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Alina Mansfield receives American Folklore Society Newell Prize

Folklore Program graduate Alina Mansfield was awarded the 2017 W. W. Newell Prize by the American Folklore Society at its annual conference meeting held this past October in Minneapolis.

The prize was for the best student essay on children’s folklore and was awarded to Alina for her paper “Slumber Parties as Rites of Passage” written for FLR 511 (Folklore and Religion).

Alina’s essay was also selected for the UO Folklore Program 2016 Alma Johnson Folklore Award.

http://www.afsnet.org/news/372140/Awards-and-Prizes-Announced-at-the-2017-Annual-Meeting-of-the-American-Folklore-Society.htm