In The Village Project (University of Wisconsin Press), Sarah Craycraft uses ethnographic and folkloristic methods to study the Bulgarian responses to Europeanization, carried out through neoliberal folklife projects as they collide with ongoing efforts to build a revitalized rural Bulgaria in the ruins of the past.
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The Woody Guthrie Center has announced the call for proposals for the Phil Ochs Fellowship this year, which awards up to $5,000 for creative or scholarly projects about the life and work of songwriter and protest singer Phil Ochs. Applications are due September 15, 2026.
Narrative Knows No Boundaries (University Press of Mississippi) is a collection of essays that explores the expanding use and study of “narrative”.
AFS agrees with many other arts and humanities organizations that the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance threatens academic freedom, imposes a political litmus test for federal funding of research, and introduces damaging instability to the American research enterprise.
The AFS Executive Board met in Bloomington, IN, on April 27–28, 2026, for its annual spring board meeting. All Executive Board members were present for the two-day gathering, which focused on the Society's long-term priorities, emerging challenges, and future opportunities.
AFS is seeking a limited number of in-person volunteers to help with supporting the annual meeting this year. Applications are due August 31, 2026.
As AFS works to complete the preliminary schedule for the 2026 Annual Meeting, we want to remind you that this year’s conference has a different footprint from most recent years’ configurations.
The latest JAF includes essays on a Mexican conflict zone as a site for a festival and tourism, Korean tourists dressing in rented traditional dress, occupational folk humor in a prison library, and obituaries and reviews of recent work in the field.
Applications for AFS section prizes now have a standardized July 15 deadline.
Folklorist Joseph Sciorra has published an online article about Italian American folklore for the City University of New York's Italian American Studies Open Syllabus.
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