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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to Dr. Mariah Marsden on today’s able defense of a highly multidisciplinary dissertation,
<i>Still Warm to the Touch: Tradition and Rural Print Culture in the Ozarks</i>. Mariah’s committee consisted of Dorry Noyes (folklore), Galey Modan (language and place), Beth Hewitt (American print culture), and Brooks Blevins of Missouri State University
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next week Mariah begins a two-year stint at U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as Postdoctoral Fellow in Grant Operations Management and Creative Engagement – where she’ll also have the chance to hang out with the UNC folklorists. Enhorabuena!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dorry <o:p></o:p></p>
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