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The AFS Foodways Section awarded its 2022 Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways to Anna Reepschlager, a Master's Student at Memorial University Newfoundland.
The 2022 Annual Meeting proposal submission deadline has passed, and AFS staff is now at work processing the data and associated requests. Please allow a little extra time for our staff members to respond to inquiries. Rest assured that we will honor
Most proposal submissions come through easily and successfully, but here are some additional tips if you run into issues outside of business hours.
We invite you to participate in a virtual small-group "salon" discussion of the AFS Fellows Webinar: "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability." The salon will take place April 1, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT.
Thanks to a generous gift from the Noyes-Krippendorf Fund of the Columbus Foundation, the American Folklore Society is delighted to announce the launch of the AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant, a 5-year program to support ethnographic fieldwork by graduate students.
The Executive Board of the American Folklore Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu has agreed to serve on the Board 2022-24. She brings wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, and community-based projects, as well as particular expertise in Asian American and Vietnamese American community truths and knowledge-making through storytelling and stories.
Some important AFS prize deadlines are coming up. Chicago Folklore Prize submissions are due April 1, and May 1 is the deadline for the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership, and the Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to the Field.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500. The prize was named for folklorist and religious studies scholar, Don Yoder (1921-2015), an expert on American sectarian religions who established the study of folklife and religious folklife in the United States.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $250. The prize was named for folklorist, editor, and archivist William Albert “Bert” Wilson (1933-2016), scholar of the Finnish Kalevala and of Mormon folklore.