Regina Bendix

Dr. Regina Bendix (born May, 31, 1958 in Brugg, Switzerland) is a professor of European ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

After teaching at various institutions in the United States and Switzerland, in 1993 she took a position as assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Department of Folklore and Folklife.

[1] She would ultimately be appointed associate professor and chair of the Program in Folklore and Folklife within the Department of Anthropology at Penn.

[3] Starting in the mid-1990s Dr. Bendix' research interests and fieldwork focused on cultural tourism (primarily in Austria) embedded within the larger historical project of popular ethnography in the late 19th-century Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Bendix has a film editing credit for the 2005 production of the German documentary on folklore titled Musical und Märchenstunde.