Jerrilyn McGregory

Jerrilyn McGregory is a professor of African American folklore at Florida State University and an author. She wrote Wiregrass Country and Downhome Gospel; African American Spriritual Activism in Wiregrass Country. She has been researching celebrations of Boxing Day in the Caribbean.

Stephen Shearon in a 2012 review in American Music described the book as "significant and insightful, but flawed". Her book includes coverage of Maypole plaiting.