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Higgins, Lisa L.

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NFAI.E.00007117
Preferred Name
Higgins, Lisa L.
Entity Date
after 1963
Biography/History

Dr. Lisa L. Higgins directs the Missouri Folk Arts Program, the state’s folk and traditional arts services organization—a program of the Missouri Arts Council based at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. Since 1999, she has overseen all projects/initiatives, budgets, grants, and staff (folk arts specialist, graduate research assistants, graduate interns, work study students, and consultants). She is the program specialist for MAC’s Folk Arts grant discipline, coordinates MFAP’s folk arts education and community scholar efforts, and manages special projects, such as traveling exhibits and artist residencies. Higgins has served on grants panels for the NEA, state arts agencies (most recently, Florida and Illinois), and regional arts organizations. Prior to her current position, Higgins worked at the Southern Arts Federation as a program coordinator with Dr. Peggy Bulger. Higgins received her BA and MA in English from Arkansas State University and her PhD in English, with emphases in Folklore and Rhetoric, at the University of Missouri. She is an active member of the American Folklore Society and has served as faculty advisor for the MU Student Folklore Society, Exhibits Review Editor for the Journal of American Folklore, and co-chair of the planning committee for the 2014 Folk Arts Coordinator Peer Group at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. She has published reviews in Western Folklore and articles in the edited collection Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum, as well as Journal of Folklore and Education, Volume 3¸ a special issue addressing Folklore and Museum Education. Higgins co-edited with Jackson Medel a special issue of the Missouri Folklore Society Journal on the topic of public sector folklore, forthcoming in 2017.

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