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Tony Maggio (undergraduate minor in Folklore) is the winner of this year's Daniel R. Barnes Award for best undergraduate student paper. The reviewers had the following to say about Tony's essay,…

Sarah Craycraft received a research fellowship from the American Institute for Southeast European Studies to support her dissertation research on youth participation in rural revitalization in…

The Center for Folklore Studies was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme to support the spring 2020 Ohio Field School in Perry County, Ohio. This award is…

Congratulations to Emma Cobb (Comparative Studies) who has been awarded the 2019 Patrick B. Mullen Award for best graduate student paper!

The review committee sent the following comments…

The Center for Folklore Studies' Ohio Field School initiative has been awarded $26,035 from Ohio State's Connect & Collaborate grant, which is administered by the Office of Outreach and…

The Center for Folklore Studies received a grant from the Public Narrative Collaborative and the Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme to commission Molly Rideout for the Portsmouth Public Writing…

The Graduate Student Service Award for service to the Comparative Studies Department and its Students goes to Emma Cobb. Emma worked throughout the year as student rep to the graduate studies…

The Margaret Lynd Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Associate went to Caroline Toy for her outstanding work in writing instruction, in integrating fan studies into her…

Congratulations to Sarah Craycraft, who won the Richard Bjornson Prize for best essay by a graduate student for her paper “The Mule as Motif in the Ohio Valley Research Project,” based on a mid-…