Financial Support
AFS and some AFS Sections provide stipends to support participation in the AFS Annual Meeting. See opportunities below.
Applications for the AFS and Section Travel Stipends (see below) have not opened yet, but requests for financial support to offset costs of Annual Meeting registration fees are open through April 15, 2026. Please apply using the form below. Notifications of financial assistance will take place in May.
AFS-sponsored financial support is made possible by generous donor contributions. If you can make a contribution now to help fund others’ access to the annual meeting, thank you!
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AFS and Section Travel Stipends
Find out more about AFS and Section awards.
Prizes and Grants -
AFS Gerald L. Davis Fund Grants
The American Folklore Society provides a limited number of grants, ranging from $500 to $2000, to foster the participation, inclusion, and affirmation of persons of color who are invested in community development.
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AFS Stipends for International Participants
AFS offers a limited number of travel stipends on a competitive basis for folklorists and other cultural specialists from outside the United States and Canada.
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AFS Student Travel Stipends
AFS provides stipends of $300 each to selected students whose presentations are accepted for the annual meeting program.
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Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend
The AFS Public Programs Section and the Independent Folklorists’ Section offer an AFS Annual Meeting travel stipend of $1,000. The award supports travel costs for a member of the AFS Independent Folklorists’ Section involved in public folklore to attend the AFS annual meeting and to present their work.
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Women’s and Independent Folklorists’ Sections Annual Meeting Award
The Independent Folklorists’ Section and the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society present an award each year to support participation in the AFS Annual Meeting. The award supports costs such as transportation, meeting registration, lodging and/or per diem expenses) for an independent folklorists who is working on women’s issues to attend the annual meeting and to present their work.
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Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend
This award supports travel costs (transportation, meeting registration, lodging and/or per diem expenses) for members of the AFS Women’s Section and who plan to attend the annual meeting and present their work.
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Archie Green Student Travel Award
The AFS Public Programs Section provides up to three awards of up to $500 each, named for folklorist and activist Archie Green of San Francisco, for students to defray costs of traveling to the meeting.
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Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section awards a travel stipend in honor of distinguished folklorist, religious folklife scholar, and professor, Elaine J. Lawless, of up to $500 to be awarded to a graduate student to participate in the Society’s annual meeting.