Michael Ann Williams

Biographic Data

ID3789584
NAMEMichael Ann Williams
GIVEN NAMESMichael Ann
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS M A
AFFILIATIONSWestern Kentucky University, Emeritus
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Back of Beyond

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2022

    Best known as the author of two books, Camping and Woodcraft (Great Smoky Mountains Association, [1906] 2011) and Our Southern Highlanders, (Great Smoky Mountains Association, [1913] 2012). Horace Kephart has remained an enigmatic figure, even as his two major works retain their status as classics of their respective genres more than a century after their publication. Many may be familiar with the almost legendary tale of the prominent librarian …

  • A Conversation with Timothy Lloyd

    Timothy Lloyd, Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2018

    The period from the late 1960s to the late 1970s brought enormous growth in academic folklore, as well as a maturation of the applied dimension of our profession. In the past decade, the field has witnessed a significant number of retirements of folklorists who came of age during these heady days. We offer this oral history interview as a way of recognizing the contributions of retiring AFS Executive Director Tim Lloyd. In the past decade, the AF…

  • After the Revolution

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2017Cited by: 4References: 11

    Research Article| April 01 2017 After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (American Folklore Society Presidential Address, October 2015) Michael Ann Williams Michael Ann Williams Michael Ann Williams holds a doctorate in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Head of the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University, where she is a University Distinguished Pro…

  • Building with Logs

    Open AccessMichael Ann Williams, Jennifer Eastman AtteberyARTICLEWestern Folklore1999

    Building With Logs: Western Log Construction in Context. By Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Northwest Folklife Series. (Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 147, preface, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth) Studies of traditional building in the eastern United States have been far more numerous than they have been in the west. Although there are a number of excellent scholars of folk architecture in the…

  • Ozark Vernacular Houses

    Michael Ann Williams, Jean SizemoreARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Great Smoky Mountains folklife

    Michael Ann WilliamsBOOKGreat Smoky Mountains folklife1995

  • Homeplace

    Curtis W Wood, Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1994

  • The Stolen House

    Michael Ann Williams, Bernard L HermanARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • Homeplace

    John D Dorst, John Dorst et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1993

  • North Carolina Architecture . Catherine W. Bishir , Tim Buchman

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1991

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1990

  • Cades Cove

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1989

  • Folk Roots, New Roots

    Michael Ann Williams, Barbara Franco et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    “Folk Roots, New Roots: Folklore in American Life.” Museum of Our National Heritage, 33 Marrett Rd., Lexington, MA 02173 Get access Michael Ann Williams Michael Ann Williams Western Kentucky University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 861–867, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936428 Published: 01 December 1989

  • Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900 . Bernard L. Herman

    Michael Ann WilliamsARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1988

  • The American Family Home, 1800-1960

    Open AccessMichael Ann Williams, Clifford Edward ClarkARTICLEWestern Folklore1988Cited by: 15

    In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved …