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Authors and Contributors for Digest 8:1/2 (2021) 
 
Articles:  
John Broadwell is a recent graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, where he 
earned his M.A. in Public History. His research there focused on LGBTQ+ student groups at 
Christian colleges and universities in the South. He also holds a B.A. in History Teaching 
from Lipscomb University in Nashville. Currently, John is working at a small historical 
society in Maine. In 2020, he worked as a researcher for the Comfort/Discomfort Foodways 
project at the Center for Food and Culture, developing resource materials, conducting and 
transcribing interviews, participating in the symposium, and adding content to the exhibit.  
 
Roshni Caputo-Nimbark is a Ph.D. candidate in Folklore at Memorial University of 
Newfoundland. Her academic interests include rethinking economies in terms of masked, 
mundane, and devalued performance, intersections of economy and ecology, and dynamic 
conceptions of heritage. She considers the varied and often contradictory influences of 
affective heritage and perceived profitability in food growers’ encounters with ecological 
and economic precarity in rural Newfoundland. 
 
Karin Murray-Bergquist is a Ph.D. student in folklore at Memorial University of 
Newfoundland. As well as the Ghost Ship Map of Newfoundland and Labrador, Karin's 
research interests include sea mammals in Old Norse sources, as well as the work of the 
Romantic poets. Outside of academia, Karin is a writer, poet, and actor, and one half of the 
Practical Fantasists creative team.  
 
Quinlan Day Odum received an M.A. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State 
University. She participated in the Comfort/Discomfort Foodways project at the Center for 
Food and Culture as a researcher, contributing materials on public history and conducting 
and transcribing interviews. She also participated in the symposium and development of 
the exhibit. 
 
Jerry Lee Reed, III is an independent scholar in North Carolina. Currently serving as an 
academic advisor at a community college, Jerry holds an M.A. in Popular Culture and a B.S. 
in Education from Bowling Green State University. His primary research interests are in 
folklore, foodways, and youth culture. He serves the Center for Food and Culture as the 
Associate Project Director for the Finding Comfort/Discomfort through Foodways project, 
where he assisted in overseeing and managing the project, including running the virtual 
symposium. He also helped develop and maintain the online exhibit. 
 
Hannah M. Santino is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland 
where she specializes in sociology of health and illness. She earned a masters degree in 
ethnochoreology at UL in 2017 and participated in and taught Irish step dancing for much 
of her childhood and youth. For the Comfort/Discomfort Foodways project, she helped 
develop materials on ethnographic methods, conducted and transcribed interviews, and 
participated in the virtual symposium and online exhibit. 
 



 

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Ainjel Stephens is a Ph.D. student at Memorial University of Newfoundland in the Folklore 
Department. She obtained her MA in English from the University in Guelph, where her 
research focused on masculinity in canonical fairy tales.  
 
Juliana Young is a second-year master’s student in the Department of Folklore at 
Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is interested in food’s involvement in identity 
formation, the relationship between fibre arts and gender identity, and the connections 
between the folk music traditions of diverse cultures. She obtained her bachelor’s in 
English from the University of Winnipeg. 
 
Minglei Zhang, also known as Hart Bullock, is a doctoral student and instructor of 
Environmental Communication and Gender Studies in the Department of Communication 
and Journalism, University of Maine. His research examines the media’s involvement in 
shaping cultural processes and practices across historical and contemporary contexts, 
focusing on cultural diversity and exclusion, the public sphere, and memory. He also writes 
more broadly on digital media and the interdisciplinary development of communication 
and media studies. For the Comfort/Discomfort Foodways project, he conducted and 
transcribed interviews, participated in the virtual symposium, and contributed to the 
online exhibit. 
 
Research Notes: 
Israt Jahan Lipa is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of 
Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. She is graduated from Department of Anthropology, 
Comilla University, Cumilla-3506, Bangladesh. During her graduation program, mainly 
Cultural Anthropology was her area of study. Material culture, foodways, folk belief and 
social research methodological issues are her major research interests. In her professional 
career, she is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, Comilla University, 
Bangladesh since December, 2018. She aspires to explore cultural diversity and folk life 
through her research works.  
 
Dana E. Modell is a clinical social worker working as a therapist in Massachusetts, Dana is 
a second year Folklore Master’s student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She/they 
recently co-authored the chapter “Trauma Informed Teaching for Trauma Courses: A 
Practical Guide,” in Trauma in Adult and Higher Education: Conversations and Critical 
Reflections. Dana holds an MSW from Salem State University and a BA in English from 
UMass Boston. Her/their research interests include lived experience, personal narrative, 
belief systems, and customs of meaning in day-to-day life. 
 
Amuse Bouche: 
Jillian Gould is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore, Memorial University. 
She loves to eat and bake and write about food. She is interested in the ways that non-
Orthodox Jews are connected to Judaism (either deliberately or unselfconsciously) through 
foodways, customs, and everyday expressive culture. 
 
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Charley Camp teaches folklife studies at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, 
MD. He curated the Smithsonian Institution exhibition, “Key Ingredients: America by Food,” 
that traveled to forty-nine states. 
 
Ema Kibirkstis is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University 
of Newfoundland in Canada. She obtained her BA in Folklore from Memorial, and a MSc in 
Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests 
include foodways, vernacular religion, homebrewing, narratives, computational social 
sciences, and sensory ethnography. She is currently working on her dissertation, which 
focuses on the intersections of taste and narrative, using the beer produced at Orval Abbey 
in southeastern Belgium as a case study. 
 
Sarah T. Shultz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University 
of Newfoundland in Canada. Her research interests include foodways, personal experience 
narrative, culinary tourism, critical race theory, and gender studies. She is currently 
working on her dissertation, which focuses on spicy foods as tourist attractions and 
symbols of local identity in Nashville, Tennessee and London, England. Sarah has an MA in 
Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University.  
 
Claire Schmidt is associate professor of English at Missouri Valley College. She is the 
author of If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison 
Workers; her research has appeared in Western Folklore, Digest: A Journal of Foodways and 
Culture, and Oral Tradition.  
 
Jacqueline S. Thursby, Ph.D., is professor emeritus, Brigham Young University, English 
Department.  Thursby, an interdisciplinary scholar, taught upper division courses ranging 
from folklore and mythology, cultural plurality, and women’s cultural studies, to English 
teaching methods.  Author of many scholarly articles and several books including Mother’s 
Table, Father’s Chair; Cultural Narratives of Basque American Women (Logan; Utah State UP, 
1999); Funeral Festivals in America, Rituals for the Living (Lexington, Kentucky: The UP of 
Kentucky, 2006); Foods and Folklore (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009); Maya 
Angelou: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work (New York, NY: Facts on File, 2011). 
Retired since 2016, she and her husband reside in Provo, Utah.     
 
 
 


