Yvonne R. Lockwood is Curator Emeritus of Folklife at the Michigan State University Museum. Her formal training is in history and Slavic Languages & Literatures (PhD, University of Michigan), folklore (MA, University of California, Berkeley), and Slavic Languages & Literatures (BA, University of California, Berkeley). She has served as convener of the Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society and was co-editor with William G. Lockwood of Digest: Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways between 1988-1994. She has many years of historical and cultural research experience in the Balkans, Austria, and the United States, especially the Great Lakes region, resulting in numerous publications, exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and public policy development. Her primary areas of research include foodways, textile traditions and women's work, and workers culture. Her publications in foodways include the 2001 Sophie Coe award in Food History, Oxford Symposium in Food and Cookery, for "Continuity and Adaptation of Arab-American Foodways" (with William G. Lockwood), pp. 515-549, in Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream, eds., Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2000.) and "Pasties in Michigan: Foodways, Interethnic Relations and Cultural Dynamics" (with William G. Lockwood), pp. 3-20, in Creative Ethnicity, eds., Stephen Stern and John Allan Cicala, Logan, Utah State University Press, 1991. During her 27-year tenure at the MSU Museum, she directed, planned, and implemented the foodways presentations at the Great Lakes Folk Festival. She was selected by the Michigan Humanities Council as the state scholar in 2007-08 to direct activities around the Smithsonian's American food exhibit, "Key Ingredients." At this time she curated an exhibition of Michigan foodways, "Michigan Eats: Regional Culture Through Food," that accompanied the Smithsonian's exhibition as it toured the state.