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Editors and Editorial Board for Digest Volume 11 (2025) 
 
 
Theresa A. Vaughan (Lead Editor) is Associate Dean of the University of Central 
Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts, and a professor in the Department of Humanities and 
Philosophy. She co-edited The Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife with Liz Locke 
and Pauline Greenhill, and recently published Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: 
Balancing the Humours (University of Amsterdam Press, 2020). Her research interests 
include women and foodways in both the Middle Ages and today.  
 
Jessica Noe (Book Review Editor) is a doctoral candidate specializing in work at the 
intersection of performance, narrative, memory, and food within the field of 
communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pulling from the 
theories and traditions of performance and cultural studies as they find their areas of 
overlap in communication studies and folklore, her interdisciplinary research focuses on 
understanding how communities work to articulate a meaningful existence through stories 
surrounding their performances of group memory and food labor. Her dissertation, Baked 
In: Women’s Role in Curating and Creating Family Culture Through Culinary Performance, 
focuses on the intersection of performance, memory, and female embodied labor practices 
within an extended family’s food traditions. 
 
 
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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. 
 
Janet Gilmore served as Digest’s chief editor from 2016-2021. An emeritus professor in 
Folklore and Landscape Architecture at University of Wisconsin-Madison, she built her 
teaching, research, and outreach practices on foodways, historical and cultural landscape 
conservation, public folklore project collections access, and decades of experience as an 
independent folklorist coordinating with numerous non-profit arts and historical 
organizations chiefly in the western Great Lakes region and her native Pacific Northwest. 
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—whether indigenous, old immigrant, new immigrant, or refugee. 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 and her nuclear and extended families’ related spatial, 
landscape, and architectural practices. 
 
Michael 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 
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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 is a folklorist 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 M. Long directs the independent nonprofit Center for Food and Culture 
(www.foodandculture.org) and teaches in American studies, ethnic studies, folklore, 
popular culture, nutrition, and tourism at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. With 
degrees in Folklore (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) and Ethnomusicology (M.A., 
University of Maryland), she focuses on food, music, and dance as mediums for meaning, 
identity, community, and power. Her publications include: Culinary 
Tourism (2004), Regional American Food Culture (2009), Ethnic American Food Today: A 
Cultural Encyclopedia (2015), The Food and Folklore Reader (2015), Ethnic American 
Cooking (2016), Honey: A Global History (2017), and Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (2017). In 2020, she ran a virtual oral history on Finding Comfort/Discomfort 
Through Foodways During the Covid-19 Pandemic, resulting in an online exhibit, virtual 
symposia, and publications. 
 
LuAnne Roth teaches in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of 
Rhode Island where she offers a range of courses, including those related to food writing, 
food and culture, and food justice.  Roth’s research gravitates toward folklore, film/media, 
and food studies. Her foodways scholarship appears in the journals Digest (“Poison Is 
Poison”), Western Folklore (“Do the [White] Thing”), and Food, Culture and Society (“Beef, 
It’s What’s for Dinner”), and as chapters in What's Eating You?:  Food and Horror on 
Screen (“You Are What Others Think You Eat”), Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (“Comfort [and Discomfort] Food”), Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, 
Drag (“Sexing the Turkey”), and Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular 
Culture (“Beyond Communitas”).  Roth’s work is driven by an interest in how food 
behaviors are used to both reinforce and subvert ideologies related to class, ethnicity, 
gender, and race.  

https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/luanne-k-roth/ 
 

http://www.foodandculture.org/
https://harrington.uri.edu/meet/luanne-k-roth/


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Robert James Smith, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D. is a retired Professor from Memorial University’s Department of Folklore 
where she taught from 1995-2022. 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) 

 
 


