Awards

AWARDS & HONORS

Open Adopt Grant, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium, 2022
Ten-Year Service Award for Continuous and Loyal Service to the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2021
Greenwood Library Bookplate for Promotion to Associate Professor and Award of Tenure, 2021
Faculty Summer Research and Development Grants, Longwood University, 2017, 2018, and 2019
Whatley Best Article Award, Popular Culture Association in the South, 2018
Maude Glenn Raiford Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018
Featured in the "Profiles in the Community" section of The Farmville Herald, Virginia, October 2017
Five-Year Service Award for Continuous and Loyal Service to the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2016
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Grant, 2016
Commendation for Guiding Students to Academic Success, The Sisters of Zeta Tau Alpha - International Women's Fraternity, 2015
Outstanding First Year Student Advocate Award, Longwood Office of First Year Experience, 2015
Princeps Honorary Organization Faculty Recognition, Fall 2014
Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society Faculty Member Inductee, 2013
Ph.D. Banner Carrier, ODU College of Arts and Letters, Spring 2012

Shining Star Faculty Award, Old Dominion University Division of Student Affairs, 2011

Graduate Scholarly Paper Award, Sigma Tau Delta – The International English Honor Society, 2009

Henry Regnery Endowed Scholarship/Outstanding Graduate Student-Scholar Award, Sigma Tau Delta, The International English Honor Society, 2008

Conference Travel Grants, Old Dominion University, Department English, 2008 and 2009

Vehbi Koç Scholar (Academic Excellence Award), Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001-2002