Jack Daly Receives Warren E. Roberts Prize
The winner of the The Folk Arts and Material Culture Section 2023 Warren E. Roberts Prize for Best Student Project is “Devil in the Skies, Stars on the Barns: The Snallygaster, Hex Signs, and Barn Stars,” by Jack Daly, a PhD student at Penn State Harrisburg. Daly effectively brings together his ideas about the three phenomena in an essay rooted in folklore scholarship and theory, with existing scholarship woven in with his own research. Judges found the topic itself engaging and the essay to be both scholarly and accessible.
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