Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and chair of the American Studies Program at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He has also taught at Harvard University, Dickinson College, University of California at Davis, Osaka University (Japan), and Leiden University (Netherlands). He is the author and editor of over 35 books on folklore and cultural history, including recently Folklore: The Basics (Routledge, 2017), Youth Cultures in America (Greenwood, 2016), Campus Traditions (University Press of Mississippi, 2012), Explaining Traditions (University Press of Kentucky 2011), Encyclopedia of American Folklife (4 vols., M.E. Sharpe, 2006), Crossing the Line (Amsterdam University Press, 2006), and Manly Traditions (Indiana University Press, 2005). His Old-Time Music Makers of New York State (Syracuse University Press, 1987) won the John Ben Snow Foundation Prize and the Award of Merit from the Regional Council of Historical Societies. He has received numerous other awards for his scholarship and teaching, including the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership, Peter and Iona Opie Award for children's folklore, the Wayland D. Hand Prize for folklore and history from the American Folklore Society, Mary Turpie Prize from the American Studies Association, and the Doctoral Teaching Award from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. He has served as President of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, Western States Folklore Society, and the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, McCormick Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts for his research.