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.
Prizes
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.
The Folklore and Science Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the 2022 Folklore and Science Prizes. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2022.
The History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for its biennial Wayland D. Hand Prize awarded to an outstanding book that combines historical and folkloristic perspectives.
The AFS Women's Section and Independent Folklorists' Section gave their 2021 joint travel award to the independent folk arts consultant and researcher Cecelia Ottenweller.
The AFS Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section awarded the 2021 Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief and Religious Folklife to the University of Maine PhD student Minglei Zhang.
The AFS Archives and Libraries Section awarded the 2021 Polly Grimshaw Prize to Emily Bianchi, a PhD candidate in folklore at Indiana University