The host institution for this award will be the Department of Folklorists at the University of Iceland. The selected candidate is required to teach two courses in the department. Application deadline is September 15, 2025.
Dr. Chris Goertzen, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Southern Mississippi and an AFS member for over three decades, died on July 31, 2025 at the age of seventy-four after a brief illness.
The Summer 2025 JAF: A Global Quarterly is coming soon, featuring essays about gender, performance, and power, and perspectives on complex issues of practice that demonstrate the impactful work of public folklorists—plus an obituary for Bernice Johnson Reagon and fifteen reviews of recent work in the field.
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women (Indiana University Press) examines how Chinese and Chinese American women in the U.S. experienced and responded to the double threat of the COVID-19 virus and anti-Asian racism from 2020 to 2021. Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia and an AFS Executive Board member.
As you prepare for the new academic year, those of you who teach can provide an important—and easily accomplished—service to AFS. Support AFS by assigning online access to JAF.
AFS is deeply saddened to share the news of folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory's sudden passing on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
Syaman Rapongan is one of the Indigenous Tao people of Orchid Island near Taiwan. His works blend Tao folklore and accounts of maritime life with keen critique of the social, psychological, and ecological harms of colonialism. Eyes of the Ocean (Columbia University Press) is his literary autobiography, both a story of survival in a settler state and a portrait of the Indigenous artist as a young man.
In light of recent concerns regarding goals and efforts toward diversity and inclusion in the U.S. as it impacts the work of the AFS Cultural Diversity Committee, at its spring 2025 meeting, the AFS Executive Board passed a resolution reaffirming its commitment to the work of the longstanding Cultural Diversity Committee.
In light of changing circumstances for funding and research at colleges and universities, the AFS Executive Board passed a resolution on tenure and promotion policies for impacted faculty.
Maria Carmen Gambliel, a devoted artist, printmaker, and folklorist, passed away on May 24, 2025, at the age of seventy-nine.
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