Dorothy Noyes is an American folklorist and ethnologist whose comparative, ethnographic and historical research focuses on European societies and upon European immigrant communities in the United States.
General problems upon which she has focused attention include the status of "provincial" communities in national and global contexts, heritage policies and politics, problems of innovation and creativity, and the nature of festival specifically and of cultural displays and representations generally.
On the faculty of The Ohio State University, Noyes is a professor affiliated with the Departments of English, Comparative Studies, and Anthropology.
She has served on the executive board of the American Folklore Society and presently serves on the executive board of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore.
[3] The author of numbers works, her 2003 book Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco[4] won the 2005 Book Prize of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society.