Sean-nós (old style) Irish singer Joe Heaney of New York City. Heaney has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph by Diana Davies, courtesy of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.

AFS Online Membership Form

Use this form to join the American Folklore Society, to renew your membership, to sign up for AFS Sections, change your contact information, or make a contribution to AFS. You will need your Visa or MasterCard to complete the online membership process. See our mail-in membership form if you would like to print these forms and mail them to the membership office.

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	New Professional $65 (Not in full-time employment, and within 5 years after your professional degree or otherwise new to the profession of folklore)
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Sponsorship of International Members

To ease currency and other restrictions for members and potential members who live outside the United States, AFS members are invited to contribute to a fund for the sponsorship of international memberships. Your $50.00 contribution will be matched by the society to provide full membership benefits. If you wish to nominate a current or potential member for sponsorship, please provide his or her name and address below. If you do not wish to nominate a person at this time, leave the field blank.

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Join AFS Sections

Archives and Libraries Section $5 Association of African & African-American Folklorists $10 Association of African & African-American Folklorists Student $5 Chicano and Chicana Section Member $5 Children's Folklore Section Member (Children's Folklore Review) $10 Children's Folklore Section (Children's Folklore Review via Airmail) $15 Creative Writing Section $5 Dance and Movement Analysis Section $10 Folk Arts Section Member $5 Folk Belief & Religious Folklife Section $10 Folklore and Education Section (Newsletter) $10 Folklore and Literature Section $10 Foodways Section (Digest) $15 Foodways Section Student (Digest) $10 Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, y Caribeño Section $5 Folk Narrative $5 Folk Narrative Student, Unemployed, Part Time, etc. $2 LGBT Section $5 Graduate Student Section $5 History and Folklore Section (The Folklore Historian) $5 Independent Folklorists Section $10 Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Section (Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Review) $12 Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Section Student $10 Mediterranean Studies Section (Newsletter) $10 Music and Song Section (Newsletter) $5 Newfolk @AFS $5 Politics, Folklore & Social Justice Section $5 Politics, Folklore & Social Justice Section Student, Unemployed, etc. $2 Public Folklore Section Student Rate $5 Public Folklore Section (Public Programs Newsletter) $20 Storytelling Section $15 Storytelling Section Student Rate $5 Women's Section (Folklore Feminist Communication) $7 Women's Section Students, Retired, Unemployed, etc. $5

JSTOR Access

If you do not have access through your home institution to JSTOR's online archive of back issues of the Journal of American Folklore, the Journal of Folklore Research, and Western Folklore, 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 belong to an AFS section but not to the AFS itself.

JSTOR Access $15