Elizabeth Pérez’s The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract received the the Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism.
Prizes
Congratulations to Lydia Cambpell-Maher (Indiana University and ArtMix) and Gavilán Rayna Russom (Goucher College) who were recipients of the 2023 Archie Green Student Travel Award.
The Nordic-Baltic Section is excited to announce that Samantha Ruth Brown has received the 2023 Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore for outstanding article-length essay on folklore and Northern Europe.
The winner of the The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section 2023 Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Project is "Devil in the Skies, Stars on the Barns: The Snallygaster, Hex Signs, and Barn Stars," by Jack Daly, a PhD student at Penn State Harrisburg.
Mount Adams School District teachers, Shelly Craig and Brettagne Aleck of White Swan, Washington were awarded the 2023 Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship.
The 2023 recipient of the John Westley Work III Award is DieDra Hurdle-Ruff, The Alabama Blues Queen and Executive Director of the Pinson Valley Arts Council.
The 2023 recipients of the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize are Jill Linzee and Charlie Seemann.
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