Join us for a special four hour collaborative stream with folklorists Dr. Dom Tartaglia and Daisy Ahlstone as we make Cincinnati chili together and discuss regional foodways, folklore, and more. Audience questions and comments are encouraged and welcome!

Photograph courtesy of Dom Tartaglia

Dr. Dominick Tartaglia is the State Folklorist for Florida and director of the Florida Folklife Program. Dom is a graduate of Indiana University (2019), where he received his PhD in Folklore with a minor in Anthropology and concentration in Food Studies. He is a co-founder of Wisefolk Productions, LLC, serving as their Creative Director and hosting the weekly show Folkwise Live! on Twitch. He previously served as Curator & Folklorist at the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.

Photograph courtesy of Daisy Ahlstone

Daisy Ahlstone (they/them) is a PhD Candidate at Ohio State University and a folklorist studying environmental storytelling through the lens of folklore, eco-criticism, posthumanism, and community-engaged methodologies. They are interested in the ways legend, extinction, material culture, and community interact. Daisy also collaborates on several folklore and community-centered projects, including the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (https://likenknowledge.org/), the Western States Folklore Society (http://www.westernfolklore.org/), and a YouTube and Twitch streaming channel called Folkwise, which approaches the study of tradition non-traditionally  (https://www.twitch.tv/folkwise).

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