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Joseph Campbell Foundation

Founded	1990
Founder	Jean Erdman Campbell and Robert Walter
Focus	Education, Mythology
Location	New York
Area served	Global
Key people	John Bucher, PhD, executive director, Bradley Olson, PhD, publications director Joanna Gardner, PhD, marketing and communications director Stephanie Zajchowski, PhD, operations director For more details, visit Meet the JCF Team.
Website	www.jcf.org

The Joseph Campbell Foundation (JCF) is a US not-for-profit organization dedicated to the work of influential American mythologist Joseph Campbell (1904–1987). The organization’s stated mission is to “invite you to experience the power of myth.” JCF fosters academic and popular discussion in the fields of comparative mythology and religion, psychology and culture through its publishing program, events, social media outreach, and website.

The foundation was created in 1990^[1] by Campbell's widow, choreographer Jean Erdman, and by his longtime editor Robert Walter.^[2]

JCF’s initiatives include:

The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, a series of books and recordings (both previously released and posthumous^[3]
MythMaker Podcast Network which includes original podcasts such as Pathways with Joseph Campbell and The Podcast with a Thousand Faces
Weekly MythBlast series of essays by contemporary mythologists
Campbell's personal library and papers housed at the OPUS Archives and Research Center (see below)^[4] and the New York Public Library (see below)^[5]
the Erdman Campbell Award^[6]^[7]^[8]

References

^ "About the Foundation". jcf.org. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
^ "Setting Up a Foundation of Mythic Proportions," The Washington Times, December 14, 1992.
^ "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (Spirituality)," National Catholic Register, December 7, 2001
^ "A Legend in His Own Right A library in Carpinteria is devoted to the legacy of Joseph Campbell, who celebrated myth and spirituality.," The Los Angeles Times, Oct 7, 1993
^ Joseph Campbell’s papers now available at the New York Public Library, Joseph Campbell Foundation website, May 5, 2019
^ "Scholar Followed His Bliss in Myth," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 2, 2004.
^ [The Erdman-Campbell Prize awarded by the Joseph Campbell Foundation The Erdman-Campbell Prize awarded by the Joseph Campbell Foundation (Mythic Imagination Institute website)]
^ Leah Garchick, The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2006

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Books	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) Creative Mythology (1968) The Flight of the Wild Gander (1968) Myths to Live By (1972) Historical Atlas of World Mythology (1983–1989) The Inner Reaches of Outer Space (1986) The Power of Myth (1988) The Hero's Journey (1990) Thou Art That (2001)
Video/DVDs	Mythos (1997/1998/2011)
See also	Hero's journey The Hero's Journey Joseph Campbell Foundation Jean Erdman

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