Martha C Sims Editor

Ann K. Ferrell is associate professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University. She is author of Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century and coauthor, with Diane E. Goldstein, of The Soul of a Folklorist: Historical Moments, Political Representation, and the Weight of Social Responsibility.

Martha C. Sims is an independent folklore scholar interested in material culture in various forms, including the Civil War monuments—and their absence–in Richmond, Virginia. She coauthored, with Martine Stephens, Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions, an introductory folklore textbook.