Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology News

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).

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.

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).

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.

May 31st, 2018

Nicole Musgrave (Folk Studies MA 2018) was selected as this year's WKU outstanding graduate student, receiving the John D. Minton Award at the university commencement.

May 31st, 2018

Seven new graduates of our Folk Studies MA program joined our alumni ranks this month. These folklorists are off to work in museums, state art agencies, and more!

May 11th, 2018

The Kentucky Folklife Program at WKU has been awarded a $20,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the establishment of a Kentucky Folklife Network and online magazine.

Mar 15th, 2018

Brent Bjorkman, Director of the Kentucky Folklife Program, travels to Washington D.C. for the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting.

Mar 14th, 2018

The Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange is accepting applicants for its 2018 cohort. Members from across the state will gather in Bowling Green June 8-10, in Knott County Aug. 3-5, and in Covington Oct. 12-14.

Mar 13th, 2018

Current Folk Studies MA student Susanna Pyatt researched and wrote the National Register nomination for the Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse as part of Dr. Michael Ann Williams' Vernacular Architecture class in fall 2016.