Robert T. Boyer

Adjunct Instructor in American Studies

Expertise:
History, American Studies, Religion and Philosophy

Research & Practice Areas:
Sense of place, place and ethics, folklore and folklife, Pennsylvania German studies, baseball, oral history

  • Richard M. Dorson Dissertation Research Award – “The Forsaken Founder, William John Thoms,” Richard Reuss Prize for Students of Folklore and History
  • “Town, Farm, and Country,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner, New York: Oxford UP, 2019
  • “Farm, Town, and Country,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner, Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018
  • “Agriculture and Industry,” in Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, ed. Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown, University Park: Penn State UP, 2017
  • “Pennsylvania German Communities,” “Place and Space,” in Encyclopedia of American Folklife, ed. Simon J. Bronner, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006
  • “The Forsaken Founder, William John Thoms: From Antiquities to Folklore,” in The Founders of Folklore, Vol. 2 of Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Alan Dundes, New York: Routledge, 2005
  • “The Beautiful Truth, or Our Folk Culture on Parade,” The Pennsylvania German Review (Fall 2002): 33-42
  • “Datt Drunne Deheem: A Research Proposal on Sense of Place among the Pennsylvania Germans,” Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Barichta (Fall 2000): 15-18
  • “Whoopie Pies and Red Beet Eggs: A Case Study of Small Foods, Side Dishes, and Snackways,” Schtick 47.2 (1998)
  • “The Forsaken Founder, William John Thoms: From Antiquities to Folklore,” The Folklore Historian 14 (1997): 55-61
  • “Flash Is Fast, Flash Is Cool,” Schtick 47.1 (1997)
  • “A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition,” Pennsylvania Folklife 45.2 (Winter 1995-96): 54-63
  • Baseball as history