Publications

    “Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Folkways Records, and Harold Courlander,” Tributaries 18 (2024): 190-201.

    “‘I Can’t (Don’t) Breathe’: White Veterans and Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars,” in Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in Post-2010 Horror Cinema, eds. Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and Carmen M. Méndez-García (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 47-62.

    “Conference Report: Canonical and Non-Canonical in Charming Texts and Practices,” Incantatio: An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming 11 (2023), 153-55.

    “Silver Linings: Chronicling Cultural Sustainability at the Geographic Center of North America” (with Troyd Geist and Pieper Bloomquist), in Behind the Mask: Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID, eds. Ben Bridges, Ross Brillhart, and Diane Goldstein (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2023), 76-96.

    “You Don’t Need a Weatherman: Bob Dylan’s Windlore,” in Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-first Century, eds. Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023), 160-75.

    “The Folkloric Roots and Pandemic Popularity of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory” (with Levi Bochantin), in Cultural Analysis, Forum Series 1, Pandemics & Politics (March 2023), 1-11.

    “Pandemic Films in the United States,” Aurion 21 (Tokyo: Shirayuri Research Center for Language and Literature), 2022, 97-110.

    “Steve Kaslov,” in Roma Portraits in History: Roma Civic Emancipation Elite in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II , eds. Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov (Leiden: Brill Schöningh, 2022), 607-17.

    “‘Marrying off the Caterpillars Festival’: Folktales as a Medium for Eclecticism” (with Sophia Geng), Transcultural Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (October 2021), 28-40.

    “From the ‘Mad Dash’ to ‘Shopping Alone’: Thanksgiving Rituals of Consumption on Black Friday and Cyber Monday,” in The Ritual Year 12: Regulating Customs, ed. Thomas A. McKean (Moscow: Polymedia, 2021), 114-29.

    “A Folkloristic Analysis of Polish Immigrant Narratives in Western Canada,” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies, v. 55 (2020), 335-51.

    “Folklife in the Nation’s Capital: The George Washington University Experience,” in Folklore in the United States and Canada: An Institutional History, eds. Patricia Sawin and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020), 205-12.

    “The Wild Deserters of No Man’s Land: A Ghoulish Legend of the Great War,” in Different Drummers: Military Culture and Its Discontents, ed. Tad Tuleja (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2020), 122–33.

    “Belly Dance,” in Music around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, eds. Andrew R. Martin and Matthew Mihalka (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020), 85–87. 

    “Traditions of Retirement in American Life and Literature,” in Traditions and Transitions, eds. Emilia Slavova et al. (Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2019), 268–77.

    “Gateways and Crossroads on the U.S. National Mall: The Romania Program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival,” in Ideology, Identity, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions, eds. Eduard Vlad, Adina Ciugureanu, Nicoleta Stanca (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019), 113–23.

    “Market Forces and Marketplace Economics at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival” (with Halle M. Butvin), in The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics, eds. Willow G. Mullins and Puja Batra-Wells (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2019), 72–91. 

    “Slaughterhouse-Five,” in Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings, ed. Lynn Marie Houston (Santa Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2019), 255–58.

    “City-Wide Sweeps of the Homeless,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, ed. Bruce A. Arrigo (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2018), 170–71.

    “Shifting Paradigms for Paradigm Shifts,” in New Paradigms in English Studies: Language, Linguistics, Literature and Culture in Higher Education, eds. Emilia Slavova et al. (Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2017), 293–302.

    “Folklore, Politics, and Fake News in the Reception of Rogue One,” New Directions in Folklore, 15 (nos. 1–2, 2017), 109–20.

    “Unawakening from the Dream of Death: Parallel Worlds of Folk Tradition in Macushla,” in Botët Paralele në Balada dhe Këngë Popullore/Parallel Worlds in Ballad and Song, eds. Arbnora Dushi and Lumnije Kadriu (Prishtinë: Institute of Albanology, 2017), 401–18.

    “Armenia,” in Etiquette and Taboos around the World: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Customs, ed. Ken Taylor and Victoria Williams (Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 2017), 15–17.

    “A Child of the Ghetto,” “Japanese War Bride,” and “Romance of a Jewess,” in Race in American Film: Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation, eds. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, 2017), 175–77, 479–81, 758–59.

    “Eco-Disaster Films in the United States: From the 1950s to the 1990s,” Aurion (Shirayuri University, Japan), 17 (2017), 107–16.

