Joseph Campbell Foundation

Joseph Campbell Foundation
Founded1990
FounderJean Erdman Campbell and Robert Walter
FocusEducation, 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.
Websitewww.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]
  1. ^ "About the Foundation". jcf.org. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  2. ^ "Setting Up a Foundation of Mythic Proportions," The Washington Times, December 14, 1992.
  3. ^ "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (Spirituality)," National Catholic Register, December 7, 2001
  4. ^ "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
  5. ^ Joseph Campbell’s papers now available at the New York Public Library, Joseph Campbell Foundation website, May 5, 2019
  6. ^ "Scholar Followed His Bliss in Myth," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 2, 2004.
  7. ^ [The Erdman-Campbell Prize awarded by the Joseph Campbell Foundation The Erdman-Campbell Prize awarded by the Joseph Campbell Foundation (Mythic Imagination Institute website)]
  8. ^ Leah Garchick, The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2006