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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dorry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Folkserv <folkserv-bounces+noyes.10=osu.edu@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Bender, Mark via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 16:24<br>
<b>To: </b>Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper <waugh-quasebarth.1@osu.edu>, Webber, Sabra via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu>, studentfolk@lists.osu.edu <studentfolk@lists.osu.edu>, Johnston, Sarah <johnston.2@osu.edu><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Happy trails Jasper! looking forward to hearing of your new accomplishments!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best, Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mark Bender</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Professor of Chinese Literature and Folklore</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Ohio State University</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">USA</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">614-688-5737</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sarah via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 22, 2024 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper <waugh-quasebarth.1@osu.edu>; Webber, Sabra via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu>; studentfolk@lists.osu.edu <studentfolk@lists.osu.edu><br>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Congratulations, Jasper! That’s wonderful news.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">And I am delighted that Merrill is taking the helm, now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Sarah<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Sarah Iles Johnston</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Religion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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website</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">(new projects, etc.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Folkserv <folkserv-bounces+johnston.2=osu.edu@lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 3:13 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Webber, Sabra via Folkserv <folkserv@lists.osu.edu>, studentfolk@lists.osu.edu <studentfolk@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Folkserv] Farewell!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Dear OSU Folklore Community, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I write to announce my imminent departure from OSU to take the position of Director and Curator of the Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">I was lucky enough to join the CFS in 2019 as a Postdoc to coordinate moving the Ohio Field Schools program to a new research site in Perry County and run the Sharing Visions initiative linking our partners in Scioto County and Perry County.
This period of teaching ethnography, organizing with community leaders, and exploring the rich cultural history of Southeast Ohio has been rich and generative, and for that, I’m appreciative of the various communities that made that possible.
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<p class="xmsonormal">For the past two years, I’ve been entrusted with organizing and rehousing the CFS Folklore Archives in their new space in Hagerty Hall. I hope that these materials produced by the OSU folklore community will continue to serve as testament
to the vibrant expressive culture of Ohio, the thoughtful practices of folklorists, and the power of locating expertise within oneself for OSU students.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">It was an honor to serve as the CFS Director. I’m happy to pass things off to Dr. Merrill Kaplan who will continue the rich tradition of critical scholarship, community-building, and public outreach that Folklore is known for at OSU and
beyond.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Thank you for providing a community that enables collaboration and sustainability, challenges authority and structures of inequality, and reaches out to find genuine interest and empathy with those whom we share our time with. Please stay
in touch, and we’ll see each other down the road!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">With best wishes, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Jasper<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BA0C2F;background:white">Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, PhD</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F4443"><br>
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Studies<br>
Director and Archivist, Center for Folklore Studies<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BA0C2F">The Ohio State University</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F4443"><br>
College of Arts and Sciences<br>
468 Hagerty Hall<br>
1775 College Rd S, Columbus, OH 43210<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:waugh-quasebarth.1@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BA0C2F;background:white">waugh-quasebarth.1@osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F4443"> / </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://cfs.osu.edu/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BA0C2F;background:white">cfs.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F4443"><br>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wvupressonline.com/finding-the-singing-spruce__;!!KGKeukY!32uu2QVANyQ0NJUy7apfgLa1ekUS1Q7yH8f5YRLIlgySVPXjgMkhx8JXpONAnxXKb7k4tdm5NEt_UsW0642rBuA6$"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">Finding
the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests</span></i></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3F4443"> now available from West Virginia University Press.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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