    “Crossing Borders on the U.S. National Mall: The African Diaspora Programs at the Festival of American Folklife,” in Mapping the History of Folklore Studies: Centres, Borderlands and Shared Spaces, eds. Dace Bula and Sandis Laime (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 60–67.

    “‘People’s Genius and Creativity’: Foodways at the Festival of American Folklife,” in Food and Museums, eds. Nina Levent and Irina Mihalache (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017), 161–70.

    “Bulgaria (Eastern Europe), Bulgarian American,” in Ethnic American Cooking: Recipes for Living in a New World, ed. Lucy M. Long (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), 32–33.

    “Good Enough for Government Work? Federal Agencies at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival,” in Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, eds. Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N’Diaye (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016), 111–32.

    “Mongolian American Culture,” in Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, ed. Lan Dong (Santa Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2016), 535–38.

    “‘No Communist Could Dream of a More Effective Anti-American Film’: Dr. Strangelove and its Red Reviewers,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 35 (March 2016), 40–52.

    “La Luz in Sleepy Hollow: Ethnic Media, Fruit Pickers, and The Lawless (1950),” in Monograph Series, Proceedings of National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, 2014 Eastern Regional Meeting (Scarborough, Maine: NAAAS & Affiliates, 2015), 128–37.

    “Bulgarian Americans,” in Ethnic American Food Today: A Cultural Encyclopedia, ed. Lucy Long (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), 86–88.

    “Walt Whitman,” in The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015), 71–74.

    “American Friends: The United States as Viewed by Wim Wenders from the 1970s to the 2000s,” in America in Foreign Media, eds. Michal Peprník and Matthew Sweney (Olomouc, Czech Republic: Palacký University, 2014), 177–86.

    “The Sorrowing Boy with Green Hair: A Cinematic Allegory against War and Injustice,” American and British Studies Annual, 7 (2014), 30–37.

    “Norman Rockwell,” in The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia, eds. Marilyn J. Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2014), 1138–40.

    “Pirates, Bandits, and Runagates: Roving Outlaws on Early American Waterways,” in Waterways and Byways, 1600–1890, eds. Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes (Concord, Mass.: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2014), 100–8.

    “Benjamin Orange Flower” and “John McBride,” in Encyclopedia of Populism in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Alexandra Kindell and Elizabeth S. Demers (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014), 256–57, 420–21.

    “Jackalope,” in Encyclopedia of Deception, ed. Timothy R. Levine (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2014), 555–57.

    “Citizen Nick: Civic Engagement and Folk Culture in the Life and Work of Nicholas Ray,” (with Lauren R. Shaw) in Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema, eds. Steven Rybin and Will Scheibel (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014), 109–121.

    “The Searchers,” in Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, ed. Carlos E. Cortés (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2013), 1897–1899.

    “Lincoln Steffens,” in Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, ed. Lawrence M. Salinger, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2013), 871–72.

    “Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival,” (with Ágnes Fülemile), in 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, eds. Betty Belanus and Sojin Kim (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2013), 10–17.

    “Homelessness,” in Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia, eds. Christopher G. Bates and James Ciment (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2013), 422–25. 

    “Women in Military Service for America Memorial,” in An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields, ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013), 613–15.

    “Conjuring Culture: The Smithsonian’s Outdoor Museum and Intangible Cultural Heritage,” in International Conference on Museums and Intangible Heritage (Seoul: National Folk Museum of Korea, 2012), 192–98.

    “Gerald Davis,” “Holly Near,” “Mae West,” and “Sworn Virgin,” in Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay People, eds. Mickey Weems and Kevin Mason (online edition only), 2012.

    “John Dillinger,” in The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, ed. Wilbur R. Miller (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2012), 463–65.

    “Sunita Williams,” in Great Lives from History: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, ed. Gary Y. Okihiro (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012), 803–4.

    “From Liliom to Carousel to Liliom” (with Lauren R. Shaw), in From Stage to Screen: Musical Films in Europe and United States (1927–1961), ed. Massimiliano Sala (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012), 93–112.

    “Charles F. Lummis,” in Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions, ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 741–42.

    “Movie Palaces,” in The Twenties in America, ed. Carl Rollyson (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012), 594.

    “Gregorio Cortez,” in Great Lives from History: Latinos, eds. Carmen Tafolla and Martha P. Cotera (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012), 273–74.

