Tom Mould is a professor of history and anthropology at Butler University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of folklore, language and culture, American Indian studies, oral narrative, religious and sacred narrative, contemporary legend, identity, ethnography, genre, and performance theory. He is the author of the books Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future (2003), Choctaw Tales (2004), Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition (2011), and the forthcoming Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America (2020).