Jordan Woodward, PhD student at The Ohio State University, was awarded the 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Prize by AFS. Woodward’s project is titled “Environmental Racism as Diffused Carcerality: Stories from the ‘Women of Cancer Alley.’”
Prizes
Millie Tullis (Utah State University) received the Don Yoder Prize for her paper, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities.”
Congratulations to Marion Bowman and Bonnie O'Connor, who are the first recipients of the Leonard Norman Primiano Retired Scholar Travel Award.
Patricia Sawin, Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was awarded the Kenneth Goldstein Prize for Lifetime Academic Achievement for her important scholarship, her leadership within the venerable and important folklore program at UNC, and her important service to the American Folklore Society.
Selina Morales is this year's recipient of the AFS Independent / Public Programs Section Joint Prize.
Steve Siporin has been awarded the Wayland D. Hand Prize for The Befana Is Returning: The Story of a Tuscan Festival.
Naomie Barnes (Memorial University of Newfoundland) was awarded the second prize for the Polly Stewart Travel Stipend.
Katie Bennett (Western Kentucky University) received first prize for the 2023 Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend.
Prize application season continues! The AFS Newsletter will alert you to new calls for applications, but you can check anytime on our round up of all AFS prizes and news, including new calls for applications that are posted as they are released. Deadline: September
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the first ever Leonard Normal Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award to IU graduate student Fionnán Mac Gabhann.