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Congratulations to Mariah Marsden, who as of March 18th is MA in English, moving forward with her work on the intertwinings of print culture, agricultural work, and oral tradition in the Ozarks…

Dr. Elena Foulis' article, "Participatory Pedagogy: Oral History in the Service-Learning Classroom" is featured as the resource of the month on The Art of Teaching Weblog throughout October! Dr.…

Sophia Enriquez, PhD student, ethnomusicology, has been selected as a 2019 National Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Fellow. During the summer of 2019 she will attend an intensive 3-week…

New digital galleries are being added to the archives website on the Center for Folklore Studies page, representing fieldwork done by students of the Ohio Field School. Check out Sudzy's Pinup…

In 2013 Rachel Hopkin was awarded a rare National Interest Waiver green card on the basis that, because of her work as a folklorist/radio producer with a special focus on traditional culture…

Nathan Young left for Turkey on February 1st for six months of fieldwork in Ankara. He says: "I am researching instances and means by which some Turks maintain connection to their alleged villages…

Amy Shuman has two new publications. First, with Katharine Young, “The Body as Medium: a Phenomenological Approach to the Production of affect in Narrative” in Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary…

Join us in congratulating Jordan Lovejoy, who passed her qualifying exams today with flying colors and will be heading to southern West Virginia for fieldwork in January.  We thank the  committee…

Dorothy Noyes, Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies and former Director of the Center for Folklore Studies, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Folkloristics at the…