Jaime Elizabeth Johnston (Louisiana State University) received the Zora Neale Hurston Prize.Johnston's thesis, “My Mother Read My Dreams: Dream Interpretation in the African Diaspora," shares fieldwork conducted with three African American women who practice the tradition of reading dreams in New Orleans.
Prizes
Jessica Cushenberry (Independent Folklorist) received the Zora Neale Hurston Prize for her thesis from Utah State University: “Home to Harlan: African American Miners’ Children Celebration of Homecoming.”
Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation (2021, Lexington Books). Second place (along with Christy Williams) for the 2022 AFS Chicago Folklore Prize.
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales (2021, Wayne State University Press. Second place (shared with Juwen Zhang) for the 2022 AFS Chicago Folklore Prize.
Millie Tullis (Graduate student at Utah State University) received the 2022 Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend.
Joelle E. Jackson (Indiana University Bloomington) receives the 2022 William A. Wilson prize.
The West Virginia Folklife Collection housed at the West Virginia University Libraries is the recipient of the 2022 Brenda McCallum Prize .
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Daisy Ahlstone (Ohio State University) won the 2022 Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Religious Folklife and Folk Belief.
The 2022 Warren E. Roberts prize for best student paper, sponsored by the Folk Arts and Material Culture Section, was awarded to Ben Bridges (PhD Candidate, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington).