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CFS Goes International

CFS faculty Dorry Noyes and Katherine Borland delivered talks at the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Zagreb, Croatia on June 22nd. Their panel, entitled Gesturing…

Elena Foulis Publishes iBook on Latinos in Ohio

Congratulations to Dr. Elena Foulis, who has published Latin@ Stories Across Ohio, an iBook available for free on iTunes. Latin@ Stories Across Ohio is a bilingual oral history book that documents…

Alumna Sheila Bock publishes in Journal of Medical Humanities

Folklore alumna Sheila Bock has published an article based on her dissertation fieldwork:  “Grappling to Think Clearly”: Vernacular Theorizing in Robbie McCauley’s Sugar,” Journal of Medical…

Cristina Benedetti received Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Grant!

Cristina Benedetti, Graduate Archivist for the Center for Folklore Studies, has received a Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Grant from the American Folklife Center to conduct research at the…

Dr. Isaac Weiner on All Sides w/ Ann Fisher

CFS Associated Faculty Dr. Issac Weiner was a guest on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher! Dr. Weiner discussed the recent Pew Research Center report on America's Changing Religious Landscape. Here…

Matthew Campbell Defends Qualifying Exams!

Congratulations to Matthew Campbell, who defended his qualifying exams this morning with a committee headed by Ryan Skinner and Danielle Fosler-Lussier and completed by Barry Shank and Dorry Noyes…

Barnes and Mullen Award Winners Announced!

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2015 Patrick B. Mullen Paper Prize for best graduate student paper and the 2015 Daniel R. Barnes Prize for best undergraduate student paper in…

Congratulations, Dr. Hemmig!

Congratulations, Dr. Tim Thurston!

Double congratulations to Dr. Tim Thurston, who this morning defended a groundbreaking dissertation on Tibetan-language sketch comedy in the A mdo region of China, and who in July will begin a…