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EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2016
Ph.D. in Performance Studies
Dissertation: Affective Echoes: Affect, Resonant Violence, and the Processing of Collective Trauma in Post-Genocidal Societies​, passed with distinction

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2010
M.A. in Performance Studies
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2005
B.F.A. in Drama with Honors


PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
2020-Present
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
2018-2020
COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY
​2017-2018
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
​2016-2017
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE 
​2016-Present
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
2016-Present​

Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
​​Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow
​Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alliance for Historical Dialogue, Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Visiting Scholar
​Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights​
Director of Research and Online Education
Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
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​Consortium Faculty Member, Graduate Certificate Program in Genocide Prevention
Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies​

PUBLICATIONS

SINGLE-AUTHOR MANUSCRIPTS
​Whigham, Kerry. Forthcoming. Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Appe, Susan; Rubaii, Nadia; and Whigham, Kerry. 2020. “Expanding the Reach of Representativeness, Discretion and Collaboration: The Unrealized Potential of Public Administration Research in Atrocity Prevention.” Public Administration Review.
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Rubaii, Nadia; Whigham, Kerry; and Appe, Susan. 2020. “The Public Administration Imperative of Applying an Atrocity Prevention Lens to COVID-19 Responses: Leveraging the Global Pandemic for Positive Structural Change and Greater Social Equity.” Administrative Theory & Praxis.

Whigham, Kerry. 2019. “Scenarios of Intractability: Reframing Intractable Conflict and Its Transformation.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 13(3): 44-63.

Whigham, Kerry. 2019. “Reading the Traces: Embodied Engagement with the Past at Three Former Nazi Concentration Camps.” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Whigham, Kerry. 2017. “Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 11(2) (October): 53-71.

Whigham, Kerry. 2016. “Acting across Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 25(2) (April): 179-198.

Whigham, Kerry. 2014. “Performing a Future (in) Performing a Past: Identity, Cultural Performance, and the Utopian Impulse.” Tourist Studies 14(2) (August): 203-224.

Whigham, Kerry. 2014. “Filling the Absence: The Re-Embodiment of Sites of Mass Atrocity and the Practices They Generate.” Museum and Society 12(2) (July): 88-103.

Whigham, Kerry. 2014. “The Price of Freedom, the Cost of War: A Walking Tour.” Material Culture 46(2) (Fall): 43-66.

BOOK CHAPTERS
​Whigham, Kerry. Forthcoming. “Reading the Traces: Embodied Engagement with the Past at Three Former Nazi Concentration Camps.” In Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century, eds. Diana Popescu and Tanja Schult. New York: Routledge.
Whigham, Kerry. 2020. “Memory Encroachments and Re-Plotting the Past: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States.” In Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities, eds. Elazar Barkan, Constantin Goschler, and James Waller. New York: Routledge.​
Whigham, Kerry. 2017. “Constructing Prevention: An Exploration in Building Memorials that Prevent Atrocities.” In Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity, ed. Dennis Klein. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.​
Whigham, Kerry. 2015. “Performing Prevention: Civil Society, Performance Studies, and the Role of Public Activism in Genocide Prevention.” In Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention, eds. Tiberiu Galis, Sheri Rosenberg, and Alex Zucker, 321-351. New York: Cambridge University Press.​
Galis, Tibi, and Whigham, Kerry. 2017. “Cerrando la caja de Pandora: La responsabilidad social de las empresas, los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y la prevención de atrocidades masivas.” In Cine y casos de negocios: Una mirada multidisciplinaria, eds. Moira Nakousi and Daniel Soto. Santiago: Editorial Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.​

POLICY PAPERS & REPORTS
Kerry Whigham. 2020. "Truth Commissions and Their Contributions to Atrocity Prevention." Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.

TRANSLATIONS
Alessio, Nicolás. 2016. “Egalitarian Marriage: Contribution from Christian Theology.” Translated by Kerry Whigham. emisférica 12(2) (Fall). Translated from Spanish.
Gualde, Andrea. 2015. “Reparations for Crimes Against Humanity as Public Policy: Argentina’s Relationship with the Past from the Individual to the Collective as a Tool for Prevention.” Translated by Kerry Whigham. Policy Papers in Prevention Series. Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Translated from Spanish.

