The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award is an annual cash award, presented to the developing academic scholar who presents the best paper accepted by a juried academic conference on an aspect of bluegrass music. The recipient will receive a $500 honorarium plus admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show. The annual deadline to apply is June 30.
Prizes
The winner of the Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award for 2022, which is sponsored by the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section, is Millie Tullis (Utah State University).
Daisy Ahlstone (Ph.D. Student, Ohio State University) and Nichola Miller shared the 2022 Folklore and Science Junior Prize.
Micah Ling (PhD candidate at Indiana University) received the 2022 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
Alina Cash Oprelianska (Doctoral student, University of Tartu, Estonia) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs Maranda Student Paper Prize. Molly McBride (Doctoral student, University of Oregon) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs Maranda Student Paper Prize honorable mention.
Nikki Christensen received the 2022 W.W. Newell Prize.
Stephen Lochetto received 2022 the W.W. Newell Prize for best essay by students or emerging scholars on a topic in children's folklore.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites applications for three competitive awards in 2023. The awards support ethnographic fieldwork with occupational groups; work with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress; and ethnographic field research and documentation in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians. All three share the same deadline: March 1, 2023.
Lei Ting (PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo) received the Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore.
Carrie Hertz (Curator of Textiles and Dress, Museum of International Folk Art) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional/Non-Student prize. Mary Magoulick (Professor, Georgia College) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Professional Prize honorable mention.