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."
Prizes
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.
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.’”
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.