Department of Society, Culture, Crime, and Justice Studies

Graduate courses:
FLK 462 Folklore and Medicine
FLK 575 Folk Belief
FLK 576 American Traditional Music
FLK 578 Folklore Fieldwork

Undergraduate courses:
FLK 275 Supernatural Folklore
FLK 281 Roots of Southern Culture
FLK 375 Supernatural Folklore

Ph.D., Folklore, Indiana University
M.A., Folklore, UCLA
B.A. mcl, Harvard / Radcliffe

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.

2001. Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems. Logan: Utah State University Press.

1999. A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.