Alta Fife Student Paper Prize
Folklore Society of Utah
Alta S. Fife Student Paper Prizes: For the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on any aspect of Mormon or Western folklore, including folk narrative or material culture (broadly construed).
The Alta S. Fife Student Paper Prize honors Fife for her dedication to fieldwork and her crucial contributions to published work on Utah, Intermountain, religious, and material lore. Interested undergraduate and graduate students should submit a research/conference paper (8-10 pages) that supports a relevant claim, relates to their own fieldwork collection, and also incorporates appropriate scholarly references.
Judges will award two prizes, a graduate student award of $200 and an undergraduate prize of $100 based on the merit of submitted papers. Students are invited to submit, by email, articles for consideration at folkloresocietyofutah@outlook.com by November 14th.
The Article Award Committee, which consists of award sponsors and members of the FSU Board, will announce the winners at the annual Folklore Society of Utah meeting. Students are encouraged to present their work in a Table Talk at the annual meeting, but the paper does not need to be presented at the meeting to be considered for the award.
(Photo: Alta Fife, daughter Marian, and Austin Fife with their camping trailer and recording machine, Moab, 1954 , Utah State University Fife Folklore Archives)
Recipients of the 2021 Alta Fife Student Prize:
Graduate Paper Award: Erica Smith, “Folkloric Influence on Utah Baby Naming”
Undergraduate Paper Award: Joshua Richards, “Millennial Expressions”
Sponsors of the Alta Fife Student Prize:
Jill Terry Rudy, Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
David Stanley, Emeritus Professor, Westminster College
Nan McEntire, Emerita Associate Professor, Indiana State University
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