    “Folklore and Cultural Studies,” in Topical Folk: Interpretations of Traditional Culture. Proceedings of the 7th Honchar Readings Conference, ed. Ihor Poshyvailo (Kyiv: Ivan Honchar Museum, 2011), 249–52.

    “Oscar Micheaux,” in Great Lives from History: African Americans, ed. Carl L. Bankston III (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011), 1055–56.

    “John L. Sullivan,” in Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia, ed. Steven A. Riess (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2011), 869–70. 

    “The Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Promoting World Peace and Friendship,” in 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, eds. Sojin Kim and Sita Reddy (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2011), 40–51.

    “Dore Schary,” in Great Lives from History: Jewish Americans, ed. Rafael Medoff (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011), 1035–37.

    “John Dillinger,” in The Thirties in America, ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011), 235–36.

    “Sweet Honey in the Rock,” in Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, eds. Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2011), 1427–28.

    “Samuel I. Newhouse,” in Great Lives from History: The Incredibly Wealthy, ed. Howard Bromberg (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011), 662–63.

    “NASA’s Fifty Years of Ups and Downs: Right Stuff, Wrong Stuff, and Fixing Stuff on the Frontiers of Space,” in America in Motion: Proceedings of the 15th International Colloquium of American Studies, eds. Marcel Arbeit and Roman Truśník (Olomouc: Palacky University, 2010), 205–18. 

    “Urban Legends,” in An Encyclopedia of Infanticide, eds. Brigitte H. Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 267–69.

    “Broadway Anti-Fascist: Elmer Rice’s Flight to the West,” in Language, Culture, Identity, eds. Rumyana Todorova, Temenuzhka Seizova-Nankova, and Velka Popova, vol. 1. (Shumen, Bulgaria: Faber, 2010), 189–95.

    “Dust Tracks on a Road,” in Masterplots, Fourth Edition, ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010), 1677–79.

    “The Best Years of Our Lives,” in The Forties in America, ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010), 112–13.

    “Peddlers,” in The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. Christopher G. Bates (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2010), 794–96.

    “Bouffant,” in The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia, ed. Julie Willett (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2010), 57–58.

    “Washington, D.C.,” in Encyclopedia of American Immigration, ed. Carl L. Bankston III (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010), 1048–49.

    “Alabama,” in Encyclopedia of Motherhood, ed. Andrea O’Reilly (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2010), 40–41.

“Pomp, Protocol, and Monarchical Manners: State Dinners at the White House,” Journal of American Culture, 33 (March 2010), 48–55.

    “Monte Irvin” in Great Athletes: Baseball, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010), 262–64.

“Ted Turner,” in Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints, ed. Roger Chapman (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2010), 569–70.

“Covacevich’s Mexican Sojourn, 1931–1942,” in Following the Sun: The Art of Sue Jean Covacevich, 1905–1998, ed. Elizabeth G. Seaton (Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2010), 28–41.

    “Rock Paper Scissors,” in The Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, ed. Rodney P. Carlisle (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2009), 603–4.

    “Reader’s Digest,” in Historical Encyclopedia of American Business, ed. Richard L. Wilson (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009), 715–17.  

    “Film Star Mary Astor’s Diary Becomes a Public Sensation,” in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, ed. Carl L. Bankston III (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009), 184–87.

    “NC-17 Rating” and “Showgirls,” in The Nineties in America, ed. Milton Berman (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009), 609–10, 771.

    “Ma Barker” and “Riddle,” in Encyclopedia of Women’s Folklore and Folklife, eds. Liz Locke, Theresa A. Vaughn, and Pauline Greenhill (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2009), 34–35, 597–598.

    “Thomas D. Rice,” in The Jim Crow Encyclopedia, eds. Nikki L. M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), 691–92.

    “NASA: Fifty Years and Beyond” (co-author), in 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, ed. Mary Sebold (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 16–34.

    “Frederick Tyrone Power,” “Glenn Quinn,” “Ernest Shackleton,” and “Washington, D.C.,” in Ireland and America: Culture, Politics, and History, eds. James P. Byrne, Philip Coleman, and Jason King (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 767–68, 783–84, 852–54, 910–12. 

    “Shelley Duvall,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, ed. Donald Haase (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), 284–85.

    “Woody Strode,” in African American National Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), vol. 7, 441–42.

    “Bulgarian Communities” and “Washington, D.C.,” in Encyclopedia of AmericanFolklife, ed. Simon J. Bronner (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), 134–36 and 1269–71.

