The Folklore and Public Culture Program offers the following sources of funding to graduate students.
Equity and Inclusion Funding
The Folklore Equity and Inclusion Committee recognizes that, while the subject of folklore studies is broad and inclusive, the membership of its societies does not reflect the same scope. The committee will make available two amounts, one for faculty and one for students, of up to $500, to support initiatives that contribute to equity and inclusion of the workings of these societies. Awards to faculty may be taken as stipend or professional development funds, if taken as stipend the funds are subject to university OPE withholding and personal income deductions.
Eligible initiatives include but are not limited to: presentations, workshops, roundtables by members of underrepresented groups (whether the UO member receiving the funds or in collaboration with such members) at events held by these societies (AFS, Western States, and other regional organizations).
Each fall term, proposals are invited from core faculty and graduate students detailing opportunities for utilizing this funding. Awards are for fall–summer of the academic year.
Proposals should follow the format below.
Title of Proposal
Name(s)
Indicate Graduate Student or Core Faculty
Email address
Summary of Proposal
Timeline and duration
Budget
Please direct questions to Director Gordon Sayre, at gsayre@uoregon.edu or folkloregrad@uoregon.edu.
Carol Spellman Fund
Carol Spellman graduated from the UO Folklore Program in 2002 with a focus on documentary video, ethnomusicology, and Irish folklore. Carol traveled to Ireland during 2000 and 2001 where she conducted fieldwork on the topic of Irish women’s contribution to traditional song and music. Her work culminated in a documentary video and paper entitled “For the Love of the Tune: Irish Women and Traditional Music.” In 2004, an article based on her research was published in “Beascna” through the University of Cork Press, Cork, Ireland.
Carol then joined the Oregon Folklife Program at Oregon Historical Society and immersed herself in work with traditional artists, teaching video production in schools, and recording traditional arts throughout Oregon. Carol was larger than life with a vibrant personality and intense curiosity about people. Her passion extended beyond family and work, to ceramics, Irish and Zydeco dance and music, volunteering in schools, traveling, playing soccer, learning Spanish and French, and art of many and varied kinds. Her life changed again in 2009 when she acquired her beloved Kiger mustang, Tesoro. Carol developed a whole new horse community through trail rides and cowboy/ western dressage while enjoying a deep emotional connection with Tesoro.
Carol Beth Spellman passed away on January 26, 2017. The Folklore and Public Culture Program at UO established a fund in Carol’s name to assist graduate students to work in the field that she loved so much.
Eligibility
The Folklore and Public Culture Program invites folklore and public culture graduate students and core faculty members to submit proposals for funding through the Carol Spellman Fund.
Up to two proposals (one from a graduate student and one from a faculty member) of up to $1,000 each will be funded. Multi-authored proposals are acceptable. To be eligible, all proposals must be public folklore oriented and be of direct benefit to graduate students. Funds may be used to support research expenses, conference participation by graduate students, and support of invited speakers among other possibilities. Preference will be given to those proposals that support or feature the use of video or film in public folklore.
Award: $1,000 each for one graduate student and one faculty member.
How to Apply
Each fall term, proposals are invited from core faculty and graduate students detailing opportunities for utilizing this funding. Awards are for fall through summer of the academic year.
Proposals of not more than 1,000 words should follow the format below and will be reviewed by the executive committee plus one graduate student. Proposals should include the following:
Title of Proposal
Name(s)
Indicate graduate student or core faculty
Email address
Summary of proposal (including public folklore connection)
Timeline and duration
Budget
Please direct questions to Director Gordon Sayre, gsayre@uoregon.edu or folkloregrad@uoregon.edu.
Funding Your Studies
A limited number of Graduate Employee (GE) appointments are available through the Folklore and Public Culture Program. Notification of GE opportunities in folklore and public culture are posted in mid-March. GE appointments are decided by the Folklore and Public Culture Program faculty during the spring term before the year of appointment.
GEs are primarily assigned to teach large lecture sections of FLR courses, serve as archivists in the Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore, serve as research assistants to the Oregon Folklife Network, and in other areas as determined by the program director and the Folklore and Public Culture faculty. GE appointments are available to qualified graduate students in the Folklore and Public Culture Program.
Awards are based on GPA, letters of recommendation, progress in the program, and need. The number of appointments is determined annually by the program faculty and is subject to needs and budgetary constraints on the Folklore and Public Culture Program and the university.
Please contact Folklore and Public Culture to get Graduate Employee Info.