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April 25, 2024

2023-2024 Student Award Winners

At the April 16 end-of-year celebration, the Humanities Insitute's center directors announced their award winners for the academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students were present to receive…

March 26, 2024

Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth Reports on Eclipse Folklore

By Rhiar Kanouse

CFS Director and Archivist Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth gave an interview with Ohio State News to celebrate the upcoming eclipse on April 8th. In the article, Dr. Waugh-Quasebarth provides a survey…

March 21, 2024

CFS GRA Rhiar Kanouse Presents Paper at ACLA 2024 in Montreal

Rhiar Kanouse, the Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Folklore Studies, presented at the 2024 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference in Montreal, Canada. Her…

Finding the Singing Spruce book cover, which features the wooden front of a musical instrument, alongside text which reads "2023 Weatherford Award Finalist for Best Non-fiction Book About Appalachia"

March 21, 2024

Waugh-Quasebarth's "Finding the Singing Spruce" is Weatherford Award Finalist

Congratulations to CFS Director and Archivist Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth as Weatherford Awards honors his book Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia’s Mountain…