Section convenors for several AFS Sections have prepared guides for the Annual Meeting that highlight sessions they have sponsored or are related to their area of expertise and focus.
Make plans to cast your vote in time to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico next week!
The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin - Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. For full consideration, all materials must be received no later than 11:59 p.m, on December 2, 2024. Applications will be accepted until position is filled.
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and its affiliated institute, the Southern Foodways Alliance, invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Food Studies. Review will begin on November 15, 2024.
The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invite applications for the position of Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography and Director, Kule Folklore Centre. Application deadline is November 24, 2024.
The National Council on Public History is accepting submissions for the following awards through December 1, 2024: Outstanding Public History Project Award, Grassroots Public History Award, Excellence in Consulting Award, Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis, Diversity Travel Award, New Professional Award, and Student Awards.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida invites applications for the full-time, nine-month position of Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. The position is open until filled and has a start date of August 16, 2025.
The College of Charleston’s African American Studies Program invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position starting August 16, 2025. Application deadline is December 31, 2024.
The History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) announces the finalists for the 2024 Wayland D. Hand Prize. The winners will be announced at the AFS annual meeting in Albuquerque, November 6–9, 2024, and communicated in TFH: Journal of History and Folklore.
Congratulations to the Maryland State Arts Council, which wins the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Agency Award from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies for its Land Acknowledgment Project.
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