The AFA will award up to four Cauthen Fellowships ($1,200 each) in 2024. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2024.
University of Ljubljana seeks proposals for their conference on the agency of the dead within the lives of individuals. The deadline is February 29, 2024.
Retired Professor of Folk Studies William Lynwood Montell died on December 21.
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin is the recipient of the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize for Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Towards a Global History of European Folklore Studies (The Kalevala Society). Second place prizes were awarded to Patricia A. Turner for trash talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century and to Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, with Loretta and Larry Shade, Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy. Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World.
Joy Fraser died on December 17, 2023 in St John’s.
American Folklore Society announces the winners of 2023 Graduate Fieldwork Grant: Ruzhica Samokovlija Baruh, Molly McBride, Israt Lipa, and Iryna Voloshyna.
Gillian Bennett, scholar of contemporary legends, belief, ghost lore, and editor of Folklore from 1994-2002, died on December 13.
Jack Zipes was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of AFS awarded the Elaine J. Lawless Graduate Student Travel Award to Taylor Nasim Stone.
Victoria Danielle Blake Bliss (Sophomore, University of Huston) was awarded the William A. Wilson Prize recognizes the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife for her paper, "Tales of the Supernatural as Told by My Parents."
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