Staff
Director
Pauleena MacDougall, PhD
Faculty Associate, Anthropology
& History Departments
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| Pauleena MacDougal
interviewing violin maker Bob Childs in Cambridge, MA recently |
Pauleena
MacDougall, director of The Maine Folklife Center since 2008,
received her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maine
in 1995. She has worked for MFC since 1989, most recently as
associate director. She is also faculty
associate in Anthropology, where she teaches courses in linguistics
and Native American history, and in the Department of History. Since 1979, MacDougall
has published numerous papers on Penobscot Indian language, culture
and history. She is editor of Northeast Folklore and author
of The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History
of a People, University of New England
Press, 2004. She is currently writing a biography of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm.
Contact Pauleena
MacDougall at:
South Stevens Hall #110
207-581-1848
Pauleena.MacDougall@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Archivist
Pamela Dean,
PhD
Faculty Associate, Anthropology
Pamela Dean received her BA and MA in history form the University of
Maine and her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Prior to returning home to Maine in 2000, Dean was the director of the
Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University. She
is a long-time member of the Oral History Association and her
interests include women’s history and radio documentaries that use
oral history materials.
Contact Pamela Dean
at:
South Stevens Hall #106C
207-581-1881
Pamela.Dean@umit.maine.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Administrative Assistant
Bethany
Haverlock
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| Bethany Haverlock keeping the center
together |
Bethany has been
with the Maine Folklife Center since 1996. Among her many duties,
she fills the book, cassette, and video orders, sends out the
traveling exhibits, keeps track of our members, and generally keeps
the Center humming along smoothly.
Contact Bethany
Haverlock at:
South Stevens Hall #112
207-581-1891
Edward "Sandy" Ives, Ph.D
Founder and Former Director Maine
Folklife Center
Sandy received his
Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University in 1962. He has taught at
the University of Maine since 1955, first as Instructor in English
and beginning in 1964 as Professor of Folklore in the Department of
Anthropology. He is currently retired from both teaching and
directing the Maine Folklife Center.
He has received
numerous honors and awards including an honorary LL.D. from the
University of Prince Edward Island in 1986, the Annual Harvey A.
Kantor Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Oral History in
1979, and the Marius Barbeau Medal from the
Canadian Folklore Studies Association for outstanding lifetime
contributions to the field of folklore in 1991.
Ives organized the
Folklife Center in 1992, combining the Northeast Folklore Society
and the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, which he
founded in 1957. He has edited the monograph series Northeast
Folklore since 1958. His other publications include,
- Larry Gorman: The Man Who
Made the Songs, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964;
(with Henry Glassie and John Szwed)
- Folksongs and Their Makers,
Bowling Green, Ohio;
- Joe Scott: The Woodsman
Songmaker, Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press,
1978;
- Folksongs of New Brunswick,
Fredericton: Goose Lane Edition, 1989;
- The Bonny Earl of Murray:
The Man, The Murder, The Ballad, Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1997; and
- Drive Dull Care Away:
Folksongs From Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I.:
Institute of Island Studies, 1999.
