Anna Lomax Wood has stepped down from her role as president of the board of the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) after 26 years at the organization.
CreativeMornings, a free, public monthly program where participants meet in cities across the world on a topic, has selected folklore as its theme for March 2022.
Discover hundreds of exciting professional opportunities available on the American Folklore Society Career Center.
North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook (March 2021), edited by David J. Puglia, unearths decades of notable monster research.
The Journal of Africana Religions has awarded its 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions to Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press 2020), by Solimar Otero.
The American Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg invites applications for the position of tenure-line Assistant Professor of American Studies and Public Heritage. The program seeks a specialist in the areas of public heritage and museum studies who can maintain and grow programmatic connections with public history, heritage, and cultural institutions locally and regionally, as well as provide students with practical training in the skills and competencies of public sector professionals.
Community Powered is a Wisconsin Humanities initiative that builds resilience among Wisconsin communities by helping them recognize, communicate, and act upon their strengths, their challenges, and their histories to envision a vibrant future. Residents of participating Wisconsin communities will experience new ways to unearth and tell stories of their communities and will take concrete steps toward making their hometowns even better places to live.
Wisconsin Humanities is hiring four full-time Community Powered project coordinators (CPPCs), one to serve in each of these selected Wisconsin communities: Appleton, Racine, Spooner, and the Forest County Potawatomi community. Applications are due March 20.
Oregon Folklife Network (OFN) is looking for a program coordinator, for a newly created position. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis beginning on March 23, 2022.
Michigan State University’s Michigan Traditional Arts Program has announced the 2022 cohort of Michigan Heritage Awardees.
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