Jack Santino

Jack (John Francis) Santino', Ph.D. is a folklorist and a professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University and Director of the Bowling Green Center for Culture Studies.^[1] His work has primarily focused on ritual, celebrations, and holidays as well as occupational culture and popular music. He has been a featured expert on a television special produced by the History Channel, about Halloween.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 1, 1947.and received a bachelor's degree in English at Boston College. He then studied Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, where he gained his Ph. D. in 1978. His thesis was entitled "The outlaw emotions : workers' narratives from three contemporary occupations" ^[2]. He has nine published books listed in WorldCat ^[3]

Books

Santino, Jack. Spontaneous Shrines and Public Memorializations of Death. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Santino, Jack, and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero. Holidays, ritual, festival, celebration, and public display. Biblioteca de estudios norteamericanos, 7. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 2003.
Santino, Jack. Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Santino, Jack. The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland. Irish literature, history, and culture. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Santino, Jack. New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.^[4]
Santino, Jack. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
Santino, Jack. All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Santino, Jack. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Santino, Jack. Healing, Magic, and Religion. Los Angeles, Calif: California Folklore Society, 1985.

References

^ http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/popc/page16747.html
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^ Reviewed by Norm Cohen, Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 90-93, Western States Folklore Society

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