Roger Abrahams Net Worth

Roger Abrahams Net Worth is
$500,000

Roger Abrahams Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Roger D. Abrahams is a prominent folklorist whose work focuses on the expressive cultures and cultural histories of the Americas, with a specific emphasis on African American peoples and traditions. He is the Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught in the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He is the author of a large number of books, among which Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices is a recent title.Having earned his Ph.D. there, Abrahams returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 after teaching previously at the University of Texas and at Scripps and Pitzer Colleges in Claremont, California. He was the founding Director of Penn's Center for Folklore and Ethnography, a research and public outreach unit associated with the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He was awarded the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership by the American Folklore Society in 2005. and is also an AFS Fellow.Roger D. Abrahams is an accomplished folklorist and author. Abrahams was one of three children born to Robert D. Abrahams and Florence Kohn Abrahams, and he was born on June 12, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His education includes Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he obtained a B.A. with Honors in English in 1955; Columbia University in New York, where he obtained a M.A. with Honors in Literature and Folklore in 1959; and University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Literature and Folklore in 1961.Abrahams long and successful career began almost immediately after attaining his Ph.D., first serving at the University of Texas as instructor (1960-1963), assistant professor (1963-1966), and then associate professor (1966-1969) in the Department of English. He became a full professor in 1969 in the departments of English and Anthropology and remained there for ten years. While serving as professor, Abrahams also held other prestigious positions while teaching at the university. In 1968, he served as University’s Associate Director for the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Oral History for two years. In 1974, he became the department’s chairman at the university for five years. He also taught at other universities. After teaching in Texas, he served as the Alexander H. Kenan Professor of Humanities and Anthropology at Scripps and Pitzer Colleges in San Antonio, California, where he remained for six years. After this position, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught Folklore and Folklife until his retirement in 2002 and was named the Hum Rosen Professor of Folklore and Folklife.Abrahams lists of publications and exhibits are extensive. He published twenty-one books and monographs, sixty book chapters and introductions, sixty-four scholarly articles, ten review articles. He was also published in eight magazine articles, six encyclopedia and handbook entries, twenty-five “notes” sections, and as many as fifty-five reviews of his work were published by other authors. He published such texts as Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices (2005), The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and Emergence of Creole Culture (1983), Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul, coauthored with Nick Spitzer, John Szwed, and Bob Thomson (2006); and And Other Neighborly Names: Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore, coauthored with Richard Bauman (2011). Most of his texts were dedicated to his study of African-American and Caribbean culture. Most notable were African Folktales (1983), African-American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World (1999), After Africa and Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South (1992). All of these text and the multiple scholarly articles published in journals such as Western Folklore, Folk Music Journal, and Journal of Folklore Research included his many research interests, which were, but are not limited to folksongs and ballads from various cultures, numerous forms of African-American folklore, West Indian folklore, riddle study, proverbs, children’s folklore, and festival and ritual.Abrahams served as president of the Journal of American Folklore (1979), and he continues to influence students by his participation in conferences, seminars, guest lecturerships, and visiting faculty all around the world. Although he retired from teaching in 2002, he continues to publish articles and books. Abrahams career has been rich with accomplishments; his knowledge and expertise will be felt by generations to come. 

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