MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Anthony Bak Buccitelli, interim assistant dean for graduate programs and associate professor of American studies and communications at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named a fellow of the American Folklore Society.
Fellowship in the American Folklore Society is one of the organization’s highest honors, recognizing members who have made outstanding contributions to the field through scholarship, teaching and service. Fellows are nominated by their peers and elected by current fellows.
“I’m greatly honored to be able to carry on the legacy of fellows at Penn State that began with [famous folklorist and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature] Samuel Preston Bayard, and to be able to continue Penn State’s history of excellence in the study of the traditional practices and everyday expressive cultures of the United States and the world,” Buccitelli said.
Buccitelli also serves as director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore. His research focuses on narrative, memory, festival and ritual, and the intersection of folklore and digital technologies. He is the author of “City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston,” editor of “Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture” and “The Folklore of Democracy: Tradition and Democratic Culture after January 6th,” and co-editor of “Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance.”
He was recognized at the American Folklore Society’s annual meeting, held this fall in Atlanta, Georgia.