Ronelle Alexander, Ph.D.  (Slavic Languages and Literature) Ronelle Alexander is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.  Her recent publications include Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology and In Honor of Diversity, the Linguistic Riches of the Balkans.

Stanley Brandes, Ph.D. (Anthropology) Stanley Brandes is a Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley. His recent publications include Staying Sober in Mexico City and Iconography in Mexico's Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning.

Charles Briggs, Ph.D. (Anthropology) Professor Charles Briggs is Chair of the UC Berkeley Folklore Department and Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore. Some of his recent publications include Voices of Modernity and Stories in the Time of Cholera.

Benjamin Brinner, Ph.D. (Music) Benjamin Brinner is a Professor in the Department of Music, as well as an Executive committee member for the Center for Southeast Asia Studies and Center for Middle East Studies, U.C. Berkeley. Some of his recent publications include "Beyond Israelis vs. Palestinians or Jews vs. Arabs: The Social Ramifications of Musical Interaction" and The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.

Shannon Jackson, Ph.D. (Performance) Shannon Jackson is the department chair of Berkeley's Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department and is also a professor in the Rhetoric department. Her research includes performance theory, experimental visual art and performance, American studies, sex/gender/race studies, history of disciplines and higher education, solo performance, oral history, and adaptation. Jackson is currently principal investigator for a community oral history and arts installation project in Richmond and Berkeley.

John F. Lindow, Ph.D. (Scandinavian) Professor Lindow is a Professor in the Scandinavain Department. Recent publications include Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs and Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs.

Daniel F. Melia, Ph.D. (Rhetoric) Daniel Melia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and the Program in Celtic Studies, as well as Secretary of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.  His publications include Orality and Aesthetics in Aristotle's "Rhetoric and Poetics" and Celtic Language, Celtic Culture.

Candace Slater, Ph.D. (Spanish and Portugese) Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portugese at UC Berkeley. She has also served as the Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center of the Humanities. Recent publications include In Search of the Rain Forest (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) and Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon.

Bonnie Wade, Ph.D. (Music) Bonnie Wade is the Chair of the Music Department as well as the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Berkeley. Publications include Music in Japan; Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture; Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art and Culture in Mughal India; Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition; Music in India: The Classical Tradition; and Tegotomono: Music for the Japanese Koto.

Galit Hasan-Rokem, Ph.D. is visiting UC Berkeley from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she has served as chair  of the academic committee of the Lafer Center for Gender Studies as well as chair of the academic committee of the Cultural Studies Program in the Humanities. Recent publications include Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity and "Rabbi Meir, the Illuminated and the Illuminating: Interpreting Experience."

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Iceland and a fellow in the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. His dissertation, The Making of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Tradition and Authenticity, Community and Humanity, investigates the construction of the concept of intangible heritage and of the convention dedicated to its safeguarding. His research on the international politics of heritage in UNESCO is complemented by a parallel project on the politics of intellectual property and traditional knowledge in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Katharine Young, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and writer in Berkeley, CA. Out of her training in folklore and philosophy, she has developed analyses of narrative in Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative (Martinus Nijhoff, 1986), of the body in her edited collection, Bodylore (University of Tennessee, 1993), of medicine in Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine (Harvard, 1996), and of gestures in her current research on somatic psychology. She has taught writing in both the Anthropology and Rhetoric Departments at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ronelle Alexander (ralex@berkeley.edu) is the Graduate Advisor for the Anthropology Department and the UC Berkeley Folklore Program. Her office is located at 205 Kroeber Hall.

Joy Tang is Head Archivist at the UC Berkeley Folklore Archive (110 Kroeber Hall) and a second year graduate student in the Folklore Program. She can be reached at ucbfolklore@berkeley.edu. For Joy's in-Archive hours, please see Archive Hours.

Ted Biggs is Assistant Archivist at the UC Berkeley Folklore Archive (110 Kroeber Hall) and a first year graduate student in the Folklore Program. He can be reached at ucbfolklore@berkeley.edu. For Ted's in-Archive hours, please see Archive Hours.