Submissions are now open for the AFS Nordic and Baltic Folklore Section's Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore. Submissions are due by September 15, 2022.
Prizes
The Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society is now accepting submissions for the 2022 Aesop Prize and Accolades through August 15, 2022.
The AFS Archives & Libraries Section Prize Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Brenda McCallum Prize. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2022.
The Mediterranean Studies Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Fernand Braudel Prize for an outstanding student research paper in Mediterranean folklore with an honorarium of $500. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2022.
The Public Programs Section and the Independent Folklorists’ Section invite applications for a travel stipend of $750.00, due on June 15, 2022. This award is listed on the AFS Financial Support page.
Prize application season has started! The AFS Newsletter will alert you to new calls for applications, but you can check anytime on our round up of all AFS prize news, including new calls for applications that are posted as they are released.
The AFS Foodways Section awarded its 2022 Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways to Anna Reepschlager, a Master's Student at Memorial University Newfoundland.
Some important AFS prize deadlines are coming up. Chicago Folklore Prize submissions are due April 1, and May 1 is the deadline for the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership, and the Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to the Field.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500. The prize was named for folklorist and religious studies scholar, Don Yoder (1921-2015), an expert on American sectarian religions who established the study of folklife and religious folklife in the United States.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $250. The prize was named for folklorist, editor, and archivist William Albert “Bert” Wilson (1933-2016), scholar of the Finnish Kalevala and of Mormon folklore.