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Congratulations, Dr. Sims!
Congratulations to Dr. Martha Sims, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Illness Tattoos: A Study of Embodied Traditions and Narratives.” Her committee included Drs. Amy Shuman …
Lydia Smith & Jacob Kopcienski Awarded GAH+DT Grants
During the Spring 2020 Ohio Field School, Lydia Smith and Jacob Kopcienski worked to document the cemetery in Rendville OH, a progressive and historically…
DeCarlo Publishes in Trailblazer
2020 Ohio Field Schooler, Evan DeCarlo, published "Placemaking and Blue Blazes: The Ohio Field School Comes to the BTA" for the summer issue of Trailblazer, the quarterly…
Foulis Publishes about Be The Street
Alex, Stacey and Elena Foulis. "Be the Street: The Performative and Transformative Possibilities of Oral History." US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal, vol. 4, 2020,…
Spring 2021 Folklore Courses
Check out folklore course offerings for spring 2021!
Some highlights for SP21 Graduate Courses include:
International Studies 4195: Selected…
Alumni host New Books in Folklore Podcast
Have you listened to the New Books in Folklore podcast? Alumni, Dr. Timothy Thurston and Dr. Rachel Hopkin are hosts of the podcast and were recently joined by …
PhD Student, Daisy Ahlstone, Launches Folkwise YouTube Channel w/ Colleagues
Folkwise is Youtube channel created by a group of folklorists to explore the ways folklore connects to their personal and academic interests. The main hosts are spread out across…
CSR-CFS Working group on Religion, Health, and Healing
The Center for the Study of Religion and the Center for Folklore Studies invite interested faculty and graduate students to join our 2020/2021 working group on Religion, Health, and Healing…
Radical Imagination for Rural Realities: Sarah Craycraft Reports from the Field
PhD Candidate Sarah Craycraft co-curated a photographic exhibit (along with Elena Stoycheva) as part of her participation in a three-week artist's residency in Deleyna, Bulgaria…