Jack Santino

Jack Santino
Occupation Professor

Jack (John Francis) Santino, Ph.D. is an academic folklorist.

His work

He is a Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University and is Director of the Bowling Green Center for Culture Studies.[1] His work has primarily focused on ritual, celebrations, and holidays as well as occupational culture and popular music. He has been a featured expert on a television special produced by The History Channel, about Hallowe'en.

Along with Paul Wagoner, Santino produced Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle a film, winner of four regional Emmy Awards on African American Pulman car unionisation.[2]

From 1996 to 2000 Santino was the editor of the Journal of American Folklore.[3] During 2002-3 Santino was the President of the American Folklore Society.[3]

Early life

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 1, 1947.and received a bachelor's degree in English at Boston College. He then studied Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. His thesis was entitled "The outlaw emotions : workers' narratives from three contemporary occupations".[4] He has nine published books listed in WorldCat.[5] He has three children: Ian, Will and Hannah.

Books

See also

References

  1. "Jack Santino - Popular Culture - BGSU". Bgsu.edu. 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  2. "Miles of Smiles - About Film". Paul Wagner Films. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. 1 2 "About the American Folklore Society: AFS Leadership". The American Folklore Society. Archived from the original on 7 October 2010.
  4. Santino, Jack (1978). "The outlaw emotions : workers' narratives from three contemporary occupations". University of Pennsylvania.
  5. Santino, Jack. "Results for 'Jack Santino' > 'Jack Santino' > 'Book'". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  6. Reviewed in Oral History Review 1990 18(2):157-160
  7. Reviewed by Daniel Wojcik, Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 93–96, Western States Folklore Society
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