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2016 Fellow-in-Residence, Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
2016 Peace Ambassador, Center for Peacebuilding, Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2014  
Franco Coli Dissertation Award
2010-2014  NYU Corrigan Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2013  Fellow, Global Research Institute, NYU Berlin
2013  NYU GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship
2011  NYU GSAS Dean’s Student Travel Grant
2009  Second Prize, American Folklore Society LGBTQA Student Essay

INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES

BENNINGTON COLLEGE
Bennington, VT
1 April 2019​
UK STABILISATION UNIT
London, United Kingdom
21 January 2019​
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2-3 November 2018
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
Winnipeg, Canada
19 October 2018
601ARTSPACE
New York, NY
11 October 2018
DFID/FCO
London, United Kingdom
25 September 2018​
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
New York, NY
13 September 2018
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Bangkok, Thailand
27 June 2018
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SONOMA STATE UNIV.
Sonoma, CA
27 March 2018
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CARDOZO LAW SCHOOL
New York, NY
4 December 2017
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Newark, NJ
28 November 2017
​AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland
17 November 2017
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland
9 June 2017
KEAN UNIVERSITY
Union, NJ
15 November 2016

AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland
11 November 2016
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Galloway, NJ
13 October 2016
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Sonoma, CA
19 March 2016
AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE
Oświeçim, Poland
19 February 2016
KEENE STATE COLLEGE
Keene, NH
3 September 2014
Speaker, “The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Mass Atrocity Prevention”
Peacebuilding @ Bennington, CAPA Symposium
​
Speaker, “The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Mass Atrocity Prevention”
Department of International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Government of the United Kingdom
Speaker and Participant
Workshop on Memory Activism
​
Speaker, “Scenarios of Intractability: Reframing Intractable Conflict and Its Transformation”
Critical Approaches to Genocide and Atrocity Crimes Prevention
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Speaker, A VOID Panel Discussion with Aida Šehović and Shaun Leonardo
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Speaker, “The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Mass Atrocity Prevention”
Department of International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Government of the United Kingdom​
Panelist, “The Presence of the Past: How the U.S. Encounters Its Own History”
White & Case, Public Dialogue​
​
Instructor, “The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice”
Regional Workshop for Legislative and Executive Officials on Mass Atrocity Prevention from ASEAN and other Southeast Asian States
​

​Guest Lecturer, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
​“Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina”


​
Guest Lecturer, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights
“Resonant Violence and Settler Colonial Genocide in the United States”
​

Guest Lecturer, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
“The Role of Memory and Commemoration in Transitional Justice


Instructor, “The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice”
Global Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention

Instructor, “El rol de la memoria y la conmemoración en la justicia transicional”
Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention
La Red Latinoamericana para la Prevención de Genocidio y Atrocidades Masivas

Guest Lecturer, MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
​“Rethinking Atrocity Prevention”
​

Instructor, Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention
"The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice"
​

Guest Lecturer, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
​“Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina”

Guest Lecturer, 2016 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series
“Generations of Memory: Violence, Activism, Memory, and Transitional Justice in Argentina”​

Instructor, Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention
“The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Transitional Justice”

La Red Latinoamericana para la Prevención de Genocidio y Atrocidades Masivas
​Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate/Graduate Symposium
“Genocide Studies and Memory”



CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2019​
MEMORY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Madrid, Spain
2019

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SIEF2019
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2019
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Binghamton, NY
2019
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DUBLIN
Dublin, Ireland
2019
NSPPAA
Atlanta, GA
2018
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
Paris, France
2018
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Binghamton, NY
2018
MEMORY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2017
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Washington, DC

2017
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Brisbane, Australia

2017
CLARK UNIVERSITY
Worcester, MA

2017
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AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Denver, CO

2016

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
​2016
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BENNINGTON COLLEGE
Bennington, VT

