John Charles “Charley” Camp received his Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and his M.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto in 1975. From 1976-2000 he directed the Maryland folklife program at the Maryland State Arts Council. During Camp’s tenure, the Maryland folklife program produced the Maryland Folklife Festival (1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1984); Dr. Camp directed the fieldwork activities that supported these festivals, created a decentralized folklife archive, directed the creation of a series of folklife course curriculums, was instrumental in the publication of Roland Freeman’s book The Arabbers of Baltimore (1989), and curated the traveling exhibition on Maryland folklife called “Soundings”, which used interviews, images, and artifacts to create “portraits” of six Maryland tradition bearers. Dr. Camp also produced a series of documentary films including “Voices of Tradition: Scenes and Stories of Maryland Folk Culture” (1977) and “Calling Me Home: Music From the Maryland-Pennsylvania Border” (1979). Dr. Camp is a former Secretary-Treasurer of the American Folklore Society and teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art and Anne Arundel Community College. He is the author of numerous publications, including American Foodways: What, When, Why, and How We Eat in America (1989), and was the editor of Time and Temperature: A Centennial Publication of the American Folklore Society (1989).