AFS Graduate Fieldwork Grant

The American Folklore Society offers these grants in support of field research by graduate students pursuing careers in folklore. The main purpose of the grant program is to foster excellence in folklore research by allowing students to develop ambitious projects grounded in long-term ethnographic engagement. The Society also hopes that the grants, in tandem with AFS-led mentoring, will help to create diverse cohorts of new researchers whose conversations will cumulatively advance the field of folklore studies and strengthen the Society. Projects are selected based on their intellectual excellence and the likelihood that the applicant will make a productive career in the field of folklore. The program was launched in March 2022 with continuous funding through 2026, made possible by a gift from the Noyes-Krippendorf Fund of the Columbus Foundation. Students must be full-time in PhD programs in folklore or related fields, or in terminal MA programs with commitment to continue to doctoral programs. The grant may be used for any stage of fieldwork that contributes to the production of a dissertation or thesis.