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Kati Fitzgerald was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for dissertation fieldwork in China during the 2017 - 2018 academic year. Congratulations, Kati, and best of luck in your fieldwork!

Caroline Toy (Comparative Studies) is the 2017 recipient of the Iles Award for the Graduate Study of Myth! This grant, administered through the Center for the Study of Religion, will fund…

Congratulations to Dr. Yuanhao (Graham) Zhao, who successfully defended his dissertation in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures! Graham’s dissertation, "Space of mortality:…

March 14 is Humanities Advocacy Day! A record-breaking number of humanities advocates will be in Washington DC, to meet with hundreds of Members of Congress to make the case for federal…

Folklorists, CFS alumni, and current OSU alt-ac staffers, Dr. Joanna Spanos, Dr. Nicole Nieto, and Dr. Cassie Patterson were honored by their students for their mentorship at the Sphinx and Mortar…

Congratulations to Martha Sims, who is a recipient of The Ohio State University 2017 Outstanding First Year Advocate Award! The award “recognizes contributions of…

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (PhD Comparative Studies 2012), current Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, created a new English-…

On February 1, 2017, the AFS Executive Board issued the following statement:
The Executive Board of the American Folklore Society (AFS), a US-based international learned society whose members…

Congratulations to Cassie Patterson, whose chapter was recently published!

Patterson, Cassie. "Performance, Frame, and Identity in Harriette Simpson Arnow's 'The Goat Who Was a Cow.'" …