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Millie Rahn

Millie Rahn

Graduate Adjunct Faculty
Department of Heritage Studies

Contact phone number: (617) 924-7684
e-mail: mrahn@plymouth.edu

Administrative contact: Kathy Melanson
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2335

Profile

Millie Rahn is a Massachusetts-based folklorist who has done extensive fieldwork throughout New England and beyond to develop long- and short-term projects and events involving living cultural traditions for cultural and educational organizations, government and economic development agencies and the tourism and heritage industries. She has curated exhibits for many regional folk festivals, including the annual Lowell (Mass.) Folk Festival, the American (formerly National) Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine, the Boston Cultural Heritage Festival and the Working Waterfront Festival in New Bedford, Mass. In addition, her interest in foodways led her to conduct a foodways inventory for the Missouri Regional Cuisines Project and produce public foodways programs and television segments in Lowell, coastal Maine and other areas of New England.

Degrees and Education

  • M.A. in folklore, The Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • B.A. in American studies, University of Maryland/Baltimore County
  • Additional graduate studies in material culture at Radcliffe College, Brown University and Boston University

Research Interests

  • Food traditions, traditional music, 1960s folk music revival, oral history, industrial communities of New England

Recent Publications

  • "Setting a Place at the Table: Creating Foodways Projects from Scratch," Journal of American Folklore, Winter 2006

Academic Distinctions

  • Runner-up, first Luc Lacourciere Award for Canadian Folklife Studies
  • 1992 Fellow, School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • 1995 Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Folk & Traditional Arts Program

Associations, Boards and Committees

  • Folklorists in New England
  • American Folklore Society
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