[{"n": "Roger D. Abrahams", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/roger-d-abrahams/", "s": "Folklorist of African American and creole expressive cultures."}, {"n": "William Bascom", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/william-bascom/", "s": "American folklorist and anthropologist specializing in Yoruba culture."}, {"n": "Samuel Preston Bayard", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/samuel-preston-bayard/", "s": "Folklorist and musicologist who studied fiddle and fife tunes."}, {"n": "Martha Warren Beckwith", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/martha-warren-beckwith/", "s": "First U.S. folklore chair; scholar of Hawaiian, Jamaican, and Native American traditions."}, {"n": "Henry M. Belden", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/henry-m-belden/", "s": "Pioneer collector of Missouri folksongs and ballads."}, {"n": "Benjamin A. Botkin", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/benjamin-a-botkin/", "s": "Folklorist who championed living folklore and ex-slave narratives."}, {"n": "John Gregory Bourke", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/john-gregory-bourke/", "s": "Army officer, ethnologist, and chronicler of Native American cultures."}, {"n": "Daniel Garrison Brinton", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/daniel-garrison-brinton/", "s": "American archeologist, ethnologist, and surgeon who studied Native American cultures."}, {"n": "Peggy Bulger", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/peggy-bulger/", "s": "Folklorist and former director of the American Folklife Center."}, {"n": "Norma Elia Cantú", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/norma-elia-cant/", "s": "Chicana postmodernist writer and humanities professor."}, {"n": "Francis James Child", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/francis-james-child/", "s": "Compiler of the Child Ballads, a landmark folk-song collection."}, {"n": "Daniel J. Crowley", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/daniel-j-crowley/", "s": "American folklorist and anthropologist of African and Caribbean cultures."}, {"n": "Stewart Culin", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/stewart-culin/", "s": "Ethnographer who studied games as cultural connectors."}, {"n": "Linda Dégh", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/linda-d-gh/", "s": "Folklorist, professor, and 1982 AFS president."}, {"n": "Roland Burrage Dixon", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/roland-burrage-dixon/", "s": "Anthropologist and president of the American Folklore Society."}, {"n": "George Amos Dorsey", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/george-amos-dorsey/", "s": "Ethnographer of Plains tribes and bestselling author."}, {"n": "Charles Lincoln Edwards", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/charles-lincoln-edwards/", "s": "Zoologist and 1889 president of the American Folklore Society."}, {"n": "Livingston Farrand", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/livingston-farrand/", "s": "Physician, anthropologist, and university president."}, {"n": "William N. Fenton", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/william-n-fenton/", "s": "Scholar of Haudenosaunee history, culture, and anthropology."}, {"n": "Alice Cunningham Fletcher", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/alice-cunningham-fletcher/", "s": "Ethnologist who studied and documented Native American culture."}, {"n": "Alcée Fortier", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/alc-e-fortier/", "s": "Scholar of Louisiana Creole dialects and folklore."}, {"n": "Anna H. Gayton", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/anna-h-gayton/", "s": "Anthropologist, folklorist, and curator of Californian and Peruvian materials."}, {"n": "Henry Glassie", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/henry-glassie/", "s": "Fieldworker on five continents, author of notable books."}, {"n": "Pliny Earle Goddard", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/pliny-earle-goddard/", "s": "Linguist and ethnologist who documented Athabaskan languages across North America."}, {"n": "Diane Goldstein", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/diane-goldstein/", "s": "American folklorist and past AFS president."}, {"n": "Kenneth S. Goldstein", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/kenneth-s-goldstein/", "s": "Folklorist, educator, and record producer in the folk revival."}, {"n": "Rayna Green", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/rayna-green/", "s": "Curator, folklorist, and scholar of Native American culture."}, {"n": "Sylvia Grider", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/sylvia-grider/", "s": "American folklorist specializing in ghosts, child lore, and memorials."}, {"n": "Horatio Hale", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/horatio-hale/", "s": "Ethnologist who used language to trace ancient migrations."}, {"n": "Herbert Halpert", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/herbert-halpert/", "s": "American anthropologist and folklorist of folk song and narrative."}, {"n": "Melville J. Herskovits", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/melville-j-herskovits/", "s": "Anthropologist who pioneered African and African Diaspora studies."}, {"n": "Dell Hymes", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/dell-hymes/", "s": "Linguist and folklorist who pioneered the ethnography of communication."}, {"n": "Bill Ivey", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/bill-ivey/", "s": "Folklorist, NEA chairman, and two-time NARAS chairman."}, {"n": "Alan Jabbour", "u": "/e/presidents-of-the-american-folklore-society/alan-jabbour/", "s": "Founding director of the American Folklife Center and folk music documentarian."}]