Jeremy Wells examines structural racism in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards in a recent blog post for Lived Heritage Studies.
Folklore Works
The American Folklore Society works every day to amplify our members and the work they do to advance the understanding of folklore and cultural traditions. Stay tuned as we periodically showcase folklorists, their projects and programs, and the communities they serve through our Folklore Works features.
Sixth-generation West Virginian Black writer-poet, advocate, entrepreneur, culture worker, and newspaper publisher Crystal Good was the feature and consulting producer on the 2022 “Black in Appalachia” episode of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell for CNN.
The editors of the Journal of American Folklore are pleased to announce that this special issue of JAF: A Global Quarterly (Spring 2022 ) has been mailed and is available online to subscribers.
The American Folklife Center has awarded its 2022 Archie Green Fellowships to five projects aimed at documenting and analyzing the culture and traditions of American workers.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School, led by Arijit Sen, is featured in "Learning to Listen: How a university project to document Milwaukee neighborhood stories has created a ‘network of hope'" in The Progressive Magazine.
Past AFS President Dorothy Noyes, an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and professor of comparative studies at The Ohio State University, has been named director of the university’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Merrill Kaplan, Associate Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies at The Ohio State University, was recently featured in a Slate Q&A on the topic of “goblin mode” in recent viral media articles.
We invite you to participate in a virtual small-group "salon" discussion of the AFS Fellows Webinar: "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability." The salon will take place April 1, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT.
Flower City Folk (FCF), a newly established folklife program in Rochester, New York, now serves individuals living in Rochester and the surrounding communities by supporting and documenting diverse folklife, facilitating related educational opportunities, and connecting community members to local, state, and federal arts resources.
Community Powered is a Wisconsin Humanities initiative that builds resilience among Wisconsin communities by helping them recognize, communicate, and act upon their strengths, their challenges, and their histories to envision a vibrant future. Residents of participating Wisconsin communities will experience new ways to unearth and tell stories of their communities and will take concrete steps toward making their hometowns even better places to live.