The recipient of the 2022 Wayland D. Hand prize, awarded by the History and Folklore Section for the best book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials, is Tyler D. Parry (Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of Nevada--Las Vegas).
Alina Cash Oprelianska (Doctoral student, University of Tartu, Estonia) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs Maranda Student Paper Prize. Molly McBride (Doctoral student, University of Oregon) received the 2022 Elli Köngäs Maranda Student Paper Prize honorable mention.
The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP) seeks an Exhibit Developer. Applications are due February 28, 2023.
The Winter issue (v. 136, no. 539) of the JAF: A Global Quarterly will be available online and will arrive in mailboxes soon. This issue exemplifies the editorial team’s efforts to publish diverse formats and to enhance dialog within the journal.
AFS President, Dr. Marilyn M. White, will give the a talk at WKU as part of their celebration of the 50th anniversary of their Folk Studies program. White is a former WKU Folk Studies professor and retired professor of anthropology and Africana Studies at Kean University. The talk will take place February 23 at 5:30 pm (EST).
In 2016, Vermont 2nd grade teacher and crafter Jen Ellis decided to gift a pair of her homemade wool mittens to Senator Bernie Sanders on a whim. Ellis makes her mittens using recycled wool sweaters, and the pair sent to Sanders were,
The American Folklife Center announced the 2023 recipient cohort of the Community Collections Grants program. Over this year, recipients will undertake cultural research and documentation projects focused on a wide range of cultural traditions and practices across the U.S. and territories. Their
JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short
Dr. Lynne McNeil will give the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives Founder's Lecture on Monday, January 30. The lecture will be available by virtual broadcast. Register to receive the invitation.
Nikki Christensen received the 2022 W.W. Newell Prize.
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