Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to apply for two prizes offered by the AFS Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section.
Prizes
The new AFS Gerald L. Davis Grant creates new pathways for engagement in the field to better support new and returning BIPOC members.
The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for its annual Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Paper in Folk Art and Material Culture. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2022.
The AFS Independent Folklorists’ Section and the Women’s Section have extended the deadline for their Annual Meeting Award to August 15, 2022.
The Women's Section of the American Folklore Society has extended the deadline for its Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend to August 15, 2022.
The AFS Public Programs Section has extended the deadline for applications to its Archie Green Student Travel Award to August 15.
The Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society has extended the application deadline for its Saboohi I. Khan Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
AFS is taking applications for the Zora Neale Hurston Prize. Submissions are due by August 15, 2022.
The deadline for applications to the 2022 Folklore and Science Annual Prizes, given by the AFS Public Programs Section, has been extended to August 1.
The deadline has been extended for the 2022 Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend, which provides support for a member of the Independent Folklorists Section engaged in public folklore to attend the AFS Annual Meeting.