Background
Timothy was born on August 25, 1951, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Timothy was born on August 25, 1951, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
BA, The Ohio State University, 1973 / MA, The Ohio State University, 1977 / PhD, The George Washington University, 2000
Timothy Lloyd, an American folklorist, is Senior Advisor for Partnerships for the American Folklore Society, advising the Executive Director on the Society’s international and scholarly communications activities. He also serves as a Visiting Research Scholar at The Ohio State University’s Center for Folklore Studies and at Indiana University’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. He served as the Society’s Executive Director from 2001 to 2018. Before his time at the Society, Lloyd spent his career in folklore, intangible cultural heritage, and cultural heritage policy work for agencies of the US national government, including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, and similar posts in the state governments of Maryland and Ohio; he also directed Cityfolk, a nationally recognized folk arts nonprofit organization, in Dayton, Ohio.
Dr. Lloyd received his BA in literature and anthropology and his MA in design, both from The Ohio State University, and his PhD in American studies from The George Washington University. His research interests include cultural heritage policy, foodways, occupational culture, and the history of public practice in the field of folklore studies. He has published articles and reviews in the major American and Chinese folklore journals. He has also worked a professional percussionist for more than 40 years.
Dr. Lloyd has served as a board and committee member or consultant for many organizations and governmental agencies in the US and abroad. He lectures frequently in the US and China and serves as visiting professor at several Chinese universities. In 2012 he served in a residency for the Fulbright Specialist Program at the Universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki in Finland. In 1998 he participated in a study tour for US museum leaders, sponsored by the French government, of ecomuseums throughout France.
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