VITA
CAROL SILVERMAN December 1997
Department of Anthropology (541) 346-5114 office
University of Oregon (541) 344-4519 home
Eugene OR 97403-1218 (541) 346-0668 fax
e-mail: csilverm@oregon.uoregon.edu and csilverm@darkwing.uoregon.edu
EDUCATION
1979 Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Department of Folklore and Folklife.
Dissertation: Expressive Behavior as Adaptive Strategy among American Gypsies.
1974 M.A. University of Pennsylvania. Department of Folklore and Folklife.
1972 B.A. City College of New York.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996
Summer Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, 1995
Professor of the Month, November 1994, The Mortar Board, University of Oregon
Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, November 1994
International Research and Exchanges Board, Short-Term Travel Grant, Bulgaria, August 1994
Sherl K. Coleman-Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities, Oregon Humanities Center, Spring 1993
Social Science Seed Grant, University of Oregon, Winter 1993
Oregon Humanities Center, Curriculum Development Award for the course Exploring Performance,
Summer 1992
Oregon Committee for the Humanities Chair's Grant, for the Symposium "New Political Cultures:
Economics, Gender and Society in Eastern Europe," November 1991
Oregon Humanities Center, Research Fellowship, Fall 1991,
Summer Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, 1991
Center for the Study of Women in Society, Research Grant, University of Oregon, Spring 1991
International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship for Research in Yugoslavia,
April-August 1990
Fulbright CIES Fellowship for Research in Yugoslavia, April-August 1990 (declined)
United States Information Agency University Affiliations Grant for Research in Hungary, September 1989
Oregon Committee for the Humanities Chair's Grant, for the concert/lecture "Interpreting Bulgarian
Folk Music," May 1989
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, 1988-1989
National Council for Soviet and East European Research Contract, 1988-1989
American Council of Learned Societies, International Travel Grant, Summer 1988
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1986-87
Summer Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon, 1986
Center for Bulgaristics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Research Grant, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1985
Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Curriculum Development Grant,
1984 and 1990
International Research and Exchanges Board, Slavonic Studies Seminar, Bulgaria, 1976 and 1985
University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowship, 1975-1976
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1989-
Director, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Oregon, 1991-1995
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1987-1989
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Folklore and Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1981-1987
Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1980-1981
Instructor, Comparative History, Ideas and Cultures Program, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, 1978-1979
Instructor, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1976
Teaching Assistant, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1976
PUBLICATIONS
submitted Researcher, Advocate, Friend: An American Fieldworker among Balkan Roma 1980-1996.
In Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropological Research in Post-Socialist Societies, eds. Hermine
De Soto and Nora Dudwick. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
submitted "Move Over Madonna": Gender, Representation, and The "Mystery" of Bulgarian Voices. In Over the Wall, After the Fall: Post-Totalitarian Cultures, East and West, eds. Magda Zaborowska and Sibelan Forrester. Durham: Duke University Press.
in press Rom (Gypsy) Music. In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Europe volume, eds.
Timothy Rice and Christopher Goertzen. New York: Garland.
1997 Comments on the Study and Practice of Ethnomusicology in Eastern Europe. In Folklore and Traditional Music in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: An Assessment,
ed. James Porter, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, pp. 60-64.
1996 State, Gender and Market Relationships among Bulgarian Roma, 1970's-1990's. East
European Anthropology Review 14(2):4-15.
1996 Music and Marginality: Roma (Gypsies) of Bulgaria and Macedonia. In Retuning Culture Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Mark Slobin. Durham: Duke University
Press, pp. 231-253.
1996 Music and Power: Gender and Performance among Roma (Gypsies) of Skopje, Macedonia.
The World of Music (Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music) 38(1):63-76.
To be reprinted in Music, Literature and Language of the Romany and Sinti, ed. Max Peter
Baumann. Berlin: International Institute for Traditional Music.
1996 Who's Gypsy Here? Reflections at a Rom Burial. In The World Observed: Reflections on the Fieldwork Process, eds. Bruce Jackson and Edward Ives. Champaign: University of
Illinois Press, pp. 193-205.
1995 Persecution and Politicization: Roma (Gypsies) of Eastern Europe. Cultural Survival 19(2):43-
49, special issue on Eastern Europe, ed. Loring Danforth.
1995 Learning to Perform, Performing to Learn. Comments on the Forum A Conversation Between Two Disciplines: What Do We Learn When We Learn From Our Informants? Journal of
American Folklore 108(429):307-316.
1995 Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia: Class, Politics, and Community. In East-Central
European Communities: the Struggle for Balance in Turbulent Times, ed. David Kideckel.
Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 197-216.
