Introduction / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Part I: Early Programs
1. The Quintessence of the Humanities: Folklore and Mythology at Harvard / Rachel C. Kirby and Anthony Bak Buccitelli
2. Bringing Ethnographic Research to the Public Conversation: Folklore at the University of North Carolina / Patricia Sawin
3. Teaching and Research at Laval University (Québec, Canada): From Folklore to Ethnology / Laurier Turgeon
4. The Folklife Connection: Ethnological Organization at Franklin and Marshall, Cooperstown, and Penn State Harrisburg / Simon J. Bronner
Part II : 1960s-70s Efflorescence
5. "The Great Team" of American Folklorists: Characters Large in Life and Grand in Plans / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
6. The Jewel in the Crown: Hallmarks of Success in Indiana University's Folklore Program / Jeanne Harrah-Johnson
7. Folklore and Mythology Studies at UCLA / Michael Owen Jones
8. Of Politics, Disciplines, and Scholars: MacEdward Leach and the Founding of the Folklore Program at the University of Pennsylvania / Rosina S. Miller
9. Groundtruthing the Humanities: Penn Folklore and Folklife, 1973-2013 / Mary Hufford
10. Toward a Multi-Genealogical Folkloristics: The Berkeley Experiment / Charles L. Briggs
11. The Texas School / Richard Bauman
12. Memorial University's Folklore Program: Outsiders and Insiders / Lynne S. McNeill
13. A Century of Folklore Research and Teaching at Western Kentucky / Michael Ann Williams
14. Folklore at the University of Oregon: A History of Tradition, Innovation, and Pushing the Rock Up the Hill / Sharon R. Sherman
15. From Ukrainian Studies to the Folklore of the Prairies: The Kule Center for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore, University of Alberta / Natalie Kononenko
16. Engagement with Community in Distinctive Folklore Concentrations: University of Louisiana at Lafayette / Marcia Gaudet and Barry Jean Ancelet
17. The Fife Legacy: Fifty Years of Folklore at Utah State University / Randy Williams
Part III: Newer Programs and Innovations
18. Folklore in the Nation's Capital: The George Washington University Experience / James I. Deutsch
19. The University of Wisconsin—Madison's Folklore Program and the Wisconsin Idea / Christine J. Widmayer and B. Marcus Cederström
20. Folklore @ Brigham Young's Universities: Four Generations of Inter(con)textual Studies of Region, Religion, and Beyond / Jill Terry Rudy
21. The Mason IDEA / Debra Lattanzi Shutika
22. Folklore and Interdisciplinarity at OSU / Patrick B. Mullen and Amy Shuman
23. Show Me Folklore: The Folklore, Oral Tradition, and Culture Studies Program at the University of Missouri / Claire Schmidt
24. This is the Right Place for It: The Development of the Folklore Program at Cape Breton University / Jodi McDavid
25. Practical Cultural Work: The MA in Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College / Amy E. Skillman and Rory Turner
26. The Future out of the Past: The View from the Conference on the Future of American Folkloristics / Jesse A. Fivecoate, Kristina Downs, and Meredith A. E. McGriff
Conclusion / Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
