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We are excited to announce the award winners of the 2023 Margaret R. Yocom Prize and the Outstanding Folklore Student for this year!

This book not only celebrates these two amazing women but gives voice to their artistic narrative of the injustices and sacrifices, as well as accomplishments, made by so many in their pursuit of freedom. By exploring the artists' visual narrative of Black emancipation through the lens of nineteenth-century political, racial, and gendered influences, the book tells a story, rather than just a history, of the first fifty years of Black freedom.

Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and course registration is about to open! We hope that Mason students will enjoy these dynamic and engaging folklore courses that we are offering this summer and fall.

Students traveled from Dublin to County Wexford to Achill Island in County Mayo, engaging with local communities and learning from artists, craftspeople, musicians, and storytellers as well as Irish folklorists, historians, archeologists, and experts.

This year two Mason folklore graduate students, two faculty members, and numerous alumni presented, supported, and were recognized for their achievements in the field.

The Folklore Roundtable, companion student organization to the folklore program, had a busy fall on campus and coordinated several events in the hopes to get to know the Mason community better.

The Center for Humanities Research's 2023-24 theme calls for literary, cultural, historical, philosophical, artistic, linguistic, anthropological, religious, and archival engagements with the question of disposability. Learn more and apply to be a fellow. Applications due at noon on November 21.

If you found yourself wandering the National Mall this summer during the 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, you would have seen some familiar faces from the Mason Folklore community!