Henry Glassie

Henry Glassie
Henry Glassie
Born	March 24, 1941
Children	4, including Ellen Adair
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship; Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture
Academic background
Education	University of Pennsylvania (PhD); SUNY Oneonta (MA) ; Tulane University (BA); ;
Academic work
Discipline	Folklore, Ethnomusicology
Sub-discipline	Anthropology, American studies, Cultural studies
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania State University; Indiana University, Bloomington;
Notable works	Passing the Time in Ballymenone (1982); The Spirit of Folk Art (1989); Turkish Traditional Art Today (1993); Vernacular Architecture (2000);
Notable ideas	Vernacular architecture

Henry Glassie (born 24 March 1941) is an American Folklorist. He is College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, has done fieldwork on five continents and written books on the full range of folkloristic interest, from drama, song, and story to craft, art, and architecture. Three of his books -- Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today -- were named among the "Notable Books of the Year" by The New York Times. Glassie has won many awards for his work, including the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a distinguished career of humanistic scholarship. A film on his work, directed by Pat Collins and titled Henry Glassie: Field Work, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.