Pascale Boucicaut wins the James P Steager Memorial Prize in Folklore

Captured: Zora Neale Hurston in the field.

Graduate Student Award

Pascale Boucicaut, Folklore Graduate student, won the 2019 Jeanne P. Steager Memorial Prize in Folklore, awarded annually to a student who has made an outstanding contribution in folklore during the academic year. Her paper, “Still Searching for Authenticity: (Re)situating Accountability in Folklore Praxis” contrasts academic constructions of authenticity and vernacular modes of accountability within ethnographic engagements during the first century of American folkloristics.