Tune in to listen PHD student Joe Johnson on WFIU or your public radio station that broadcasts NPR's weekend edition on August 27, 2023 about his research guide on African-American banjo players.
Prize application season continues! The AFS Newsletter will alert you to new calls for applications, but you can check anytime on our round up of all AFS prizes and news, including new calls for applications that are posted as they are released. Deadline: September
Long Island Traditions, founded in 1991, a regional non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, presenting and preserving the traditional folk arts and architecture of Long Island, is seeking a new executive director.
Discover hundreds of exciting professional opportunities available on American Folklore Society Career Center.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the first ever Leonard Normal Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award to IU graduate student Fionnán Mac Gabhann.
AFS developed the following guidelines for conference presenters to follow in order to make their work more accessible to all.
Read the Visitor Survey Report for the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
The Department of History at the University of Michigan invites applications for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track position (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor) in Indigenous North American History, 1500-1860. The application deadline for full consideration is November 1, 2023.
Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe from University of Illinois Press reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions. The book is available September 5.
Utah State University (USU) Libraries seek a collaborative, innovative, and service-oriented professional to serve as the Community & Oral History Archivist within the Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SCA) section. The position is open fall 2023 and the start date is negotiable.
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