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Congratulations to Richelle Schrock who has received tenure at Ohio Wesleyan. Dr. Schrock completed her PhD in Folklore and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2008 under the direction of Amy…

On November 23, CFS Director Dr. Katherine Borland and folklore graduate student Stephanie Aubry traveled to Fort Benning, just outside Columbus, Georgia to document and participate in the 14th…

On November 12 and 19 Comparative Studies undergrads in Professor Katherine Borland's Global Folklore course embarked on a global conversation about global folklore in film with students from Prof…

Association for the Study of Food and Society's student paper  prize competition.  Deadline for Annual Submission: February 1. Electronic submissions ONLY! The ASFS invites current…

Professor Dorothy Noyes recently published an article entitled "Aesthetic Is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and Attention" in The Journal for Folklore Research.

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Amy Shuman and Bridget Haas (Case Western University) received a grant of $16,000 from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to hold a workshop titled “Political Asylum and…

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Dr. Katherine Borland has been named one of the inaugural Ratner Teaching Award winners! The Deans of Arts and Humanities, Comparative Studies…

The Center for Folklore Studies is pleased to announce that we received a generous $25,000 gift from donors at The Columbus Foundation. The anonymous gift will fund research, archival preservation…

Congratulations to former Appalachian Project volunteer and OSU alum, Mason Pierce on his new job as a full-time Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics in…