Membership Form
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The American Folklore Society
Mershon Center, Ohio State University
1501 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201-2602 USA
Phone 614/292-3375
Fax 614/292-2407
If you wish to pay with your credit card online, visit our
online membership page with secure payment through VeriSign.
Please print this form (2 pages) and mail to address
above. Pay with Mastercard, Visa, or check (made payable to the American
Folklore Society).
Membership in the Society is open to any interested individual
and includes subscriptions to the Journal of American Folklore
and the AFS News. Members are eligible to vote in Society
elections and to hold Society office. They pay lower annual meeting
registration fees and discounted prices for books in the Publications
of the American Folklore Society series.
Contact Information
Your Name: ___________________________________________________
Your Address: ________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Work Telephone No: ___________________________________________
Home Telephone No: ___________________________________________
FAX No: ______________________________________________________
E-Mail: ______________________________________________________
AFS Planned Giving
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Folklore Society in my will.
Non-AFS Mail
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Special AFS Membership Categories
1. Partner Membership--If you are applying or remitting at partner rates,
please enter the name of the partner paying full dues here:
______________________________________________________________
Note that partners do not receive publications.
2. Student Membership--Please provide the following:
Graduate___ Undergraduate ___
Department ______________________ University __________________
(A copy of your Student I.D. is required with applications and renewal).
Select Membership Category
___ Regular $100
___ Independent $80 (Must be a member of the AFS Independent
Folklorists' Section)
___ New Professional $65 (Not in full-time employment, and within
5 years after your professional degree or
otherwise new to the profession of folklore)
___ Retired $80 (Must have been a regular member of AFS for
at least 10 years before retirement)
___ Partner $35
___ Student $35
___ Sustainer $150
___ Sponsor $250
___ Benefactor $500
___ Life $1500
___ AFS Fellows $50 ___ AFS Fellows (Retired) $25
(Membership in the AFS Fellows is by election only.
These boxes are for the use of existing Fellows
who are renewing their memberships.)
Sponsorship of International members $50.00. Provide name and address below:
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Renewing Late?
If your expiration date has passed you will be given a new expiration date
and you will not receive back issues of publications.
__ Check here to keep your original expiration date and receive back issues
of publications (NOTE: We are unable to back date memberships more than
3 months.)
Section Membership
Archives and Libraries Section (Newsletter) ___ Member $5
Association of African and African ___ Member $10
American Folklorists ___ Student $5
Chicano and Chicana Folklore Section ___ Member $5
Children's Folklore Section
(Children's Folklore Review) ___ Member $10
Dance and Movement Analysis Section ___ Member $10
Folk Arts Section ___ Member $5
Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section ___ Member $10
Folklore and Education Section (Newsletter) ___ Member $10
Folklore and Literature Section ___ Member $10
Foodways (Digest) ___ Member $15
___ Student $10
Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, ___ Member $5
y Caribeño Folklore Section
Folk Narrative ___ Member $5
___ Student $2
LGBT Section ___ Member $5
Graduate Student Section ___ Member $5
History and Folklore Section (The
Folklore Historian) ___ Member $5
Independent Folklorists Section ___ Member $10
Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section ___ Member $12
(Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review) ___ Student $10
___ 3 Year Membership $32
Mediterranean Studies Section (Newsletter) ___ Member $10
Music and Song Section (Newsletter) ___ Member $5
Newfolk@AFS ___ Member $5
Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice ___ Member $5
Section ___ Student, low income $2
Public Folklore Section (Public ___ Member $20
Programs Newsletter) ___ Student $5
Storytelling Section ___ Member $15
___ Student $5
Women's Section (Folklore Feminists ___ Member $7
Communicaiton ___ Student, Retired, Unemployed $5
JSTOR Access
If you do not have access through your home institution to JSTOR's online archive of all issues of the Journal of American
Folklore (from
1888 to five years behind the present), you can receive a year's access by checking here and adding $15 to the cost of your AFS
membership. JSTOR access requires a separate login ID and password. Once we receive
your membership payment, we will contact you with JSTOR access information. This may take as much as a week
from the time of your new member or renewal transaction to accomplish. Note: This benefit is not available to those who only belong to AFS sections and not to the AFS itself.
___ JSTOR access $15
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