Cast Your Vote in the 2023 Election
This year, AFS members will vote for two seats on the Executive Board and one seat on the Nominating Committee, all for a three-year, 2024–2026 term.
News
AFS Begins Search for the Next Journal of American Folklore Editor
The Journal of American Folklore/JAF: A Global Quarterly is searching for a new editor or editorial team to transition into the term beginning in January 2025.
Special Offer: Read These Recent JAF Articles for Free!
In honor of the AFS Annual Meeting, “Counter Memes and Anti-Legends in Online Welfare Discourse” by Tom Mould will be freely available on the Scholarly Publishing Collective from November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024.
Botkin Family Gift to Endow the AFS Benjamin Botkin Prize
The American Folklore Society is pleased to have received a major gift to endow the longstanding Benjamin A. Botkin Prize, which is presented annually to an individual (or sometimes two) for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore. The endowment, which was provided by Botkin’s daughter, Dorothy Rosenthal, of Amherst, MA, allows AFS to increase the prize amount while also securing the distribution of future awards.
National Council for the Traditional Arts Seeks Executive Director
The Executive Director will direct the overall operations of the NCTA and its activities including administrative and financial management, strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, the hiring and management of staff, board relations, and oversight of event/project planning, programming and production.
UNC Chapel Hill Department of American Studies Seeks Assistant Professor of Folklore and Environmental Humanities
The Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a Folklorist whose scholarship/engagement focuses on the links between expressive culture and environmental and community sustainability for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship.
The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University (WKU) seeks qualified applicants for an Assistant Professor in Applied Cultural Anthropology. This is a full-time, nine-month, tenure-eligible position to begin August 12, 2024. Review of applications will begin on December 4, 2023.
Selina Morales is this year's recipient of the AFS Independent / Public Programs Section Joint Prize.
The Folk Arts and ADA Coordinator for New Mexico Arts ensures compliance with the National Endowment for the Arts' requirement to support Folk Arts Programming in New Mexico, by perpetuating and expanding knowledge of Traditional Folk Arts practiced in the state.
The Undergraduate Program in Folklore & Mythology seeks applications for a Lecturer in Folklore and Mythology. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The Lecturer will be teaching four undergraduate courses in the field during the 2024-25 academic year.
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