WORK SAMPLES
Listed here are selected examples of the work I produced during my time as a student at Western Kentucky University
FILM
NOT JUST A GROCERY STORY
This is a short ethnographic film I made in the Spring of 2017 for Dr. Ashley Stinnett’s Ethnographic Video Production Course. For this IRB-approved ethnographic study, I conducted fieldwork at an international grocery store in Bowling Green, Kentucky, interviewing the owners and documenting the store through photos and video. The research culminated in the production of this film about the use of the space as an informal social service and community center.
I have presented this research at the 2017 Southern Foodways Alliance Graduate Student Conference and at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Folklore Society. Additionally, the film has screened at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival and at Bowling Green community events.
Photo by Nicole Musgrave
PHOTO ESSAY
Third Street Stuff: Pat Gerhard
This is a photo essay I made for my internship with the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange during the Summer of 2017. I photographically documented a coffee shop in Lexington, Kentucky, and I interviewed the owner, Pat Gerhard. The essay examines the space as an art environment and as a site for community engagement.
Photo by Nicole Musgrave
LESSON
PLAN
INTRODUCTION TO THE BOSNIAN WAR AND THE REFUGEE EXPERIENCE
This is a lesson plan for a traveling trunk that I prepared as a team in the Spring of 2017 for Dr. Evans's Folklore and Education course. Drawing on fieldwork and other research, I wrote several lessons aimed at grades K-6, which tied in with state and national academic standards. The specific activities that I prepared introduced students to a short history of the Bosnian War, helped students learn about the refugee experience, and explored the importance of keepsakes and heirlooms in people's lives.
Photo by Nicole Musgrave
ACADEMICPAPER
“I’m From Boloney on Light Bread and a Bag of Grippo’s”: Negotiating Appalachian Foodways Within Rhetorics of ‘Unhealthy’ Appalachia
This is an ethnographic paper that I wrote in the Fall of 2017 for Dr. Ann Ferrell’s Foodways course. Using interviews, I examined how individuals living in Central Appalachia negotiate categories of “traditional” and “healthy” foods, along with the symbolic meanings that are attached to traditionalized foods that are cast as “unhealthy.”
I presented this research at the 2018 IU/OSU Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Conference.
Photo by Nicole Musgrave
NATIONAL
REGISTER
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOMINATION
This is a draft of a traditional cultural property nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Hill Grove Cemetery, a cemetery in Edmonson County, Kentucky noted for its unique use of mussel shells in grave decoration. I prepared this draft for practice for Dr. Michael Ann Williams’ Vernacular Architecture course in the Fall of 2016.
Photo by Anne Rappaport
GRANT PROPOSAL
KENTUCKY ORAL HISTORY COMMISSION, TRANSCRIPTION GRANT
This is a grant that I prepared in the Fall of 2017 for Dr. Tim Evans' Public Folklore course. The proposal seeks funds to transcribe interviews from the Immigrants of Bowling Green Oral History Project. This grant was submitted to the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and received funding.
SAMPLE TRANSCRIPTION
This is a sample transcription of an interview that I prepared for the Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Mammoth Cave National Park as part of Dr. Erika Brady's Folklore Fieldwork course in the Fall of 2016.
Photo by Virginia Siegel
SAMPLE FIELDNOTES
These are sample fieldnotes of an interview that I conducted in the Fall of 2016 for Dr. Erika Brady's Folklore Fieldwork course. The interview was conducted with Carel Ramos-Cruz, the former owner of a Mexican restaurant in Horse Cave, KY.