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Beissinger, Margaret H. 2024. “Spiritual Kinship, Incest, and Traditional Weddings: Honor, Shame, and Cultural Boundaries in Romanian Marriage Songs,” in Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century. David F. Elmer and Peter McMurray, eds. Cambridge, MA, The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University, 95-121.

Beissinger, Margaret Hiebert. 2023. “Empire and Resistance in South Slavic and Romanian Oral Epic Poetry,” in The Epic World, Pamela Lothspeich, ed. New York, Routledge. 396-411.

Beissinger, Margaret H. 2023. CD Review article: Speranţa Rădulescu, Ultimele Cântece Bătrânești Din Olt/Last Old Songs from Olt. 29 (2018). Ethnophonie, Series: Colecție de muzici tradiționale, Journal of Music and Minorities 2: 1-7.

Beissinger, Margaret H. 2022. “Speranţa Rădulescu and Lăutari: Engaging with Musicians and Music-Making,” Musicology Today 13(2): 147-67.

Clay, J. Eugene. 2023. “Buddhism in the Post-Soviet Religious Marketplace.” Journal of Church and State 65, no. 2 (Spring 2023): 175–96. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csac099.

Clay, J. Eugene. 2023. “Many Ukrainians are Fleeing to the Greek Catholic Church in Lviv, Which Has a Long and Complex History in the Orthodox Faith. The Conversation, 7 February 2023. https://theconversation.com/many-ukrainians-are-fleeing-to-the-greek-catholic-church-in-lviv-which-has-a-long-and-complex-history-in-the-orthodox-faith-198655. 

Clay, J. Eugene. 2022. “Why Pope Francis Chose to Highlight Religious Freedom during His Visit to Kazakhstan,” The Conversation, 20 September 2022. https://theconversation.com/why-pope-francis-chose-to-highlight-religious-freedom-during-his-visit-to-kazakhstan-190623. 

Clay, J. Eugene. 2022. “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Threatens a Cultural Heritage the Two Countries Share, Including Saint Sophia Cathedral.” The Conversation, 28 July 2022. https://theconversation.com/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-threatens-a-cultural-heritage-the-two-countries-share-including-saint-sophia-cathedral-187140. Translated into Portuguese as “Invasão da Ucrânia pela Rússia ameaça a herança cultural compartilhada pelos dois países, incluindo a Catedral de Santa Sofia.” Interesse Nacional (Sao Paolo, Brazil). 24 September 2022. https://interessenacional.com.br/edicoes-posts/invasao-da-ucrania-pela-russia-ameaca-a-heranca-cultural-compartilhada-pelos-dois-paises-incluindo-a-catedral-de-santa-sofia/.

Cooper, David L. 2023. The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press. NB chapter 2: “Successful Forgeries: Oral Traditional Epic Poetics in the Czech Manuscripts”

Forrester, Sibelan. 2022. “Peasants and Folklore,” in Tolstoy in Context, ed. Anna Berman (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 39-46.

Jurić, Dorian. Forthcoming. Bringing Back Bakonja: Epic Geography and the Editor’s Imperative. Oral Tradition.

Jurić, Dorian. 2024. "Western Balkans: 'A Vila like a Vila'”. In The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings: European Traditions. Eds. Simon Young and Davide Ermacora. University of Exeter Press. 196-216.

Jurić, Dorian. 2023. "A Complete List of Luka Marjanović’s Bosniak Epics Housed at HAZU." Folklorica 27: 81-101.

Jurić, Dorian. 2023. “Where Does the Vila Live? Revisiting a Simple Question.” Folklore 134: 48-72.

Jurić, Dorian. 2023. “Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans.“ In The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Ed. Margaret H. Beissinger. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190080778.013.42

Kononenko, Natalie. 2023. Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian Canadian Identity. McGill/Queens University Press.

Kononenko, Natalie and Alevtina Tsveltova. forthcoming. Ukrainian Christmas Carols in Kazakhstan: Folklore, Folkorism and Preserving Ukrainian Heritage in the Diaspora. Canadian Slavonic Papers.

Kononenko, Natalie. forthcoming. “Ukraine: Legends of Bohyni in the Context of Courtship Rituals.” In The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings: European Traditions. Eds. Simon Young and Davide Ermacora. University of Exeter Press.

Krafcik, Patricia. 2024.  Witnesses to Interwar Subcarpathian Rus': The Sojourns of Petr Bogatyrev and Ivan Olbracht. Lexington Books. 

Lesiv, Mariya and Wyatt Hirschfeld Shibley. 2023. “Domestic Ethnicity: The Lebanese and Ukrainian Diasporas in the Host-Region of Newfoundland,” in Migrations and Diasporas: Generating Spaces for Inclusion Through Interdisciplinary Practices. William Arrocha and Elena Xeni, eds. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. 

Lesiv, Mariya. 2022. “Folk Belief and Religion in Ukraine: Creating the Charisma of Place,” in The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. Margaret Beissinger, ed. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/43182 

Lesiv, Mariya. 2021. “Host-Region: ‘Safe’ Folklore and the Negotiation of Difference in Post-Socialist Diasporas in Newfoundland.” Anthropologica: Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society 63 (2): 1-27. https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1028/682

Worobec, Christine D. 2022. "Demonic Possession in Orthodox Imperial Russia: Official and Popular Religious Conceptions Through the Prism of an 1839-1840 Case Study," in Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon. Éva Pócs and András Zempléni, eds. Budapest, Central European University Press, 323-42.

Worobec, Christine D. 2023. "Witches, Sorcerers, and Demons in a Remote Corner of Northern Russia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century," Martor: The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Journal 28: 14-30.