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Congratulations, Sarah!

Congratulations and bon voyage to Sarah Craycraft, who is headed out to Bulgaria tomorrow for a summer of language study and fieldwork after ably synthesizing a considerable range of scholarship…

Ohio Field School Leads Community Self-Documentation Workshop in Lucasville

On May 20 & 21 Dr. Cristina Benedetti and Sarah Hinkelman (graduate student in Anthropology and Ohio Field School alum) led a community self-documentation workshop with 12 juniors…

Dr. Randhawa will be Visiting Assistant Professor

Congratulations to recent folklore PhD, Amanda Randhawa, who will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in World Religions and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies at Ohio University for the 2019-…

Nicole Nieto named 2019 Glass Breaker!

Congratulations to CFS alumna, Dr. Nicole Nieto, who was named one of the Glass Breakers of 2019 by the President & Provost's Council on Women! Glass Breakers shines a spotlight on…

Congratulations, Tony!

Tony Maggio (undergraduate minor in Folklore) is the winner of this year's Daniel R. Barnes Award for best undergraduate student paper. The reviewers had the following to say about Tony's essay,…

Craycraft receives dissertation fellowship

Sarah Craycraft received a research fellowship from the American Institute for Southeast European Studies to support her dissertation research on youth participation in rural…

Ohio Field School receives $15K GAH+DT Grant

The Center for Folklore Studies was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme to support the spring 2020 Ohio Field School in Perry County, Ohio. This award is…

Cobb wins 2019 Mullen Award

Congratulations to Emma Cobb (Comparative Studies) who has been awarded the 2019 Patrick B. Mullen Award for best graduate student paper!

The review committee sent the following comments…

Ohio Field Schools awarded Connect & Collaborate Grant

The Center for Folklore Studies' Ohio Field School initiative has been awarded $26,035 from Ohio State's Connect & Collaborate grant, which is administered by the Office of Outreach and…