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Amy Shuman Awarded Prestigious Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award at AFS
During the last Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Baltimore, our colleague Amy Shuman was awarded the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award. This award has been bestowed semi-…

Recent Publication from CFS Alumni and Affiliates
Folklore alumni, faculty and staff contributed to the edited collection, The Folklorist in the Marketplace: Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics, just out from…

Dr. Dorothy Noyes appointed GAH+DT Faculty Fellow for Methods and Practices Amplifier
Congratulations to Dr. Dorothy Noyes who will serve as a 2019-2020 Faculty Fellow for the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Themes! Faculty Fellows will advise on priorities and…

New essay collection features CFS alumni as co-editors and contributors
Congratulations to CFS alumna Ziying You, whose co-edited volume Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice has just been published by Indiana University Press! This innovative…

Sophia Enriquez, ABD!
Congratulations to Sophia Enriquez, who passed her doctoral exams last week with an interdisciplinary committee consisting of Danielle Fosler-Lussier (chair), Michelle Wibbelsman, Dorry Noyes, and…

Congratulations to Martha Sims!
Hearty congratulations go to Martha Sims, who passed her candidacy exams in August. Her committe was composed of Amy Shuman (director), Dorry Noyes, Merrill Kaplan, and Kay Halasek. She will…

Moriah Flagler wins Postdoctoral Scholar Mentor of the Year Award
Congratulations to Moriah Flagler, a postdoctoral fellow for the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery team and the Artistic Director for Be The Street. She has been awarded the Mentor of the…

Meet the New CFS Postdoc: Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth
From CFS Director Katey Borland:
Greetings from your returning Director! It gives me great pleasure to introduce our first CFS Postdoc, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, who is joining us this fall…

CFS Receives Columbus Foundation Award for Field School
We are thrilled to announce that the Center for Folklore Studies has received $25,000 from the Columbus Foundation for the Ohio Field School. An initial donation of $100,000 from the…