2016
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Mechelen, Belgium

2016

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

2016
KEAN UNIVERSITY
Union, NJ
2016
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
New Brunswick, NJ
2016

MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY
Lancaster, PA
2015

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Zagreb, Croatia
2015

International Association of Genocide Scholars Biannual Conference
Panel Convener and Presenter, “Artivism: Art and Social Transformation in the Face of Mass Violence”
Roundtable Member, “Best Practices for Institutionalizing Genocide Prevention”
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Memory Studies Association Annual Conference
Panel Series Co-Convener, “The Memory Politics of Cultural Trauma: Revisiting the Traumatic Past in Politics and Space”
Presenter, “Reading the Traces: Embodied Engagement with the Past at Three Former Nazi Concentration Camps”
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore Congress 2019
Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World
Presenter, “Resonant Violence and the Felt Unfelt of Genocide and Its Aftermath”
Frontiers in Prevention II
Panel Convener, “Sites of Memory, Sites of Conscience”
Presenter, “Sites of Memory and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities”
Critical Human Rights and Memory Inaugural Workshop (Memory Studies Association)
Presenter, “Memory, Performance, and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities”
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Making a Difference: Good Governance in Disrupted State(s), Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration
Presenter, “Applying an Atrocity Prevention Lens to Understanding Global Disruptions”​
Words That Kill
Presenter, “The Power of the Past: The Role of Historical Narratives in the Perpetration and Prevention of Mass Atrocities”
Frontiers in Prevention
Presenter, “Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory”


Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association
Presenter, “Re-tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trails of Tears National Historic Trail”
6th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network
Presenter, “Memory Encroachments: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting -- Anthropology Matters!
Presenter, "Re-Tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail"
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International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference
Presenter, "Re-Tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail"
Emerging Expertise: Holding Accountability Accountable
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
​Presenter, "Acting Across Violence: Argentinean Civil Society, State Accountability, and the Activism of H.I.J.O.S."
American Studies Association Annual Meeting--Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are
Panel Co-Convener: Embodied Relations to Land, Memory, and Migration
Presenter: "Re-tracing the Trail: The Ambivalent Embodiment of Genocidal Memory on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail"
Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation--International Workshop on Historical Dialogue and Atrocity Prevention
"Moving Sites: Re-Mapping Space and Generating Memory in Post-Atrocity Societies"

Peacebuilding-in-Action Think Tank
Center for the Advancement of Political Action
Invited Roundtable Panelist​​
International Conference: Council of Europe Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation--Education Department
Connecting Law and Memory
"Educating Policymakers about Memory and Atrocity Prevention"

Hemispheric Institute Encuentro 2016: Excéntrico
Mobilizing Memory Working Group
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Societies Emerging from Conflict: The Aftermath of Atrocity
"Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin
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Susman Graduate Conference: Confronting the Violence(s) of History
"Acting across Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Trans-Action, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina"

Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures
“Occupying Space, Amplifying Affect: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island”
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International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) World Congress 2015
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin”

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Chicago, IL
2015

Cities East and West: New Maps for Research Conference
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin”

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Chicago, IL
2014

Jan Karski 2014 Conference: Memory and Responsibility
“Building Memory: Practices of Memorialization in Post-Holocaust Berlin”

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Montreal, Canada
2014

Hemispheric Institute Encuentro 2014: Manifest!
“Transecting Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Transection, and Biopoetics in Post-Dictatorship Argentina”; Moderator, Teach-in: Art, Community and Human Rights

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2014

American Comparative Literature Association Conference: Capitals
“Resonant Violence: Affect and the Residual Effects of Genocidal Violence in Post-Dictatorship Argentina”

UCLA/USC
Los Angeles, CA
2013

Hemi-GSI Convergence 2013: Experimental Collectivities
Co-Convener, Bodies-in-Transit Working Group

YORK UNIVERSITY
Toronto, Canada
2013

Performance in/and the Street
“Intersecting Violence: H.I.J.O.S., Practices of Intersection, and Biopoetics in Post-‘Dirty War’ Argentina”

CARDOZO UNIVERSITY
New York, NY
2013

Deconstructing Prevention: The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Mass Atrocity Prevention
“Performing Prevention: Performance Studies and Genocide Prevention”