    “Memorializing ‘The Good War’ and ‘The Greatest Generation,’” in Tales of the Great American Victory:  World War II in Politics and Poetics, eds. Diederik Oostdijk and Markha G. Valenta (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006), 157–165.

    “The Best Years of our Lives (1946) and the Cincinnati Story,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 26 (June 2006), 215–25.

    “Why Doesn’t GWU Have a Football Team; or, What is Academic Folklore?” Le Culte du Moi, 14.1 (Spring 2006), 11–15.

    “Bad Man,” “Maya Deren,” and “John Michael Vlach,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006), 67–68, 317–18, 1352–53.

    “Peyton Place,” in Encyclopedia of New England, eds. Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 785.

    “Forest Service, Culture, and Community,” in 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, ed. Carla M. Borden (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2005), 15–31.

    “Making History on the National Mall: The National World War II Reunion,” The Federalist: Newsletter of the Society for History in the Federal Government,” 3 (Fall 2004), 1, 13–14.

    “Non-Traveling Subjects and Their Non-Journeys: The Phenomenon of Homelessness in the United States,” in Traveling Subjects: American Journeys in Space and Time, eds. Dominika Ferens, Justyna Kociatkiewicz and Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (Kraków: Rabid, 2004), 289–94.

    “Cattle Mutilations,” in Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Peter Knight (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 153–55.

    “Veterans,” in Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society, eds. Carl E. Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 577–79.

    “Street Scene,” in Cyclopedia of Literary Places, ed. R. Kent Rasmussen (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003), 1112; reprinted in 2nd ed. (2016), 968.

    “Silk Road Travelers,” in 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival: The Silk Road, ed. Carla M. Borden (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2002), 28–29.

    “Hollywood Goes to Sofia (Sort Of): Cold-War Espionage in a Cinematic Un-Classic,” in America Imagined Conference, ed. Vernon L. Pedersen (Blagoevgrad: American University in Bulgaria, 2002), 7–11.

    “U.S. Film Treatment of the Pacific War,” in World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia, ed. Stanley Sandler (New York: Garland Pub., 2001), 195–98.

    “Reader’s Digest,” in Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. George Kurian (New York: Grolier Publishing, 2001), III: 484–85.

    “Folklore of the Academy,” in Essays in American Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Madeleine Danova (Sofia: Polis Publishers, 2001), 145–56.

     “As the World Ends: Traditional Gender Roles in Apocalyptic Science-Fiction Films of the Late 1990s,” in Gender in Film and the Media: East-West Dialogues, eds. Elżbieta H. Oleksy, Elżbieta Ostrowska, and Michael Stevenson (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000), 39–45; reprinted in Nach Dem Film, 1 (December 2000); translated as “Wizerunki Płci w Apokaliptycznych Filmach Science Fiction Lat 90,” in Gender—Film—Media,” eds. Elżbieta H. Oleksy and Elżbieta Ostrowska (Kraków: Rabid, 2001), 39–46.

   “Harry Brown,” “Elbert Hubbard,” and “Elmer Rice,” in An Encyclopedia of American War Literature, eds. Mark A. Graves and Philip K. Jason (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000), 48–49, 174–75, and 280–81.

    “In the Land Between Minsk and Pinsk,” Belarusian Association for American Studies Newsletter, nos. 8–9 (Winter-Spring 1999), 10–11.

    “Audience Reaction in Germany and Poland to Schindler’s List,” in Cultural Policy or the Politics of Culture?: The Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, eds. Agata Preis-Smith and Piotr Skurowski (Warsaw: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 1999), 213–24.

    “Beadle and Adams Dime Novels,” “Edward Stratemeyer,” “Let There Be Light,” “The Men,” and “A Midnight Clear,” in War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. M. Paul Holsinger (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999), 85, 89–90, 277–78, 283–85.

    “Bud Abbott and Lou Costello,” “Natalie Curtis Burlin,” “Charlotte L. Mason,” and “Louis B. Mayer,” in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), I: 17–18, V: 901–2, XV: 640–2, XV: 768–69.

    “‘I Was a Hollywood Agent’: Cinematic Representations of the Office of Strategic Services in 1946,” Intelligence and National Security, 13 (Summer 1998), 85–99.

    “Diving in Primordial Waters: Motif and Metaphor in a Native American Creation Myth,” in Sounding the Depths, eds. Christine Raguet-Bouvart and Gayle Wurst (Liège: Université de Liège, 1998), 119–26.

