41:7 (March 2004): 1280.

Roadside crosses in contemporary memorial culture
, by Holly Everett Denton, in Journal of Folklore Research (Internet site review), January 2004.

Graceful women: gender and identity in an American Sikh community, by Constance Waeber Elsberg, in Choice 41:5 (January 2004): 999.

Southern heritage on display: public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism, ed. by Celeste Ray, in Choice 41:3 (November 2003): 609.

Memory in black and white: race, commemoration, and the post-bellum landscape, by Paul A. Shackel, in Choice 41:2 (October 2003): 405.

Folk nation: folklore in the creation of American tradition, by Simon Bronner, in Choice 40:7 (March 2003): 1242.

The politics of storytelling: violence, transgression, and intersubjectivity, by Michael Jackson, in Choice 40:6 (February 2003): 1021.

Surviving through the days: translations of native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader, ed. by Herbert W. Luthin, in Choice 40:5 (January 2003): 868.

Chicana traditions: continuity and change, ed. by Norma E. Cantú and Olga Nájera-Ramírez, in Choice 40:4 (December 2002): 668.

Haunted houses and family ghosts of Kentucky, by William Lynwood Montell, in Filson Club History Quarterly 76:4 (Fall 2002): 590-592.

Food for the dead: on the trail of New England's vampires, by Michael E. Bell, in Choice 39:11/12 (July 2002): 2022.

Storied lives: Japanese American students and World War II, by Gary Y. Okihiro, in Oral History Review (2001)

Badger and Coyote were neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian myths and tales, ed. by William R. Seaburg and Pamela T. Amos, in Choice 38:6 (February 2001): 1120.

Polish American Folklore, by Deborah Silverman, in Choice 38:4 (December 2000): 747.

The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade 1877-1995, by Thomas M. Spencer, in Arkansas Review (2000).

When we say we're home: a quartet of place and memory, by W. Scott Olsen, in Choice 37:2 (October 1999): 384.

God among the Shakers: a search for stillness and faith at Sabbathday Lake, by Suzanne Skees, in Choice 37:2 (October 1999): 347.

Solicited review of In search of authenticity: the formation of Folklore studies, by Regina Bendix, in American Anthropologist (1998).

Bodies of life: Shaker literature and literacies, by Etta M. Madden, in Choice 36:2 (October 1998): 317.

The end of the world as we know it: faith, fatalism, and apocalypse in America, by Daniel Wojcik, in Utopian Studies (1998).

The labyrinth of memory, edited by Marea Teski and Jacob Climo, in Journal of American Folklore Vol 111: 439 (Winter, 1998): 95-97.

High art down home: an economic ethnography of a local art market, by Stuart Plattner, in Gateway Heritage, Vol. 18: 1 (Summer 1997): 46-47.

Artisans in the North Carolina backcountry, by Johanna Miller Lewis, in Filson Club History Quarterly 71:1 (January 1997): 98-100.

Monsters, tricksters, and sacred cows: animal tales and American identity, ed. by A. James Arnold, in Choice (October 1996).

The gas station in America, by John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle, in Choice (March 1995): 707.

Folklore and fascism, by Hannjost Lixfeld, trans. by James Dow, in Choice (Nov 1994): 544.

American folklore and mass media, by Linda Dégh, in Choice (Jul/Aug 1994): 412.

Dearest chums and partners, by Hugh Keenan, in History of Education Quarterly 34: 4 (Winter 1994): 498-499.

Masquerade politics: explorations in the structure of urban cultural movements, by Abner Cohen, in Journal of American Folklore (1994)

Spiritual spectacles: vision and image in mid-nineteenth century Shakerism, by Sally Promey, in Choice (Oct 1993): 629.

African-American gardens and yards in the rural South, by Richard Westmacott, in Material Culture 25:3 (Fall 1993): 53-56.

Creativity and tradition in folklore: New directions, ed., Simon Bonner, in Journal of American Folklore 106: 422 (Fall 1993): 504-505.

Rock fences of the bluegrass, by Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz, in Filson Club Historical Society Quarterly 67:3 (July 1993): 404-406.