1993 Pomaks/ Bulgarian Muslims. In State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on
Societies in Danger, ed. Marc Miller and Cultural Survival. Beacon Press, p. 200.
1992 The Contemporary Bulgarian Village Wedding: The 1970's. Indiana Slavic Studies 6
(Balkanistica 8, special issue: Bulgaria Past and Present, ed. John Treadway), 240-251.
1992 Bulgarian Gypsies. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, vol. 4: Central, Western, and
Southeastern Europe, ed. Linda Bennett. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., pp. 40-42.
1992 Peasants, Ethnicity and Ideology in Bulgaria. In Die Volkskultur Sudosteuropas in der Moderne, ed. Klaus Roth. Munchen: Sudosteuropa-Gesellschaft 1992
(Sudosteuropa-Jarbuch, vol. 22), pp. 295-309.
1991 Strategies of Ethnic Adaptation: The Case of Gypsies in the United States. In Creative
Ethnicity: Symbols and Strategies of Contemporary Ethnic Life, eds. Stephen Stern and John
Cicala. Utah State University Press, pp. 107-121.
1989 Reconstructing Folklore: Media and Cultural Policy in Eastern Europe. Communication
11(2):141-160.
1989 The Historical Shape of Folklore in Bulgaria. In Folklore and Historical Process. Zagreb,
Yugoslavia: Institute of Folklore Research, pp. 149-158.
1989 The Folklorist as Performer, In Time and Temperature, ed. Charles Camp. Washington, D.C.: American Folklore Society, pp. 34-35.
1988 Tsiganes, Musique et Politiques en Bulgarie. Etudes Tsiganes 4:14-20.
1988 Negotiating Gypsiness: Strategy in Context. Journal of American Folklore 101(401):261-275.
1986 Bulgarian Gypsies: Adaptation in a Socialist Context. Nomadic Peoples, special issue,
Peripatetic Peoples, nos. 21-22, pp. 51-62.
1985 Power vs. Authority Revisited: The Case of American Rom Gypsy Women. In Northwest
Women's Heritage Conference Proceedings, ed. Karen Blair. Northwest Center for Research
on Women, Seattle, Washington, pp. 159-168.
1984 Pomaks of the Balkans. In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, ed. Richard
Weekes. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, pp. 612-616.
1983 The Politics of Folklore in Bulgaria. Anthropological Quarterly 56(2):55-61.
1983 Macedonian Bridal Costumes, editor and co-author with Ronald Wixman. University of
Oregon Museum of Natural History: Museum Notes No. 1.
1982 Everyday Drama: Impression Management of Urban Gypsies. Urban Anthropology
11(3-4):377-398.
1982 Bulgarian Lore and American Folkloristics: The Case of Contemporary Folk Music. In Culture and History of the Bulgarian People, ed. Walter Kolar. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne
University Tambaritzans Institute of Folk Arts Press, pp. 64-78.
1981 Pollution and Power: Gypsy Women in America. In The American Kalderash: Gypsies in the
New World, ed. M. Salo. Centenary College, New Jersey: Gypsy Lore Society, pp. 55-70.
1980 Rev. Sister Navajo: Reader and Adviser--Deciphering Gypsy Fortune-Telling Handbills, New York Folklore 6:29-43.
APPLIED AND POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHS
1997 The Yuri Yunakov Ensemble: New Colors in Bulgarian Wedding Music. Traditional Crossroads CD 4283. I am the vocalist on this CD and wrote the 12-page educational booklet.
1996 Three cover photographs, Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Mark Slobin. Durham: Duke University Press.
1995 Two photographs in Persecution and Politicization: Roma (Gypsies) of Eastern Europe. Cultural Survival 19(2):43-49, special issue on Eastern Europe, ed. Loring Danforth.
1993 Balkan Folk Songs, editor and translator. East European Folklife Center and UO Russian and East European Studies Center, 79 pp., second edition 1994, third edition (coedited with Rachel MacFarlane) 1996.
1991 Liner notes for Balkanology: Ivo Papazov and his Orchestra. Ryko Compact Disc, 7pp.
1991 Contemporary Wedding Music. Vancouver Bulgarian Festival Booklet, 4 pp.
1991 Cover photograph, The Gypsies of Eastern Europe , eds. David Crowe and John Kolsti . Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe.
1987 The Fate of the American Gypsy. Craft International 6(1):14-24.
1987 American Rom Gypsies; Gypsy Music and Dance. Folk Dance Scene 21(10):6-15.
1987 Reconstructing Folklore. Vancouver Bulgarian Festival Booklet, 4 pp.
1985 Songs, Music, and Dance in Bulgarian Village Weddings. Vancouver Bulgarian Festival Booklet, 3pp.
1985 Aspects of Custom, Food, and Ritual in Bulgarian Village Weddings. Vancouver International Folk Dance Newsletter, Fall-winter, 4 pp.
