Kristin Sullivan is currently writing her dissertation ("Chincoteague in Transition: Vernacular Art and Adaptation in Community Heritage"), which is based on nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Chincoteague, Virginia. This research examines the ways in which hunting decoy and decorative wildfowl carving, and its presentation and marketing in Chincoteague, expresses and relates to various forms of heritage. Part of this involves looking at how embodied cultural knowledge is performed, and how host communities in a touristic locale maintain their integrity and present their heritage through art and work related thereto.