The American Folklore Society has been working diligently with field-wide partners at various institutions to advocate for the Master of Arts program in Folk Studies and the Kentucky Folklife Program at Western Kentucky University.
Folklorist John Vlach has died after a decade-long struggle with young onset Alzheimer's disease. John Michael Vlach was Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at The George Washington University and Director of the university's Folklife Program.
New AFS Fellows were announced at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Tulsa.
The American Folklore Society congratulates all the honorees and prize recipients named in 2022. For more information on prizes and honors awarded by AFS and its sections, please click here. Américo Paredes Prize: Anand Prahlad (Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri)
AFS section prizes and award winners were announced at the 2022 Annual Meeting in Tulsa.
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites applicants to the newest grant program of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Cultural and Community Resilience (CCR). The deadlines are January 12, 2023, and early May 2023.
The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) is now accepting applications for the position of Executive Director.
Western Kentucky University Seeks Luce Foundation Term Assistant Curator for Folk Art. The expected hire date is on or about January 23, 2023.
Join Dagrún Ósk Jónsdottir for the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network Online Lecture, titled Gender-based Violence in Icelandic Folk Legends, November 04, 2022 at 5 pm CET.
The Journal of Folklore and Education calls for the submissions for their special issue for the year 2023. The submissions are due by April 1, 2023.
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