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Alumna, Dr. Kate Parker Horigan, was the Featured Folklorist on the American Folklore Society website this December. Check out her interview on the AFS website!

Dr. Mark Bender, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, announced the publication of Meige, the translation of  a version of a folk epic of the Yi ethnic group from…

Sarah Craycraft will be featured in the upcoming Winter 2019 issue of OSU's alumni magazine. The story covers her participation in a Bulgaria-based program called Residencia Baba and her path from…

Congratualtions to Rachel Hopkin, who successfully defended her dissertation! Her committee included Amy Shuman, Advisor, Dorry Noyes, Katey Borland, and Ana Cara (from Oberlin College). The…

Congratulations to Dr. Christofer Johnson, who ably defended his dissertation, Fishing in Uncertain Waters: Resilience and Cultural Change in a North Atlantic Community. Chris and Miranda have…

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-…

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 Utah…

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 opportunities for…

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…