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.
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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.
Victoria Danielle Blake Bliss (Sophomore, University of Huston) was awarded the William A. Wilson Prize recognizes the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife for her paper, "Tales of the Supernatural as Told by My Parents."
The 2023 AFS Annual Meeting online and in Portland, Oregon may be over, but access to recorded virtual and hybrid programs for registrants will last through January 2024!
The Américo Paredes Award was given to Dr. Russell C. Rodríguez of UC Santa Cruz for his stellar performance as a scholar, program manager, colleague, and mentor over the past twenty years.
Bill Ellis, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, has received the 2023 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.
We thank all who joined us online or in Portland for the 2023 AFS annual meeting!
Millie Tullis (Utah State University) received the Don Yoder Prize for her paper, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities.”
Congratulations to Marion Bowman and Bonnie O'Connor, who are the first recipients of the Leonard Norman Primiano Retired Scholar Travel Award.