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.
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Mount Adams School District teachers, Shelly Craig and Brettagne Aleck of White Swan, Washington were awarded the 2023 Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship.
The 2023 recipient of the John Westley Work III Award is DieDra Hurdle-Ruff, The Alabama Blues Queen and Executive Director of the Pinson Valley Arts Council.
The 2023 recipients of the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize are Jill Linzee and Charlie Seemann.
Leah Lowthorp received the Folklore and Science Senior Prize for her paper, "DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube."
The Folklore and Science Junior Prize, awarded by the AFS Folklore and Science Section, is awarded to Ben Bridges (Indiana University).
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Diarmuid Ó Giolláin is the recipient of the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies (The Kalevala Society). Second place prizes were awarded to Patricia A. Turner for trash talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century and to Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, with Loretta and Larry Shade, Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy. Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World.
American Folklore Society announces the winners of 2023 Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ruzhica Samokovlija Baruh, Molly McBride, Israt Lipa, and Iryna Voloshyna.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the Elaine J. Lawless Graduate Student Travel Award to Taylor Nasim Stone.