Tag: History of Folklore Studies

Jason Baird Jackson , May 30th, 2021
I am very happy to share this guest post by Tim Lloyd. The American Folklore Society’s annual meeting is the high point of the professional year for the…
Jason Baird Jackson , December 22nd, 2020
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual meetings of the American Folklore Society….
Jason Baird Jackson , November 12th, 2020
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and films were presented during the decade…
Jason Baird Jackson , November 4th, 2020
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within the field of folklore studies as…
Jason Baird Jackson , November 2nd, 2020
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 30th, 2020
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American Folklore Society (AFS) through the lens…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 30th, 2020
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is the presence and absence of Native…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 29th, 2020
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the American Folklore Society. Please look…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore Society,…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 23rd, 2020
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental bits for myself looking at some…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 23rd, 2020
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and presence of Native North American and…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 21st, 2020
This is a seventh post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1930s
Jason Baird Jackson , October 20th, 2020
This is a fifth post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 20th, 2020
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars and scholarship from the work and…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1960s
Jason Baird Jackson , October 20th, 2020
In a fourth series post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society, I pick up…
Native American and First Nations Studies in the American Folklore Society: The Founding AFS Fellows
Jason Baird Jackson , October 18th, 2020
As I noted in the previous post in this series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies work within the American Folklore Society,…
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1940s
Jason Baird Jackson , October 17th, 2020
Here is a second quick post on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings. Here the focus in…

Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1950s
Jason Baird Jackson , October 16th, 2020
Update: The post below has been updated to include the previously missing 1951 program. I use strikeout and underline to show the changes. Special thanks to Tim Lloyd…