Nikki Christensen received the 2022 W.W. Newell Prize.
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Stephen Lochetto received 2022 the W.W. Newell Prize for best essay by students or emerging scholars on a topic in children's folklore.
Lei Ting (PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo) received the Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore.
Carrie Hertz (Curator of Textiles and Dress, Museum of International Folk Art) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional/Non-Student prize. Mary Magoulick (Professor, Georgia College) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize honorable mention.
Jeanne Pitre Soileau (teacher) received the 2022Â Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
Margaret Bennett (Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
Crystal Good (culture worker, artist, advocate, publisher, and entrepreneur) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler (graduate student of Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill; writer, reproductive justice worker, freelance folklorist) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Karen Collins (African American Miniature Museum) received the 2022 John Wesley Work III award.
Claiborne Rice (Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University) received the 2022 Folklore and Science Senior Prize.