Erika Brady

 

Erika Brady

Professor, Folk Studies

Fine Arts Center 268
Office Phone: 745-5902
erika.brady@wku.edu

Current Office Hours: Tu  Th 2:20-3:40, Wed. 10:20-11:15

 

Degrees:

BA mcl , Harvard / Radcliffe
MA, Folklore, UCLA
Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University

 

I work with Family Practice medical residents at University of Louisville and several other medical schools, familiarizing them with nonconventional health belief systems in their region. And I host "Barren River Breakdown," a weekly radio show on WKYU-FM featuring American roots music.

 

Courses I teach:

Supernatural Folklore
Folklore and Medicine
Folk Belief
Fieldwork
Roots of Southern Culture
American Traditional Music

 

Selected publications:

A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography

Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

 

 

 

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