• Folklore Studies
• Cultural Theory
• Millenarian and Apocalyptic Movements
• Vernacular Religion
• Popular Culture
• Visionary Artists

Courses Taught:

• Popular Culture and Folklore
• Folklore of Subcultures
• Folklore and Religion
• Folk Art and Material Culture
• History and Theory of Folklore Research
• Introduction to Folklore

Selected Publications:

• The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America, New York University Press, 1997.
  

• Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art, University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

• "Avertive Apocalypticism." In the Oxford Handbook of Millennialism. ed. Catherine Wessinger. pp. 66-88. London: Oxford University Press, 2011

• "Spirits, Apparitions, and Traditions of Supernatural Photography." Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 25, no 1-2 (March-June 2009): 109-136. Special Issue, Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts.
  

• "Pre's Rock: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and Runner's Traditions at the Roadside Shrine for Steve Prefontaine." In Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred, ed. Peter Jan Margry, pp. 201-237. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2008. (Click here to read article)
  

• "Outsider Art, Vernacular Traditions, Trauma and Creativity." Western Folklore 67, no. 2 & 3 (Spring/Summer 2008): 179-198.
  

• "Apocalyptic and Millenarian Aspects of American UFOism." In UFO Religions, ed. Christopher Partridge, pp. 274-300. London and New York: Rouledge (2003).

Works in Progress:

• Outsider Art Realms: Visionary Worlds, Trauma, and Transformation.

Professional Memberships:

• American Folklore Society
• American Academy of Religion
• International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
• Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)
• Western States Folklore Society

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