Visiting Faculty

Ülo Valk studied folkloristics at the University of Tartu from 1980 until 1986 and later worked as a research assistant, research fellow and senior research fellow at the folklore department of the Institute of Language and Literature. Since 1993 he has been teaching at the University of...Read more about Ülo Valk

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“As a scholar I am interested the way cultural practices become the focus of modification and transaction by state and non-state actors during processes of socio-political change. My book Naming and Nation-Building in Turkey: the 1934 Surname Law (2018) examines...Read more about Meltem Turkoz

Since 2016, as associate director for the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN), folklorist Mary Hufford has worked with colleagues across disciplines and sectors to develop collaboratories for place-based approaches to the study of forest and water issues in Central Appalachian...Read more about Mary Hufford

Taught over 40 years at the Hebrew University, at the Hebrew Literature Department's section for Aggadah and Folk Literature. Her research interests include: Poetics, folk literature, ethnography, everyday life and gender in Rabbinic literature; theory of folklore and folk literature; the...Read more about Galit Hasan-Rokem