AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory's sudden passing on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
In Memoriam
Maria Carmen Gambliel, a devoted artist, printmaker, and folklorist, passed away on May 24, 2025, at the age of seventy-nine.
Hungarian folklorist Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025.
Folklorist and ethnologist Ekaterina Anastasova died suddenly at the age of sixty-three on June 15, 2025.
Folklorist Worth Long died on May 8, 2025 in Atlanta, GA at the age of eighty-nine.
Mentor, scholar, and community activist Olivia Cadaval died on April 8, 2025 at the age of eighty-two. Olivia joined the AFS in 1979 and was elected to AFS Fellows in 2018.
Dorothy Botkin Rosenthal, daughter of Benjamin A. Botkin and long-time friend of the field of folklore, died on December 17, 2024 after a brief illness.
Longtime AFS member Louie Attebery died on August 21, 2024, at the age of 97.
Dr. David Eugene Whisnant – researcher, writer, teacher, blogger; builder and fixer; devoted husband and father; lifelong learner – died peacefully and gently at his home in Chapel Hill, NC, enfolded by beloved family, on December 10, 2024.
Charles G. "Terry" Zug III, professor emeritus of folklore and English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and long-time AFS member, died on January 19, 2025.