Introduction

by | Sep 10, 2025

We write this introduction with deep gratitude for the opportunity to serve as Guest Editors of the 2025 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education, “Cultural Frameworks for Transformative Documenting and Learning.” As Co-Directors of Los Herederos, an...

Archiving at a Crossroads

by | Sep 10, 2025

Introduction In fall 2024, as part of the Eugene Lang College’s Social Science Fellowship, I interned in the curatorial department at the Museum of the City of New York. One of my responsibilities involved sourcing archival images for the Urban Stomp: Social Dance in...

Collaborative Ethnography

by | Sep 10, 2025

I had no experience in any sort of documentary filmmaking, and I was worried the process would be intense or heavily academic—the sort of thing you need a sociology degree to fully understand. Everything fell into place pretty quickly, though. The explanations on how...

Tending the Archives

by | Sep 9, 2025

  So, during the project, my role was really to just be a helper and to also do some taping and talking, interviewing the adults of that generation, my parents, uncles, and the leaders in the community. And I think the greatest thing was that, for me, is to see...

“All the Good in Life”

by | Sep 8, 2025

In the summer of 2014, I was halfway through my MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College and desperately looking for work at the intersection of poetry and education. As a poet exploring work in translation from Farsi and my Afghan heritage, I somehow stumbled upon City...