Apply Now for AFC’s 2025 Awards, Fellowships, and Internships
The American Folklife Center‘s (AFC) competitive awards provide support for researchers working with ethnographic collections materials at the Library of Congress and for fieldworkers documenting folklife and related topics outside the Library.
The following awards, fellowships, and internships are available for the 2025 award cycle:
- Archie Green Fellowships: to support new field research documenting Occupational Folklife in contemporary American contexts.
- American Folklife Center Internships: paid summer opportunities to work alongside staff at the Center.
- Parsons Funds Awards: to increase awareness of and research with ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress.
- Blanton Owen Awards: to support ethnographic field work in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians.
- Artist in Resonance Fellowship: to support creation of new musical works that draw on archival holdings at the Center.
Application deadline for all these awards is March 3, 2025.
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