    “The American Folklife Center,” American Folklore Society Newsletter, 26 (December 1997), 11–12.

    “Coming Home from ‘The Great War’: World War I Veterans in American Film,” in Hollywood’s World War I: Motion Picture Images, ed. Peter C. Rollins (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997), 225–44.

    “A Guide to Reference Sources in American Studies,” American Studies International, 34 (October 1996), 4–24.

    “The Southern and the Western: Writing Region and Nation in Hollywood Cinema,” in ‘Writing’ Nation and ‘Writing’ Region in America, eds. Hans Bertens and Theo D’Haen (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996), 242–51.

    “The Eyes and Ears of the Smithsonian,” in 1996 Festival of American Folklife, ed. Carla M. Borden (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1996), 74–77.

    Generations—A National Conversation: Leader Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Council on the Aging, 1996).

    “Art Director as Auteur: Richard Day and William Cameron Menzies,” Program notes for ten films (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996).

    “Veterans of the Korean War,” in The Korean War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Stanley L. Sandler (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995), 346–48.

    “Hunting Communists and Shooting Films in Hollywood,” in Anti-Communism and McCarthyism in the United States (1946–1954): Essays on the Politics and Culture of the Cold War, ed. André Kaenel (Paris: Editions Messene, 1995), 123–38.

    “American Film of the 1960s as a Barometer of Cultural Change,” in The Sixties in America, ed. Manfred Strack (Hamburg: Verein für Unterrichtsmaterial zur Amerikakunde, 1994), 76–82.

    “Films of World War II,” in Discussion Leader Guide for Remembering World War II, ed. Sylvia Riggs Liroff (Washington: National Council on the Aging, 1994), 46–54.

    “‘Ich bin ein Berliner’: Dunkers and Donuts in American Popular Culture,” Revue Française d’Études Américaines, 16 (May 1994), 135–41.

    “Presidents in Film,” in Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, eds. Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fisher (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), 626–28.

    “After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Representation of Civil War Veterans in American Film,” Irish Journal of American Studies, 2 (Dec. 1993), 129–39.

    Compiler, 1992 Festival of American Folklife Cookbook (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Office of Folklife Programs, 1992).

    “Joan Crawford,” in St. James Guide to Biography, ed. Paul E. Schellinger (Chicago: St. James Press, 1991), 179–80.

    Compiler, 1991 Festival of American Folklife Cookbook (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Office of Folklife Programs, 1991).

    “The Man with the Golden Arm,” in Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), 961–62.

    Sections on “Folklore and Folklife” and “Folk Art,” in American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1984–1988, ed. Jack Salzman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 183–200, 254–302.

    “Piercing the Penelope Syndrome: The Depiction of World War II Veterans’ Wives in 1940s Hollywood Films,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 16, no. 1 (1990), 31–42.

    “Willie Morris,” G.W. Forum, 33 (Spring 1988), 52–54.

    Sections on “Folklore and Folklife” and “Folk Art,” in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 11 (Bibliography 1987), 55–57, 65–83.

    “Samuel Goldwyn” and “Darryl F. Zanuck,” in Great Lives from History: American Series, ed. Frank N. Magill, 5 vols. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1987), 941–45, 2578–82.

    Section on “Folklore and Folklife,” in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 10 (Bibliography 1986), 79–86.

    Sections on “Architecture,” “Folklore and Folklife,” and “Non‑Academic Painting and Sculpture,” in American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, ed. Jack Salzman, 3 vols. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 8–14, 90–106, 112–16, 173–78, 201–35.

    “Clark Gable’s Wicked Uncle Ernie Sold Undershirts: Some Thoughts on the Effects of Popular Entertainment,” G.W. Forum, 27 (Spring 1984), 1–3.

    “Where the ‘Unemployable’ Do the Impossible,” American Libraries, 12 (November 1981), 608–10.      

    “The Rise and Fall of the Houses of Ushers: Teen‑age Ticket‑Takers in the Twenties Theaters,” Journal of Popular Culture, 13 (Spring 1980), 602–8; reprinted in Catholic Digest, 45 (February 1981), 69–72.

    “Jesse James in Dime Novels: Ambivalence towards an Outlaw Hero,” Dime Novel Round‑Up, 45 (February 1976), 2–11.

    Compiler, A Trans‑Alaska Pipeline Bibliography (Fairbanks: ARC Press, 1974).