A Conversation with Timothy Lloyd

The period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s brought enormous growth in academic folklore, as well as a maturation of the applied dimension of our profession. In the past decade, the field has witnessed a significant number of retirements of folklorists who came of age during these heady days. W...

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Published inThe Journal of American folklore Vol. 131; no. 521; pp. 272 - 300
Main Authors Lloyd, Timothy, Williams, Michael Ann
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbus University of Illinois Press 01.07.2018
American Folklore Society
American Folklore Society, Inc
Subjects
Anthropology
Archives & records
Childrens literature
Collaboration
Conversation
Cultural heritage
Ethnic Studies
Executive directors
Folklore
Immigration policy
Interviews
Letters
Library collections
Lloyd, Timothy (American executive)
Modern literature
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Nonprofit organizations
Oral history
Publishing
Publishing industry
Retrospectives
Scholarly communication
United States
Western Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
United States > US
Utah
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Summary:The period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s brought enormous growth in academic folklore, as well as a maturation of the applied dimension of our profession. In the past decade, the field has witnessed a significant number of retirements of folklorists who came of age during these heady days. We offer this oral history interview as a way of recognizing the contributions of retiring AFS Executive Director Tim Lloyd. In the past decade, the AFS annual meeting has included public interviews with leaders in our field as part of the larger “Collecting Voices” oral history project housed at Utah State University. Lloyd was interviewed by JAF co-editor Michael Ann Williams on October 19, 2017, at the American Folklore Society meeting in Minneapolis. This interview has been edited by Tim Lloyd for clarity from a verbatim transcript prepared by JAF editorial assistant Susanna Pyatt from an audio recording. The original audio and video recordings are available at USU. In this interview, Lloyd discusses the factors that enticed him into the field of folklore, the paths that took him into a career in both public and private nonprofit agencies, and the role he eventually assumed as the American Folklore Society’s first full-time executive director.
ISSN:0021-8715
1535-1882
DOI:10.5406/jamerfolk.131.521.0272