2012 Spring and Summer Graduates

Congratulations to our graduates!

 

Molly Bolick

After graduation, I am returning to Pennsylvania to work on contracted folk arts programming and infrastructure development with Community Partnerships RC&D, based in Lewistown. My projects will survey multiple counties, including my home county. I am very excited about this and thankful for the opportunity to apply my folklore training and skills to the region. I hope this will be the first step of many as a folklorist.

Click here to read about Molly's internship experience and her background.  

 

Katherine Chappell

 

After graduation, I'm traveling to Europe to visit France, Italy, and Scotland. I'll be taking my resume along, just in case any of the museums I visit are hiring! I'm hoping to use my new degree to expand my professional career into further work with museum collections or archives, to continue to conduct fieldwork in oral history, and to bring the importance of historic preservation projects into the public eye.

Click here to read about Kasey's internship experience and her background.   

 

Janice Crane

I plan on moving west and continuing my work in museum education and fundraising. I will be pursuing a certificate in non-profit management to complement my folklore background.

Click here to read about Janice's internship experience and her background.

 

Rachel Hopkin

My first Christmas in Kentucky.

Summer: Earlier this year, I was awarded the 2012 Sally Kress Tompkins 2012 research fellowship and as a result I'm going to be working on a project for the Historic American Building Survey and the Society of Architectural Historians. Specifically, I'll be writing a history of the music industry in Nashville and relating that to 3-5 structures/sites within the city that were key to the industry's development.

I'm also going to making a radio documentary about some hippies who moved to Allen County in the 1970s for broadcast on WKYU, working for the American Folklore Society as part of the task force that is seeking to expand of the National Register of Historic Places Traditional Cultural Properties nomination process, reporting on that at the Vernacular Architecture Forum's conference in Madison in June, and doing some more fieldwork in east Kentucky with the master old time banjo player, George Gibson.

Those projects will take me through to the end of September. In the longer term, I want to work in the realm of public folklore and will hope to incorporate my interest in place, community and my radio experience in some way into that. I think the training at WKU has been just ideal. I can't say enough good things about the program.

Click here to read about Rachel's internship experience, her background, and her radio work.

 

Jennifer Jameson

I've recently moved to Nashville, TN, and intend on finding public folklore work (or at least folklore-friendly work) in the area. I will continue my internship with the Sound of Moving Image Archives of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

In June, I will be collaborating with a Nashville colleague, Sarah Carter, on conducting fieldwork and research on wart cures and related traditional healing practices in Northwest Alabama. This research is part of our receipt of the Joyce H. Cauthen Fellowship from the Alabama Folklife Association.

This summer, some colleagues and I will continue to develop the newly established The Nashville Folk + Free Skool, a grassroots volunteer-run organization rooted in the folk school and free skool traditions, which seeks to engage an accessible local discourse on, and participation in, tradition-, and skill-sharing in, of, and by the Nashville community.

Click here to read about Jenn's internship experience and her background.

 

Rebekah Lyons

On May 30th, I will be flying to Dublin, Ireland where I will begin a two-month internship with An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland. My internship will consist of assisting with grant applications and general operations, as well as working with historic preservationists restoring and preserving historic architecture and landscapes. On my off days, I will explore as much of Ireland as I can, whether it be by train, car, or hiking.

My internship ends August 5th and that day I will depart for Scotland. Over the course of the next week, I will make my way from Scotland to London. On August 12th, I meet up with the Student Travel Association and begin a 20-day European Tour. During the tour, I will visit Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, Austria-Tyrol, and the Swiss Alps. I will return home the first of September.

Hopefully, by then I will have job prospects, preferably in historic preservation, cultural tourism, and/or, specifically, the National Park Service. If not, I will intern first as a videographer for City Lore in NYC and then at the Folklore Archives in D.C., creating records for video that has not been logged. The NPS also offers year-long internships that I will apply for. Ultimately, I want to end up in a Cultural Programming Office operated by the NPS. It will be a difficult road, but I won't give up on it.Rebekah Lyons

On May 30th, I will be flying to Dublin, Ireland where I will begin a two-month internship with An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland. My internship will consist of assisting with grant applications and general operations, as well as working with historic preservationists restoring and preserving historic architecture and landscapes. On my off days, I will explore as much of Ireland as I can, whether it be by train, car, or hiking.

My internship ends August 5th and that day I will depart for Scotland. Over the course of the next week, I will make my way from Scotland to London. On August 12th, I meet up with the Student Travel Association and begin a 20-day European Tour. During the tour, I will visit Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, Austria-Tyrol, and the Swiss Alps. I will return home the first of September.

Hopefully, by then I will have job prospects, preferably in historic preservation, cultural tourism, and/or, specifically, the National Park Service. If not, I will intern first as a videographer for City Lore in NYC and then at the Folklore Archives in D.C., creating records for video that has not been logged. The NPS also offers year-long internships that I will apply for. Ultimately, I want to end up in a Cultural Programming Office operated by the NPS. It will be a difficult road, but I won't give up on it.

Click here to read about Bekah's background.

 

Sarah McCartt-Jackson

 

This summer, Bryan and I will be moving to Louisville or Oldham County. I will be looking for jobs nearby in museums and finishing my poetry thesis. I hope to get a job that uses my folklorist skills.

Click here to read about Sarah's internship experience and her background.

 

Alison McDaniel

I am moving to Athens, GA where I plan to look for a job, read non-school books, catch up on movies and select TV shows I have missed in the past two years, start going to the gym and sleep more than 6 hours every night. I will also spend several weeks in KY to help my mother manage her kitchen renovation and back deck construction projects and to spend some quality time with my BFF. Also, anthropologist Dr. Phyllis Passariello, from my alma mater Centre College, has been begging me to come back to Mexico, so I will probably take an extended stay there at some point. 

Click here to read about Alison's internship experience and her background.

 

Amber Slaven

Summer plans- Unknown
Fall- Attending the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in order to obtain a PhD in English.

Click here to read about Amber's background.  Coming soon: a link to Amber's thesis about anime and folk tales!

 

Katrina Wynn

 

This summer I will be interning at TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York) in Canton, NY. I will be working on an exhibit about dude ranches in the Adirondacks in collaboration with the New York Center for Folklife, History, and Cultural Programs at Crandall Library and the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council.

After that, I will be moving back to New England and looking for a public folklore job, preferably at a folklore center in New England or the Mid-Atlantic, maybe even with some of our program's alumni!

Click here to read about Katie's internship experience and her background.