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The Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture has appointed Dr. Dominick Tartaglia as Florida’s new State Folklorist.
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Folklorist, civic leader, and educator Susan Eleuterio has been elected chair of the board of directors of Illinois Humanities.
(The Mississippi Humanities Council )– Dr. William Reynolds Ferris, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will receive the Cora Norman Award in recognition of his distinguished career as a scholar and national leader in the humanities. A native of
The Smithsonian Magazine featured folklorist Ashley Minner in a recent Q&A highlighting her career and her new position as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts, invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position in Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture. Alongside conducting their own research, the
The Routledge book series, Practicing Oral History, invites proposals for new titles relating to oral history as applied to any discipline. New approaches to the practice are especially welcome.
National Endowment for the Arts published an article by hula dance practitioner and founder of the PA’I Foundation, Vicky Holt Takamine. In this piece, Vicky discusses what inspired her to become an advocate for Native Hawaiian artists an cultural practitioners. Read the
The newest issue of Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture (Volume 8, Number 1/2) has just been published. Guest edited by Diane Tye of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the theme of this double issue is “Food in Hard Times.” Access the
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