AFS Executive Board April 2014 Actions

• Approved the minutes of its October 2013 meeting
• Created an ad hoc committee to plan and coordinate the AFS mentoring programs that take place at the annual meeting
• Selected the next editors of the Journal of American Folklore
• Selected the recipient of the 2014 AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
• Created a new AFS award for lifetime service to the field, and selected its first recipient
• Approved 2014-2015 performance objectives for the Executive Director
• Approved the revision of the Society's long-range plan
• Approved the Society budget for 2014-2015

We will post more information about these actions here in the coming weeks.

The Society's Executive Board for 2014 is:

Michael Ann Williams, President
Diane E. Goldstein, Past President
Brent Björkman
Maria Carmen Gambliel
Maggie Holtzberg
Maggie Kruesi
David Todd Lawrence
Solimar Otero
Pravina Shukla
Diane Tye
Carolyn Ware
Juwen Zhang
Tim Lloyd, ex officio