The Community Collections Grants from the American Folklife Center fund and support contemporary cultural field research and documentation within diverse communities. Available to individuals and organizations, the grants offer up to $50,000 each to support projects within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation.
News from the Field
The SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship program guides anthropologists on accessible writing and podcasting for broad nonacademic audiences. The purpose of the fellowship program is to to provide in-depth training for anthropologists in the craft of science communication and public scholarship.
This year, the American Folklife Center has awarded Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons funding to two innovative projects that will benefit from research in ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress.
E. Anthony (Tony) Collins' project, “Missouri Fiddlin’: A Digital Archive of Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri,” has won the 2022 Henry Reed Fund Award given by the American Folklife Center, given to support activities directly involving folk artists, especially when their activities reflect, draw upon, or strengthen AFC collections.
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 Oral History Association (OHA) offers six annual awards whose winners are announced at its meeting in October. The deadlines for most are July 1, 2022.
The Central European History Society (CEHS) is soliciting nominations for the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. The annual prize honors the best monograph in Central European history published in English by a permanent resident of North America. All entries must be received by July 31, 2022.
News URL The University of Tartu International Summer University Course, “Out of Enchantment: Fairy Tales in Pop-Culture and History,” will take place on-site in Tartu, Estonia, August 1-7, 2022, Tartu, Estonia. The course will provide insight into fairy tale studies and include
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Jordan Lovejoy as one of its 40 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2022.
Betsy Peterson retired as director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress after 10 years in the role.