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Education

Ph.D., English. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2015. Specialization: Folklore Studies and Appalachian Studies.

M.A., English. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2009.

Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Folklore. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2009.                   

Certificate from The Oral History Institute, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (March 2008).

B.A., English (Honors). California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, 2007.

B.A., Philosophy (Honors). California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, 2007.

Publications

Craycraft, Sarah, Jordan Lovejoy, Cassie Rosita Patterson, and Sydney Varajon. “Folklore of Appalachia.” Accessible Appalachia: An Open-Access Introduction to Appalachian Studies, Eds. Lisa Day and Jacob Johnson. Richmond: Eastern Kentucky University, 2024.

"Managing an Academic Program." What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies, Ed. Tim Lloyd. Indiana University Press, 2021.

Borland, Katherine, Cassie Rosita Patterson, and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth. "The Ohio Field School: A Collaborative Model for University-Community Research." Teaching for Equity, special issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education, edited by Selina Morales, vol. 7, 2020, pp. 120-135.

"The Economics of Curation and Representation: Dialogues in the Commemorative Landscape of Portsmouth, Ohio." The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics. Eds. Willow Mullins and Puja Batra-Wells. Utah State University Press, 2019.

"Performance, Frame, and Identity in Harriette Simpson Arnow's 'The Goat Who Was a Cow.'" Seeking Home: Marginalization and Representation in Appalachian Letters and Song. Eds. Leslie H Worthington and Jürgen E. Grandt. The University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, 2017.

Select Fundraising and Grant-Writing Experience

See my Curriculum Vitae/Resume for a full list of fundraising and collaborative grant-writing experience.

$17,500 from Ohio Humanities to produce episodes of the Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio podcast into Spanish, support a marketing campaign for the bilingual podcast, and host community listening and feedback sessions. Southern Ohio Folklife. Friendship, Ohio, 2024.

$5,000 from the Ohio Arts Council to host a middle school assembly and public performance by Lua Project for Southern Ohio Folklife. Friendship, Ohio, 2023.

$10,000 with Southern Ohio Educational Service Center and the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University for Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio from the Central Appalachia Living Traditions program of Mid Atlantic Arts for Southern Ohio Folklife. Friendship, Ohio, 2023.

$7,500 from Ohio Humanities for Latine in Southern Ohio for Southern Ohio Folklife. Friendship, Ohio, 2022.

$2,000 from Ohio Humanities for Latina/o/x in Southern Ohio for Southern Ohio Folklife. Friendship, Ohio, 2021.

$750,000 with Shawnee Counseling Services and WesBanco Bank Inc. for an Affordable Housing Program grant for St. Helen’s Homes from FHL Bank Pittsburgh. Served as contracted grant writer and project manager (w/ Leanne Johnson, Lead; Sean Sturgill, Sponsor; and David Kilroy, Kricker Innovation Hub). Portsmouth, Ohio, 2020.

$25,000 from Ohio State University Sustainability Institute for Systemic Interactions between Individuals and Drinking Water Quality in Appalachia (interdisciplinary team of co-PIs w/ Dr. Natalie Hull as Lead PI and Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) as organizational collaborator). Columbus, Ohio, 2020.

$25,000 to fund Covid Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona, a podcast by Dr. Rachel Hopkin from from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes (Covid-19 Relief Grant Cycle) at Ohio State University (w/ Dr. Rachel Hopkin). Columbus, Ohio, 2020.

$25,000 through a private donation from the Columbus Foundation to sustain the Ohio Field School program, Center for Folklore Studies, OSU. 2019.

$30,000 to fund the Ohio Field School initiative from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes at Ohio State University (w/ Dr. Cristina Benedetti). 2019-2021.

$3,000 from the Public Narrative Collaborative via the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes at Ohio State University to commission creative writer Molly Rideout to install vinyl public narratives in the North End of Portsmouth, Ohio (w/ Molly Rideout, MFA). Columbus and Portsmouth, Ohio, 2019.

$26,035 from Ohio State University Outreach & Engagement for a Connect and Collaborate grant for Sharing Visions: Intergenerational Work in Appalachian Ohio (w/ Dr. Cristina Benedetti). Columbus and Perry County, Ohio, 2019-2021.

$3,000 for Watch Me Grow, an urban homesteading project led by community partners in Portsmouth, Ohio from Livable Futures, a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, OSU (w/ Dr. Cristina Benedetti). Columbus and Portsmouth, Ohio, 2019.

$100,000 through a private donation from the Columbus Foundation for the creation of the Ohio Field Schools project, Center for Folklore Studies, OSU (w/ Dr. Katherine Borland. Columbus, Ohio, 2016.

$25,000 through a private donation from the Columbus Foundation for Funds to digitize the Ohio Arts Council Collection at the Folklore Archives, Center for Folklore Studies, OSU. Columbus, Ohio, 2014.

$15,000 from the Governor’s Office of Appalachia Director’s Grant for The Appalachian Project (w/ Dr. Patricia Cunningham). Columbus and Appalachian Ohio, 2013-2014.

Projects & Exhibits

Ohio Field School: go.osu.edu/ofs

Placemaking in Scioto County, Ohio traveling exhibit and Placemaking 2.0 (w/ Sue Eleuterio, Independent Folklorist): go.osu.edu/sciotoplacemaking

Training

Implicit Bias Workshop, Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University

Active Bystander Workshop, Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University

Curriculum Vitae

Email me at patterson.493@gmail.com for a copy of my full curriculum vitae.