1984 Collecting Culture. Folk Dance Scene 19(3):4-7,16.
1984 Contemporary Bulgarian Folk Music. Vancouver Bulgarian Festival Booklet, 3 pp.
1982 Arabesque 7(5), photographs of Balkan Gypsies.
1978 Photographs of American and Balkan Gypsies, Colliers Yearbook 1977.
BOOK, RECORD, AND FILM REVIEWS
1997 Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria by Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov, Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 7(2):122-124.
1997 The Art of the Lautar by Margaret Beissinger. Garland Press. Journal of the Gypsy Lore
Society 7(1):50-51.
1995 From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel by Guy Haskell. Wayne State University Press. Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review 17(1-2): 68-69.
1992 Destroying Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies of Bulgaria by Helsinki Watch. Journal of the Gypsy
Lore Society 2(1):89-90.
1991 Gypsy Folktales by Diana Tong. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Journal of American
Folklore 104(413):377-8.
1989 Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience
by W. Zenner. State University of New York Press. American Anthropologist 91(2):494.
1985 The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's World by James Spradley and Brenda Mann. New York: Knopf. The Center Review (Center for the Study of Women in Society) April 1985, pp. 10-11.
1984 Hungarian Folk Belief by Tekla Domotor. Indiana University Press. Journal of American Folklore 97:350-352.
1982 Gypsies by Ian Hancock. In Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter 5(1):7-10.
1980 The Traveling Songster: An Anthology from Gypsy Singers. Topic. Ethnomusicology 24(1):140-141.
1979 The Gypsies Go to Heaven. Mosfilm Studio. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter 2(4):8.
1978 Gypsies by William G. Lockwood. In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter 1(3):5.
1978 Gypsies: The Other Americans, Bakhtato Productions; Gypsy Folk Songs from Hungary, Hungaraton; Romane Gil'a: Anthology of Gypsy Songs, Suphraphon; Tziganes Sans Frontiers, Barclay. Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter 1(1):5.
1975 Duquesne University Tamburitzans: In Concert; Yugoslav Moods; Tanbur. Keystone Folklore 20(1):77-79.
PERFORMANCE
As a Balkan folklorist and singer of Balkan songs, I have given over 100 concerts, workshops, and lecture/demonstrations on Balkan folk music and its cultural context in major U.S. and Canadian cities. Recent professional work includes a performance and lecture at the New School for Social Research, sponsored by the World Music Institute.
PAPERS DELIVERED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
" Stateless in the New Europe: Roma (Gypsies, Racism, and Rights," American Anthropological
Association, Washington D.C., November 1997.
"Rethinking Tradition: Bulgarian Roma and Cultural Displays," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1996.
"Negotiating Community and Gender through Music: Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia," American Folklore Society, Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, October 1996.
"State, Market, and Gender Relationships among Bulgarian Roma, 1970s-1990s," Associaition for
the Study of Nationalities, Columbia Univesity, New York, April 1996.
"Out of the Margins: Afro-American Civil Rights and Roma Human Rights," disscussant and
translator (for Macedonian and Bulgarian languages), retreat sponsored by the American Friends
Service Committee, Hungary, December, 1995.
"Civil Society, Ethnicity, and Gender: State and Market Relationships among Bulgarian Roma,"
American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 1995.
"Politics, Gender, and Performance among Roma of Skopje, Macedonia," American Anthropological
Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1994.
"Music and Power: Gender and Performance among Roma of Skopje, Macedonia," Society for
Ethnomusicology and American Folklore Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1994.
"Balkan Romani Music and the Formation of Cultural and Political Identites," Conference on
Music, Literature and Language of the Romany and Sinti, International Institute for Traditional
Music, Berlin, Germany, October 1994.
"Community and Politics in Shuto Orizari, Macedonia," Gypsy Lore Society, Los Angeles,
March 1994.
"Romani (Gypsy) Politicization in Eastern Europe: The Contestation of Identity and Symbol," American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 1993.
"Folklore and Cultural Studies," discussant, American Folklore Society, Eugene, October 1993
"Video Research on Performance: Rom Celebrations in Shuto Orizari," Gypsy Lore Society, Washington D.C., May 1993
"From Dissidence to Dissonance-- Musical Transitions in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union," invited discussant, Yale University, February 1993
"Popular Culture and Political Transition in Bulgaria," discussant, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1992.
"Transnational Musicians and Nationalist Discourse: European Roma (Gypsies), American Folklore Society, Jacksonville, Florida, October 1992.
