Phoebe Millerwhite (Independent Folklorist, Artist, Educator) received the 2022 Independent and Public Folklorist Sections Travel Award.
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The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 135th Annual Meeting to be held virtually October 11-12, 2023 and in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4. The theme of the conference is Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting. The proposal window is March 1-31.
Please join us for the 135th annual meeting of the American Folklore Society this fall! This year, AFS is offering up to two days of dedicated virtual programming, October 11-12, in addition to a four-day, in-person gathering in Portland, Oregon, November 1-4.
Mirva Johnson (PhD Candidate, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic University of Wisconsin-Madison) received the 2022 Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore.
Sylas Alvarez (student at Western Kentucky University) received the 2022 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
The winner of the Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award for 2022, which is sponsored by the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section, is Millie Tullis (Utah State University).
Winners and accolades recipients of the 2022 Aesop Prize were announced at the AFS Annual Meeting.
Daisy Ahlstone (Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University) and Nichola Miller shared the 2022 Folklore and Science Junior Prize.
Micah Ling (PhD candidate at Indiana University) received the 2022 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
The recipient of the 2022 Wayland D. Hand prize, awarded by the History and Folklore Section for the best book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials, is Tyler D. Parry (Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of Nevada--Las Vegas).