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Everyday Life by Roger D. Abrahams6/3/2023 ![]() In 1985, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named Hum Rosen Professor of Folklore and Folklife in 1989 he retired from Penn in 2002. He began teaching in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 and chaired that department and also directed the new African and Afro-American Research Institute before leaving in 1979 to become Kenan Professor of Humanities and Anthropology at Scripps and Pitzer Colleges. (1) Born in Philadelphia in 1933, Abrahams graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955, then earned an MA in Literature and Folklore from Columbia in 1959 and a PhD in English and Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 during his student days, he also performed as a singer in the folk song revival. ![]() ![]() Abrahams died June 20, 2017, in Sunnyvale, California, at the age of 84. ![]()
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