![]() ![]() In 1976, he became the chairman of the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as the State Folklorist of Pennsylvania and teaching at the Capitol Campus of Pennsylvania State University, Glassie began teaching in the Folklore Institute at Indiana University in 1970. ![]() from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York at Oneonta in 1965, and his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. A film on his work, directed by Pat Collins and titled Henry Glassie: Field Work, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. Glassie has won many awards for his work, including the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a distinguished career of humanistic scholarship. Three of his books - Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today - were named among the "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. ![]() ![]() Henry Glassie (born 24 March 1941) College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, has done fieldwork on five continents and written books on the full range of folkloristic interest, from drama, song, and story to craft, art, and architecture. ![]()
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