"Reflections on European Rom Music," Gypsy Lore Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
March 1992.
"Knowing and Performing among Macedonian Muslim Gypsy Women," American Folklore Society, St. John's, Newfoundland, October 1991.
"Identity and Expression among Macedonian Gypsy Women," Gypsy Lore Society, Leicester, England, July 1991.
"Peasants, Ethnicity, and Ideology in Bulgaria," invited paper for the Sudosteuropa Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany, October 1990.
"Fieldwork Among Gypsies" and "Reflecting on the Starkie Papers of 1977," Gypsy Lore Society, New York, NY, March 1990.
"Move Over Madonna: The Bulgarian Music Craze," invited paper for American Folklore Society Plenary Session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1989.
"Bulgarian Wedding Music: The Phenomenon and the Response," VI Congress of the International Association for Southeast European Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 1989
"The Ideology of Performance Categories: Folk Music Festivals in Bulgaria," American Folklore Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1988.
"The Historical Shape of Folklore in Bulgaria," invited paper for the symposium Folklore and Historical Process, XII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, July 1988.
"Gypsies, Politics, and Music in Bulgaria," Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, New York, March 1988.
"Reconstructing Folklore: Media and Cultural Policy in Eastern Europe," invited paper, Annenberg Scholar's Conference on Communication and Collective Memory, University of Southern California, March 1986.
"Bulgarian Gypsies: Adaptation in a Socialist Context," American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1985.
"Displaying Tradition: Cultural Ideology in a Balkan Socialist State," American Folklore Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1985.
"State-sponsored Folklore in Socialist Bulgaria," invited paper, ACLS-sponsored conference, Folklore and the State in Eastern Europe, Bellagio, Italy, August 1984.
"Pomak or Bulgarian: Negotiating Ethnic Identity," invited paper, ACLS-sponsored conference, Culture, Tradition, Identity, Indiana University, March 1984.
"Ritual Transformation in Bulgaria: Babinden," American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1983.
"Change and Transformation in Bulgarian Saints' Day Celebrations," American Folklore Society, Nashville, Tennessee, October 1983.
"Impression Management of Urban Gypsies," Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 1983.
"Folklore and Ethnic Identity of Bulgarian Moslems," American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1982.
"The Contemporary Bulgarian Village Wedding," Third Bulgarian-American Scholarly Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1982.
"Gypsy Women," Conference on Women's Heritage, Seattle, Washington, April 1982.
"The Politics of Folklore in Bulgaria," American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, California, December 1982.
"Bulgarian Weddings: Preservation, Change, and Transformation," American Folklore Society, San Antonio, Texas, October 1981.
"Folklore and Politics in Bulgaria," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Asilomar, California, September 1981.
"Bulgarian Lore and American Folkloristics: The Case of Contemporary Folk Music," Conference on Bulgarian History and Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1981.
"Pollution and Power: Gypsy Women in America," Conference on Women and Folklore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1979.
"Rev. Sister Navajo: Reader and Advisor--A Formulaic Analysis of Gypsy Fortune-telling Handbills," American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, California, November 1978.
"Gypsy Ethnicity and the Social Contexts of Music," American Anthropological Association, Houston, Texas, November 1977.
"Gypsy Ethnicity: Persistence and Adaptability," American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1976.
GUEST LECTURES (selected)
" Gypsy Music: Theoretical Questions, " and "Issues in Bulgarian Music," Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 1997.
"Gypsies of Eastern Europe and the United States," University of Oregon Learning in Retirement
lecture, May 1996.
"Bulgarian 'Wedding Music' and the Role of Roma (Gypsies)," World Music Institute, New School for Social Research, March 1996
"European Roma and the Arts," Hult Center for the Performing Arts, March 1996
"Peace and Conflict in Eastern Europe," panel member, World Peace Day, University of Oregon,
April 1995
"The Roma (Gypsy) Holocaust: Implications for Jewish Identity," Temple Beth Israel, Eugene, Oregon, February 1995
"Ethnic Folklore and Politics: Roma of the Balkans," University Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 1994.
"Gender, Politics and Ritual: Balkan Roma (Gypsies) in the 1990's," Women's Faculty Resource
Network Seminar, June 1994.
"Ethnic Conflict and Resolution in Today's Unipolar World," panel member, World Peace Day, University of Oregon, April 1994.
"Remembrance and Integration, Europe's Cultural Challenge for the 1990's," panel member, Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, Eugene, Oregon, May 1993
"Gypsies in Europe," Shoah Week, University of Oregon, April 1993.
"International Perspectives on Women's Issues," panel moderator, Global Education Project, University of Oregon, March 1993.
