Tok Thompson
- Professor of Anthropology and Communications
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise
- Folklore (including internet folklore)
- Mythology
- Superstitions
- Ghosts and ghost belief
- Aliens and Alien belief
- Posthumanism (AI/cyborg as well as Animal Studies/Ethology)
- Native American societies and cultures
- Indigenous and minority languages and world-views
- Irish language, culture, politics, history, folklore
- Mashups, memes, cyber culture
- Holidays
- Irish (Gaelic)
- Scottish Gaelic (partial fluency)
- some Amharic (Ethiopia)
- some Denaâina (Alaskan Dene)