DUKE UNIVERSITY
Durham, NC
2012

Hemi-GSI Convergence 2012: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation
Urban GeoPolitics Working Group

LEEDS UNIVERSITY
Leeds, United Kingdom
2012

Performance Studies International: Performance, Culture, Industry
“Performing a Future (in) Performing a Past: The Industry of Cultural Tourism and the Utopian Impulse”

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRES DE FEBRERO
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011

International Association of Genocide Scholars: Truth, Memory, Justice, and Recovery
“Filling the Absence: Sites of Mass Atrocity, the Memorialization of Trauma, and the Tourist Experience”


DEPARTMENTAL TALKS

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Binghamton, NY

6 November 2018
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Binghamton, NY

30 October 2018
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York, NY

25 September 2012
“Essentials of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention”
Graduate Seminar
Professor Max Pensky
“Genocide Prevention: What Can You Do?”
Undergraduate Seminar
Professor Nadia Rubaii​
“Dark Sites”
Graduate Performance Studies
Professor Diana Taylor

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TEACHING FELLOW
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
Spring 2019
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
KEENE STATE COLLEGE
​Spring 2019
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2018        
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Spring 2017
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2017
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
KEAN UNIVERSITY
​Fall 2016

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Summer 2016

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2016

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2015           ​

TEACHING ASSISTANT
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2015

TEACHING ASSISTANT
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Spring 2015

CO-ORGANIZER
HEMI-GSI CONVERGENCE
2014


“Building Public Memory: The Transformation of Post-Atrocity Societies, from Grassroots to Government”
Graduate Public Administration/Institute from Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention​
“Comparative Genocide Studies”
Undergraduate Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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“Genocide, Theater, and Performance”
Undergraduate Drama, Theater Studies


"Aftermath: Transitional Justice and Collective Memory in the Wake of Genocide”
Graduate Genocide Studies/Genocide Prevention
​

“Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner”
Undergraduate Performance Studies
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"Post-Colonial Africa: Genocide and Conflict on the African Continent"
Graduate History


"Aftermath: Transitional Justice and Collective Memory in the Wake of Genocide”
Graduate Genocide Studies/Genocide Prevention

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“Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner”
Undergraduate Performance Studies
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“Theater, Performance, and Conflict from the Early-Twentieth Century to Today”
Undergraduate Drama, Theater Studies


“Performance Studies: Final Projects”
Graduate Performance Studies


“Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner”
Undergraduate Performance Studies


Co-Organizer, Third Annual Hemispheric Institute-Graduate Student Initiative Convergence 2014, New York University – “Bodies-in-Transit: Articulating the Americas (and Beyond)”

RESIDENCIES AND OTHER TEACHING

2013-2015  Undergraduate Mentor, Fordham University
2012  Guest Professor, NYU, Strasberg Institute
2006-11  Undergraduate Mentor, NYU
2008  Guest Professor, University of New Mexico
2005-2006  Guest Professor, Syracuse University

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

  • Communications Officer and Executive Board Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars, 2018-present​
  • Co-Curator, Artivism: The Atrocity Prevention Pavilion, Venice, Italy, May-November 2019
  • Co-Chair, Memory and Trauma Working Group, Memory Studies Association
  • Co-Organizer, Large-Scale Violence and Its Aftermaths (Conference and Seminars), Kean University, Union, NJ, 25-29 June 2017
  • Managing Editor, emisférica, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, New York University, 2014-2016
  • Co-Organizer, Bodies-in-Transit: Articulating the Americas (and Beyond), Third Annual Hemispheric Institute Graduate Student Initiative Convergence, New York University, New York, NY, 2-5 October 2014
  • Peer Reviewer, Tourist Studies
  • Peer Reviewer, Gobernar: The Journal of Latin American Public Policy and Governance

LANGUAGES

SPANISH
ITALIAN
ROMANIAN

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Association of Genocide Scholars; International Network of Genocide Scholars; Memory Studies Association; International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF); American Studies Association; American Comparative Literature Association; Modern Languages Association; American Anthropological Associatio
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