Emily Hilliard is a folklorist, writer, and media producer based at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, she received an Archie Green Fellowship to document U.S. mail carriers in Central Appalachia as part of the American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project. With insights gained from this project, Hilliard published an article on the Jacobin magazine, arguing that "USPS privatization would cost rural America more than mail."
Piedmont Blues Preservation Society is a cultural, educational, and historical 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Greensboro, NC. It is looking for an experienced nonprofit professional as Interim Executive Director who can guide its organizational development and establish robust operational infrastructure over a two-year period. This position may be served remotely.
"Claiming Folklore – Politics and Practices of Folk Music on Swiss Television (1960s-1990s)" is a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project based at the University of Zurich (UZH). The final conference of this project, titled "Media, Modernity, and the Transformation of Tradition(s) – The Role of Audiovisual Media from an International Perspective," will be held on September 8 and 9, 2025. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 31, 2025.
University of Arkansas Libraries is hiring a Folk Arts and Engagement Specialist. This position is responsible for providing key programmatic support for both Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts, as well as Engagement and Outreach in Special Collections. Application deadline is March 6, 2025.
Dr. David Eugene Whisnant – researcher, writer, teacher, blogger; builder and fixer; devoted husband and father; lifelong learner – died peacefully and gently at his home in Chapel Hill, NC, enfolded by beloved family, on December 10, 2024.
The Philadelphia Folklore Project's archive, a cherished repository of local folk and traditional arts and grassroots activism, has been moved to the Special Collections Research Center as part of the Urban Archives at Temple University.
JAF thanks the new Editorial Board and new review editors who have agreed to serve for the next five years.
In 2024, MACP’s Folk Arts & Cultures program together with evaluation colleagues Wilder Research completed work to summarize nearly eight years of grantee work in an impact report. The report speaks to the many positive effects that ripple out when people and communities practice folk and traditional arts.
Congratulations to the artists and organizations who win the 2024–25 Folk Arts and Cultural Traditions fellowships and grants from the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Francis James Child, ballad scholar and first president of the AFS. To commemorate this occasion and to explore the present-day state of scholarly studies in folksong and ballad, the History and Folklore section and the Music and Song section of the AFS in conjunction with the Traditional Song Forum and the Kommission für Volksdichtung are proposing to sponsor a series of panels at this year’s AFS annual meeting. The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 10, 2025.
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