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Welcome Message from CFS Director, Dr. Katherine Borland
Greetings Folklorists and Allies,
It is my pleasure to welcome you back to campus (sort of) for what will certainly be an unusual year. The volatility of the virus as well as the…

Congratulations Dr. Estiri!
During this peculiar summer of 2020, Ehsan Estiri finished and defended his Dissertation, Talking Back to America: Discursive Processes in Iranian Angelino Public Events (see…

Congratulations, Dr. Jacobs!
Congratulations to Dr. Tessa Jacobs, who has just defended her timely dissertation, _Fire on Mountain Drive: Community Dynamics and Personal Narrative in a Wildfire-Prone Landscape_. Tessa…

Dr. Schoon receives GAH+DT Covid-19 Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Schoon (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) who, along with Harmony Bench (Dance), Yana Hashamova (Slavic), and Hannah Kosstrin (Dance), received a Global Arts +…

Congratulations, Dr. Young!
We are delighted to announce that Nathan Young has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey, an exploration of the many…

Dr. You publishes on ICH in Asian Ethnology
Congratulations to Dr. Ziying You, CFS alumna and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and East Asian Studies at College of Wooster, who served as guest editor for the special issue of…

Ohio Field School Partners on Sustainability Institute Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Joe Campbell, Dr. Cassie Rosita Patterson, and Dr. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, all members of the OSU Advisory Committee for the Ohio Field School who, along with the…

Modan awarded GA+HDT Covid-19 Grant!
Congratulations to CFS core faculty member, Dr. Gabriella Modan who, along with her collaborators, Dr. Seuli Bose Brill (General Internal Medicine) and Nathan Richards (PhD Student, English)…

GA+HDT COVID-19 Special Grant Awarded To ARSP
Congratulations to Associated Faculty member, Dr. Isaac Weiner, whose American Religious Sounds Project received funding from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes.
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