The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the Elaine J. Lawless Graduate Student Travel Award to Taylor Nasim Stone.
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Victoria Danielle Blake Bliss (Sophomore, University of Huston) was awarded the William A. Wilson Prize recognizes the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife for her paper, "Tales of the Supernatural as Told by My Parents."
Editors for the collection, A Queer Presence: Queer Ghostlore in Folk and Popular Cultures, seeks personal, ethnographic, and scholarly essays that explore the intersections of ghostlore and queerness in folklore, literature, television, film, or other media, particularly those that emphasize a folkloristic approach.
The 2023 AFS Annual Meeting online and in Portland, Oregon may be over, but access to recorded virtual and hybrid programs for registrants will last through January 2024!
Kendell Henry, Folk Arts Manager for the U.S. Virgin Islands, shares his story and looks ahead to the 2024 Folklife Festival.
The Américo Paredes Award was given to Dr. Russell C. Rodríguez of UC Santa Cruz for his stellar performance as a scholar, program manager, colleague, and mentor over the past twenty years.
Bill Ellis, emeritus professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University, has received the 2023 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.
Jordan Woodward, PhD student at The Ohio State University, was awarded the 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Prize by AFS. Woodward’s project is titled “Environmental Racism as Diffused Carcerality: Stories from the ‘Women of Cancer Alley.’”
We thank all who joined us online or in Portland for the 2023 AFS annual meeting!
Millie Tullis (Utah State University) received the Don Yoder Prize for her paper, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities.”
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