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American Folklore Society
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AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
The American Folklore Society presents the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award annually to a living senior scholar who has demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement over the course of a career.
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- $500
Chicago Folklore Prize
The American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago jointly offer the Chicago Folklore Prize, an international award recognizing the best book-length work of folklore scholarship, accompanied by a cash prize.
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Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to the Field
The American Folklore Society offers the Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to recognize extraordinary contributions that advance the visibility, success, and sustainability of the Society or the field of folklore studies.
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- $500
Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership
The American Folklore Society’s Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership recognizes a living scholar for outstanding leadership in folklore-related academic program development, organizational and center development, teaching, and advising.
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- $500
Reception, Special Event, Business or Section Meeting
The American Folklore Society (AFS) invites AFS sections, university folklore programs, publishers, and other organizations to propose sponsored receptions, special events, business meetings, or combinations of these activities.
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AFS Gerald L. Davis Grants
The American Folklore Society, in partnership with its Cultural Diversity Committee, offers Gerald L. Davis Grants of $500–$2,000 to support community-driven projects that foster diversity, inclusion, affirmation, and community development in folklore.
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- $2,000
AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant
The American Folklore Society offers Graduate Fieldwork Grants of $4,000 or $8,000 to support graduate student field research contributing to a folklore thesis or dissertation, with awards selected for intellectual excellence, feasibility, and career potential.
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- $8,000
Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the annual Leonard Norman Primiano Book Prize on Vernacular Catholicism to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship on lived Catholic religious practices and expressions.
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Archie Green Student Travel Award
The American Folklore Society’s Public Programs Section offers three $500 Archie Green Student Travel Awards to support travel to the AFS annual meeting.
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- $1,500
Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award
The American Folklore Society’s Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section offers the Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award, providing up to $500 for a graduate student to attend and participate in the Society’s annual meeting and support new work in religious folklife and folk belief.
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- $500
Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend
The American Folklore Society’s Public Programs and Independent Folklorists sections offer a $1,000 stipend to support an independent folklorist working in public programming who has been accepted to present at the AFS Annual Meeting.
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- $1,000
Leonard Norman Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the Leonard Norman Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award to support graduate students presenting research on vernacular Catholicism at the AFS annual meeting.
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- $1,500
Leonard Norman Primiano Retired Scholar Travel Award
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the Leonard Norman Primiano Retired Scholar Travel Award to support retired scholars presenting on vernacular Catholicism or vernacular religion at the AFS annual meeting.
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- $1,500
Robinson-Roeder-Ward Fellowship for K-12 and Community Educators
The American Folklore Society’s Folklore and Education Section offers the 2025 Robinson-Roeder-Ward Prizes to support up to two K–12 educators, museum educators, or community-based teachers attending the AFS conference in Atlanta, October 18–21, 2025.
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- $500
Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections Annual Meeting Award
The American Folklore Society’s Independent Folklorists’ and Women’s Sections offer a $1,250 Annual Meeting Award to support transportation, registration, lodging, and per diem costs for an independent folklorist working on women’s issues to attend and present at the AFS Annual Meeting.
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- $1,250
AFS Stipends for International Participants
The American Folklore Society offers competitive travel stipends of $500–$800 to support folklorists and other cultural specialists traveling from outside the United States and Canada to attend and present at its Annual Meeting.
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- $800
Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore
The American Folklore Society’s Nordic and Baltic Folklore Section offers the Barbro Klein Prize, a $300 award recognizing outstanding student work on folklore related to Northern Europe or the diasporas of its peoples.
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- $300
Dan Crowley Memorial Research Award
The American Folklore Society’s Creative Writing and Storytelling Section offers the Dan Crowley Memorial Research Award, which recognizes an outstanding student paper examining storytelling processes and narrative creation and includes a $300 honorarium.
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- $300
Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The American Folklore Society’s Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section offers the Don Yoder Prize, including a $500 honorarium, for an outstanding graduate student research paper on folk belief or religious folklife.
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- $500
Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize
The American Folklore Society’s Folklore and Education Section offers the $100 Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize for recently created works that help K–12 educators or students use folklore and folkloristic approaches in classrooms or other educational settings.
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- $100
Folklore and Science Annual Prizes
The American Folklore Society’s Folklore and Science Section offers two annual $400 prizes for presentation-length papers examining the boundaries, intersections, and interdisciplinary exchanges between folklore and science.
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- $800
John Wesley Work III Award
The American Folklore Society’s African American Folklore Section offers the annual John Wesley Work III Award to recognize and support research, documentation, preservation, and transmission of African American traditional culture.
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- $500
W. W. Newell Prize
The American Folklore Society’s Children’s Folklore Section offers the annual W. W. Newell Prize, including a $200 award, for the best unpublished essay on a topic in children’s folklore.
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- $200
William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The American Folklore Society’s Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section offers the William A. Wilson Prize, including a $250 honorarium, for the best undergraduate research paper on folk belief or religious folklife.
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- $250
Américo Paredes Prize
The American Folklore Society, through its Executive Board and affiliated sections, awards the $500 Américo Paredes Prize for exemplary scholarship and community engagement, teaching, or support for work conducted within one’s own culture or community.