"The Politics of Culture among Macedonian Rom (Gypsies)," Work-in-Progress Series, Oregon Humanities Center, Eugene, Oregon, February 1993.
"Making Research Make a Difference: Beyond the University," panel member, Center for the Study of Women in Society Research Conversation, University of Oregon, March 1992.
"Cultural Background on Current Issues and Events in Eastern Europe," Global Education Project, Lane Education Service District, February 1992.
"Gypsies: Stereotypes and Scapegoats." College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe, Portland, February 1992. Oregon Public Broadcasting replayed the lecture in May 1992 and is distributing the series.
"The Challenges of a Changing World Order: Critical Perspectives," panel member, sponsored by the Savage Professorship in Peace Studies, University of Oregon, November 1991.
"Mask and Ritual in Bulgarian Carnival," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, October 1991.
"Macedonian Rom Culture: Music, Ritual and Gender," Balkan Music and Dance Workshops, California and West Virginia, July and August 1991.
"Performance and Prestige: Macedonian Rom (Gypsy) Women." Colloquium, Department of
Anthropology and Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, May 1991.
"Bulgarian Singing," Lecture-demonstration with the Bulgarian State Women's Choir, Sponsored by the Hult Center, Eugene, April 1991.
"Academic Freedom," panel member, ASUO, University of Oregon, December 1990.
"Integrating Eastern Europe into the K-12 Curriculum," Oregon International Council, Salem, November 1990.
"Ethnicity and Gender in Southeastern Europe," Symposium on the 1989 Revolution and the New Europe, Oregon State University, Corvallis, November 1990.
"Gypsy Children, Families, and the Education System," Howard Elementary School, Eugene, February 1990.
"Models of Folklore: The Bulgarian Case," ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, October 1989.
"Bulgarian Gypsies," Cascade Manor, Eugene, April 1989.
"Gypsy Cultures," Super Weekend, Student University Relations Council and University of Oregon Foundation, May 1988.
"Gypsy Culture and the Holocaust," ASUO Holocaust Week, University of Oregon, April 1988.
"Bulgarian Gypsies," Balkan Music and Dance Workshops, California and West Virginia, July and August, 1987.
"Creativity, Culture, and Performance: Theories and Models" and "New Directions in Folklore Studies," panel member, Folklore Symposium: Creativity and Culture, University of Oregon, April 1987.
"Folklore and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Bulgaria," Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore, University of Texas, Austin, March 1987.
"Integrating Women into the Social Science Curriculum," panel member, Lane Community College, January 1987.
"Gypsies of Bulgaria: Celebration and Adaptation," Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, January 1986; also given as part of the Forum Series: Beaverton Public Library, March 1986; Bend Community Center, April 1986; Eugene Conference Center, November 1986; Albany Public Library, April 1987.
"Contexts of Balkan Music and Dance," Hawaii State Dance Council Seminar, Hawaii, December 1985.
"Reconstructing Folklore: Cultural Policy in Bulgaria," Anthropology Department Colloquium, February 1986.
"Gypsy Culture and Medical Beliefs," Providence Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, May 1985.
"The Study of Folklore in Europe and the United States," panel member, Symposium on Hungarian Culture and Society, University of Oregon, May 1984.
"Rom Gypsies: A Cultural Perspective for Health Personnel," St. Vincent's Hospital, Portland, Oregon, March 1984.
"Mediterranean Culture," Washington Public School, Talented and Gifted Program, Eugene, Oregon, December 1983.
"Introduction to Yiddish Film History," Festival of East European Peoples, University of Oregon, April 1983.
"Pollution and Power: American Gypsy Women," Center for the Study of Women in Society,
University of Oregon, April 1983.
"Gypsies in the Urban Landscape," Geography Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, January 1983.
"Culture, Science, and Public Policy," (with G. Moreno-Black), University of Oregon Convocation, October 1982.
"A View of American Gypsy Society," Vacation College, University of Oregon, August 1982.
"Art, Ritual, and Community," panel member, Art and Community: Focus on Jewish Culture, University of Oregon, April 1982.
"Change and Transformation in Bulgarian Weddings," Center for Folklore and Mythology, University of California at Los Angeles, December 1981.
"Bulgarian Weddings," Anthropology Department Colloquium, October 1981.
"Bulgarian Village Musical Life," Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, May 1981.
"Bulgarian Village Folklore," Balkan Arts Center, New York, April 1981.
"An Introduction to American Gypsies," Eugene Public Library, March 1981.
"Gypsies in Eastern Europe," Central European Studies Center, Portland State University,
March 1981.
"An Introduction to Bulgarian Culture," Eugene Public Library, January 1981.
"Contemporary Contexts of Bulgarian Folk Music," Progress Reports of the Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Oregon, November 1980.
