Center for Folklore Studies

Past Activities

Ethnicity, Migration, and Heritage Interdisciplinary Seminar

Seminar Faculty

English 792: Ethnicity, Migration, and Heritage graduate seminar is the product of a larger CFS research project on Ohio's heritage schools, called the Heritage and Learning Project. The seminar will bring together international and national scholars, Ohio State faculty, and graduate students, for a unique opportunity to build a base of shared knowledge across disciplines. The seminar seeks to explore interdisciplinary-shared interest in questions of how groups display, promote, and transmit their American-ness and their foreignness. These questions will help us to understand how, when, and why informal ethnic networks decide to create formal institutions.

Folklore/Cultural Studies

• Georgios Anagnostu (Greek and Latin: Greek Heritage)
• Katharine Borland (Comparative Studies, Newark: Hispanic)
• Tim Lloyd (English)
• Gabriella Modan (English: Jewish)
• Margaret Mills (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: South Asian)
• Patrick Mullen (English: Appalachian, African American)
• Dorothy Noyes (English: Mediterranean)
• Chan Park-Miller (East Asian Languages and Literatures: Korean)
• Amy Shuman (English: Jewish)
• Judy Wu (History: Chinese)

Foreign Language Study

• Terrell A. Morgan (Spanish and Portuguese: Hispanic/Latina/o)

Language Diversity

• Don Winford (Linguistics: Somalian; African American)
• Brian Joseph (Linguistics: Linguistic diversity in Ohio)
• Scott Schwenter (Lingusitics)

Agriculture/Land Use

• Richard Moore (Human and Community Resource Development)

Legal Studies

• Carol Bohmer (Sociology and Women’s Studies: Somalian)

Politics and Nationalism

• Greg Jusdanis (Greek and Latin Studies: Greek Nationalism)