Faculty and students from the Master of Arts Program in Cultural Sustainability (MACS) recently returned from the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, held November 5-9 in Santa Fe, NM. Current student Amber Dodge presented her work with refugees in Florida, “Hope Through Common Threads.” Terri Van Orman ’14, director of Folklore Village in Wisconsin, presented her paper “Folk from ‘Off’: The Role of the Back-to-the-Landers in the Perpetuation of Traditional Craft and Music Practices in Stone County, Arkansas.” Michele Anderson ’14, the first recipient of the Rory Turner Prize for the best capstone in cultural sustainability, shared aspects of the capstone, “Imaginative Fields: A Companion to Action.” Adjunct professors Harold Anderson, Robert Baron, Lisa Rathje, Rory Turner, and William Westerman, along with Director Amy Skillman, chaired sessions, served as discussants, or facilitated dialogues about such topics as contract fieldwork, advocacy, culture and identity, refugee arts, Baltimore’s rhythm festival, indigenous scholarship, and legacies of resistance. Sue Eleuterio, a member of the MACS faculty, was also in attendance, along with students Heather Gerhart ’16, Max Lannon ’14, and Leslie Soble ’16.