My latest online article related to the newest screen manifestation of Robin Hood #RobinHoodMovie SmithsonianFolklife po.st/96r2Dk via Smithsonian Magazine

Don't miss the free screening of "Five Easy Pieces," which I will introduce at 1 pm Monday, Jan. 14, at #SmithsonianFolklife, 600 Maryland Ave SW, Suite 2001, as part of Music Movie Mondays and Smithsonian Year of Music. This is one of the best examples of the American New Wave.

My latest online article, on Romeo and Juliet, just in time for Valentine's Day, po.st/c9zoTR via Smithsonian Magazine

My latest article for the SmithsonianFolklife Folklife magazine reexamines the National World War II Reunion of 2004, on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary.

My latest article for SmithsonianFolklife Folklife magazine explores some of the folklore behind #COVID19.

My latest article for SmithsonianFolklife, just in time for tonight's first Seder.

Happy to have one of my limericks featured for #NationalLimerickDay

My latest article for SmithsonianFolklife on what I think is a very timely topic: QAnon. folklife.si.edu/magazine/folkl…

Attending #NCPH2022 this week? Today, 3:30–5 pm ET, our curators James Deutsch & Sojin Kim participate in a roundtable on The Crossroads of Migration for a World on the Move, examining the upcoming American Anthropological Association exhibit, “World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration.”

My latest article for SmithsonianFolklife marks the new home for our fabled Pakistani painted truck. festival.si.edu/blog/pakistani…

Check Out New Forum Series: Pandemics & Politics: ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanaly…

“The Folkloric Roots and Pandemic Popularity of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory,” an article written by Levi Bochantin and me, appears in the new Forum Series on "Pandemics and Politics" in the journal Cultural Analysis

With the emergence of cicada Broods XIII and XIX (for the first time together since 1803), the Smithsonian's Sidedoor Podcast is rebroadcasting an episode from 2021, which includes an interview with me (at 22:50 and 28:20). si.edu/sidedoor/cicad…

My article about the folklore of eclipses from SmithsonianFolklife is now on Curators' Corner at po.st/hZkxFV via Smithsonian Magazine

Having grown up in New Jersey, I must admit to having done some mischief on Oct 30--the night before Halloween. See folklife.si.edu/talkstory/what…

My latest article for Curators' Corner in anticipation of Thor's advance screenings on Thor's Day, po.st/eVbBgH Smithsonian Magazine

My latest article for Smithsonian Magazine's Curators' Corner in anticipation of the Feast Day for the Virgin of Guadalupe on December 12, po.st/favmYM via Smithsonian Magazine

My article on the politicized reception of Rogue One has just been published in a special issue of New Directions in Folklore called "The Folk Awakens: Star Wars and Folkloristics." scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index…

My latest online article, related to George Washington and President's Day: SmithsonianFolklife po.st/Fh6Qte via Smithsonian Magazine. Also at folklife.si.edu/magazine/some-…

James Deutsch emphasizes collaborating with homeless interviewees to share authority. He used the OHMAR CFP as a prompt to discuss issues of vulnerability and authority with homeless narrators. #OHMAR2018