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Congratulations, Dr. Cleto!
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Cleto, who defended her dissertation, "Bodies of Stories: Disability and Folklore in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Her advisors were Ray Cashman and…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…