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Oct 16th, 2023
The WKU Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology and the Kentucky Folklife Program will host a meet-up for oral historians in Southcentral and West Kentucky on November 17, with funding support from the Oral History Association.
View ArticleSep 11th, 2023
This past week, four students in the Folk Studies MA and Folklore Minor programs presented their reflections on their internship experiences in three different museums in Bowling Green and the surrounding region.
View ArticleApr 5th, 2023
The Kentucky Folklife Program is pleased to welcome Camille Acosta as the new Folklife Specialist. She began the position on March 27th, 2023.
View ArticleMar 18th, 2023
WKU Folk Studies will wrap up the 50 Years of Folklore Graduate Studies at WKU speaker series with a talk by alumnus Dr. Peggy Bulger on Thursday, March 23rd at 5:30 at the Kentucky Museum entitled “Public Folklore in the USA: Born of Activism."
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Feb 21st, 2023
WKU will host Dr. Marilyn White this Thursday, February 23rd, at 5:30 in the Western Room of the Kentucky Museum, as part of the Folk Studies 50th anniversary speaker series. Dr. White is president of the American Folklore Society and former WKU faculty.
View ArticleFeb 16th, 2023
The Kentucky Folklife Program will award the 2023 Homer Ledford Award to George Wakim and Tommy Case at the 2023 Kentucky Crafted Market at the Kentucky Horse Park Alltech Arena in Lexington on March 11th.
View ArticleJan 25th, 2023
Students share their experiences of the Folk Studies Winter Term Study Away course Public Folklore Policy and Practice in Washington, D.C.
View ArticleAug 24th, 2022
The Folk Studies program at WKU is celebrating with a series of five speakers marking five decades of folklore graduate studies at WKU.
View ArticleJun 7th, 2022
Folk Studies graduate Taylor Dooley Burden has received a prestigious Archie Green Fellowship, awarded by the American Folklife Center (AFC) of the Library of Congress, to support her project “The Occupational Lives of Religious Workers in Kentuckiana.
View ArticleFeb 11th, 2022
Kentucky Folklife, the Digital Magazine from the Kentucky Folklife Program, has just released it's 4th Spring 2022 Issue!
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