Cultural history and material culture: everyday life, landscapes, museums, by Thomas J. Schlereth, in Journal of American Folklore 106: 421 (Summer 1993): 353-355.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: TEACHING

2005    Faculty, Independent Study on Oral History, for Ryan Stockwell, Ph.D. student, Rural Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia

1993-2002    Museum Assistant Professor: "The Culture of Cities," "Introduction to Folklore," "Cultural Diversity through Literature," "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," "American Folklore," “Internship in Folklore,” Internship in Cultural Anthropology,” and “Oral History of the City,” Dept of Anthropology, UM-St. Louis

1999-2000    Co-Chair, Master’s Committee, for Julie Maio Kemper, MA in History (Museum Studies), UM-St. Louis: A Path Through Crisis: The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 (A Traveling Interpretive Exhibit)

1999    Admitted to Faculty of the Pierre Laclede Honors College, UM-St. Louis

1995    Admitted to Graduate Faculty, UM—St. Louis

1994-2002    Intern Director: Supervised dozens of interns after establishing the Anthropology department’s internship program

1993    Instructor and designer: "Indiana Folklife" (F360), Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

1985-86    Instructor: "The Hero in American Culture" (A201), Program in American Studies, IU (3 semesters)

1984-85    Instructor and designer: "Introduction to American Folklore" (F220), at 1) Folklore Institute, IU and 2) School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

1984    Associate Instructor: "Childhood and Youth in America" (A202), Program in American Studies, IU

1983    Associate Instructor: "Religious Diversity in America" (R432), Department of Religious Studies, IU

1982    Associate Instructor: "Introduction to Folklore" (F101), Folklore Institute, IU

1982    Teacher: "Family Folklore" (for 10-12 year olds), Louisville (Ky.) Free Public Library with the Louisville Art Gallery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: APPLIED RESEARCH

Oral History

Unknown Soldiers, Unsung Heroes: Youth Activism in the St. Louis Civil Rights Movement, (2004-06)

Description
: Part of the Liberty’s Legacies grant awarded to the Missouri Historical Society and the Cooperating School District of St. Louis, this component focuses on a short time period [1948-1961] in local civil rights activities that featured the burgeoning of a young student movement advocating civil rights for African Americans. This period is relatively unknown in local or national consciousness, and the intent is to have the material available for use by students and teachers.
o USDE Teaching American History grant
o Oral history supervisor of Gwen Moore, oral historian
o Supervisor of two teacher interns (Regina Gleason and Deborah)
o Over a dozen groundbreaking interviews.

In the Voice of a Child (2001-2003)

Description
: An oral history project collaboration between the Missouri Historical Society, the St. Louis city school district, and community arts organizations, to train middle school African American children in oral history and methods of public presentation of their projects.
o Funded by Rockefeller Foundation
o Team project advisor 2001-2002
o Assumed supervision in 2002-2003
o Supervised budget, projects, and staff work
o Resulted in a video production, two plays, a handcrafted book, a radio program, and a museum exhibit

Through the Eyes of a Child (1995-2003)

Description
: An oral history project dealing with the lives of African American children in historically black neighborhoods in the St. Louis region, from the 1930s through the 1980s.
o Funded in part by the Whitaker Foundation
o Team oral historian
o Focus Group leader
o Exhibit team member
o Video production team member
o Historyonics Theatre Company drama team member

People and Place in 20th-Century St. Louis (1993-2001)

Description
: A long term research project attempting to document the residential, business, political, social, and cultural life of St. Louis in twelve communities throughout the metropolitan region. The twelve communities represent differences in locale, socioeconomic levels and development, and demographics, as well as differences in time periods covered. All areas of the city and county areas are covered. The intent is to begin a research project that will shed light on reasons for the societal dynamics in St. Louis over the 20th century.
o Principal Investigator, oral history project:
o St. Louis and St. Louis County: CDA Neighborhoods of Hyde Park, North Point, Benton Park, Princeton Heights, and Skinker-DeBaliviere, and Paddock Woods in St. Louis County; co-worker, Jacqueline K. Dace, Assistant Researcher: 1993 - 2001
o Coordinator of the teams involved over the years, including staff members, interns, Research Fellows, and Exchange Scholars.
o Oral historian for the neighborhoods covered.
o Created collaboration through a course I taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
o over three years, students conducted oral histories in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood while learning oral history method and theory
o these oral histories are part of the MHS project oral history collections
o Wrote an article for Gateway Heritage on this project
o Presented papers and gave talks to community groups on this topic
o Featured on a local news station discussing this project

Seeking St. Louis (1996-2000)

Description
: A comprehensive view of St. Louis from late prehistoric times (Cahokia era) to the modern day. Exhibit centered in three large galleries at the Jefferson Memorial Building, Missouri History Museum.
o Team oral historian
o Exhibit team member

All Shook Up [project on the 1945-1965 period] (1995-1998)

Description
: Research project documenting life and culture in St. Louis during the post-World War II period, which was a boom time in St. Louis that had lasting social and cultural effects, not all of them positive. Project concluded research without applying for the follow-up grant because of new initiatives at MHS.
o NEH Planning grant
o member and contributor to the grant planning committee
o Oral history advisor
o Focus Group designer and moderator

Meet Me At the Fair: Memory, History and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (1993-1996)

Description
: A comparative view of the regionally significant Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, contrasting the Fair as we can reconstruct it from factual history to the Fair as remembered by St. Louisans in story and legend. The exhibit was featured in the large West Gallery on two levels at the Jefferson Memorial Building, Missouri History Museum.
o Principal oral historian, conducting interviews with actual visitors to the Fair as well as descendants of fairgoers.
o Researcher into the narrative folklore of the Fair, primarily of the legends surrounding Dogtown, a residential neighborhood close to the historic fairgrounds.

