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 Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture 7:1 (2018-2019): 79-81        © American Folklore Society 2020 
	

Editors & Editorial Board Member Biographies for Digest 7:1 (2018-2019) 
 
Editors 
 
Janet Gilmore, Lead Editor 
Janet C. Gilmore is Professor in Folklore and Landscape Architecture at the University 
of Wisconsin-Madison, where she focuses on foodways and cultural landscapes. Pacific 
Northwestern, western Great Lakes, and upper Mississippi River fishing people, 
maritime workers, folk artists, and farming people led her to publish, present, and 
contribute to exhibits and festivals that relate to the regions’ foodways and food 
landscapes—indigenous, old immigrant, and new immigrant. Personal interests in food, 
cooking, and cookbooks, inspired early in her western Oregon home, have now come full 
circle as she explores her mother’s and grandmother’s Pacific Northwestern-Upper 
Midwestern food legacies. 
 
Dustin Knepp & Theresa Vaughan,Co-Editors  

M. Dustin Knepp is an Associate Professor at California State University, 
Bakersfield. Current Chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures 
Department, he directs the Interdisciplinary Studies programs on campus. 
His research investigates the intersection of food and culture in Latino life, 
with particular attention to tamales and holiday food traditions and their 
impact through familial generations and in the historic record. He also 
served for a year as a local food critic, sampling and reviewing restaurants 
and food scenes in Bakersfield. Dustin has published his research across a 
variety of traditional and digital platforms, and he has contributed to food 
scholarship through various articles and written contributions, a digital 
trilingual English/Spanish/Kaqchikel food dictionary, and a short video 
documentary featuring Bakersfield’s community tamalada. 

 
Theresa A. Vaughan is Professor in the Department of Humanities and 
Philosophy and Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of 
Central Oklahoma. She co-edited The Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and 
Folklife (with Liz Locke and Pauline Greenhill), and her recent research combines 
her interest in women’s folklore with foodways and the medieval world. Her 
forthcoming book Balancing the Humors: Dietary Recommendations for Women in 
the Middle Ages is scheduled for publication in 2020 by the Amsterdam University 
Press. 

 
Jennifer Dutch, Book Reviews 
Jennifer Rachel Dutch is an independent folklorist whose research focuses on the 
intersection of innovation and tradition in food production and consumption, 
particularly related to cooking at home and on YouTube. Her book Look Who’s Cooking: 
The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century was 
published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018. Previously she was Assistant 
Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at York College of Nebraska. 
She received her PhD in American Studies from the Pennsylvania State University, 
Harrisburg, and Master’s degree in English from the University of New Hampshire. 



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Editorial Board Members 
 
Michael Lange  
Michael A. Lange is Professor in the interdisciplinary Core Curriculum at Champlain 
College in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of Norwegian Scots: An 
Anthropological Interpretation of Viking-Scottish Identity in the Orkney 
Islands (2007) and Meanings of Maple (2017), as well as several chapters and articles in 
journals such as Anatolia, Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, the Journal of 
Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, and Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. 
He has conducted research in Scotland, Norway, Morocco, and several parts of the US. 
 
Yvonne Lockwood  
Folklorist Yvonne Lockwood, who recently retired as Curator of Folklife at the Michigan 
State University Museum, directed the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprentice Program 
and Michigan Heritage Awards Program there, curated the public food presentations at 
the Festival of Michigan Folklife and the Great Lakes Folk Festival, and curated 
“Michigan Eats,” an interpretive exhibition that the Museum now tours. Other 
professional foodways activities include conference participation in the US and Europe 
and numerous publications. A long-time member of the Foodways Section, she co-
edited Digest for a number of years with William G. Lockwood and judged student 
papers. She has extensive research experience in the former Yugoslavia, eastern Austria 
(Burgenland), and in the Upper Midwest, primarily in Finnish America, where she 
currently is researching foodways. She also often curates Finnish food demonstrations 
and workshops at the annual FinnFest USA. 
 
Lucy Long 
Director of the independent non-profit Center for Food and Culture, Bowling Green, 
Ohio, Lucy M. Long (PhD, Folklore, University of Pennsylvania) is an adjunct assistant 
professor at Bowling Green State University where she teaches folklore, food studies, 
ethnic studies, and tourism. She has edited and authored numerous foodways 
publications, including Culinary Tourism (2004), Regional American Food Culture 
(2009), Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia (2015), Ethnic 
American Cooking: Recipes for Living in a New World (2016); The Food and Folklore 
Reader (2015); Comfort Food Meanings and Memories (2017), and Honey: A Global 
History (2017).  
 
LuAnne Roth 
Lu Anne Roth teaches in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of 
Rhode Island. Her research and teaching focus on folklore, film/media, and food 
studies. Her food studies writing has appeared in the journals Digest, Western 
Folklore, and Food, Culture and Society, and as chapters in such volumes as What’s 
Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen (2017), Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (2017), Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag (2014), 
and Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture (2007). Particularly 
interested in how food is used to negotiate ideology related to class, ethnicity, gender, 
and race, Roth has been working on a book manuscript that interrogates media 
representations of the Thanksgiving meal. https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/luanne-k-
roth/ 



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Robert Smith  
Dr. Robert James Smith has an adjunct role as inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at 
Southern Cross University in Australia. Until recently he was Editor for the scholarly 
journal Australian Folklore. In addition to foodways, his research interests include 
contemporary memorial customs and regional folk culture. 
 
Diane Tye 
Diane Tye is Professor in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University. She 
researches intersections of folklore and gender, especially as they relate to foodways. 
She is author of Baking as Biography. A Life Story in Recipes (McGill-Queen’s UP, 
2010) and co-editor with Pauline Greenhill of Unsettling Assumptions. Gender, 
Tradition, Drag (Utah State UP, 2014). 
 
Theresa A. Vaughan 
Professor in the Department of Humanities and Philosophy and Assistant Dean of the 
College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma, Theresa Vaughan co-
edited The Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife (with Liz Locke and Pauline 
Greenhill), and her recent research combines her interest in women’s folklore with 
foodways and the medieval world. Her forthcoming book Balancing the Humors: 
Dietary Recommendations for Women in the Middle Ages is scheduled for publication 
in 2020 by the Amsterdam University Press.  
 
Katrina Wynn 
Katrina Wynn is currently a part-time stay at home mom and part-time public library 
worker after finishing up her five-and-a-half-year contract position as manager of the 
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the University of Maine. She held 
that position since graduating from Western Kentucky University with a MA in Folk 
Studies. Katrina was a co-convener of the American Folklore Society’s Foodways Section 
for six years and has been a member of the section since starting graduate school. 
 
	


