AFS Fellows
Established in 1960, the Fellows of the American Folklore Society is an honorary body of folklorists, whose election to the Fellows signifies their outstanding contributions to the field. Members of the Fellows have produced a significant number of important articles, books, and other scholarly productions or exhibitions on folklore, and have provided meritorious service to the Society and the discipline of folklore studies. In addition to its honorary function, the Fellows sponsor activities to advance folklore studies, including mentoring programs for students, plenary sessions at the annual meeting, and special awards. The Fellows meet annually during the AFS annual meeting, usually inducting new members at that time.
Current officers of the Fellows:
Robert Baron (Goucher College), President
Solimar Otero (Indiana University), Vice President
Stephen D. Winick (American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress), Secretary
Fellows:
Roger D. Abrahams*
Deming An
Barry Jean Ancelet
Samuel G. Armistead*
Shirley Arora*
Cristina Bacchilega
Ronald L. Baker*
Haya Bar-Itzhak*
Robert Baron
William Bascom*
Ilhan Basgoz*
Ernest W. Baughman*
Richard Bauman
Ursula Baumgardt
Hermann Bausinger*
Samuel P. Bayard*
Horace P. Beck*
Jane Beck
Dan Ben-Amos*
Regina Bendix
Gillian Bennett*
Mody C. Boatright*
Ralph Steele Boggs*
Benjamin A. Botkin*
Marion Bowman
Paddy Bowman
Erika Brady
Rolf Brednich
Charles L. Briggs
Ian Brodie
Simon J. Bronner
Bertrand H. Bronson*
Mary Ellen Brown
Jan Harold Brunvand
David Buchan*
Tina Bucuvalas
Peggy A. Bulger
John Burrison
Olivia Cadaval*
Veronique Campîon-Vincent
Norma E. Cantú
Ana Cara
Ray Cashman
Gejin Chao
William Clements
Tristram P. Coffin+*
Helen Creighton*
Daniel J. Crowley*
Gerald L. Davis*
Frank de Caro*
Guillermo De los Reyes
Linda Dégh*
Luisa Del Giudice
C. Kurt Dewhurst
Richard M. Dorson*
James R. Dow
Alan Dundes*
Wolfram Eberhard*
Bill Ellis
Hasan El-Shamy
Burt Feintuch*
William Fenton+*
Ann Ferrell
Bill Ferris
Austin Fife*
Gary Alan Fine
Ruth Finnegan
Fernando Fischman
John Miles Foley*
Edith Fowke*
Albert Friedman*
Michael Dylan Foster
Gladys-Marie Fry*
Bingzhong Gao
Marcia Gaudet
Anna H. Gayton+*
Robert A. Georges*
Frances Gillmor*
Lisa Gilman
Janet Gilmore
Henry Glassie
Diane E. Goldstein
Kenneth S. Goldstein*
Archie Green*
James S. Griffith*
John Greenway*
Nancy Groce
Valdimar Hafstein
A. Irving Hallowell*
Herbert Halpert+*
Wayland D. Hand+*
Gregory Hansen
William F. Hansen
Lee Haring
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Bess Lomax Hawes*
Elissa R. Henken
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Melville Herskovits+*
George Herzog*
Maggie Holtzberg
Arthur Palmer Hudson+*
David Hufford
Mary Hufford
Marjorie Hunt
Dell Hymes*
Edward D. Ives*
Bill Ivey
Alan A. Jabbour*
Jason Baird Jackson
Melville Jacobs*
Thelma G. James+*
William H. Jansen*
Louis C. Jones*
Michael Owen Jones
Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj
Sharif Kanaana
Deborah A. Kapchan
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Amy Kitchener
Andrea Kitta
Barbro Klein*
Elli K. Köngas-Miranda*
George Korson+*
Luc Lacourcière*
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Kimberly Lau
Elaine J. Lawless
David Todd Lawrence
MacEdward Leach*
James P. Leary
William A. Lessa*
Simon Lichman
José E. Limón
Carl Lindahl
John Lindow
Timothy Lloyd
Alan Lomax*
Lucy Margaret Long
C. Grant Loomis*
Albert B. Lord*
Katherine Luomala+*
Marsha MacDowell
Sabina Magliocco
Moira Marsh
Ulrich Marzolph
Phyllis M. May-Machunda
Judith McCulloh*
John H. McDowell
Jerrilyn McGregory*
Ellen McHale
Thomas McKean
William McNeil*
Jay Mechling
Wolfgang Mieder
Margaret A. Mills
Yvonne J. Milspaw
Lynwood Montell*
Tom Mould
Patrick B. Mullen
Clifford R. Murphy
Sadhana Naithani
Olga Nájera-Ramírez
Kirin Narayan
Diana Baird N’Diaye
Venetia Newall*
W.F.H. Nicolaisen*
Dorothy Noyes
Felix J. Oinas*
Morris E. Opler+*
Elliott Oring
Solimar Otero
Maida Owens
Arzu Öztürkmen
Américo Paredes*
Daniel W. Patterson
Elizabeth E. Peterson
Gerald Pocius
Anand Prahlad
Leonard Norman Primiano*
Newbell Niles Puckett*
Jo Radner
Vance Randolph*
Tom Rankin
W. Edson Richmond+*
Ralph C. Rinzler*
Stanley Robe*
John W. Roberts
Warren E. Roberts+*
Owe Ronström
Neil V. Rosenberg
Steve Roud
Jack Santino
Patricia Sawin
Rachelle H. Saltzman
Joseph Sciorra
Thomas E. Sebeok+*
Charles Seeger*
Suzanne Seriff
Guha Shankar
Daniel Sheehy
Sharon R. Sherman
Pravina Shukla
Amy E. Shuman
Carol Silverman
Amy Skillman
Susan Slyomovics
Junhua Song
Nicholas R. Spitzer
Beverly Stoeltje
John F. Szwed
Timothy R. Tangherlini
Sol Tax*
Archer Taylor*
Jeannie Banks Thomas
Harold Thompson*
Stith Thompson+*
Jeff Todd Titon
Barre Toelken*
Elizabeth Tucker
Jessica Turner
Kay Turner
Patricia A. Turner
Francis Lee Utley+*
Ülo Valk
Francisco Vaz da Silva
John M. Vlach*
Vilmos Voigt*
Donald J. Ward*
Marta Weigle*
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin+*
Marilyn White
William H. Wiggins, Jr.*
D.K. Wilgus+*
Michael Ann Williams
William A. Wilson*
Stephen D. Winick
Daniel Wojcik
Kwesi Yankah
Margaret R. Yocom
Don Yoder*
Katherine Young
Steve Zeitlin
Jack Zipes
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
+ Original members of the Fellows
* Deceased
Information for Fellows: How to Pay Dues
The easiest way to pay Fellows dues at any time of year (regardless of whether you need to renew your AFS membership at the time) is through the Fellows area in our online store. You can add your Fellows dues and any additional Fellow contributions to your cart from that page. You can also add sections dues if you so desire – those can be found in the Sections category of our store. Add as many items as you wish to your cart, and then proceed to checkout to pay for it all at once.
If you would like your Fellows dues and/or additional Fellows donations to be included in your annual membership dues invoice from AFS, we would be more than happy to facilitate that. To request an addition to your annual invoice, send a message to info@afsnet.org indicate whether you will be paying regular or retired dues, and if you would like to add an annual donation, let us know what amount that should be.