Oral history Pilot Project for the People and Place project; focus on Tower Grove South neighborhood (1995)

Description
: The test program for the longer People and Place of 20th century St. Louis project. Conducted in this mid-city urban neighborhood because of its diversity and centrality.
o Principal Investigator, designer, and team leader
o supervised Jackie Dace, MHS Assistant Researcher and Gail Ramspott, graduate intern from SLU;
o conducted full-schedule oral history project of a CDA neighborhood, May-September 1995
o wrote up a summary report for internal use

Cultural Desegregation Programs in St. Louis, 1981-1994; project conducted 1994-1995

Description
: Documentation of the students, teachers, and administrators of the landmark decision to desegregate St. Louis city public schools. The intent was to gather the social history to help determine the personal and social effects of the desegregation effort, as well as to determine some of the unknown facts surrounding its implementation.
o Supervisor
o Wrote and received $45,000 grant from Schlafly Foundation
o Designed the project and in charge of hiring the researchers
o Resulted in over two dozen archived interviews and a final report

Project developer, Interviewer for various Oral History Research Center (IU) projects,
    including:

o the Whiting, Indiana, Project on American Memory (1992)
o oral historian of ethnic steel workers
o exit poll interviewer for 1992 Presidential election

o Studebaker Corporation Project (1984-1985)
o primary interviewer and architect of project
o oral historian of factory workers, union officials, and administration

o History of the IU School of Music (1983)
o originator of the project and main architect
o interviewer of Wilfred Bain, former dean of the school

o People of Indianapolis: the Black Community (1983)
o Team project leader and oral historian

Grant writer, Louisville Blues Legacy Project, KYIANA Blues Society, Louisville, Kentucky from Kentucky Oral History Commission (1991), for oral history project documenting Louisville's blues tradition

Archival Work

 Folklife Slide Archivist, Folklore Institute, IU: 1988-91

o Personal archivist for Henry Glassie’s slide archives, mainly his work in the Southwest, Turkey, and Bangladesh

 Folklore Archives Assistant, Folklore Institute: 1982

Selected Field Studies: Folklore and Anthropology

St. Louis Filipino-American community, 2002-2004

Korean War veterans, 2002-2003

St. Louis Bosnian refugee community, 1999-2000

Community cultural study, based on St. Louis neighborhoods; co-sponsored by Missouri Historical Society and Center for Metropolitan Studies (UM—St. Louis): 1996 -2001

Trappist monastery studies, with a focus on time and space; with Dr. Van Reidhead, 1995 - 1996

Shaker dissertation research, with foci on tradition, commerce, folklife, and the built environment; October 1987 - August 1992

"The Gilliland House: A Two-Story Dogtrot," directed by Dr. Warren Roberts, IU: 1983
o winner of the 1984 Graduate Student Paper Award, Indiana University

"Indiana Gemlore Project," directed by Dr. John W. Johnson, IU: 1981

"Kentucky Shaker Furniture," directed by Dr. Warren Roberts, IU: 1981

Research Fellowships

Center for Metropolitan Studies, UM—St. Louis; appointments for 1997-1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE

Division of Research and Publications, Missouri Historical Society, 2002-2003

Research Department

o supervised a staff of two professionals

o Projects produced:

1. Memory exhibit

2. Through the eyes of a child exhibit (African American history)

3. In the voice of a child school collaboration and public presentation

4. African American History Talk Series

5. Looking back at looking forward: the 1904 World’s Fair (team participation)


Publications Department

o supervised a staff of four

o Products created:

1. 4 issues of Gateway Heritage, including the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial issue

2. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide, by Carolyn Gilman

3. The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During WWII, by David Fiedler

4. A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman, by Frankie Muse Freeman with Candace O’Connor

5. St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw: A View beyond the Garden Wall, edited by Eric Sandweiss

o Products begun during but finished after my tenure:

1. St. Louis Metromorphosis, Edited by Brady Baybeck and E. Terrence Jones

2. Bill Clay: A Political Voice at the Grass Roots, by Bill Clay

3. “Point from which creation begins”: The Black Artists’ Group of St. Louis, by Benjamin Looker

