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Congratulations, Dr. Warman!

Congratulations to Dr. Brittany Warman who successfully defended her dissertation on July 30th. Her thesis was entitled "The Fae, the Fairy Tale, and the Gothic Aesthetic in Nineteenth-…

Chairs chained to the race track at the Delaware County fairgrounds

Folklore students document changing culture in Delaware County

Four CFS folklorists--Jess Holler, Mariah Marsden, Laura Pearce (alumna), and Sydney Varajon--will join the Delaware County Historical Society, the Little Brown Jug Society, the U.S. Trotters…

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Nicole Musgrave (B.A. 2010) received the John D. Minton Award along with MA in Folk Studies

Comparative Studies and Folklore alumna Nicole Musgrave (B.A. 2010) has just received the John D. Minton Award along with her Master of Arts in Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University. The…

Roderick Wilson

Columbus Foundation supports Folklore Archives

The Center for Folklore Studies is pleased to announce that The Columbus Foundation donated $5,000 to support preservation, digitization, and collection development in the Folklore Archives. The…

Cristina Benedetti celebrating her successful dissertation defense

Evviva Cristina!

Congratulations to Cristina Benedetti, who reawakened our civic fervor with her able defense of her dissertation Dreams of Democracy, Logistics of Crowds: Public Gatherings on the National…

Dana Kletchka

Congratulations, Dr. Kletchka!

Congratulations to one of our Associated Faculty, Dr. Dana Carlisle Kletchka, who has been working hard to co-edit a book with colleague B. Stephen Carpenter, II, Professor of Art…

Bishal Karna

Congratulations, Bishal!

Bishal Karna successfully defended his dissertation this afternoon, titled "Skillful Ways: Soto Zen Buddhism in the American Midwest." His committee consisted of Dorothy Noyes (co-chair), Tom…

Kati

Congrats, Kati!

Kati Fitzgerald, a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Studies, was recently awarded a fellowship from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. Fitzgerald is…

graduate student Tessa Jacobs

Congratulations, Tessa!

Congratulations to Tessa Jacobs, who was awarded the Patrick B. Mullen Graduate Prize for best graduate student paper for her essay, "Intertextual Storytelling within Family Narratives." Our panel…