JAMES R. DOW (jrdow@iastate.edu) is professor emeritus of German folklore and linguistics at Iowa State University.

Publications include: German Volkskunde (1986), The Nazification of an Academic Discipline (1994), The Study of European Ethnology in Austria (2004), German Folklore: A Handbook (2006), and Bruno Schweizer's Zimbrische Gesamtgrammatik. Comparative Account of the Cimbrian Dialects (2008).

He was editor of the International Folklore Bibliography for ten years and Senior Bibliographer for the Modern Language Association of America for more than 30 years. Total Grammar was sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Folk Ideology by the American Philosophical Society.

As his main area of research (Drüben), Prof. Dow is concerned with German-speaking minorities in America, especially the Old Order Anabaptist Amish and the Piestian Amana colonists in Iowa. As a second area of research, Prof. Dow (Hüben) has focused extensively on the history of German-speaking folklore / European ethnology.

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E-Mail: jrdow@iastate.edu