New AFS Fellows were announced at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Tulsa.
AFS News
News about the American Folklore Society
The American Folklore Society congratulates all the honorees and prize recipients named in 2022. For more information on prizes and honors awarded by AFS and its sections, please click here. Américo Paredes Prize: Anand Prahlad (Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri)
AFS section prizes and award winners were announced at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Tulsa.
The Folklife in the South (FITS) Gathering will take place at Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, Alabama, June 8-10, 2023.
Read AFS' open letter requesting support for the WKU Folk Studies Program.
As of October 7, the AFS office is effectively closed. Staff members are working hard to make the 2022 AFS Annual Meeting a success, so they may not be available to respond quickly to your email.
AFS has received a bequest representing the bulk of Leonard Norman Primiano’s estate to support new awards and activities for the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section as well as for the administration of at least three new section prizes.
The Fall issue (v. 135, no. 538) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly will be available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon
The Notable Folklorists of Color online exhibition, sponsored by the American Folklore Society, now features Expanding the Frames, with more than 135 new ancestor scholars who have contributed to folklore studies, as well as a variety of rich supplemental material. A preview of the new exhibition is available now, with the rest of the new material to be released over the course of the next few weeks.
This one hour discussion will feature Oklahoma speakers from historians to activists to discuss both previous and current struggles for reproductive health, a more equitable legal system, civil and voting rights, and amelioration of female and child poverty.