Theses and Specialist projects from 2024
“Not Like Your Abuelos”: A (Fe)minist/Autoethnographic Approach to Vernacular Religious Belief and Traditionalization, Ciara Bernal
Theses and Specialist projects from 2023
Theses and Specialist projects from 2021
La Llorona, Picante Pero Sabroso: The Mexican Horror Legend as a Story of Survival and a Reclamation of the Monster, Camille Maria Acosta
Ethnography of Reading Comic Books, Azadeh Najafian
Theses and Specialist projects from 2020
“I Choose the Styles Which are both Traditional and Artistic”: Iranian Women’s Ways of Dress, Zahra Abedinezhadmehrabadi
Theses and Specialist projects from 2018
Cultural and Narrative Shifts of Nineteenth Century Children's Literature in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, Kristen Clark Brandt
On Being Trans: Narrative, Identity, Performance, and Community, Chloe Jo Brown
An Adventure Concerning Identity: The Use of Folklore and the Folkloresque in Murakami’s Hitsuji Wo Meguru Bōken (A Wild Sheep Chase) to Construct a Post-Colonial Identity, Jessica Alice Krawec
Theses and Specialist projects from 2017
Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore as World Building in Harry Potter, Samantha G. Castleman
Nightmares in the Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking and Food, Sarah T. Shultz
The Healing Power of Music and Chants amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People, Azadeh Vatanpour
Beliefs and Practices Related to Community Water Sources: "The Specialness of Springs", Anita Kay Westhues
Theses and Specialist projects from 2016
Performing Gender through Bowling, or, "I Was in Shock Other Girls Could Bowl", Eleanor Ann Hasken
The Past is Open to the Future: Lithuanian Folk Pottery 1861 - Present, Anthony E. Stellaccio
Theses and Specialist projects from 2015
Keeping the Magic: Fursona Identity and Performance in the Furry Fandom, Jakob W. Maase
Our Master’s Legacy: Belief and Ritual in Mission De L’esprit Saint, Dale Joseph Rose
Traditional Cultural Properties and Casita Rincón Criollo, Virginia Denise Siegel
Theses and Specialist projects from 2014
Neither (Fully) Here Nor There: Negotiation Narratives of Nashville's Kurdish Youth, Stephen Ross Goddard
Iranian Political Humor in Social Media, Afsaneh RezaeiSahraei
Theses and Specialist projects from 2012
The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in Anime, Amber N. Slaven
Haunts of the Hill: Western Kentucky University Ghostlore, Arthur Gordon Van Ness IV
Theses and Specialist projects from 2011
The Transformation of a Shire: Local Negotiation in the Society for Creative Anachronism, Suzanne Barber
Theses and Specialist projects from 2010
The Blood Drive of WKU Greek Week: Issues of Altruism, Egoism, Integration and Separation, Cynthia Halcyone Cotton
Human Things: Rethinking Guitars and Ethnography, Matthew L. Hale
The Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: Past and Present, David Puglia
Theses and Specialist projects from 2007
The Narratives of Ann Lee as a Core Component of Shaker Theological Evolution, Matthew Cook
The Incunabula Papers: Legend-Tripping & World-Making in Cyberspace, Michael Kinsella
Never Alone: A "Look" At Imaginal Companions, Mary Koegel
“My Whole Life Balanced on the Head of a Needle”: The Obliquely Traditional Quilts of Bernice Enyeart, George Ross
Theses and Specialist projects from 2004
Making the Scene: An Investigation of the Rock and Roll Scenes of Nashville, Tennessee, and Athens, Georgia, Kevin Jones Murphy
Theses and Specialist projects from 2003
Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religious Life, Andrea Kitta
Theses and Specialist projects from 2002
At the Crossroads Commercial Music and Community Experience The Quonset Auditorium - A Roadhouse on the Dixie Highway, Amber Ridington
Theses and Specialist projects from 2001
Beirut’s Displacements: Reconstituting Place & Community In a Time of War, Dina Abousamra
Theses and Specialist projects from 2000
Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration of the Musical Comedy Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Cara Hoglund
Theses and Specialist projects from 1999
National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany, Kirsten Anderson
Beyond Celebration: A Call for the Study of Traditions of Dominance, Ann Ferrell
Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, Virginia Scheer
Theses and Specialist projects from 1998
Approaching Fallingwater: An Ethography of Place, Brian Gregory
Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village, Andrea Mericle
Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative, Hayden Roberts
Theses and Specialist projects from 1997
"Does Your Faith in God and Country Need a Boost?" Reflections of Idealism and Identity and the Art of Bill John Roth, Steven Warrick
Theses and Specialist projects from 1996
“An Exploration of the Self”: Contemporary Tattooing in the Creation & Expression of Identity, Kymberly Helbig
Theses and Specialist projects from 1995
The Dark Ride, Brandon Kwaitek
Dark Fired Tobacco: The Origin, Migration and Survival of a Colonial Era Agrarian Tradition, John Morgan
Roadside Memorials in Five South Central Kentucky Counties, Thomas Zimmerman
Theses and Specialist projects from 1994
Hillbilly Music & Early Live Radio Programming in Bowling Green & Glasgow, Kentucky: Country Music as a Local Phenomenon, James Nelson
Theses and Specialist projects from 1993
Legends & Narratives of Phantom Ships: An Examination of Belief, Richard Callahan Jr.
