Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An Initiative of the American Folklore Society and Its Partners in China and the United States

Jason Baird Jackson is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at Indiana University. His research and teaching interests include folklore theory, cultural heritage and property, material culture, cultural performance, and public folklore. He is the editor of the volumes Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds (2016), and Yuchi Indian Histories before the Removal Era (2012), and the author of Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community (2013), and Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community (2003). He is a research associate of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.