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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 Dr.…
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 the United…
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 titled "…
Folklore Archives Alumni Spotlight: Annie Craycraft
2013-2018 Archival Assistant Annie Craycraft is pursuing an MLIS at the University of Iowa. Annie shares, "working in the CFS archives is the entire reason I chose to pursue a career in…
Lovejoy featured on 100 Days in Appalachia IG Live
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Jordan Lovejoy (English), who was featured in a live Q&A session on 100 Days in Appalachia’s Instagram! Jordan fielded the age old question, “so, what IS…
Folklore Archives Alumni Spotlight: Benjamin Beachy
2019-2020 Archival Intern Benjamin Beachy was accepted into the MLIS program at Kent State University and has started his first semester. Beachy shares, "this fall semester is mostly…
Ohio Field School article in Journal of Folklore & Education
Congratulations to Drs. Borland, Patterson, and Waugh-Quasebarth on their recent publication about the Ohio Field School in the Journal of Folklore and Education's special issue on Teaching for…
Alumna, Dr. Hathaway, publishes Mountaineers are Always Free
Congratulations to CFS Alumna, Dr. Rosemary Hathaway (English Department at West Virginia University), who recently published her book, Mountaineers Are Always Free: Heritage,…