Country Music in the Northeast: Two Careers, Joseph Ruff
Theses and Specialist projects from 1992
The Lost Tribalism of Years Gone By: Function & Variation in Gay Folklore in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Novels, Jimmy Browning
Theses and Specialist projects from 1991
Zora Neale Hurston: The Voice of the Goddess, Mella Davis
Horsetrading: An East Texas Study in Establishing Context, Jon Rushing
Jack Epperson: A Modern Folk Healer, Janet Tracy
Theses and Specialist projects from 1990
The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image of Work and Value, Gregory Kendall Jenkins
Theses and Specialist projects from 1989
Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky, ElizaBeth Hester
Theses and Specialist projects from 1988
Folk Custom as a Barometer of Social Change in a Tennessee Community, Chad Berry
Pre-Lent Celebrations: Shrovetide & Carnival, Eleonore Mitchell
Displays of Culture: Personal Museums in Wisconsin, Mary Zwolinski
Theses and Specialist projects from 1987
The Blankety-Blank of Bear Creek Camp: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Folk Drama, Gregory Hansen
Theses and Specialist projects from 1986
Mam Ma: An Oral Life History of Mona Baldwin, Sheila Riley
At the Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis of Visionary Art & Artists, Ann Taft
Theses and Specialist projects from 1985
Singing Schools in Southcentral Kentucky, Donald Beisswenger
Theses and Specialist projects from 1984
Two Hairdressers: Artistry & Communication, Julie Hauri-Foster
Theses and Specialist projects from 1983
Using Folklore to Teach English as a Second Language, Deborah Hall
Women & Work at the Turn of the Century: The Mrs. A.H. Taylor Dressmaking Company, Theresa Jureka
The Loving of the Game: A Study of Basketry in the Mammoth Cave Area, Denis O. Kiely
Ethnobotany: A Methodology for Folklorists, Kathleen Young
Theses and Specialist projects from 1982
The Folklife Expressions of Three Isle Royale Fishermen: A Sense of Place Examination, Timothy Cochrane
A Contemporary Female Psychic: A Folkloristic Study of a Traditional Occupation, Jan Laude
A Study of the Biblical Narrative of Saul, Including Investigation of the Folktale & Proverb as Genres of Folk Narrative, Ervin Mason Jr.
A History of the Bowling Green Fire Department: A Look at Two Traditional Methodologies, Edward McCurley
Theses and Specialist projects from 1981
Old-Time Music & the Urban Folk Revival, R. Raymond Allen
A Sourcebook for the Interpretation of Traditional Dance by Outdoor Museums & Historic Sites, Jan Alm
Folklore, Folklife & Still Photography: A Synergetic Approach, Debbie Gibson
They'd Have the Biggest Time You Ever Saw: Square Dances as Settings for Community Social Interaction in Trigg County, Kentucky ca. 1920-1979, Elizabeth Harzoff
Fiddle Songs and Banjo Songs: A Description Index, Gilbert Wayne Howard
"No Bob Yet" A Collection of Narratives from Nobob, Kentucky, Keith Ludden
Barbecue in Western Kentucky: An Ethnographic Study, John Marshall
Theses and Specialist projects from 1980
An Ethnography of a Trance Channeling Session, Sara McNulty
Home, Loved Ones & Heaven: Folk Expressin in the Songs of Katherine O'Neill Peters Sturgill, George Reynolds
Theses and Specialist projects from 1979
The Lark on the Strand: A Study of a Traditional Irish Flute Player and His Music, Lori Jane Kaplan
“. . . An’ the Whole Nine Yards.”: An Ethnography of a Kentucky Gunsmith, Michael Korn
Tinsley Bottom Tennessee: An Historical Reconstruction Utilizing Oral Narrative Traditions, Rebecca Morse
Theses and Specialist projects from 1978
Folklore, Poetry, and Identity: A Study of the Archetypes in the Poetry of Leslie Silko, Kate Grenier
A Folkloristic Look at Cockfighting, Marian Krontz
Social & Psychological Aspects of the Style & Repertoire of a Folk Musician, John Landes
Latent Didactic Functions of Tlingit Mythology: A Re-Evaluation of Raven's Role in Northwest Coast Culture, Stephen Poyser
They Like to Sing the Old Songs: The A.L. Phipps Family & Its Music, David Taylor
Theses and Specialist projects from 1977
Fandom is a Way of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler
Poetic Expression & the Folk Experience: Analysis & Anthology, Stuart Downs
A Folkloristic Approach to Storytelling Performances by a Contemporary Librarian, Victoria Middleswarth
Oystering in Kent Narrows, Maryland, A. Clayton Schofield
A Folkloric Perspective on Traditional Auctioneering, Daniel Steed Jr.
The Price of Folk: The Progression of Two Decoy Makers’ Work from Folk to Non-Folk, Benjamin Vincent
Traditional Elements in the Selected Columns of Allan M. Trout, J. Vaughn Webb
Theses and Specialist projects from 1976
The Oral Folk History Surrounding the Life of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz
The Carter Family: Traditional Sources for Song, Margaret Bulger