Janet Gilmore’s fisheries research has been conducted for the University of Wisconsin and the Michigan State University Museum. She did oral histories and folklife research with Upper Peninsula of Michigan commercial fishers in the late 1980s for the Michigan State University Museum. Her publications include the following:
- 2007 “Wisconsin’s Friday Night Fish Fry Tradition.” www.classicwisconsin.com
- 2004 “Sagamité and Booya: French Influence in Defining Great Lakes Culinary Heritage.” Material History Review/Revue d’ histoire de la culture matérielle 60: 58-69. Ottawa, ON: Canada Science and Technology Museum.
- 2003 “‘Pretty Hungry for Fish’: Fish Foodways among the Commercial Fishing People of the Western Shore of Lake Michigan’s Green Bay,” Midwestern Folklore 29: 1 (Spring): 1-43.
- 2007 “Fish Tugs.” In The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Folklore Section, Ed. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, pp. 358-59. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.1999
- “‘We Made ‘Em to Fit Our Purpose’: The Northern Lake Michigan Fishing Skiff Tradition.” In Wisconsin Folklore, ed. James P. Leary, pp. 457-75. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. First edition in The Old Traditional Way of Life: Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts, ed. Robert E. Walls and George H. Schoemaker, pp. 58-78. Bloomington, IN: Trickster Press.
- 1996 “Fishing (commercial).” In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jan Harold Brunvand, pp. 271-73. New York: Garland Publishing.
- 1994 Luanne Kozma, with Janet C. Gilmore and Jay C. Martin. Marlinespikes and Monkey’s Fists: Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers. East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum.
- 1990 “Fisherman Stereotypes: Sources and Symbols.” Canadian Folklore 12: 2: 17-38.
