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by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Ohio State University
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With deep sadness, I report the death of folklorist and ethnohistorian Helen Papanikolas. The funeral will be at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, November 5, 2004, at 1 pm.
A tireless chronicler of Greek America , Helen Papanikolas has contributed vastly to ethnnic studies as well as regional institutions. Greek-American studies have benefited from her work in folklore, ethnohistory, autobiography, family biography, fiction, editorship, archive-building, consulting, and public speaking. Her publications include a non-fiction book, a novel, two collections of short stories, scores of essays and articles, and the editing of a seminal volu
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Helen Zeese Papanikolas
Women of Letters » History
Researcher, writer, and ethnic historian who chronicled the everyday lives of Utah peoples. Her book, The Peoples of Utah, is widely considered the most important work on Utah ethnic peoples. Papanikolas was instrumental in organizing the ethnic archives at the Oral History Archives, located in the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. As founder and first president of The Peoples of Utah Institute, Papanikolas located artifacts associated with ethnic life, produced a major museum exhibit, and sponsored lectures and other programs. During her lifetime, Papanikolas was a leading authority on Greek immigrant life in the United States, and she presented papers at national and international conferences and consulted for television documentaries and other projects.
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Helen Z. Papanikolas
American novelist
Helen Zeese Papanikolas (June 29, 1917 – October 31, 2004)[1] was a Greek-American ethnic historian, novelist and folklorist who documented the immigrant experience in Utah and the American West through histories, memoirs, fiction, and poetry. Her ethnographic themes drew upon her experience as a Greek-American in a small western community.
Biography
[edit]Helen Zeese was born in the mining community of Cameron (near Castle Gate) in Carbon County, Utah, to Greek immigrant parents George and Emily Zeese (originally Yiorgis and Emilia Zisimopoulos). The family moved to nearby Helper and, in 1933, to Salt Lake City, Utah where they established a chain of grocery stores. In her youth, Zeese attended Helper Central School and Carbon High School while living in Carbon County, and East High School in Salt Lake City.[2]
While attending the University of Utah, Zeese served as editor of the campus literary magazine Pen a