[2] It was renamed in 1951 as Midwest Folklore (ISSN 0544-0750)[3][4] and continued from 1964 to 1983 under Richard Dorson as the Journal of the Folklore Institute (ISSN 0015-5934), obtaining its current name in 1984.

[5] Since July 2002, the journal has been published and distributed by the Indiana University Press.

[6] The journal is run by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington.

Following Richard Dorson, the following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal: Mary Ellen Brown, John Holmes McDowell, Moira Marsh, Judah Cohen, Jason Baird Jackson, Michael Foster, and Ray Cashman.

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