Lincoln Lewis received the Public Humanities Fellowship from Virginia Humanities this year for his project that will assist the Tangier Island History Museum by facilitating conversations about how the community’s multiple storylines can best be captured.
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Custom Made Woman (The University of North Carolina Press) tells the story of Grammy-nominated old-time and bluegrass musician Alice Gerrard through the music, the folk festivals, the kids, and the relationships—both personal and professional—that defined her storied life and career.
In Never-Ending Tales (Princeton University Press), AFS Fellow Jack Zipes presents more than two dozen stories addressing "the Jewish Question." Humorous and bittersweet, and filled with ironic reversals, these are stories of fantasy, magic, and transformation.
Public Humanities (Michigan State University Press) examines historical and contemporary sites of education and pedagogy, challenges dominant narratives about certain symbolic sites in the U.S. and across the Americas, highlights the struggle of marginalized communities, and features public humanities projects that address themes relating to place and environment.
Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition (University of Alaska Press) collects over thirty years’ worth of Yup’ik angalkut stories and is the first book devoted exclusively to these shamans and their roles in Yup’ik life.
AFS congratulates dance artist Lucy Salazar on receiving a Fellowships to Artists award from Dance/USA.
The FSAC Conference next year will be held at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, May 30–June 2, 2026. The theme for the conference is "Preserves." Paper submissions are due January 31, 2026.
This year, AFS members will vote for two seats on the Executive Board and one seat on the Nominating Committee. The voting deadline is December 18 at 11:59 pm EST.
Folklorist Dorothy Noyes teams up with political scientist Tobias Wille to publish Exemplarity in Global Politics (Bristol University Press)—a volume that draws on folkloristic theories to give a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples.
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