The Summer 2025 JAF: A Global Quarterly is coming soon, featuring essays about gender, performance, and power, and perspectives on complex issues of practice that demonstrate the impactful work of public folklorists—plus an obituary for Bernice Johnson Reagon and fifteen reviews of recent work in the field.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
As you prepare for the new academic year, those of you who teach can provide an important—and easily accomplished—service to AFS. Support AFS by assigning online access to JAF.
AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory's sudden passing on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
In light of recent concerns regarding goals and efforts toward diversity and inclusion in the U.S. as it impacts the work of the AFS Cultural Diversity Committee, at its spring 2025 meeting, the AFS Executive Board passed a resolution reaffirming its commitment to the work of the longstanding Cultural Diversity Committee.
In light of changing circumstances for funding and research at colleges and universities, the AFS Executive Board passed a resolution on tenure and promotion policies for impacted faculty.
AFS congratulates Maygan Barker, Touhidul Islam, Olivia Phillips, and Salma Valadez-Marquez on receiving the 2025 Graduate Fieldwork Grant.
The 2024 AFS Annual Report is now available.
During the 2024 conference and in the months following, AFS staff negotiated with the Albuquerque Convention Center, firmly communicating the unacceptable air and heating conditions our participants, guests, and staff were dealing with during the meeting held in the ABQ Convention Center.
As the AFS Annual Meeting is only four months away, the AFS Executive Board and Annual Meeting team members got to spend some important in-person time in Atlanta, Georgia together. The Executive Board continued discussions for AFS’s long term plans while the team laid groundwork for the October meeting.
The AFS Executive Board has issued a statement in response to cuts at the NEA following recent cuts to NEH, IMLS and other agencies. We urge members to take action by writing or calling state representatives and members of Congress.