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Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ronald L. Baker was an American folklorist, historian, scholar of literature and onomastics, educator, and author. Life and career Ronald Lee Baker was born June 30, 1937, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Indiana State University in 1960 and received an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution in 1961. He did graduate work in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1966, he began teaching at Indiana State University where he advanced to become professor and chair of the English Department before retirement in 2006. He attended the Folklore Institute of America at Indiana University in the summer of 1966, and subsequently enrolled in the doctoral program in folklore while also minoring in comparative literature and philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969 with a dissertation on folklore in the writings of Rowland Robinson. He also taught English and folklore courses at the University of Illinois , Indiana University at Fort Wayne , and Indiana University at Bloomington .

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Ronald L. Baker's Published Works

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Indiana place names (1975) (12)
Readings in American folklore (1981) (10)
Michigan Place Names (1986) (9)
Operational influences on avionics reliability (1976) (8)
Hoosier Folk Legends (1982) (7)
Palmerston on the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi1 (5)
Tradition and The Individual Talent in Folklore and Literature (2000) (5)
Miracle Magazine in the Sixties: Mass Media Narratives of Healings and Blessings (2005) (4)
Ritualized Violence and Local Journalism in the Development of a Lynching Legend (1988) (3)
Folklore Courses and Programs in American Colleges and Universities (1971) (3)
Folklore and Folklife Studies in American and Canadian Colleges and Universities (1986) (3)
The Role of Folk Legends in Place-Name Research (1972) (3)
Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana (2000) (2)
Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana (1986) (2)
The Study of Folklore in American Colleges and Universities (1978) (2)
The Academic Future of Folklore (1972) (2)
Folklore in the writings of Rowland E. Robinson (1973) (1)
Sense of Place in Place Name Studies: Some Needed Work in Onomastics (2001) (1)
From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (1995) (1)
Folk medicine in the writings of Rowland Robinson. (1969) (1)
Folk Speech: Doing What Comes Naturally. (1988) (1)
What in the Hell Did They do to the Cav. (1983) (0)
Union Station, Indianapolis, Indiana (1972) (0)
English Field Names: A Dictionary@@@The Romance of the London Directory@@@House Names around the World (1975) (0)
Indiana Folklore: A Reader by Linda Dégh (1982) (0)
Folklore and Oral Traditions (2005) (0)
Lady Lil and Pisspot Pete (1987) (0)
Writing About Folklore : Folklore in the Freshman English Class (2011) (0)
Hoosier German Tales Small & Tall by Eberhard Reichmann (1993) (0)
Review: America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin and American Culture (2011) (0)
In Memoriam: W. K. McNeil 1940-2005 (2005) (0)
Monsterville: A Traditional Place-Name and its Legends (1972) (0)
Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures by Barbara Allen and Thomas J. Schlereth (1992) (0)
Practically Joking (2016) (0)
Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South by William Lynwood Montell (1988) (0)
Roger E. Mitchell (1925-2011) (2012) (0)
Obituary: Roger E. Mitchell (1925-2011) (2012) (0)
High technology in training (1990) (0)
INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1975) (0)

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