Editorial Team
JAF editors are selected by the AFS Executive Board through a proposal process. Editors serve for five years and are responsible for developing the JAF editorial team, including associate editors, editorial assistants, and special section and review editors, as well as the editorial board, which assists in creating a vision for the JAF.
AFS supports the part-time position of Managing Editor to support and complement the Editors’ leadership and provide continuity through editorial team transitions.
JAF Editorial Team
The first JAF Editorial Collective assumed leadership in January 2025, producing issues that will be published 2026-2030. The effort requires collaboration and fosters exchange of ideas, opinions, methods, and perspectives. This international collective aims to disperse labor and combine physical resources, while bringing together diverse content expertise and broad intellectual networks.
Editorial Team
Collective Editors
Norma E. Cantú, Trinity University, TX, USA
Coppélie Cocq, Umeå University, Sweden
Tim Frandy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Lisa Gabbert, Utah State University, USA
Shelley Ingram, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Senior Managing Editor
Lorraine Walsh Cashman, American Folklore Society
Editorial Assistants
Lindsay Bourgeois, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Evie Hosking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Obituary Editor
James Deutsch
The Smithsonian Institution
Book Review Editor
Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera
The Ohio State University
Featured and Reviewed Projects Editors
Digital Media
Constance Bailey
Georgia State University
Exhibits and Events
B. Marcus Cederström
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Films and Videos
Guillermo de los Reyes
University of Houston
Music and Sound
John B. Fenn III
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Journal of American Folklore
American Folklore Society
Classroom-Office Building
Indiana University, 800 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
(812) 856-2379
Editorial Board
Sarah Craycraft, Harvard University
Ann K. Ferrell, Western Kentucky University
Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland (emeritus)
Rossina Zamora Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, The Ohio State University
Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Independent Folklorist; Minnesota State University Moorhead (emerita)
Selina Morales, Independent Folklorist
Anand Prahlad, University of Missouri, Columbia; The Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment
Pravina Shukla, Indiana University
Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, University of Zagreb
Cory W. Thorne Gutiérrez, Memorial University
Langston Collin Wilkins, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lijun Zhang, George Mason University
JAF is produced by the American Folklore Society with the support of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Trinity University, Umeå University, University of British Columbia, and Utah State University. The American Folklore Society also gratefully acknowledges the support of the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.
Questions about the journal? Contact the editorial team at JAF.editors@afsnet.org.