Millie Tullis Receives Don Yoder Prize

Millie Tullis (Utah State University) received the Don Yoder Prize for her paper, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities.” The committee shared that the paper was “clear and thorough in its documentation of how magic played a role in the everyday lives of Mormons” and that the piece displayed an “exceptionally good use of both archival materials and collected texts.” 

The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife is awarded by the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society. The prize is named in honor of folklorist and religious studies scholar, Don Yoder (1921-2015), professor of Folklore and Folklife and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, an expert on American sectarian religions, who mentored many scholars in the academic study of religion and folklife in the United States.