Awards and Honors
Graduate Mentor Award, Yale Graduate School, 2009 (single humanities winner of prize for distinguished mentoring, teaching, and advising of graduate students). Citation here. Scroll to page 12
Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2008-2010 (award of a year of leave to study constitutional law at Yale Law School; grant includes full salary, tuition, teaching replacement costs, and other funds)
Yale/Macmillan Center for International Studies Director’s Award for Junior Faculty ($10,000 research funding), 2006-2008; 2008-2010 (two separate awards)
ACLS Fellowship (full-year leave), Fall & Spring 2005
Whitney Humanities Center, Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2003-2004.
Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA College of Letters and Science. 2000-2001.
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Graduate Student Prize, 1999.
UCLA Department of English Teaching Excellence Award (for AY 1997-1998).
Charles A. Dana Scholarship, Holy Cross: leadership and academic excellence. 1994-19950
