CSUMC Staff
Anna Rue
Position title: Interim Director
Email:
rue
Anna Rue is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and is associated with the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest Project. She holds a Master’s in American Studies from the UMass-Boston and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies and Folklore from UW-Madison.
Joe Salmons
Position title: Co-founder
Email:
jsalmons
Joe Salmons is the Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy (UNC-Charlotte, 1978) and a Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics (University of Texas at Austin, 1984). He works to integrate research in linguistics with teaching and outreach beyond the university.
Jim Leary
Position title: Co-founder
Email:
jpleary
James P. Leary was born and raised in northern Wisconsin and, since the early 1970s, has focused his research on the folklore of the Upper Midwest's diverse peoples, with particular emphases on musical and narrative performances, on pluralism and creolization, and on public folklore.
Janet Gilmore
Position title: Research Collections, Exhibits
Email:
jgilmore
Janet C. Gilmore holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. She is a folklorist with extensive public sector experience and particular expertise in commercial fishers in the Pacific Northwest, material culture, and foodways.
Ruth Olson
Position title: Associate Director Emerita
Email:
reolson3
Ruth Olson holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania, and teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J. M. Schroeder
Position title: Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Folklore
Email:
jschroeder3
J.M. Schroeder earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Scandinavian Studies (Folklore). He has worked as a Swedish language instructor, the director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU in Tacoma, WA, and…
CSUMC Affiliates
Steven Ackerman
Position title: Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
Email:
stevea
Cristopher Font-Santiago
Position title: Assistant Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico
Email:
cristopher.font
Mary Hoefferle
Position title: Art Education Program Director, Art, School of Education
Email:
hoefferle
Mark L. Louden
Position title: Director, Max Kade Institute; German, Nordic and Slavic
Email:
mllouden
Eric Raimy
Position title: Director, Language Sciences; English Language & Linguistics
Email:
raimy
Theresa Schenck
Position title: Emerita, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies
Email:
schenck
