Kerry Noonan

Committed Assistant Dean aiming to secure an opportunity to further the [College's and University's] mission by applying 16 years of exceptional performance in academic roles. Well-versed in student recruitment and retention and faculty collaboration to meet university objectives.

• American Folklore Society (Co-convener, Folk Belief/Religious Folklife Section, 1999-2000, 2000-2001)
• American Academy of Religion
• Folklorists in New England
• Western States Folklore Society 1995-2008 (Student Vice President:South, 1999-2000, 2000-2001)
• UCLA Folklore Graduate Students Assoc. 1995-2000 (President 1996-97; Secretary 1997-99)
• UCLA Film & Folklore Association 1996-1999 (Vice-President, 1996-1997)
• UCLA Celtic Colloquium 1995-1998 (Secretary, 1995-1996, 1997-98)

• Gen Ed Curriculum Redesign Committee, Champlain College, 2024
• Academic Affairs Committee of Faculty Senate, Champlain College, 5 years
• Co-Chair of Library and Academic Resources Committee, Champlain College, 5 years
• Champlain Theatre Advisory Committee, Champlain College, 2011, 2016
• Search committees for hires in Core Division, Library, Film, and Game Art, Champlain College
• Course Creation Committee for COR 270, COR 204, COR 301, Champlain College
• Course Revision Committees for COR 330, COR 250, COR 120, Champlain College
• Course Revision consultant for CCC 310 and CCC 410 for Film, Champlain College
• Faculty Adviser: The Champlayers (student drama club), Champlain College, 2015, present
• Speaker at Accepted Student Days and Prospective Student Days, Champlain College
• Faculty Mentor of targeted incoming students, Champlain College, 2011
• Served on two Master’s Thesis committees, Anthropology Dept., Cal State U. Northridge, 2006, 2007

• 2018, American Folklore Society Meeting, Buffalo, NY, Outside, Inside, On Display: The Bodylore of Food and Fashion, Discussant
• 2018, Ideas on Tap, ArtsRiot, Burlington, VT, Myth Matters: Meaning Making and Myth in Everyday Life, Stephen C. Wehmeyer
• 2017, American Folklore Society Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, Purpose, Discussant
• 2016, American Academy of Religion annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, I’m Going to Reiki, and I’m Not Going to Confession!: Catholic Women Pushing the Boundaries of Orthodoxy
• 2015, Association of American Colleges and Universities Global Learning in College annual meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FLA, Integrative Global Learning in a Core Curriculum: The ‘Global Connections’ Learning Commons
• 2015, Governor’s Institute of Asian Studies, University of Vermont, Ethnic Minorities in China, The Supernatural and Vernacular Religion in China
• 2013, American Folklore Society Meeting, Providence, RI, Harry Potter, Respondent & Chair
• 2012, American Folklore Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Gran Brijit: Roots and Family Resemblances
• 2011, American Folklore Society annual conference, Bloomington, IN, Oh, You Beautiful Doll: Consuming Ethnicity in Southwest China
• 2011, Folklorists in New England annual meeting, MA, Consuming and Performing Ethnicity in China
• 2010, Association for the Study of Women in Mythology, Madison, WI, Gran Brigit: Roots of a Haitian Lwa
• 2010, Harry Potter’s World exhibit, Miller Information Commons, Champlain College, VT, How Do You Know She’s a Witch? Images of Witches Through the Ages
• 2010, Harry Potter’s World exhibit, Miller Information Commons, Champlain College, VT, If You Don’t Get Into Hogwarts, Do You Have a Safety?: the Literary Tradition of Magical Schools
• 2008, American Folklore Society Meeting, Louisville, KY, Mystic East and Wild West: The Esoteric Art of Edith V. Tenbrink, Stephen C. Wehmeyer
• 2007, Western States Folklore Society annual conference, Los Angeles, Feminist Witch Wars? The Emergence of Supernatural Attack Narratives in the Dianic Witchcraft Community
• 2006, Claremont Graduate School Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Claremont, CA, Sisterhood or Polarity?: Controversies over the ‘Guardian Priestess’ Path in Dianic Witchcraft
• 2006, American Academy of Religion annual conference, Washington DC, Sisterhood or Polarity?: Controversies over the ‘Guardian Priestess’ Path in Dianic Witchcraft
• 2004, UCLA Fowler Museum symposium, Los Angeles, CA, Mystic East and Wild West: An Esoteric Artist in L.A., Stephen C. Wehmeyer
• 2004, American Folklore Society annual conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Visions of the East: Place in the Art of Edith V. Tenbrink
• 2004, California Folklore Society annual conference, Northridge, CA, Eye of the Initiate or the Tenbrink Code: The Visionary Art of Edith V. Tenbrink, Stephen C. Wehmeyer
• 2003, Western Commission on the Study of Religion annual conference, Davis, CA, Sacred Body, Sacred Art: A Dianic Witch’s Altar Room
• 2000, California Folklore Society annual conference, Berkeley, CA, All Feasts are Feasts for the Goddess: Food Customs in Feminist Witchcraft
• 1999, American Folklore Society annual conference, Memphis, TN, May You Never Hunger: Religious Foodways in Dianic Witchcraft
• 1999, California Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Fullerton, CA, Holy Ghost in the Machine: Religious Behaviors of Charismatics Online
• 1998, American Folklore Society annual conference, Portland, OR, Deus in Machina: Catholic Charismatics Online
• 1998, Armand Hammer Museum symposium, Los Angeles, CA, Angel on My Shoulder: Contemporary Conceptions of Angels Among Catholic Charismatics
• 1997, American Folklore Society annual conference, Austin, TX, He's Given Us Holy Hands: Lay Healing in the Catholic Charismatic Movement
• 1997, California Folklore Society annual conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Shades of L.A.: The Building and Decoration of Sukkot in Los Angeles
• 1997, UC Celtic Colloquium, Berkeley, CA, Got Milk? The Food Miracles of St. Brigit of Kildare
• 1996, American Folklore Society annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Encounter with the Lord: Catholic Charismatics
• 1996, Celtic Regional Arts Institute of California, Various presentations on Irish folklore

