The AFS Executive Board sent a letter to IU's Board of Trustees, President, Provost, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences standing in support of the statements made by the AAUP Indiana Chapter and the Student Voice Coalition denouncing the sudden and unilateral actions of the Indiana University Leadership in response to peaceful and lawful protests.
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Program staff from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will introduce a range of grant opportunities and the National Heritage Fellowships program, including an overview of funding opportunities, examples of successful projects, and things to consider when submitting an application or nomination. The webinar will take place Wednesday, May 8 from 1:00 p.m. -2:30 p.m. (ET). There will be time for questions at the end of the webinar.
The Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (SORA) Podcast sat down with AFS Executive Director, Jessica Turner and Special Projects Consultant, Cassie Rosita Patterson to reflect about the American Folklore Society and the 2023 Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to Ozgun Ozata, whose paper, “Is London Bridge Falling Down?” won the AFS Children’s Folklore Section’s 2023 W.W. Newell Prize, given annually to the best essay by a student or emerging scholar on a topic in children’s folklore.
Elizabeth Pérez’s The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract received the the Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism.
Congratulations to Lydia Cambpell-Maher (Indiana University and ArtMix) and Gavilán Rayna Russom (Goucher College) who were recipients of the 2023 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
The Nordic-Baltic Section is excited to announce that Samantha Ruth Brown has received the 2023 Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore for outstanding article-length essay on folklore and Northern Europe.
The AFS Fellows invites nominations for AFS Fellows for the 2024 Election.
The winner of the The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section 2023 Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Project is "Devil in the Skies, Stars on the Barns: The Snallygaster, Hex Signs, and Barn Stars," by Jack Daly, a PhD student at Penn State Harrisburg.
Mount Adams School District teachers, Shelly Craig and Brettagne Aleck of White Swan, Washington were awarded the 2023 Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship.