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Staff Bios
Elizabeth E. Peterson, PhD. is Executive Director of the Fund for Folk Culture. Prior to joining the FFC in 1998, she was an independent consultant working for clients such as the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Southern Arts Federation, Carnegie Hall, The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, for whom she edited, compiled and contributed to The Changing Faces of Tradition: A Report on the Folk and Traditional Arts in the United States, published in 1996. Ms. Peterson earned her doctorate in folklore from Indiana University and was Director of the Traditional Arts Program at the New England Foundation for the Arts from 1990 to 1993. Among other positions she held prior to that time, Betsy was Program Coordinator for Texas Folklife Resources from 1985 to 1989. In 1990, she was a visiting professor at the Folklore and Mythology Program at UCLA. Betsy has conducted field research throughout Texas, the South and New England and has developed numerous public folk arts programs and services including festivals, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, reports, radio programs and recordings, and Joy Unspeakable, an award-winning video documentary on Pentecostalism, which she co-produced. She has served as a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts.