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Simon J. Bronner
Simon J. Bronner (born April 7, 1954 in Haifa, Israel) is an American folklorist, ethnologist, historian, educator, and author.
== Life and career==
Bronner’s parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1960. His childhood in the U.S. was spent in Chicago and New York City. His undergraduate study was in political science, history, and folklore (mentored by prominent European and American folklorist W.F.H. Nicolaisen) at Binghamton University (B.A., 1974) and then he received his M.A. in American Folk Culture at the (Cooperstown Graduate Programs of the State University of New York ) (1977), where he also studied social history, ethnology, and museum studies (including work with historically oriented ethnologists Louis C. Jones, Bruce Buckley, and Roderick Roberts). He stayed in Cooperstown to work for the New York State Historical Association as director of the Archive of New York State Folklife, before moving to Indiana University, Bloomington, where he completed his Ph.D. in Folklore and American Studies (1981) and worked for the Indiana University Museum of History, Anthropology, and Folklore (now the (Mathers Museum of World Cultures )), and was assistant to Richard M. Dorson on the ''Journal of the Folklore Institute'' (now the (''Journal of Folklore Research'' )). In 1981, he became assistant professor of American Studies and folklore at the Pennsylvania State University in the graduate American Studies Program at Harrisburg, and was promoted to the rank of Distinguished University Professor in 1991. He has also taught as Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair in American Cultural Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands(2006), Visiting Professor of Folklore and the History of American Civilization at Harvard University (1997–1998), Fulbright Professor of American Studies at Osaka University in Japan (1996–1997), and Visiting Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis (1991).
In 1990, he was founding director of the (Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies ) at the (Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg ). He served as Coordinator of the (American Studies Program ) at the college from 1987 to 2002, founding director of the college's doctoral program in American Studies in 2008 (and subsequently chair of the expanding program that included B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and two certificate programs in folklore and ethnography and heritage and museum studies), and received the Mary Turpie Prize from the (American Studies Association ) in recognition of his program building, teaching, and advising. From 2002 to 2003, he served as interim director of the School of Humanities at the college. He also received awards for research, teaching, and service from the college. He has edited the journals ''(Folklore Historian )'' (1983–1989), ''(Material Culture )'' (1983–1986), and book series ''American Material Culture and Folklife'' (UMI Research Press), ''Material Worlds'' ((University Press of Kentucky )), ''Pennsylvania German History and Culture'' ((Pennsylvania State University Press )), and ''Jewish Cultural Studies'' ((Littman Library of Jewish Civilization )). In 2011, he was named the editor of the ''Encyclopedia of American Studies'' online ((published by Johns Hopkins University Press )). He was elected to the Fellows of the American Folklore Society in 1994 and received the Wayland Hand Prize for best article on history and folklore and the Peter and Iona Opie Prize for best book on children’s folklore from the Society. He also received the John Ben Snow Foundation Prize and Regional Council of Historical Societies Award of Merit for ''Old-Time Music Makers of New York State'' and the ''(Encyclopedia of American Folklife )'' was designated an outstanding academic title by ''Choice'' and "Editor's Choice" by ''Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin'' for 2006. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship in 1984 at the Winterthur Museum, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1978–1981), and two Fulbright Program lecturing awards (1996–1997, 2006). He is married to Sally Jo (Kahr) Bronner; they have two children.
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