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Internship Stories
Learn about the cool internships that our students have done!
Folk Studies graduate students at WKU take internships with professional folklorists. Internship activities do many things for the intellectual and professional development of our students and help to ensure that WKU grads continue their fantastic record of success in finding employment in the profession. Here are some of their internship stories.
The graduate students who completed an internship in 2011: Alison, Janice, Sarah, Katherine, Katie, Molly, and Rachel. Check out their internship stories on the right!
Click on the names below to learn what our recent students have been up to!
Barbara Ogbonna, 2012
the Frontier Culture Museum
Rebekah Lyons, 2012
An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland
Caitlin Coad, 2012
LA Commons
Ginger Brothers, 2012
Museum of the Shanandoah Valley
Hope Hawkins, 2012
Mammoth Cave National Park, Archives, 2012
Alison McDaniel, 2011
Locust Grove
Molly Bolick, 2011
Pennsylvania Folklife Archives
Janice Crane, 2011
Allen County Folklife and Oral History Project
Sarah McCartt-Jackson, 2011
Allen County Folklife and Oral History Project
Katherine Chappell, 2011
Manuscripts & Folklife Archives of the Kentucky Library & Museum
Katie Wynn, 2011
Vermont Folklife Center
Rachel Hopkin, 2011
Elkmont Oral History Project (EOHP) & the Allen County Folklife and Oral History Project
(ACFP)
Candice L. Hayes Atchley, 2010
Lost River Cave and Valley
Alexia Ault, 2010
The Kentucky LIbrary and Museum
Suzanne Barber, 2010
CityLore
Sara Dockery, 2010
The Kentucky Folklife Archives
Amanda Hardeman, 2010
The Folk School of St. Louis
Jennifer Jameson, 2010
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Rashae Jennings, 2010
The Shaker Museum at South Union
Kristen Bradley, 2009
Shaker Museum at South Union
Cynthia Cotton, 2009
MacLachlan Woodworking Museum
Matt Hale, 2009
Kentucky Folklife Program, Kentucky Historical Society
Rebecca Karr, 2009
Records Management Intern for the National Park Service
David Puglia, 2009
Folklife Archives, Kentucky Library
Marian Robbins, 2009
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Janine Criswell, 2008
Appalshop
Nadia De Leon, 2008
Cumberland Trace Elementary School
Nicholas Hartmann, 2008
Traditional Arts Indiana
Alisha Martin, 2008
Train Museum and Historic Railroad Park at the L&N Depot
Michael Mathews, 2008
Bureau of Land Management Office Billings, Montana
Alice Shaughnessy-Begay, BSM, RN, 2008
WKU College of Nursing
Clinton Shurtz, 2008
Kentucky Oral History Commission
Tonya Taylor, 2008
University of Utah
