Jack (John Francis) Santino, Ph.D. is an academic
folklorist
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.
His work
He is a Professor of
Popular Culture
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at
Bowling Green State University
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and is Director of the Bowling Green Center for Culture Studies. His work has primarily focused on ritual, celebrations, and holidays as well as occupational culture and popular music. He has been a featured expert on a television special produced by
The History Channel
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, about
Hallowe'en
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.
Along with Paul Wagoner, Santino produced ''
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
''Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle'' is a 1982 documentary film about a group of Pullman car porters who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - claimed to be the first African American trade union. The film examines issues of work, r ...
'' a film, winner of four regional
Emmy Award
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s on African American Pulman car unionisation.
From 1996 to 2000 Santino was the editor of the ''
Journal of American Folklore
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''.
During 2002-3 Santino was the president of the
American Folklore Society
The American Folklore Society (AFS) is the US-based professional association for folklorists, with members from the US, Canada, and around the world, which aims to encourage research, aid in disseminating that research, promote the responsible ...
.
Early life
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 1, 1947. He received a bachelor's degree in English at
Boston College
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. He then studied Folklore at the
University of Pennsylvania
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, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. His thesis was entitled "The outlaw emotions : workers' narratives from three contemporary occupations".
He has nine published books listed in WorldCat. He has three children: Ian, Will and Hannah.
Books
* 2005: ''Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorializations of Death'', New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
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.
* 2003: (with Cristina Sánchez-Carretero) ''Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display'', Biblioteca de Estudios Norteamericanos, 7. Alcalá de Henares:
Universidad de Alcalá
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Places
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* Universidad (Madrid)
Football clubs
* Universidad SC, a Guatemalan football club that represents the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
...
.
* 2001: ''Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland'', New York: Palgrave.
* 1998: ''The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland. Irish literature, history, and culture'', Lexington, Ky:
University Press of Kentucky
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.
* 1998:
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
''Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle'' is a 1982 documentary film about a group of Pullman car porters who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - claimed to be the first African American trade union. The film examines issues of work, r ...
: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
* 1996: ''New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture'', Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press
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UT Press was established in 1940 by the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees.
The University of Tennessee Press issues about 35 books each ...
.
[Reviewed by Daniel Wojcik, Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 93–96, Western States Folklore Society]
* 1994: ''Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life'', Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
* 1994: ''All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life'', Urbana:
University of Illinois Press
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.
* 1985: ''Healing, Magic, and Religion'', Los Angeles, Calif: California Folklore Society.
See also
*
Bowling Green State University Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University Department of Popular Culture is the first Popular Culture department in the United States. The department was founded by Professor Ray Browne in 1973. The Popular Culture department is unique as it is the only one ...
References
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1947 births
Living people
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Bowling Green State University faculty
American folklorists
Presidents of the American Folklore Society