Thanks to a generous gift from the Noyes-Krippendorf Fund of the Columbus Foundation, the American Folklore Society is delighted to announce the launch of the AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant, a 5-year program to support ethnographic fieldwork by graduate students.
The Executive Board of the American Folklore Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu has agreed to serve on the Board 2022-24. She brings wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, and community-based projects, as well as particular expertise in Asian American and Vietnamese American community truths and knowledge-making through storytelling and stories.
Some important AFS prize deadlines are coming up. Chicago Folklore Prize submissions are due April 1, and May 1 is the deadline for the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership, and the Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to the Field.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for The Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $500. The prize was named for folklorist and religious studies scholar, Don Yoder (1921-2015), an expert on American sectarian religions who established the study of folklife and religious folklife in the United States.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife, with an honorarium of $250. The prize was named for folklorist, editor, and archivist William Albert “Bert” Wilson (1933-2016), scholar of the Finnish Kalevala and of Mormon folklore.
Plan to participate in the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Tulsa, OK this October! The window for proposal submissions closes March 31.
The Folklore and Science Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the 2022 Folklore and Science Prizes. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2022.
The University of Vermont is seeking to hire a curator of collections and exhibitions for its Fleming Museum of Art.
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for their 2022-2023 research travel grants of up to $1,500. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2022.
The International Committee for the History of Technology is seeking master-level students and doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to join their Social Media Team for 2022. Applications are due by March 31, 2022.
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