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Monday, April 26th, 2021
Folk Studies MA Student Georgia Ellie Dassler Receives PCAL Outstanding Graduate Student Award
In a virtual ceremony held on Friday, April 16, the WKU Graduate School honored the Outstanding Graduate Student Awardees from each college, including Folk Studies MA student Georgia Ellie Dassler who was chosen as the Potter College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Graduate Student. Dassler has also been named the Outstanding Folk Studies Graduate Student.
Dassler exemplifies excellence in scholarly and applied research and professional activities. In her time as an MA student, Dassler presented a paper on her ongoing research, “Ballet Dancers Personal Narratives of Pain and Injury,” at the 2020 (virtual) American Folklore Society Annual Meeting; she wrote two successful grant applications to the Kentucky Oral History Commission; and she secured two prestigious internships, as the (virtual) Folklife Intern for the North Carolina Arts Council in summer 2020