Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore. The content of the nominations must focus on some aspect of women’s folklore and/or draw on feminist/gender folklore scholarship to illuminate their project. Prize recipients do not have to be members of the American Folklore Society.
Submission deadline: August 1, 2023.
The section will announce awards at the AFS Annual Meeting.
EKM Student Prize
- For an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length), produced as part of a degree program.
- Entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the submission deadline or have been enrolled within the academic year ending in 2023.
- Carries an award of $200.
EKM Professional/Non-Student Prize
Recognizing that influential scholarship takes various forms, the Elli Köngäs-Maranda nonstudent professional prize will alternate annually between essay-length and book-length publications (or equivalents—films, exhibitions, recordings, websites, etc.). In alternate years, starting with the 2024 competition, we will issue a call for essays that constitute superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist/gender theory in folklore.
- Prize members do not have to be members of the American Folklore Society, but their work should demonstrate more than a passing familiarity with folklore and feminist scholarship.
- Materials must have been published/produced within the previous two years
- The prize amount for the EKM nonstudent professional prize will alternate between $250 for essay years and $500 for book (or equivalent) years.
- Winner gets to join the committee for the following year.
- The committee requires three copies of books, videos, etc., or digital links. For addresses to which to send copies, please contact EKM Committee Chair, Katherine Borland at [email protected].