Manx in DC – A Month at the Smithsonian Institution
Earlier this year, I was granted an incredibly exciting opportunity – the chance to spend a month in Washington DC. This opportunity came in the form of a successful application to the University of Glasgow’s Early Career Mobility Scheme, a grant which enables PhD and other Early Career researchers to participate in knowledge exchange visits with many of Glasgow’s partner institutions around the world. Come September 2022, I would be working with Dr Mary Linn and her colleagues at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage , part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (or CFCH) is a research centre that works with communities within and outwith the US to “encourage the understanding, appreciation, and vitality of humanity’s diverse living cultural heritage” (CFCH website). CFCH has various avenues through which it works towards this goal, one of which is the annual Folklife Festival . The Festival has been held every summer since 1967 on Was