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Erik started following the work of Michael Mead, Lehigh University, Comparative and International Education.
Erik I just updated the title of my dissertation: The Narrativization of Kazakh Proverbs: College Students’ Language Ideologies Concerning “Community”
Faculty Member, Philology
About
I am a doctoral candidate at Fuller Graduate School of Intercultural Studies. My areas of specialization are ethnography, linguistic anthropology, nationalism/patriotism as they relate to folklore, and cognitive poetics.
I have submitted my dissertation concerning Kazakh proverbs with the title "The Narrativization of Kazakh Proverbs: College Students’ Language Ideologies Concerning 'Community'". My dissertation explores how Kazakh-speaking college students' proverb praxis narrativizes their frames/schemas concerning "community". I have developed "proverb reenactment sessions" as a research method, based in part on reenactment work by Michael Agar in the 1970's. Please see my "Apples" paper which is the "teaser" for the dissertation.
I am also Co-Convener of the Socialist and Post-Socialist Area Studies Section of the American Folklore Society http://www.afsnet.org/?page=Socialist. I co-founded this group to coordinate efforts to research nationalism, identity issues, and social movements in socialist and post-socialist settings. Membership is free, so please check it out.
I am looking forward to finding a position teaching and researching after I defend my dissertation at the end of this month.
