A folklorist, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She conducts fieldwork in the Rangeley, Maine, region, where she also serves as a folklorist at the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum. She has published articles on topics ranging from family folklore to material culture. Her most recent work includes “Exuberance in Control: The Dialogue of Ideas in the Tales and Fan Towers of Woodsman William Richard of Phillips, Maine” and “Awful Real: Dolls and Development in Rangeley, Maine.” She is the assistant editor of “Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit: King Island Tales,” and she edited, produced and wrote most of “Logging in the Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant.” She is writing a book about the traditional arts of the Richard family of Rangeley called “Generations in Wood.”