Panelists
2016-2017 Traditional Arts

September 11, 2015
2:00 PM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)

Chair: Sandy Shaughnessy
Program Manager: Sarah Stage

Mark Brown

Frankfort, Kentucky

Program Director, Folk and Traditional Arts, Kentucky Arts Council
Former Folklife Specialist for the Kentucky Folklife Program
Experiences include managing folk arts grant programs, Community Scholars, fieldwork, archives, traveling exhibitions, published articles and reviews, festivals, and other public events
M.A., Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University

Jonesboro, Arkansas

Professor, Folklore and English, and faculty in Heritage Studies Doctoral Program, Arkansas State University
Former public folklorist for Florida Folklife Program
Research and writing on folk music, narratives, public folklore, and folklore and education
Research presentations at international, national, and regional conferences, and publications in various books, journals, and other media
Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University; M.A., Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University; B.A., Communication Studies with non-major option in Folklore, Pennsylvania State University

Director of Folklife, Tennessee Arts Commission
Previously worked as a member of the Cumberland Trail Music and Heritage project in eleven Tennessee counties where he did field research, audio and visual archival management, website design, radio production, and interpretive writing focused on regional expressive life and folklore
Received Blanton Owen Fund Award in support of his ongoing fieldwork among regional musicians
His dissertation, Tuned Our Way: Music, Memory, and Heritage in East Tennessee, is currently being revised for publication by the University of Illinois Press.
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, Brown University

Director, Missouri folk Arts Program, Missouri Arts Council
Previously, Program Manager, Southern Arts Federation
Publications: co-authored chapter with Susan Eleuterio in Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum, (2011); various book reviews co-authored with Teresa Hollingsworth (Western Folklore); Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife entries (2008)

Ph.D., English (Folklore & Rhetoric); M.A. and B.A., English, Arkansas State University

Assistant Professor, Music History and Ethnomusicology, Claflin University and Project Director, Orangeburg Music Project
Previously Adjunct Professor, Musicology, Florida State University; Music Instructor, Groove Entertainment and Music Services; Director, African Music & Dance Ensemble, Florida State University; Adjunct Professor, Humanities in Music, Tallahassee Community College
Africanist musicologist, educator, percussionist and vocalist and his primary research interests include Ugandan ritual music and popular music
President, Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) and
Liaison to the African Studies Association, SEM African Music SectionPh.D., Musicology, Florida State University; M.M., Musicology, emphasis in Ethnomusicology, Florida State University; B.A., Music and Africana Studies, Luther College

Miami-Dade County

Folklife Specialist, History Miami
Previously Service and Engagement Coordinator, University of Miami, Public Allies, Catalyst Miami
M.M., Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Florida State University; B.A., Anthropology, Cum Laude, University of Florida