Anthony Bak Buccitelli to Join UC Berkeley Folklore as Visiting Associate Professor in the Spring

Anthony Bak Buccitelli is Associate Professor of American Studies and Communications, Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Folklore and Ethnography, and Director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore at Pennsylvania State University. He also currently serves as editor of the journal Western Folklore, and has previously served as co-editor of Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture.

Buccitelli is author of the book City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston (2016, University of Wisconsin Press). This volume was selected for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series, and received honorable mention for the American Folklore Society’s 2016 Wayland D. Hand Prize, “given for the best book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials.” He is also editor of Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture Our Changing Traditions, Impressions, and Expressions in a Mediated World (2018, Praeger Books), a two volume edited collection that explores the role of folklore in the changing definitions, practices, and performances of race and ethnicity in the digital age. He has published numerous research articles and scholarly book chapters, which have appeared in Sage Research Methods Foundations, The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, The Journal of American Folklore, and Oral History, among other venues.