CSUMC Staff
Monica Macaulay
Position title: Director
Email: mmacaula@wisc.edu
Monica Macaulay is a Professor in the Language Sciences Program. She earned her Ph.D. at UC-Berkeley, and has done language documentation and revitalization with Chalcatongo Mixtec, Karuk, and Potawatomi. She has also worked with the…
Anna Rue
Position title: Associate Director
Email: rue@wisc.edu
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@wisc.edu
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@wisc.edu
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@wisc.edu
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.
Hope Hague
Position title: Administrator
Email: hahague@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-7546
Hope Hague handles finances, communications and day-to-day business for the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
Ruth Olson
Position title: Associate Director Emerita
Email: reolson3@wisc.edu
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.
CSUMC Affiliates
Steven Ackerman
Position title: Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
Email: stevea@ssec.wisc.edu
Cristopher Font-Santiago
Position title: Co-Director, English 100 Tutorial Services; English Language & Linguistics
Email: fontsantiago@wisc.edu
Mary Hoefferle
Position title: Art Education Program Director, Art, School of Education
Email: hoefferle@wisc.edu
Mark L. Louden
Position title: Director, Max Kade Institute; German, Nordic and Slavic
Email: mllouden@wisc.edu
Eric Raimy
Position title: Director, Language Sciences; English Language & Linguistics
Email: raimy@wisc.edu
Theresa Schenck
Position title: Emerita, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies
Email: schenck@wisc.edu
