Thursday, May 13th, 2021
The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology is very proud to congratulate Dr. Tim Frandy, assistant professor of folk studies, for his selection as the recipient of the 2021 Potter College Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity! A committee of his peers in the college selected Dr. Frandy for this honor in recognition of his exceptional research accomplishments, scholarly output, intellectual breadth, and the broader significance of his work and methods.
Since coming to WKU in 2017, Dr. Frandy has maintained an active research agenda in his wide-ranging areas of expertise within folklore and Scandinavian studies, including environmental and medical humanities, museum studies, worldview and knowledge traditions, cultural sustainability and revitalization, and resistance and decolonization movements. Dr. Frandy engages with diverse peoples in the Western Great Lakes region and the Nordic countries, collaborating with reindeer herde