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Dayna Bowker Lee, Ph.D., holds a B.A. in anthropology and M.A. in history from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lee served as traditional arts program director for the Oklahoma State Arts Council before returning to Louisiana to join the faculty at Northwestern State University, where she directed the Louisiana Regional Folklife Program and taught graduate courses in anthropology and folklore. Dr. Lee has worked as a cultural anthropologist and ethnohistorian for more than 25 years. She has authored or coauthored more than 75 publications, including essays in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Mississippi Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, and books including The Work of Tribal Hands: Southeastern Indian Split Cane Basketry. Dr. Lee has conducted several ethnographic and ethnohistorical projects for the National Park Service and has served as tribal liaison for numerous cultural resources projects. She serves on the boards of the Williamson Ethnographic Museum, Kiwat Hasinay Caddo Language Foundation, and the Creole Heritage Center Advisory Committee, and she is a consultant for several tribal and cultural organizations. Michael Sartisky, Ph.D., has served as president and executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities since 1983. He holds a Ph.D. in English awarded by the State University of New York in Buffalo. Dr. Sartisky founded and has served as editor-in-chief of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine since 1990. Dr. Sartisky three times has won the Ashton Phelps Memorial Award for Editorial Writing as well as seven first and second place awards for editorial writing from the Press Club of New Orleans. His interviews with major writers—such as Ernest Gaines, Robert Olen Butler, Richard Ford, and Rick Bragg— have been included in collections published by Oxford University Press and the University Press of Mississippi. His critical afterword to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s novel, Doctor Zay, was published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York in 1987. He has been awarded and directed numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, United States Department of Education, and many other private foundations and corporations. Under Dr. Sartisky’s direction, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has grown to become the largest state humanities council in the nation— emphasizing programming such as teacher institutes, family literacy, adult reading, cultural tourism, local history, and publishing—and has reached an estimated audience of 73 million people with an estimated economic impact of $455 million. 444 CONTRIBUTORS OF ESSAYS Susan Tucker, Ph.D., is curator of books and records at Tulane University, where she oversees the Newcomb Archives and the Vorhoff Library. In addition to studying Newcomb Pottery from the Arts and Crafts era, her research interests primarily concern issues related to gender, material culture, and archival studies, as evident in Tucker’s large-scale oral-history project on domestic workers, Telling Memories among Southern Women, and its evolution into numerous exhibitions and publications. A Fulbright Scholar, she coedited the award-winning book The Scrapbook in American Life and, in 1999, founded the New Orleans Culinary History Group, which presented a collection of essays in the 2009 publication, New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories. Dr. Tucker’s most recent work, The Most Public of All History: Family History and Heritage Albums in the Transmission of Records, explores memory-keeping methodologies among families. 

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