{"id":370,"date":"2022-03-20T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/letterstoclio\/?p=370"},"modified":"2022-04-20T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:06:19","slug":"dr-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2022\/03\/20\/dr-mould\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Mould"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Biography<\/b><\/h3>\n

Tom Mould (he\/him) is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore. He received his BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MA and PHD in Folklore from Indiana University. Mould is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society (AFS) and has served on the AFS Executive Board, Chaired the AFS Media and Public Outreach Committee, and serves on the Advisory Boards for the <\/span>Journal of Folklore Research<\/span><\/i>, and the <\/span>Mormon Studies Book Series<\/span><\/i> at Farleigh Dickinson University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before coming to Butler in 2019, he was the J.Earl Danieley Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at Elon University where he taught for 18 years and served in various roles including Director of the Honors Program, Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, and Director of PERCS: The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Areas of Research and Scholarship<\/b><\/h3>\n

Tom Mould teaches and publishes\u00a0 in the areas of folklore, language and culture, American Indian studies, oral narrative, religious and sacred narrative, contemporary legend, identity, ethnography, genre, and performance theory. In\u00a0 addition to numerous journal articles, he is the co-editor of two books\u2014<\/span>The Individual and Tradition<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2011) and <\/span>Latter-day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2013)\u2014and author of four more <\/span>ChoctawProphecy: A Legacy of the Future<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2003), <\/span>Choctaw Tales<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2004), <\/span>Still, the Small Voice: Revelation, Personal Narrative, and the Mormon Folk Tradition<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2011), and <\/span>Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2020), which won the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also produced video documentaries for public television on folk art and culture in Indiana, Kentucky and North Carolina and has written articles, blogs, and radio stories for a general audience on a range of topics including <\/span>perceptions of welfare<\/span><\/a>, the <\/span>American Dream<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 <\/span>unemployment and public assistance<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>fake news<\/span><\/a>, and the <\/span>confederate flag<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For a complete CV, click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Research Projects<\/b><\/h3>\n
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  • Choctaw Traditions: Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw<\/i><\/b>: <\/span><\/i>This book will explore recent and contemporary traditions among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians through the personal experience narratives and family histories shared by community members today. This research is based on current ethnographic fieldwork with tribal members as well as archival research.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Internet Memes for Social Justice<\/b>: This research explores the efficacy of internet memes to work towards social justice, specifically in the area of economic justice around issues of public assistance in the U.S. This research is a spin off from previous work studying the narratives people tell about public assistance in this country and how those stories shape perception and policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Mentored Student Research Projects at Butler\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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    • 2022\u2014Ericela Sahagun. \u201cHispanic Hoosiers: Ethnonym use among the Hispanic population in Indianapolis.\u201d Selected as a Butler Summer Institute Scholar. Departmental Honors Thesis.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2022\u2014Braxton Martorano, Cameron Ellison, Emily Fales, Donald Crocker. \u201cImproving Racial Dialogue and Understanding through Stories.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2022\u2014Kat Sandefer. \u201cBird\u2019s Eye View: The Construction of Identity and Community via Social Media of Cirque du Soleil Performers.\u201d Butler Honors Thesis.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2022\u2014Cameron Ellison. \u201cShaping Perspective: Analysis of Narrated Experiences of Students of Color at a Predominately White Institution..\u201d Departmental Honors Thesis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2022 \u2014Kynnedy Masheck. \u201cRussetid: Formal and Informal Rituals in the Norwegian Rite of Passage to Adulthood.\u201d Departmental Honors Thesis. Presented at the annual conference of the Central States Anthropological Society April 25, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2022\u2014Christopher Luis Paez Reyna. \u201cLand Acknowledgments and Resources for Butler University.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2021\u2014Ericela Sahagun. \u201c’Pero like\u2026’: An analysis of the use of Chicano English among Hispanic populations in the Midwest.\u201d Butler Summer Institute Scholar, 2020 and 2021. Presented at the annual conference of the Central States Anthropological Society April 25, 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2021\u2014Kat Sandefer. \u201cConstructing Local and Racial Identities Through Supernatural Legends.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • 2021\u2014Cecilia Januszewski. \u201cCoding Choctaw Cultural Traditions.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Upcoming and Current Butler Courses<\/b><\/h3>\n
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      • FYS 101:<\/b> The Power of Everyday Stories<\/span><\/li>\n
      • AN 333<\/b>: Folklore, Culture, and Society<\/span><\/li>\n
      • AN 338:<\/b> Language and Culture<\/span><\/li>\n
      • AN 364<\/b>: Native American Cultures<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Topics<\/b>: Video Ethnography<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Thesis and Research Advisor<\/span><\/li>\n
      • <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Biography Tom Mould (he\/him) is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore. He received his BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MA and PHD in Folklore from Indiana University. Mould is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society (AFS) and has served on the AFS Executive Board, Chaired the AFS Media and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195962,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463383],"tags":[230447,152],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bios","tag-anthropology","tag-faculty","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}