In Spring 2019 the IIR hosted three excellent events featuring top experts and researchers. Videos from all three events are now available at iir.gmu.edu/about/iir-events.
Students collaborated with the Virginia Folklife Program, Maryland Traditions and the Sandy Spring Museum to produce digital stories about local folklife practitioners, including Violeta Palchik's film on Uyghur cuisine.
Students from Mason's Field School, in collaboration with the West Virginia Folklife Program, traveled throughout West Virginia, recording oral history interviews with coal miners, musicians, and artists.
The Smithsonian Institution has selected Violeta Palchik, a graduate student in the Folklore Program, as one of three participants in the United States for their Communities Connecting Heritage program. This program was designed in partnership with the Department of State to create an exchange between cultural heritage students in the United States and India.
Folklore Studies faculty member Dr. Joy Fraser has been awarded the 2017 Polly Grimshaw Prize by the Archives and Libraries Section of the American Folklore Society.
