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Folk Studies Faculty Member Helps Run 4th Annual Wild Ricing Camp for Native American Medical Students

Sep 19th, 2018

Dr. Tim Frandy helped to coordinate a Wild Ricing camp on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in northern Wisconsin for NACHP students, staff, and their families to learn about indigenous food ways and the Anishinaabe tradition of wild rice harvesting.

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Folk Studies and Anthropology Newsletter Now Available

Sep 18th, 2018

The WKU Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology's latest newsletter is available for download.

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Folk Studies and Kentucky Folklife Program Present at Horse Cave Heritage Festival

Sep 18th, 2018

On Saturday, September 15th, graduate students, faculty, and staff in the WKU Folk Studies Program and Kentucky Folklife Program partnered to produce the Chattin’ on the Porch stage at the Horse Cave Heritage Festival in Horse Cave, Kentucky.

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Anthropology Faculty Publishes in Anthropology News

Aug 28th, 2018

Dr. Ashley Stinnett, Assistant Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, contributed a piece to Anthropology News "What's In Your Bag, Anthropologists?" series.

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Kentucky Folklife Program Featured in Humanities for All

Aug 6th, 2018

The Kentucky Museum exhibit "A Culture Carried: Bosnians in Bowling Green" and the Bowling Green Bosnia Oral History Project were recently featured in Humanities for All, a National Humanities Alliance site showcasing publicly engaged humanities work.

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Folk Studies MA Graduate Appointed Director of Studio Potter

Jul 30th, 2018

Anthony Stellaccio, a recent graduate of Western Kentucky University’s Folklore MA Program, has been appointed as the new Director of Studio Potter (SP).

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Folk Studies Faculty Member Publishes New Book on Disaster

Jul 23rd, 2018

Kate Parker Horigan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, has just published Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative (University Press of Mississippi: 2018).

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Anthropology faculty awarded RCAP for research in Amsterdam

Jun 25th, 2018

Dr. Ashley Stinnett is spending the summer in Amsterdam establishing a new research fieldsite, where she is exploring how people living in Holland are experiencing meat production and consumption.

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Folklife Archives Granted KOHC Accreditation

Jun 18th, 2018

Western Kentucky University’s Manuscripts and Folklife Archives, a part of the Department of Library Special Collections, was recently granted accreditation status by the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC).

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Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange announces 2018 cohort, WKU hosting first exchange

Jun 6th, 2018

The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX) will gather in Bowling Green this weekend for the first 2018 Rural-Urban Exchange Community Intensive, hosted by the Kentucky Folklife Program at WKU.

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