The Journal of Folklore Research has just published an important special issue, The Stigmatized Vernacular (JFR 49:2, 2012) with papers from the AFS panel co-organized by Amy Shuman and Diane Goldstein, with papers by our alumnae Ann Ferrell and Sheila Bock as well as by Diane and Amy with her collaborator Carol Bohmer. This conversation has already been influential within folklore and other disciplines.

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