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
2025 is a time of transition in JAF leadership, as an Editorial Collective assumes responsibility for developing JAF content in January, working on issues that will appear in 2026. At the same time, the outgoing editorial team will continue to work on the last issues that are in the process of production and will be published through 2025.
Editorial Team
(Issues published 2026-2030)
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
Emma Bussard, George Mason University
Lindsay Bourgeois, 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 (2026-2030 Issues)
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
Editorial Team
(Issues published 2020-2025)
This editorial team is supported by and based at George Mason University.
Editor-in-Chief
Senior Managing Editor
Associate Editors
Benjamin Gatling
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Lijun Zhang
Editorial Assistant
Folklore Program
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 3E4
Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444
jaf.editors@afsnet.org
Book Review Editor
James Deutsch
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Featured and Reviewed Project Editors
Exhibits and Events
Kelley Totten
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Films and Videos
Emily Hilliard
Mid-Atlantic Arts
Music and Sound
Langston Collin Wilkins
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Electronic Media
Natalie Underberg-Goode
University of Central Florida
Editorial Board (2020-2025 Issues)
Wanda G. Addison, National University
Christina Barr, Nevada Humanities
Norma E. Cantú, Trinity University
Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Davis
Rachel V. González-Martin, University of Texas at Austin
David Todd Lawrence, University of St. Thomas
Jim Leary, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Atwood Mason, President Lincoln’s Cottage
Dorothy Noyes, The Ohio State University
Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Stephen D. Winick, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
Lihui Yang, Beijing Normal University, China
Juwen Zhang, Willamette University
JAF is produced by the American Folklore Society with the support of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, English Department, and Folklore Program at George Mason University, 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.