Scholar In Residence, Center for Mark Twain Studies, May 2018

Faculty co-chair, Gloria S. Duclos Convocation: “Race and Participatory Democracy ($70,000), 2017-18

Maine Economic Improvement Fund Grant ($500,000), 2016

Center for Collaboration and Development’s Faculty Interest Group Grant, 2016

Weixlmann Prize, Honorable Mention, African American Review, 2015

Core Curriculum Service-Learning Mini-Grant, University of Southern Maine, 2015

Title III Mini-Grant, University of Southern Maine, 2014

Faulkner Paper Prize, William Faulkner Society, 2013

Dissertation Fellowship, UConn English Department, 2013

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, UConn English Department, 2012

Summer Dissertation Fellowship, UConn English Department, 2011

Summer Dissertation Fellowship, UConn Graduate School, 2010

Aetna Graduate Student Teaching Award, UConn English Department, 2010

Robert H. Elias Graduate Essay Prize, International Theodore Dreiser Society, 2009