Department:
Folklore
Bio/CV:
Ciarán was born and raised in Ireland, moving to the Bay Area with his family 25 years ago. After a career spent in the tech industry, he changed direction to pursue his academic ambitions in anthropology and folklore, receiving his BA in anthropology from Cal in 2024. Through the masters folklore program, Ciarán hopes to explore the entanglements between power and folklore—how power structures are reflected in folklore and how regimes of power need to navigate folk groups to maintain legitimacy. He was awarded the 2024 Kroeber Prize for his senior honors thesis.
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