"What is an American Gypsy?" Oregon Folklore Society, Eugene, Oregon, November 1980.
"Gypsy Ethnicity in America," Anthropology Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, November 1980.
"Bulgarian Folk Music," Cultural Affairs Board, Portland State University, October 1980.
STATE AND NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Program Chair, Gypsy Lore Society Annual Conference, New York, March 1996
Liason for affirmative action and multicultural training for Bulgarian Roma in Eugene, Oregon, United States Information Agency and Partners for International Education and Training, November 1994.
Panel organizer for Balkan Music: Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity and Region, American Folklore Society and Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1994.
Peer reviewer for USIA Affiliations Grants for Faculty Exchange with Universities in Eastern Europe, USAID and AED, Washington D.C., January 1994.
Academic Liaison for Bulgarian Ethnographers, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Program Supporting Reform in Eastern Europe, October, 1993.
Member, Executive Board, Gypsy Lore Society, 1978-1979, 1981-1984, 1990-.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1990-.
Member, OSSHE Hungary Executive Board, 1986-89; 1990-1991; 1995-6
Treasurer and Chair of Publicity and Finance Committees, East European Folklife Center, 1992-1993
UO Institutional Representative, Oregon International Council, Salem, Oregon, 1994-1996.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, American Folklore Society, 1992-1993
Co-director of the symposium, New Political Cultures: Economics, Gender, and Society in Eastern Europe, University of Oregon, November 1991.
Consultant, Mobility International/USIA Grant for Bulgarian Youth Exchange, 1991-1992.
Vice-President, Gypsy Lore Society, 1991-1992.
Tour Organizer and Translator for the Bulgarian Folk Music Group Bulgari, including writing program notes, translating, and narrating concerts at the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Oregon Bach Festival, and twelve other locations, 1990-1991.
Member, Executive Board, The American Folklore Society, 1989-1992.
Member, Advisory Board, Oregon Folk Arts and Folklife Program, 1988-1991.
Concert Organizer for the Bulgarian Group Balkana, Eugene, May 1989.
Co-chair, American Folklore Society Program Committee, 1986-1987.
Co-chair, Folklore Symposium: Creativity and Culture, University of Oregon, April 1987.
Assistant Director, Symposium on Hungarian Culture and Society, University of Oregon, Spring 1984.
Exhibit Director, Hungarian Folk Art, Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, Spring-Summer 1984.
Resource Scholar for "Humanities Sampler," Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1983-1984.
Exhibit Director, Macedonian Bridal Costumes, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, Spring-Summer 1983.
Assistant Director, Festival of East European Peoples, University of Oregon, Spring 1983.
Assistant Director, Art and Community: Focus on Jewish Culture, University of Oregon, May 1992.
President, Oregon Folklore Society, 1982-1983.
Member, Advisory Board, National Council for the Traditional Arts, Washington, D.C., 1982-1992.
Program Coordinator, Oregon Folklore Society, 1981.
Faculty Advisor, Jewish Student Union, University of Oregon, 1982-1988.
Consultant for the film Gypsies, Maverick Theatre and Film Company, 1988-.
Member, Board of Directors, East European Folklife Center, Eugene, Oregon, 1981-1993
Film Coordinator, Conference on Folklore in New York City, May 1979.
Treasurer, Pennsylvania Folklore Society, 1975-1976.
Peer Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Public Programs, Division of Research Programs, and Translations Division); National Science Foundation (Anthropology
Program); University of California Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; Waveland Press; Prentice-Hall; Journal of American Folklore; American Ethnologist; Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society; Journal of Folklore Research; National Women's Studies Association Journal; Cultural Anthropology, Garland Press, Center for Field Research, Westview Press.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Committee on Teaching Awards, 1997-
Member, Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1995-6, 1997-
Member, Executive Committee, International Studies Program, 1995-6.
Member (elected), Faculty Personnel Committee, 1993-5.
Faculty Program Advisor for American Collegiate Consortium (study abroad in Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union), 1994-1996.
Chair, Russian and East European Studies Committee, 1991-1995 ; Member, 1980-.
Member, Savage Fellowship Committee; Chair of Search Sub-committee, 1993-4; Chair of Hopsitality Committee, 1994-5.
Member, third year review committee for Sandra Morgen, Director of CSWS, 1993-4.
Member, Creative Writing Director Search Committee, 1993.
Faculty Program Advisor for Study Abroad in Poland and the Czech Republic, 1992-.
Member, Oregon Humanities Center Curriculum Review Panel, 1990-1991.
Member, Speakers and Events Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1991-1992.
Member, planning committee for European Studies, 1992-1993.
