M.A. THESES IN FOLK STUDIES

Butch Ross

2007
My Whole Life Balanced on a Needle: The Obliquely Traditional Quilts of Bernice Enyeart
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Michael Kinsella

2007
The Incunabula Papers: Legend-Tripping and World-Making in Cyberspace
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Matthew Allen Cook

2007
The Narratives of Ann Lee as a Core Component of Shaker Theological Evolution.
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Mary Koegel

2007
Never Alone: A "Look" at Imaginal Companions
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Kevin Jones Murphy

2004
Making the Scene: An Investigation of the Rock and Roll Scenes of Nashville, Tennessee and Athens, Georgia
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Andrea Kitta

2003
Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religious Life
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Amber Ridington

2002
At the Crossroads: Commercial Music and Community Experience, The Quonset Auditorium Roadhouse on the Dixie Highway
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Dina Abousamra

2001
Beirut's Displacements: Reconstituting Place and Community in a Time of War
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Cara Hoglund

2000
Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration of the Musical Comedy Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
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Kirsten Anderson

1999
National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
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Ann Ferrell

1999
Beyond Celebration: A Call for the Study of Traditions of Dominance
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Virginia Scheer

1999
Farmhouses That Become Boarding Houses in the Catskill Mountains of New York State
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Brian Gregory

1998
Approaching Fallingwater: An Ethnography of Place
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Andrea Mericle

1998
Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
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Hayden Roberts

1998
Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
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Andrea Lyn Mericle

1998
Festivals, Function, and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
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Hayden Browning Roberts

1998
Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
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Steven R. Warrick

1997
Does Your Faith in God and Country Need a Boost? Reflections of Idealism and Identity and the Art of Bill John Roth
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Kymberly Ann Helbig

1996
An Exploration of the Self’: Contemporary Tattooing in the Creation and Expression of Identity
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Brandon Kwiatek

1995
The Dark Ride
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John Morgan

1995
Dark Fired Tobacco: The Origin, Migration and Survival of a Colonial Era Agrarian Tradition
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Thomas Anthony Zimmerman

1995
Roadside Memorials in Five South Central Kentucky Counties
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James S. Nelson

1994
Hillbilly Music and Early Live Radio Programming in Bowling Green and Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon
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Tami Lynne Harbolt

1993
Too Loved to Be Forgotten: Pet Loss and Ritual Bereavement
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Joseph C. Ruff

1993
Country Music in the Northeast: Two Careers
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Richard J. Callahan, Jr.

1993
Legends and Narratives of Phantom Ships: An Examination of Belief
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Jimmy D. Browning

1992
The Lost Tribalism of Years Gone By’: Function and Variation in Gay Folklore in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Novels
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Jon Rhett Rushing

1991
Horsetrading: An East Texas Study in Establishing Context
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Janet Ann Tracy

1991
Jack Epperson: A Modern Folk Healer
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Mella Jean Davis

1991
Zora Neale Hurston: The Voice of the Goddess
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Gregory Kendall Jenkins

1990
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image of Work and Value
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Sara Jane McNulty

1990
An Ethnography of a Trance Channeling Session
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ElizaBeth Allen Hester

1989
Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky
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Mary A. Zwolinski

1988
Displays of Culture: Personal Museums in Wisconsin
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Eleonore Mitchell

1988
Pre-Lent Celebrations: Shrovetide and Carnival
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Chad Berry

1988
Folk Custom as a Barometer of Social Change in a Tennessee Community
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Gregory Hansen

1987
The ‘Blankety-Blank’ of Bear Creek Camp: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Folk Drama
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Ann C. Taft

1986
At the Spiritual Grassroots’: An Analysis of Visionary Art and Artists
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Sheila Riley,

1986
Mam Ma: An Oral Life History of Mona Baldwin
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Donald Andrew Beisswenger

1985
Singing Schools in Southcentral Kentucky
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Julie Annette Hauri-Foster

1984
Two Hairdressers: Artistry and Communication
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Kathleen L. Young

1983
Ethnobotany: A Methodology for Folklorists
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Deborah McGuffey Hall

1983
Using Folklore to Teach English as a Second Language
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Denis O. Kiely

1983
The Loving of the Game: A Study of Basketry in the Mammoth Cave Area
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Theresa L. Jureka

1983
Women and Work at the Turn of the Century: The Mrs. A.H. Taylor Dressmaking Company
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Jan Laude

1982
A Contemporary Female Psychic: A Folkloristic Study of a Traditional Occupation
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Ervin H. Mason

1982
A Study of the Biblical Narrative of Saul, Including Investigation of the Folktale and Proverb as Genres of Folk Narrative
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Nana S. Farris

1982
Ink in My Blood: The Folklore of a Commercial Print Shop
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Timothy S. Cochrane

1982
The Folklife Expressions of Three Isle Royale Fishermen: A Sense of Place Examination
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Edward B. McCurley

1982
A History of the Bowling Green Fire Department: A Look at Two Traditional Methodologies
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Edward B. McCurley

1982
A History of the Bowling Green Fire Department: A Look at Two Traditional Methodologies
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Martin B. Ostrofsky

1982
O. Henry’s Use of Stereotypes in His New York City Stories: An Example of the Utilization of Folklore in Literature
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Debbie J. Gibson

1981
Folklore, Folklife and Still Photography: A Synergetic Approach
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Keith Ludden

1981
'No Bob Yet': A Collection of Narratives from Nobob, Kentucky
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John Marshall

1981
Barbecue in Western Kentucky: An Ethnographic Study
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Jan Alm

1981
A Sourcebook for the Interpretation of Traditional Dance by Outdoor Museums and Historic Sites
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Elizabeth Gail Harzoff

1981
They’d Have the Biggest Time You Ever Saw: Square Dances as Settings for Community Social Interaction in Trigg County, Kentucky Ca. 1920-1979
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R. Raymond Allen

1981
Old-Time Music and the Urban Folk Revival
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Gilbert Wayne Howard

1981
Fiddle Songs and Banjo Songs: A Description and Index
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Mary Helen Weldy

1980
A Study of the Usefulness of Folkloric Topics in a Remotivation Technique Program with Institutionalized Elderly Persons
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George P. Reynolds

1980
Home, Loved Ones, and Heaven: Folk Expression in the Songs of Katherine O’Neill Peters Sturgil
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Rebecca D. Morse

1979
Tinsley Bottom, Tennessee: An Historical Reconstruction Utilizing Oral Narrative Traditions
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Lori J. Kaplan

1979
The Lark on the Strand: A Study of a Traditional Irish Flute Player and His Music
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Kate Parker Grenier

1978
Folklore, Poetry, and Identity: A Study of the Archetypes in the Poetry of Leslie Silko
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J. Vaughan Webb

1977
Traditional Elements in the Selected Columns of Allan M. Trout
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Dianna Zacharias

1976
An Interpretation of the Florida Ex-Slaves’ Memories of Slavery and the Civil War,
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Michael l. Morse

1975
The Hensley Settlement: An Oral Folk History of Its Material Culture
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