Jack (John Francis) Santino, Ph.D. is an academic

folklorist Folklore studies, less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom, is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currenc ...

His work

He is a Professor of

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Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the ...

and is Director of the Bowling Green Center for Culture Studies. His work has primarily focused on ritual, celebrations, and holidays as well as occupational culture and popular music. He has been a featured expert on a television special produced by

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, about

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. Along with Paul Wagoner, Santino produced '' Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle'' a film, winner of four regional

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s on African American Pulman car unionisation. From 1996 to 2000 Santino was the editor of the ''

Journal of American Folklore The ''Journal of American Folklore'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Folklore Society. Since 2003, this has been done on its behalf by the University of Illinois Press. The journal has been published since the society' ...

''. During 2002-3 Santino was the president of the

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Early life

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 1, 1947. He received a bachelor's degree in English at

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. He then studied Folklore at the

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, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1978. His thesis was entitled "The outlaw emotions : workers' narratives from three contemporary occupations". He has nine published books listed in WorldCat. He has three children: Ian, Will and Hannah.

Books

* 2005: ''Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorializations of Death'', New York:

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. * 2003: (with Cristina Sánchez-Carretero) ''Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display'', Biblioteca de Estudios Norteamericanos, 7. Alcalá de Henares:

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. * 2001: ''Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland'', New York: Palgrave. * 1998: ''The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland. Irish literature, history, and culture'', Lexington, Ky:

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. * 1998: Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. * 1996: ''New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture'', Knoxville:

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.Reviewed by Daniel Wojcik, Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 93–96, Western States Folklore Society * 1994: ''Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life'', Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. * 1994: ''All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life'', Urbana:

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. * 1985: ''Healing, Magic, and Religion'', Los Angeles, Calif: California Folklore Society.

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His work

Early life

Books

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