James R. Dow

James R. Dow is Professor Emeritus for German Folklore and Linguistics at Iowa State University. His publications include The Nazification of an Academic Discipline: Folklore in the Third Reich (1994), The Study of European Ethnology in Austria (2004), und die Zimbrische Gesamtgrammatik (2008). His second research area is devoted to German-speaking minorities in Iowa, for example with the Old Order Amish and the Amana Colonists. For more than 30 years he was »Senior Bibliographer« for the Modern Language Association of America. In 2005 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2013 an American Philosophical Society Fellowship for his research on South Tyrol.