News from Be The Street
Postdoc Moriah Flagler will continue on for a third year thanks to a $100,000 Community Engagement Grant from the Global Arts + Humanities discovery theme.
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Varajon Onscreen
Our very own Sydney Varajon (PhD candidate) was spotted in the Hallmark Channel film Christmas at Dollywood which aired in December. For Sydney it was fieldwork, of course. Nevertheless, congratulations on her Hallmark picture debut!
Borland's article available in Folklore Fellows News
Check out CFS Director Dr. Katey Borland’s recent article on the Be The Street project in the Folklore Fellows News.
Alumna, Horigan, is AFS Featured Folklorist
Alumna, Dr. Kate Parker Horigan, was the Featured Folklorist on the American Folklore Society website this December. Check out her interview on the AFS website!
Dr. Mark Bender & the New Publication of Chinese Folk Literature
Dr. Mark Bender, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, announced the publication of Meige, the translation of a version of a folk epic of the Yi ethnic group from Chuxiong prefecture, Yunnan province, China in in 1959.
Craycraft Featured in OSU Alumni Magazine
Sarah Craycraft will be featured in the upcoming Winter 2019 issue of OSU's alumni magazine. The story covers her participation in a Bulgaria-based program called Residencia Baba and her path from her undergraduate work, to Bulgaria, to folklore studies at Ohio State.
Congratulations, Dr. Hopkin!
Congratualtions to Rachel Hopkin, who successfully defended her dissertation! Her committee included Amy Shuman, Advisor, Dorry Noyes, Katey Borland, and Ana Cara (from Oberlin College). The outside examiner, Madhumita Dutta from Geography, was excellent.