Lisa Gabbert
(she/her/hers)
History, Cultures & Ideas
Professor, Director of the Folklore Program, Associate Director of Brothers Grimm Haus
Contact Information
Phone: +1 435 797 2721Email: lisa.gabbert@usu.edu
Biography
Dr. Gabbert received a PhD in Folklore and American Studies from Indiana University. Her research interests are in folklore and medicine, landscape/place, and festivity, legends, and play. She is the author of Winter Carnival in a Western Town: Identity, Change, and the Good of the Community (USU Press, 2011), An Introduction to Vernacular Culture in America: Society, Region, and Tradition (Maruzen Press, Tokyo 2017), and The Medical Carnivalesque: Folklore among Physicians (Indiana University Press, 2024), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She is currently Director of the Folklore Program at USU, Co-Editor of The Journal of American Folklore, and President of the Western States Folklore Society.
Dr. Gabbert teaches graduate classes in fieldwork and research methods, festival, and landscape/place/space, and a variety of undergraduate classes in folklore studies, including children's folklore, American folklore, folk art/material culture, and festival. She is available to serve on graduate thesis committees concerning any aspect of folklore studies.