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March 27, 2023

Making Our Future: Conversations with Emily Hilliard, Public Folklorist

Multiple Locations

March 31, 2023

March Folklore Lunch

455 Hagerty Hall

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March 31, 2023

Utley Lecture: How to Produce a Hit Song (in Seventeenth-Century England)

Colloquium Space in 18th Ave Library

April 23, 2023

Folklore Spring Picnic

Katey Borland's House

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March 13, 2023

SP23 Paper Awards for Graduates and Undergraduates

It's time to apply for our annual spring awards. The Patrick B. Mullen Graduate Prize is funded by the Patrick B. Mullen Endowment Fund, which was established in recognition of the contribution…

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November 1, 2022

New Appalachian Folklore Course for Spring 2023

We're pleased to announce a new folklore course to be offered Spring 2023. "Folklore of the Americas: Appalachia" will be taught by Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth as an undergraduate course.

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July 14, 2022

Amy Shuman and Mary Hufford reflect on 2022 Field Schools

This past semester, professors Amy Shuman and Mary Hufford were awarded Discovery Field School Grant Awards, which allowed them to “take students to domestic destinations to learn about the…

June 15, 2022

Congrats to Sarah Craycraft on her Defense

On June 14th, 2022, Sarah Craycraft defended Reinventing the Village: Generations, Heritage and Revitalization in Contemporary Bulgaria, a dissertation that committee members described as an…