• Forthcoming, Leonard Primiano & Joseph Sciorra, eds., Vernacular Catholicism: Folkloristic Studies of Catholic Culture, Utah University Press
• Forthcoming: Book Review, The Befana is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival by Steve Siporin, Journal of Folklore Research
• Forthcoming: Book Review, The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique by Mary J. Magoulick, Journal of Folklore Research
• 2016, Simon J. Bronner, ed., Youth Cultures in America, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, Vampire Lifestyle, Wiccans
• 2013, Patricia Monaghan & Michael McDermott, eds., Brigit: Sun of Womanhood, Inkheart Press, Got Milk? The Food Miracles of Bridget of Kildare
• 2011, Patricia Monaghan, ed. Goddesses in World Cultures vol. 3: Australia and the Americas, Santa Barbara: Praeger, Gran Brijit: Haitian Vodou Guardian of the Cemetary
• 2007, Elizabeth T. Adams and Sandra M. Posey, eds., Western Folklore, vol. 67 no. 2 - 3, Re-Envisioning the Visionary: Towards a Behavioral Definition of Initiatory Art (co-written with Stephen C. Wehmeyer)
• 2006, Simon J. Bronner, ed., Encyclopedia of American Folklife, M.E. Sharpe, Wiccans, Catholic Charismatics
• 2005, Western Folklore, 64, 1&2, Book Review: Frank J. Korom, Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora
• 2002, Western Folklore, 61, 1, Book Review: Sarah M. Pike, Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community
• 1998, Ethnologies, 20, 1-2, May You Never Hunger: Religious Foodways in Dianic Witchcraft
• 1998, UCLA Folk Medicine Archive webpage, He's Given Us Holy Hands: Lay Women Healers in the Catholic Charismatic Movement
• 1996-1998, Western Folklore, Editorial Assistant

• Promotion to Professor, 2022
• Promotion to Associate Professor, 2015
• Champlain College Diversity Award: International, 2013
• Faculty Internationalization Initiative Grant (Champlain College), 2009
• Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award (UCLA), 2006
• Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize for best paper on Women, Feminism, & Folklore, 1999
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1999-2000
• Research Assistantship/Mentorship, 1998-1999
• Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Fellowship, 1997-98
• Teaching Assistantship, 1997-98, Summer 1998
• Research Assistantship, 1996-97
• Magna Cum Laude, 1982
• Dean's List, 1982
• Regents' Scholarship, 1978-1982
• Hugh O'Brien Acting Award (UCLA), 1981
• Robert Reed Shakespeare Award (UCLA), 1980