Judith McCulloh was an American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and university press editor.
12 Facts About Judith McCulloh
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Judith McCulloh was the 100th baby to have been born at the Spring Valley Hospital.
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Judith McCulloh's father worked for the railroad in Spring Valley, and the family later moved to Peoria, Illinois where her father got a job working for Caterpillar Tractor.
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Judith McCulloh grew up at Northmoor Orchard, not far from Peoria, where her parents had bought an apple orchard and sold apples and cider.
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Judith McCulloh first became interested in folk music in 1954 while attending the National Folk Festival in St Louis.
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Judith McCulloh studied at Cottey College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Ohio State University.
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Judith McCulloh moved to Urbana, Illinois in the 1960s when her husband accepted a job at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Judith McCulloh created the UI Press series Folklore and Society, and was instrumental in the 1983 launching of the scholarly journal American Music, published by the UI Press in conjunction with the Sonneck Society and edited by Allen Britton.
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Judith McCulloh served two terms as the AFC chair and was named trustee emerita in 2004.
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Judith McCulloh served as president of the American Folklore Society and worked for almost 20 years on the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series.
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Judith McCulloh was married for 52 years to Leon McCulloh, a professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Judith McCulloh died of cancer in Urbana, Illinois, on July 13,2014, aged 78.