latter project remains in progress. Following, he has co-produced the feature documentary on the German-Austrian-American performer, poet, filmmaker, artist and member of the Beat Generation, Ruth Weiss, directed by Thomas Antonic: One More Step West is the Sea: Ruth Weiss (2021). Affiliations, awards and foundation work Dassanowsky is a member of Mensa (U.S.A.) and the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Spanish branch). He was named the Carnegie Foundation/CASE U.S. Professor of the Year for Colorado in 2004, and decorated by the Austrian president in 2005 with the Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria. Dassanowsky received the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Outstanding Teacher Award in 2001, the Chancellor's Award in 2006, and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in 2013. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2007 and of the Royal Society of Arts in 2010. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2001, he was appointed to serve as one of the three U.S. delegates to the Academy in 2009. In 2012 Dassanowsky was appointed member of the European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi, which furthers the work and image of the founder of the Paneuropean Movement and he joined the board of advisors for the Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts in 2014 and the Board of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in 2016. He is a member of the Academy of Austrian Film and a voting member of the European Film Academy. Dassanowsky was elected vice president of the Austrian Studies Association or ASA in 2010, which he and then organization president David Luft (Oregon State University) transitioned from the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association in 2010-12. He served as ASA president from 2012–2014. The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) awarded Dassanowsky a research grant for 2014–15, and he presented the Seventh Annual Botstiber Lecture on Austrian-American Affairs at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC on 29 May 2015. He is the recipient of the University of Colorado's 2015 Thomas Jefferson Award and was named an Ethics Fellow by the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative (DFEI) Collegiate Program for 2020-2021. Since 2008, Dassanowsky has been the director of the Elfi von Dassanowsky Foundation, established in memory of his mother. In addition to various other grants, the Foundation annually sponsors the juried Elfi von Dassanowsky