Bio's of the Board

Chairs

Niina Hämäläinen standing in front of a Kalevala mural

Folklorist Niina Hämäläinen works as an executive director of the Kalevala Society, Helsinki. She is interested in the oral-literary practices of the 19th century, especially disregarded genres of textualization, history of Finnish folklore studies and its gender bias, problems of archives and archival materials, as well as cultural history of emotions and family.

 

JoAnn Conrad

JoAnn Conrad is a professor of Folklore, Cultural History, and Anthropology. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Univ. of Missouri, UC Davis, Univ. of Iceland, and currently teaches at Diablo Valley College. Her fields of research include narrative, childhood, visual culture, and women’s history, with a particular interest in “the North.” She has published in JAF, Narrative Culture, Fabula, Ethnologia Europaea, and in several edited collections.

Secretary

Rozemarijn van de Wal

Rozemarijn van de Wal is a researcher at the Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands Open Air Museum. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Groningen (obtained in 2022) for her book 'Dancing in the Kitchens of History: Eileen Power (1889-1940). The book is a non-traditional biography in which van de Wal - using the concept of scholarly persona - examines how Eileen Power was able to rise to prominence in the world of academia at a time when women were firmly related to the realm of amateurs. She is currently conducting research on intangible cultural heritage in relation to gender and diversity.

Board Member

Yuliia Andriichuk

Yuliia Andriichuk is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, AMU, Poland. For her PhD, Yuliia is investigating how food work can lead to women’s empowerment. Yuliia’s goal is to engage research groups in the production of knowledge about themselves through art-based methods and to create forms of knowledge accessible to a wider audience. As an illustrator with an artistic background, Yuliia believes in the power of field drawings, as well as exploring illustrative trails to convey the idea in the clearest way possible.