Jared L. Schmidt is the new editor of the AFS New Directions in Folklore Section’s online, peer-reviewed journal, New Directions in Folklore. The section and the journal are dedicated to pushing the envelope of scholarship in the exploration of contemporary culture.
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The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Applications are due March 1.
Dig into the ways you can be involved in addressing the impact of climate change in a workshop with Maida Owens (Louisiana Folklife Program/Bayou Culture Collaborative), February 22, at 3:00 pm EST.
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society has named Zahra Abedinezhadmehrabadi, Naomi Barnes, Ojaswini Hooda, Emilia Nielson, Rachel González-Martin, Noriko Tsunoda Reider, and Rachelle H. Saltzman as winners of the Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prizes for 2020 and 2021.
The Ohio State University has recognized Professor of Folklore Dorothy Noyes' AFS Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Achievement with an article in its College of Arts and Sciences News. AFS awarded Noyes the 2021 Goldstein Award at its Annual Meeting in October.
The AFS Children’s Folklore Section awarded the 2021 Aesop Prize to the writer and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh for his book Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns.
The following AFS members were elected to office in the balloting that ended December 15: Executive Board (2022-2024): Karen (Queen Nur) Abdul-Malik, National Association of Black Storytellers; Clemmons Family Farm Tim Frandy, Western Kentucky University Meltem Türköz, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Karen (Queen
The American Folklore Society's Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section has awarded Cade Williams, an A.B. candidate in Anthropology and Folklore and Mythology at Harvard College, the 2021 William A. Wilson prize for the best undergraduate student paper in Religious folklife and folk belief.
In awarding the 2021 Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership to Dorothy Noyes at its Annual Meeting last October, the American Folklore Society celebrated her outstanding achievements in advancing the work of students and colleagues, of the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University, of the American Folklore Society, and of the field as a whole.
Varick Chittenden and Teresa Hollingsworth were named as the 2021 recipients of the AFS Benjamin A. Botkin prize for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore at the Annual Meeting in October. This prize, awarded each year by the AFS Executive Board and