Abbreviation

AFS

1888

Professional association

Bloomington, Indiana

  • United States

Marilyn White

Jessica A. Turner
(Executive Director)

www.americanfolkloresociety.org

The Prize is awarded annually and honors the best student work in the field of African American folklore.

Zora Neale Hurston

The Prize is awarded annually and honors excellence in integrating scholarship and engagement with local communities.

Américo Paredes

The Prize is awarded annually to honor outstanding achievements by folklorists working in the field of public folklore.

Benjamin A. Botkin

The Chicago Folklore Prize is awarded annually and honors author(s) for the best scholarly monograph in folklore.

AFS awards various prizes to honor outstanding work in the field of folklore, at the opening ceremony of the annual AFS meeting. These include the following:


Other prizes are awarded annually, by different sections of the American Folklore Society.


Every other year (in alternating years), AFS awards the following prizes:

Folklife

Folkloristics

Public folklore

Museum folklore

at americanfolkloresociety.org

American Folklore Society official website

. mnsu.edu. Archived from the original on October 29, 2005.

"William Wells Newell"