Member, tenure committee for Anita Weiss, International Studies, 1991.
Member, Honor's College Director Search Committee, 1990-1991.
Member, Hebrew University Lecturer Committee, 1991-1993.
Chair, Women's Studies Committee, 1990-1992; Member, 1981-1986.
Elected to University Senate, 1988 (declined because of research leave).
Member, Folklore Search Committee, English Department, University of Oregon, 1986-1989;
1990-1991.
Member, Travel and Dissertation Grants Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society,
1986-1987, 1990-1991.
Member, Council on International and Foreign Area Studies, 1987-1988.
Member, Curriculum Grants Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1987-1988.
Member, Planning and Policy Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1982-1986.
Member, Center for the Humanities Advisory Committee, 1985-1986.
Member, University of Oregon Research Committee, 1984-1985.
Member, Research Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1983-1984.
Member, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, 1982-1983.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY COMMITTEES
Member, Executive and Selections committee, 1997-
Member, Search Committees for East Asia position, and Southeast Asia position 1995-6.
Scheduling Coordinator, 1995-6.
Affirmative Action Representative, 1992-1996.
Member, third-year review committee for John Erlandson, 1994.
Chair, third-year review committee for Nancy Lutz, 1993-4.
Member, post-tenure review committee for Aletta Biersack, 1993.
Member, post-tenure review committee for Richard Chaney, 1993.
Member, Cressman Prize Committee, 1983, 1991-3, 1996.
Member, third-year review committee for Sam Coleman, 1992.
Representative, Student-Faculty Senate, 1990-92.
Undeclared majors advisor, 1990-1992.
Chair, Film Committee, 1990-1992.
Member, Sociocultural Examination Committee 1987, 1986, 1991.
Member, Search Committee, 1988.
Member, Executive and Selections Committee, 1987-1988.
Member, third-year review committee for Aletta Biersack, 1984
GRADUATE ADVISING
Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee:
Gerald Marr, Mary Russell (co-chair with Nancy Lutz), Itsuko Kanamoto, Caroline Vanderkar, Erick Masuyama (1997), Susan Lewis (1993), Lisa Leimar-Price (1993), Mary Courtis (1991), Linda Jencson (1991)
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee:
Anthropology:
Prapinporn Somnasang (1996), Rosalie Caffrey (1991), Jim Orr (1989), Mary Fechner
Other Departments:
Philip Zuckerman (Sociology), Alexander Kliachin (Geography), George White (1994, Geography), Robert Leibman (1992, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife), Jeannie Thomas (1992, English), Catharine Clay (1989, History), Barbara Bacon-Emmel (1989, English), Thomas Lynch (1989, English), Norm Johnson (1988, Theater Arts), Judith Barker (1988, Sociology).
Chair, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee:
Caroline Vanderkar (1997), Erick Masuyama (1996), Gerald Marr (1995), William Goldsmith (1995), Mary Russell (1994), Itsuko Kanamoto (1993), Sal Biondello (1988), Linda Jencson (1988).
Member, Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination Committee:
Ben Hill (1990, Education), Mary Courtis (1989), Susan Lewis (1988), James Orr (1987), Meredith Hensley (1986).
MA Advisor:
Helen Cote, Anne-Marie Reudy, Elizabeth Wartluft-Murphy, Tamara Scott, Jennifer Blecha (1995), Patricia Kelly (1995), Carioline Vanderkar (1995), Allison Weiss (1994), Gerald Marr (1993), Mary Russell (1992), Faykah Juma (1992), Itsuko Kanamoto (1991), Erick Masuyama (1989), Linda Reed (1985), Anna Paini (1982).
MA Committee Member:
Charles Webb (1996, International Studies), Ruth Rowland (1995, Journalism), Andrea Winship (1994, International Studies), Marie Pace (1993, International Studies), Nancy Anderson (1991, Dance), Tera Pressler (1986, Theater Arts), Barbara Sellers (1983, Dance).
MA:ISIP Folklore Co-Advisor :
Avi Neuman, Melissa Estelle, Emine Evered, Dave Faux, Daphne Gabrieli, Beth Currans, Revill Carr, Lynn Hadley, Miriam Garcia, Jennifer Elias-Reed, John Baumann (1997), Sara Batchelder (1997), Marta Valenga (1997), Chris Tobar-Dupres (1997), Kimberly White (1997), Tracey Kindall (1997), Stephanie Hull (1996), John Feeley (1996), Steven Poizat-Newcomb (1996), Kayla Klass (1995), Teresa Harrington (1995), Brennan Washburn (1995), Carol Lichenstein (1994), Susan Jackson (1992), William Goldsmith (1991), Melinda Hoder (1990), Susan Estep (1990), Kelly Averill (1988), Miriam Milgram (1987), Madeline Slovenz (1985).
