Henry Glassie

Henry H. Glassie III (24 March 1941-) is a world-renowned folklorist and current College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. With specializations in folk art, folklife, vernacular architecture and material culture, Glassie has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and the United States. Three of these have been named by "The New York Times" as "Notable Books of the Year."

Glassie received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1964, his M.A. from the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1965, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. During the time of his doctoral work, he also served as the state folklorist for Pennsylvania. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. He is also a former president of the American Folklore Society and the Vernacular Architecture Forum.

Glassie was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities by President Bill Clinton in 2000. He served in 2001.

Glassie is married to fellow folklorist Pravina Shukla, a body art specialist, and has four children and three grandchildren. His latest book, "The Stars of Ballymenone," was released in 2006 by Indiana University Press.

Major works include:

* "Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States" (1969)
* "All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming" (1975)
* "Folk Housing in Middle Virginia" (1975)
* "Passing the Time in Ballymenone" (1982), awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize
* "The Spirit of Folk Art: The Girard Collection at the Museum of International Folk Art" (1989)
* "Turkish Traditional Art Today" (1993)
* "Art and Life in Bangladesh" (1997)
* "Material Culture" (1999)

Sources

* [http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/glassieh.pdf University of Pennsylvania PDF]
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/glassie.html Indiana University]
* [http://www.elon.edu/e-web/speakers/glassie.xhtml Short Bio]