We are pleased to announce that the Folklore Program at Utah State University is once again inviting applications for the Fellowship in Folklore Studies, available to an incoming master¹s student beginning Fall 2013. The Folklore Program at Utah State offers a graduate specialization in either Folklore or Public/Applied Folklore and works closely with the American Studies Program, the Department of English, Museum Studies, and the Fife Folklore Archives. Areas of specialization include contemporary legend, gender, the supernatural, foodways, ethnic folklore, place and landscape, and internet folklore.
The USU graduate program attracts students from around the world, including Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Iceland, India, Japan, Mongolia, the Navajo Nation, the Ukraine, the UK, Romania, and Sweden. Faculty have served as editors for several of the field¹s top journals, including The Journal of American Folklore and Western Folklore, and on the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society. Faculty books have won the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Köngäs-Maranda Prize, and the Brian McConnell Book Award, and faculty members have received departmental and college awards for their research, teaching, and service. Faculty members also engage in extensive media outreach, serving as sources or subjects for international, national, and regional news stories (including interviews with NPR¹s Weekend Edition, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Metro, the Salt Lake Tribune, Canada¹s Ottawa Citizen, the Food Network channel and the program ³Animal Planet²).
Utah State University houses the Fife Folklore Archives, a nationally recognized archive and repository for the papers of the American Folklore Society, the folklore papers of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and significant collections such as the G. Malcolm Laws Ballad Collection and the Wayland D. Hand Collection of American Popular Belief and Superstition. Students in the Folklore Program have many opportunities to work closely with the archives, to conduct archival research, and to deposit their own research in the archive. Internship opportunities are also available through the Fife Folklore Archives and the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.
The deadline for fellowship applications is January 15, 2013. Applicants will also be considered for Graduate Instructorships in the English Department. The value of the Fellowship is approximately $14,000.00.
Interested students should contact both Dr. Steve Siporin, Director of the Folklore Program, steve.siporin@usu.edu, and Dr. Evelyn Funda, Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of English, evelyn.funda@usu.edu. The Department of English¹s website has specific information on the application process for graduate studies at USU. Please see http://www.usuenglishgrad.blogspot.com/p/prospective-grads.html.
Applications for study may be downloaded from the School of Graduate studies, http://www.usu.edu/graduateschool.
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