MA:ISIP Co-Advisor (Other) :
Marcel Joos (1991).
UNDERGRADUATE THESES ADVISING
Dorothy Jackson (Independent Major), Sarah Lowinger (Honor's College), Erica Tubbs (Honor's College, 1997), Rachel Rubin (Independent Major, 1995), Starlight Murray (International Studies, 1994), Jonah Bookstein (Independent Major, 1993), Dyna Goff (International Studies, 1992), Sheri Merkhofer (Honor's College, 1988), Marianne Ghim (International Studies, 1985)
RECENT COURSES
ANTH 314: Women and Culture I: Power and Politics
ANTH 315: Women and Culture II: Creativity and Symbols
ANTH 430/530 Balkan Society and Folklore
ANTH 439/539: Feminism and Ethnography
ANTH 419/519 Anthropology and Folklore
ANTH 429/539: Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
ANTH 407/507 Feminist Methods in Anthropology
ANTH 682: Sociocultural Guidance
ANTH 607: Eastern European Ethnography
REES 420/520: Slavic Civilization
FIELDWORK
August and December 1995, March, April, June, November- December 1996, March 1997, New York City, Balkan Rom human rights, music, and weddings.
September 1996, Documentation of Portland Rom wedding rituals.
August-September 1994, Bulgaria and Macedonia, Rom politics and culture.
December 1993, New York City, Research with Macedonian Rom refugees.
April-August 1990, Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. Research with Roma.
May and July 1990, Bulgaria. Research on political change.
August 1990, New York City, Fieldwork among Roma.
October, 1989, Hungary. Preliminary research with Roma, consultation with ethnographers and feminists.
October 1989, Czechoslovakia. Consultation with dissidents.
April 1988, New York City. Fieldwork among Macedonian Roma.
Summer-fall 1985, Bulgaria. Research on cultural policy.
Summer 1984, Bulgaria and Greece. Fieldwork on Moslem and Rom cultures.
October 1979- September 1980, Bulgaria. Research on transformations in ritual and women's roles; filmed contemporary contexts of music and dance.
1974-1979, New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and various southern cities. Research on American Rom culture, including questions of ethnicity, adaptation, gender, and taboos.
Summer 1976, Bulgaria. Research on the culture of Moslem minorities.
Spring 1975, New York City. Research on Jewish immigrant culture: folk beliefs, material culture, story-telling, music.
Spring 1974, Cleveland, Columbus, and Eastern Ohio. Field research for the Ohio Department of Economic and Community Development, survey and analysis of the state's Slavic ethnic groups.
Summer 1974, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Collected and researched folk song and rituals.
Summer-fall 1972, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Collected folk music and archival materials.
Summer 1971, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Attended national folklore festivals in Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria.
LANGUAGES
Reading, speaking, and writing competence: Bulgarian, Macedonian
Reading competence: Serbo-Croatian, Romanes (Gypsy)
MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Newsday (New York City), "Rescuing Rich Gypsy Tradition," November 19, 1997, p. A37.
Oregon Quarterly, "Cultural Questions Permeate Everything," Autumn 1997, pp. 28-29.
Register Guard, Joni James, "War and Confusion," August 25, 1995.
Oregonian, Michael Ottey,"Gypsies Silent About Heritage," May 7, 1995.
"Professor's Research Works to Change Gypsy Stereotypes," Casement (CAS), Spring 1995.
Oregon Daily Emerald, "University Faculty Receive Summer Research Awards," February 17, 1995.
Radio Interviews in Haskovo, Bulgaria (in Bulgarian) and Skopje, Macedonia (in Macedonian) on the situation of Roma, August 1994.
Romani Ilo (Bulgarian Rom Newspaper), "Kato Chovek do Choveck," September, 1994.
Oakland Tribune, "Gypsies Demand End to Stereotyping, Persecution," July 24, 1994.
Register Guard "Celebration Lets Diverse Groups Join for Fun," Verbatim," September 12, 1992.
Old Oregon, "Back in the USSR Class," Summer 1992, pp. 25-26.
Cascade, CAS Newsletter, "A Teacher Effects Eternity," Fall, 1992, p. 6.
Old Oregon, "Given to the Gypsies," Winter 1991, pp. 8-9.
Dayton Daily News, interview on American Roma, May 1989.
KLCC and KWAX, "Bulgarian Music," April 1989.
Old Oregon Inquiry, "Insights into Gypsy Culture," March 1988, pp. 22-25.
Old Oregon, "Rare Bridal Costumes on Exhibit at University," June 1983, pp. 7-8.