Administrative Duties

o staff supervision, evaluation; set rates of promotion and pay raises

o creation and administration of division budget

o determination of division projects, schedules, and assigned duties

o participation in institutional executive meetings and implementation of institutional policy

Manager, Center for Oral History Programs, Missouri Historical Society, 2004-present

Administrative Duties

o create plan for establishment of oral history as a core activity at MHS

o create variety of proposals for executive consideration for implementation

o research standards nationwide, as well as established programs

o create plan to train volunteer staff in oral history methodology

Director of Internship Program, Missouri Historical Society, 2002-present

Administrative Duties

o staff supervision of an administrative assistant

o establish internship periods

o create internship opportunities list and send it out to schools, professors, and interested students

o create and update intern mailing list

o create, disseminate, and monitor the completion of all forms

o maintain the records of the internship program, or ensure that they are maintained

Director, Research in Progress talk series, Missouri Historical Society, 1994-2000

Administrative Duties

o staff supervision of an administrative assistant

o create a nine-month schedule of scholarly talks to be held at MHS

o arrange for room reservations, food, and setup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: SERVICE

Anthropology Department, University of Missouri-St. Louis

1995 - 2002    Anthropology representative, rotating, for university functions

1995 - 2002    Thomas Jefferson Library Liaison: recommending books, updating the serials collection

1995 - 2002    Internship Coordinator:

o Created the dept.'s program

o Drafted the departmentally approved guidelines

o Placed guidelines and forms on the Internet

o Identified potential institutions to work with

o Connected students with academic supervisors

1998-1999    Museum Studies Committee

1998-1999    Executive Committee

Arts & Sciences

1993 - 2003    Center for the Humanities

1993 - 2002    American Studies Committee

1998               Paper presentation on folk art, Folk Art, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Art,
                                 for Gallery 201 opening, Robbie Barker: Speaking in the Vernacular (March 10-13)

1997 -             Planning committee, Center for the Humanities, What is a city?

1996               MHS/UMSL planning committee for Museum Studies Master's Program

Non-University Professional Service (Including service with Missouri Historical Society)

2002 -              Founding Board Member, St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange

2002 -              Director, MHS Fellowship Program

1998 -              Project Reviewer, Folk Art Projects, Missouri Folk Arts Advisory Committee

1993 -               Missouri Folk Arts Advisory Committee and field evaluator: Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

1993 -              Article peer reviewer for Gateway (formerly Gateway Heritage)

1983 -              Choice reviewer for books on Shakers, folklore, oral history, ethnic history

2003                 LeadershipPlenty class, Pew Charitable Trust

2003 - 2004      Board Advisor for Oral History Project, Focus St. Louis

1989 - 2002      Modern Language Association: Field Bibliographer, volume 5 (Folklore Bibliography)
•     indexer for Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, Mississippi Folklife, North Carolina Folklore Journal, Southern Folklore, and a variety of books of scholarly articles

1999-2000        Project Reviewer: National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access

1994 - 2000      Director, Research in Progress talk series, MHS

1998-1999        Project Reviewer: National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access

1999                  Manuscript evaluator (Muffler Men), University Press of Mississippi

1998                  Neighborhoods Presentation for SLACO (St. Louis Association of Community Organizations), April 18.

1997                  (With Bob Duffy, Post-Dispatch) Program on Civic Celebrations, radio show with Mark Menelli, FM 90.7 (KWMU)

1997                  (With Bob Duffy, Post-Dispatch) Program on Civic Celebrations, public program at MHS

1997                  Workshop on Religion and spirituality in contemporary America, MHS/OASIS collaborative program

1996-1997         Judge for graduate student paper contest, Folklore and History section, American Folklore Society

1996                  Presentation on Winter holidays, MHS

1996                  Workshop on oral history and family history, MHS

1996                  Coordinator, African American Participation in St. Louis Museums, Dr. Gene Robertson, director

1995                  Oral History presentation: Prof. Rosemary Thomas's English class, Meramec Community College

1995                  Oral History presentation: Prof. Rosemary Thomas's Landmarks class (for area secondary teachers)

1995                  Oral History presentation: 4th grade class, Hawthorn Elementary School, Rockwood School District

1989-1992         Indiana Arts Commission: Expansion Arts/Folk Arts/Multi-Arts Panel


PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH EXTERNAL ENTITIES


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: SELECTED GRANT INVOLVEMENT


