Margaret R. Yocom
American folklorist
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- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret R. Yocom is a folklorist, and poet. Now emerita, she taught at George Mason University from 1977 to 2013 and founded the Folklore Studies Program there. She works in Maine. Early life and education Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest child of Betty Keck and Norman Davidheiser Yocom, she first pursued her interest in folklore at Pennsylvania State University where she majored in English She went on to University of Massachusetts Amherst where she completed an MA. in English and then a PhD in English with a concentration in Folklore. While at U Mass, she wrote her dissertation on family folklore, choosing to work with her own Pennsylvania German, Swiss, and Danish family. Together with other folklorists working in family folklore such as Steve Zeitlin, Karen Baldwin, and Marilyn White, Yocom helped develop this new ethnographic field of study. As she was finishing her academic studies, she worked for the Smithsonian Institution’s Festival of American Folklife, and was the field research coordinator for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the 1976 Bicentennial festival. She continued to be a presenter at subsequent festivals until 1988, when she began working summers in Maine.
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