Jack Hanley - The Folklorist
Folklorist and European Historian Jack Hanley is the creator and Academic Team Leader of Colorado X. Currently pursuing his Doctorate at the University of Colorado, Jack specializes in the role of folklore and religion on the discourse of nationalist ideology in relation to cultural and political movements. Through his research in Romantic Nationalism in art and literature, (and his unabashed Jungian tendencies) Jack was drawn to the innate influence of archetypal symbolism on supernatural constructs. Jack has been published in several academic journals, including Central and East European Folklore, the Colorado Folklore Project, the Kosciuszko Foundation Historical Review and the Colorado Historian. When not scouring graveyards and dusting off archival tomes as the Producer of Colorado X, Jack occasionally works on his studies of the folklore of Central and Eastern Europe and his upcoming book about the role of the Black Madonna Icon of Częstochowa upon the anti-Communist resistance movements in Soviet-controlled Poland.
