Jeanne Pitre Soileau (teacher) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
Prizes
Margaret Bennett (Professor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) received the 2022 Iona and Peter Opie Prize.
Crystal Good (culture worker, artist, advocate, publisher, and entrepreneur) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler (graduate student of Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill; writer, reproductive justice worker, freelance folklorist) received the 2022 Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award.
Karen Collins (African American Miniature Museum) received the 2022 John Wesley Work III award.
The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Sue Samuelson Award for best student paper on food and foodways. Papers should be based on original fieldwork or research and utilize current folkloric approaches to analysis and interpretation. All entries must be received by March 1.
Claiborne Rice (Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University) received the 2022 Folklore and Science Senior Prize.
Jerrilyn McGregory (professor in folklore in the Department of English, Florida State University) received the Chicago Folklore Prize, honoring the best book of folklore scholarship of the year, for One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (2022).
The deadline for the Gerald L. Davis Project Pathway Grant has been extended to February 15, 2023. The Project Pathway provides funding for projects that participate in community scholarship in action, and that keep communities connected, whole, and active.
Charlotte Wilson Heth received the 2022 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.