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Congratulations, Dr. Kate Horigan!
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Horigan for successfully defending her dissertation, "'They probably got us all on the news': Personal Narratives and Public Trauma in Post-Katrina New Orleans." Kate…
Sarah Craycraft Receives Fulbright to Bulgaria
Congratulations to English major and folklore student, Sarah Craycraft, who received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Bulgaria. Sarah will be teaching English language courses and…
Ziying You Holds Silent Auction for Hongtong Disaster Relief
Ziying You (East Asian Languages and Literatures), along with the support of her husband, department, and the Folklore Student Association, hosted a silent auction on Friday, March 29th to support…
Cassie Patterson and The Appalachian Project Present at ASA
Assistant Director, Cassie Patterson, convened and presented for two roundtables at the 36th annual conference of the Appalachian Studies Association (March 22-25). Cassie presented "Building an…
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Thurston
Folklore PhD student Tim Thurston, engaging in intensive reflexive ethnography during his fieldwork, was married to Tashi Tsomo, a local activist and student of ecotourism and regional culture, on…
CFS Advertises on CABS
The Center for Folklore Studies relied on local talent to create an advertisement to recruit folklore minors. The "hipster ad," as we've come to call it, will run for the next three weeks on…
OSU Faculty and Alumnae Publish on the Stigmatized Vernacular
The Journal of Folklore Research has just published an important special issue, The Stigmatized Vernacular (JFR 49:2, 2012) with papers from the AFS panel co-organized by Amy Shuman and Diane…
Levi Gibbs Becomes Dartmouth Assistant Professor
Warmest congratulations to Levi Gibbs, who will take up a position this fall as Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Kudos also to his…
Amy Shuman Co-Directs Narrative Summer Institute
Ohio State University's Project Narrative is offering a summer institute on Narrative Theory for the Humanities and Social Sciences from June 3, 2013 - June 14, 2013. Our very own Amy Shuman will…