Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize

Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Student Prize

• for an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length)
• entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the submission deadline or have been enrolled within the previous academic year
• carries an award of $100
• submission deadline September 15, 2006
• may be submitted as either hard copy or (preferably) email attachment

Professional/Non-student Prize

• eligible work includes: publications, films, videos, exhibitions or exhibition catalogues, or sound recordings
• materials should have been published/produced no more than two years prior to the submission deadline
• carries an award of $250
• submission deadline (postmarked) September 1, 2006
• please submit three copies of books, videos, etc.

Awards will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-22, 2006. Prize recipients need not be members of the Society.

Please direct submissions and questions to: Professor Patricia Sawin Department of Anthropology CB# 3115 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115 sawinATunc.edu 919/962-1572