Volunteer: Fieldwork Opportunities in Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Deadline: Rolling 

Space is available for students and other volunteers on folklore expeditions to Romania, Russia, Siberia and the Altai region.

Expeditions are led by qualified scholars with years of experience in the field. Students  join in the work of the expedition – conducting interviews, making video and audio recordings, serving as audiences and helping to process the collected field materials. Team members live rural villages, where they experience local customs, language and food at first hand. Fluency in the local language is helpful, but not required.

Volunteers pay a fee which covers their accommodations, food and transportation during the expedition, plus a share of the general expedition expenses. College credit through students’ home institutions can be arranged in many cases.


Click HERE for more deatils or email us at  info@russianfolklorefriends.org   

All expeditions sponsored by American Friends of Russian Folklore, an American 501(c)(3) organization in its eleventh year of introducing westerners to rural Russia, Ukraine, Belarus - and now Romania and Moldova.