[Studentfolk] Farewell!

[Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper]

Dear OSU Folklore Community,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

With best wishes,

Jasper

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Studies
Director and Archivist, Center for Folklore Studies

The Ohio State University
College of Arts and Sciences
468 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd S, Columbus, OH 43210
waugh-quasebarth.1 at osu.edu<mailto:waugh-quasebarth.1 at osu.edu> / cfs.osu.edu<http://cfs.osu.edu/>
Pronouns: he/him
Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain Forests<https://wvupressonline.com/finding-the-singing-spruce> now available from West Virginia University Press.


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