AUTHOR: Michelle Stefano

Michelle L. Stefano is a folklife specialist in research and programs at the American Folklife Center. Before joining the Center in October 2016, she worked for the folklife program of Maryland, Maryland Traditions, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She earned her doctorate in cultural and heritage studies at Newcastle University (United Kingdom) in 2010 and her master's in international museum studies from Gothenburg University (Sweden) in 2004.

Most Recent Posts

• Community Collections Grants Spotlight: Documenting Bomba and Plena Musicians in the Diaspora: Los Pleneros de la 21 January 8th, 2025
• Community Collections Spotlight: Indian Town: Bodéwadmi (Potawatomi) People, “We’re Still Here” November 20th, 2024
• Community Collections Spotlight: Sustaining and Reclaiming Cultural Danzas: Los Matachines y Los Comanchitos and Passing Down Tradition in Small New Mexican Villages November 13th, 2024
• Behind the Scenes of the Community Collections Grants: Preserving and Ensuring Accessibility of Project Collections September 18th, 2024
• First Community Collections Grant Project Goes Online! Traditional Weaving in Micronesia August 21st, 2024
• Community Collections Grant Spotlight: Chaldeans: Portrait of an Evolving Community July 17th, 2024
• Catching up with Community Collections Grant Recipient Ashley Minner Jones on Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies July 3rd, 2024
• Catching-up with Community Collections Grant Recipients: Documenting Goombay and Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove, Miami May 8th, 2024
• Congratulations to the American Folklife Center’s 2024 Community Collections Grant Recipients! March 20th, 2024