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- $500
Américo Paredes Prize
The American Folklore Society (AFS), in partnership with its Committee on Cultural Diversity, the Chicana/Chicano Section, the Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano y Caribeño Section, and the AFS Executive Board, awards the annual Américo Paredes Prize ($500) to recognize outstanding integration of scholarship and engagement with the communities one studies or to honor teaching that encourages scholars and practitioners to work within their own cultures.
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- $500
Archie Green Award
The American Folklore Society’s Archie Green Award honors local cultural leaders, groups, or organizations that have made significant contributions to the expressive life of their communities through activities such as art-making, mentoring, teaching, advocacy, or institution-building.
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Archie Green Student Travel Award (AFS Public Programs Section)
The American Folklore Society (AFS) Public Programs Section offers three Archie Green Student Travel Awards of $500 each to help defray travel costs for the AFS annual meeting for graduate and undergraduate students interested in working as public folklorists or whose primary research focuses on public folklore.
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- $1,500
Benjamin A. Botkin Prize
The Public Programs Section of the American Folklore Society, together with the AFS Executive Board, awards the Benjamin A. Botkin Prize ($1,000) annually to an individual for significant lifetime achievement in public folklore and for advancing public understanding of folklore.
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- $1,000
Chicago Folklore Prize
Offered jointly by the American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago, the Chicago Folklore Prize is an annual award recognizing the best book-length work of folklore scholarship published within the fifteen months prior to the April 1 submission deadline.
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Compañero de las Américas Award
The Compañero de las Américas Award is presented biennially by the Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano y Caribeño Section of the American Folklore Society.
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Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the Don Yoder Prize, a $500 honorarium awarded annually for the best graduate student paper on a topic in folk belief or religious folklife.
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- $500
Don Yoder Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society awards the annual Don Yoder Prize, a $500 honorarium for the best graduate student paper on a topic in folk belief or religious folklife.
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- Amount
- $500
Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the Elaine J. Lawless Travel Award, a stipend of up to $500 to support a graduate student's travel to the AFS annual meeting and to stimulate new work in religious folklife and folk belief.
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- $500
Fernand Braudel Prize for an Outstanding Student Research Project in Mediterranean Folklore
The American Folklore Society Mediterranean Studies Section offers the Fernand Braudel Mediterranean Folklore Student Prize, a $500 honorarium for an outstanding student research project on Mediterranean folklore, historical or contemporary, across any folklore topics that reflect the region’s ecology and history where relevant.
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- $500
Folklore & Science Prizes
The Folklore and Science Section of the American Folklore Society invites 10-page presentation-length papers on the boundaries, intersections, and interdisciplinary exchanges between folklore and science; submissions are due July 15.
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- $400
Gerald L. Davis Grants — Presence and Project Pathways
The American Folklore Society's Gerald L. Davis Grants award $500–$2,000 (plus an AFS annual‑meeting registration waiver) to support participation, inclusion, and community‑driven projects that foster diversity in the field.
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- $2,000
Independent and Public Folklore Travel Stipend (AFS Annual Meeting Award)
The American Folklore Society’s Public Programs and Independent Folklorists sections offer a $1,000 Annual Meeting travel stipend to support an independent folklorist’s attendance (transportation, registration, lodging, and per diem) to present work at the AFS Annual Meeting.
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- $1,000
Jonathan T.Y. Yeh Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore
The Jonathan T.Y.
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Leonard Norman Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society awards the Leonard Norman Primiano Graduate Student Travel Award—$500–$1,500 stipends—to support a graduate student presenting on vernacular Catholicism at the AFS annual meeting; funds are disbursed after the meeting to confirm participation and up to two awards may be made each year.
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- $1,500
Raphael Patai Travel Award (Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section)
The Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society offers the Raphael Patai Travel Award of up to $300 USD to support a student of Jewish folklore and ethnology in attending the AFS Annual Meeting.
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- $300
Roger Welsch Opportunity Fund
The American Folklore Society’s Roger Welsch Opportunity Fund provides annual travel and registration support for attendance at the AFS Annual Meeting.
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William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society offers the William A. Wilson Prize, a $250 honorarium recognizing the best undergraduate paper on folk belief or religious folklife in honor of William A. Wilson.
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- $250
William A. Wilson Prize for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper in Folk Belief or Religious Folklife
The Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society administers the William A. Wilson Prize, awarding a $250 honorarium to the best undergraduate student paper on folk belief or religious folklife.
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- Amount
- $250
Women's and Independent Folklorists' Sections' Annual Meeting Award
The American Folklore Society’s Women’s Section and Independent Folklorists’ Section offer a $1,250 Annual Meeting Award to help an independent folklorist working on women’s issues attend and present at the AFS Annual Meeting; funds may cover transportation, registration, lodging, and per diem and are contingent on proposal acceptance.
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- $1,250
Zora Neale Hurston Prize
The American Folklore Society offers the $250 Zora Neale Hurston Prize for the best undergraduate or graduate student work on African American folklore, including papers, films, sound recordings, exhibitions, and other formats.
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- $250
2 closed programsDeadline passed before Sep 21, 2026
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- $1,000
- Closed
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- $100
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