PAPER PRESENTATIONS

American Folklore Society Conferences

2004    Doing History While Thinking Folklore

2003    Museum Work As Folkloristic Negotiation

2002    Exhibiting Bosnians In St. Louis

1999    Public Historian, Academic Anthropologist, Alien Folklorist

1996    Using Memory: Folklorist, Anthropologist, Historian

1994    Urban Folklore

1993    The Flatboat Trader’s Dilemma

1992    The Regionality of Shaker Architecture

1992    Chair: Narrative Images of Place

1989    Dickens and the Shakers: Interaction of Worldviews

1988    The Occupational/Organizational Folklore Debate

1985    Living Traditions among the Elders: Memories of Studebaker

1982    Shaker Spirit Drawings

Oral History Association (1996-2003)

2003    Chair, Agency and Identity: A Community of Voices

2002    Bosnians In St. Louis: Using Oral History To Exhibit A Refugee Population In A Community Gallery

2001    Local Committee Co-chair, St. Louis Oral History Association Conference

2000    Workshop, with Jacqueline K. Dace: Making a Product from Oral Interviews

1999    Chair and Presenter, The Question of Danger in Oral History Fieldwork

1997    Roundtable Discussion: Institutions Documenting Minority Communities

Selected Local, Regional, and Other National Conferences

2005    Museum Collaborations with Ethnic Communities in St. Louis, National Conference on Public History

2004    Chair and commentator, Ethnic Community/Museum Collaboration in St. Louis, American Association of State and Local History

2004    Chair and presenter, Preserving Community Through Oral History, Association of Midwest Museums

2004    Keynote Speaker, The 1904 World’s Fair and the Filipino Experience, Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) annual conference, St. Louis, MO

2004    Keynote Speaker, Igorots and the 1904 World’s Fair, International Igorot Consultation 5 (Igorot Global Organization), St. Louis, MO

1999    Poster: Urban cultural ecology and anthropology: what they contribute to an understanding of urban ecosystems, Institute for Ecological Studies, Cary Conference 8, Millbrook, New York

1998    Folk Art, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Art, for Gallery 201 opening, Robbie Barker: Speaking in
the Vernacular (March 10-13)

1998    St. Louis Neighborhoods and Community, St. Louis Association of Community Organizations

1997    Chair and commentator, Panel on Henry Glassie’s Folklore Contributions, Missouri Conference on History

1996    (co-author with Van Reidhead), Context, conditioning, and meaning of time-consciousness in a Trappist monastery, Toward a Science of Consciousness: Tucson II

1996    Chair, Public Spectacle, Public Memory: Representations of the 1904 World's Fair, Mid-America American Studies Association

1995    People And Place In St. Louis: The Anthropological Perspective, Central States Anthropology Society

1993    The Liminality of Shaker Traders, Communal Studies Association

1990    The Shakers of Kentucky, Beargrass-St. Matthews (Ky.) Historical Society

1988    Studebaker Remembered, Great Lakes American Studies Association Conference

1984    Kentucky Shaker Furniture, Folklore Student Association Colloquium, IU

1983    An Indianapolis African American Community, Indiana Historical Society Annual Meeting, Indianapolis

1983    Shaker Spirit Art, American Studies Graduate Students Colloquium, IU (1982)

1982    Shaker Spirit Drawings, Folklore Student Association Student Papers Conference III, IU

Conference Honoraria

2004    Keynote speaker, Filipino American National Historical Society annual conference, St. Louis, Missouri

2004    Keynote speaker, International Igorot Consultation, St. Louis, Missouri

1999    Invited participant, Institute for Ecological Studies, 8th Annual Cary Conference, Millbrook, New York

1987    Invited participant, Shaker Furniture and Design Symposium, The Shaker Museum (Old Chatham, New York)

1984    Invited participant, Shaker Studies Conference, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

Conference Planning Committees

2001                Local Committee Co-chair, Oral History Association national conference

1993-2000       Director, Research in Progress monthly talk series, Missouri Historical Society

1999                What is a City? conference, Center for the Humanities, UM-St. Louis, National Committee

1998                What is a City? conference, Center for the Humanities, Local committee

1997                Missouri Conference on History, National Committee

1994                Missouri Conference on History, Local Committee

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Anthropological Association

American Association of Museums

American Assn of State and Local History

American Folklore Society

American Studies Association

Association of Midwest Museums

California Folklore Society

Central States Anthropological Assn.

Communal Studies Association

Hoosier Folklore Society

Kentucky Folklore Society

Mid-America American Studies Assn.

Missouri Folklore Society

Missouri Historical Society

Oral History Association

Organization of American Historians

Pioneer America Society

Society for Urban Anthropology

Society for Utopian Studies

State Historical Society of Missouri



created: January 2005
this revision: February 10, 2005