Amy Skillman

Amy Skillman is an American folklorist and scholar. She is president of the American Folklore Society (AFS).

Skillman completed a self-designed B.A. in cultural minorities and the immigrant experience from St. Lawrence University.¹ She earned a M.A. in folklore from University of California, Los Angeles.¹

Skillman worked as Pennsylvania's state folklorist for over thirty years, managing the state folk arts infrastructure program for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.²

Skillman has served as the academic director of the M.A. in cultural sustainability at Goucher College since 2012.³ In 2023, she was elected president of the American Folklore Society (AFS).³¹ She became involved with the AFS in 1978 and served on its executive board from 2009 to 2011.¹ She is an AFS fellow and a recipient of the Botkin Prize.¹