WARE, CAROLYN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
212-S Allen Hall
578-3022
cware1@lsu.edu
Education: B.A., Cornell; Ph.D., U. Of Pennsylvania.
Research interests: folklore and folklife, gender, rituals, festivals , healing traditions, Louisiana folklife.
Book: Cajun Mardi Gras Masks, co-auth. (1997).
Scholarly editions: Isleño Home Remedies ( 1999 ); Folklife and Cultural Diversity in Acadiana (1996).
Essays: Croatian-American Communities and Croatians in Louisiana, A Encyclopedia of American Folklife (2005); Marketing Mardi Gras: Heritage Tourism in Rural Acadiana, Western Folklore (2004 ); Making a Show for the People: Cajun Mardi Gras as Public Display, Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths (2003): Anything to Act Crazy: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras Disguise, Journal of American Folklore (2001); The Piney Woods Regional Folklife Project , Tributaries (1999); Folk Crafts, Community, and the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild , The Guild at Twenty-Five (1998); I Read the Rules Backward: Women, Symbolic Inversion, and the Rural Cajun Mardi Gras, Southern Folklore ( 1995) .
Journal editorial board: Mississippi Folklife , ed. Piney Woods issue (1998) .
Professional service : WGS Executive Committee, 2004-present; President Louisiana Folklore Society, 2004-05; Member of Public Program Planning Committee, American Folklore Society, 2000; Folk Arts Advisory Board, Southern Arts Federation, 1999-2001; Founded and directed the Pine Hills Culture Program, University of Southern Mississippi; Public sector folklorist in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Awards and honors: LEH Grant for Louisiana Folklore Society Annual Meeting, 2004; LSU Summer Research Grant, 2003.