The 2023 recipients of the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize are Jill Linzee and Charlie Seemann.
Prizes
Leah Lowthorp received the Folklore and Science Senior Prize for her paper, "DNA Identities: Narrative and Authority in Genetic Ancestry Performance on YouTube."
The Folklore and Science Junior Prize, awarded by the AFS Folklore and Science Section, is awarded to Ben Bridges (Indiana University).
The AFS Cultural Diversity Committee is proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural Gerald L. Davis Presence Pathway Award. The Project Pathway provides funding for projects that participate in community scholarship in action, and that keep communities connected, whole, and active. In
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin is the recipient of the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies (The Kalevala Society). Second place prizes were awarded to Patricia A. Turner for trash talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century and to Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, with Loretta and Larry Shade, Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy. Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World.
American Folklore Society announces the winners of 2023 Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ruzhica Samokovlija Baruh, Molly McBride, Israt Lipa, and Iryna Voloshyna.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the Elaine J. Lawless Graduate Student Travel Award to Taylor Nasim Stone.
Victoria Danielle Blake Bliss (Sophomore, University of Huston) was awarded the William A. Wilson Prize recognizes the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife for her paper, "Tales of the Supernatural as Told by My Parents."
The Américo Paredes Award was given to Dr. Russell C. Rodríguez of UC Santa Cruz for his stellar performance as a scholar, program manager, colleague, and mentor over the past twenty years.
Bill Ellis, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, has received the 2023 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.