The History Program at Fairmont State University is currently recruiting candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History specializing in Public History. Applications are due October 5, 2026.
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Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees (Berghahn Books) is a narrative-driven book based in global multi-site research about the arts and cultural dimension of refugee “crises” in discrete geographic and social-political contexts. Open Access content is available for this title.
The new edition of Neerihiinjìk (Alaska Native Language Center) contains additional photographs, carefully revised translations by Craig Mishler and Kenneth Drizhuu Frank, and an expanded Frank family tree by Crystal Frank Welker. Through an online link, it is also possible to hear the voices of the original storytellers while reading the Gwich’in transcriptions.
A two-day conference, Singing History: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ballads and the Past, will be held at National Library of Australia, Canberra in November next year. Paper abstracts are due March 30, 2027.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) publishes a research guide designed as an introduction to the wide array of folklore and folklore-related resources at NYPL.
The Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) invites submissions to their 2027 issue, “Soundtracks: Community, Culture, and Music.” Full articles are due February 1, 2027.
The 2026 issue of the Journal of Folklore and Education (JFE) edited by Camille Maria Acosta and Sheila Bock is now available. The theme of this issue is "Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow."
The Only True Folksongs in English (University Press of Mississippi) uncovers how nineteenth-century American scholars including the children of farmers, sail makers, and ministers set out to prove that a young republic could, in fact, have its own folk tradition.
Volume 63, issue 2 of the Journal of Folklore Research (JFR) is now available in print via Indiana University Press and in electronic form on Project MUSE. This special issue focuses on the topic of conspiracy theories.
The History of Cornish Tradition (University of Exeter Press) examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries.
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